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Hey, good news. Your profile really rounded out, man.The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · 2013 — 第 13 / 16 章 · 5'03" · B2
Walter Finds Sean in the Himalayas, Explained：ask for attention
Walter reaches the Himalayas and finally finds Sean, who is waiting to photograph a snow leopard. The scene's philosophy arrives quietly: the cat is called the ghost cat because "it never lets itself be seen," and "beautiful things don't ask for attention." Then Sean explains where the missing negative has been all along.
あらすじ
Walter calls Todd to have his dating profile taken down, then follows Sean to the Himalayas. He finds him lying on a ridge, waiting for a snow leopard that almost never shows itself. When Walter asks about the missing negative, Sean reveals that it was in the wallet he sent — the wallet Walter threw away.
注目の表現
ask for attentionmake oxygen choicestake heatchuck it
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このシーンの表現
ask for attention
seek notice or interest
Waiting for the snow leopard, Sean offers this aphorism about why the finest things stay unseen.
Good work doesn't ask for attention.
このシーンの他の表現
- make oxygen choices
decisions about using oxygen
- take heat
face strong criticism
- chuck it
threw it away
- onto something
close to a discovery
- not a good move
a bad decision
このシーンのメモ一覧
88 行のセリフに 28 件のメモ
a sure thing
That is money in the bank. Get ready to get a lot of winks.a sure thing — A casual metaphor; rare in formal writing.
That is money in the bank. Get ready to get a lot of winks.be brief
Todd, I'm gonna keep this short.decisions about using oxygen
At high altitude Walter hints that even talking costs him oxygen, so the call must be short.
I have to make oxygen choices.Have to often reduces to haf-ta in speech.
I have to make oxygen choices.remove someone from a list
Would you take me off?close to a discovery
Todd begs Walter not to delete his profile, insisting they are onto something special.
You're sure? Because I feel like we're really onto something here.relative clause: After a superlative, the present perfect clause signals lifetime experience.
This is one of the best profiles I've ever done.up at this height
How the hell did you get up here?Link get and up so it sounds like ge-dup.
How the hell did you get up here?on earth — Rough emphasis; avoid it in formal settings.
How the hell did you get up here?searching for
I've been looking for you.In fast speech looking for blurs into lookin-fer.
I've been looking for you.stay motionless
Try to be real still, okay?snow leopard
There's a snow leopard.stacked modals: Stacking have to, try to and be adds emphasis step by step.
So we have to try to be very, very, very, very still.a nickname for the snow leopard
They call the snow leopard the "ghost cat."seek notice or interest
Waiting for the snow leopard, Sean offers this aphorism about why the finest things stay unseen.
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.became detached from
Sean, there was a negative that got separated from your roll.relative clause: The that-clause modifies the negative and explains how it came loose.
Sean, there was a negative that got separated from your roll.face strong criticism
Walter explains that the missing negative has brought him heavy blame at the office.
I'm taking a lot of heat over it at work.look within
I told you, "look inside."a bad decision
Hearing the wallet is gone, Sean calls it a bad move, angry and disappointed at once.
but that is not a good move, at all, with a valuable negative.more direct
With the cover, I should have been more straightforward.past modal perfect: Should have been marks something you regret not doing in the past.
With the cover, I should have been more straightforward.threw away — British slang; use threw it away in formal talk.
Chucked it.not know at all
So, you have no idea what it was?「Walter Finds Sean in the Himalayas」を読み解く
What's really going on
The chapter is the film's quiet centre, and it is built on a piece of wisdom that also describes its hero. Sean explains that the snow leopard is called the ghost cat because "it never lets itself be seen," and adds the line that gives the chapter its meaning: "Beautiful things don't ask for attention." Walter, who has spent his life trying not to be noticed, is the human version of that cat, and the film never says so out loud. The second half is a gentler joke: the negative everyone has been chasing was inside the wallet Sean sent as a gift, and Walter threw the wallet away. The catastrophe is real, but it is delivered as comedy, because the film has already decided that the point was never really the photograph. It was whether Walter would go looking.
Theme
IdentityThe snow leopard that never shows itself mirrors Walter, a man who has spent his life avoiding attention.
DreamsWalter finally reaches the end of his journey, only to find the photograph he needs was thrown away long ago.
このチャプターで学べること
- The best line in the scene is about what stays unseen.
- Take heat turns workplace blame into a physical image.
- The gift was never the wallet; it was what he missed inside.
- Should have been is how regret sounds in English.
発音のポイント
- have to — Have to often reduces to haf-ta in speech.
- get up — Link get and up so it sounds like ge-dup.
- looking for — In fast speech looking for blurs into lookin-fer.
I have to make oxygen choices.Walter's practical excuse for keeping the call short, high up in the mountains: every breath costs something.
The wallet was just something I could put it in.Sean's explanation that the wallet was only packaging, which makes Walter's mistake all the more painful.
With the cover, I should have been more straightforward.Walter admitting that his own instructions were too clever, part of why the photograph was lost.
How the hell did you get up here?Sean's astonishment at finding Walter in the middle of the Himalayas, a sign of how far he has come.
I'm taking a lot of heat over it at work.Walter naming the pressure that sent him on the journey in the first place: the photograph is his job on the line.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Walter ask Todd to take down his profile?
He has decided he does not want to be on the dating site anymore. Todd is reluctant, because he thinks the profile is one of the best he has ever made.
What is the snow leopard called, and why?
It is called the ghost cat because it never lets itself be seen. Sean and Walter wait on a ridge, trying to be still enough for it to appear.
Where was the missing negative?
It was inside the wallet Sean sent as a gift, slipped into the little picture holder. Walter threw the wallet away, so the photograph went with it.
Why is Sean upset with Walter?
Because a valuable negative was kept loose in a wallet, which Sean calls a bad move. He is annoyed that something so important was treated carelessly.
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第 3 章man crushWalter and Cheryl Meet at the Office
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第 6 章soul matesWalter and Cheryl Walk Together
第 7 章follow up on somethingWalter Finds a Lead in Greenland
第 8 章speak from the heartWalter Searches a Greenland Pub
第 9 章made the gradeWalter Takes the Helicopter to Greenland
第 10 章kick-assWalter Jumps Into the Ocean
第 11 章end upWalter Calls Cheryl From Iceland
第 12 章get something out of your systemWalter Learns Sean Visited His Mom
再生中 · 第 13 章ask for attentionWalter Finds Sean in the Himalayas
第 14 章a lot on your plateTodd Meets Walter After Detention
第 15 章fell off the face of the EarthWalter Finally Asks Cheryl Out
第 16 章do whateverThe 'Stay Alive' Travel Montage第 13 / 16 章 · 残り約 8 分