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The Trip · 2011 — 第 12 / 20 章 · 4'49" · B2

The Michael Caine Impressions, Explained：not a lot of people know

They check a beige room, then sit down with Yolanda and start doing Michael Caine. Someone calls the trip "one of the most enjoyable periods of my life," but the bit is really a contest over whose voice is better. Under it sits a smaller worry: people remember meeting him, and he does not remember them.

あらすじ

In a beige room, someone asks whether he has met Yolanda before and tells the other not to ask her. At the table the talk turns into a Michael Caine guessing game: "She was only 15 years old," a man who might as well fix boilers, and films dubbed in Spain. The pair riff on a lonely walk, crampons, and whose jokes anyone can quote.

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not a lot of people knowmight as wellpop to the looup there with

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このシーンの表現

not a lot of people know

a self-satisfied aside after sharing a fact

旅店房间里，罗布用迈克尔·凯恩的腔调逗大家，把这位演员的招牌口头禅学得惟妙惟肖。

He paused, then added that not a lot of people know that.

このシーンの他の表現

  • might as well

    used when there is no better option, or to belittle

  • pop to the loo

    to go to the toilet quickly

  • up there with

    at the same high level as

このシーンのメモ一覧

102 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ

表現 · B2very + colour as a put-downOh, very nice. Very beige.
表現 · B2before someone's timeI don't know. Maybe before my time maybe.
表現 · B2get something goingWe need to get some sort of a system going,
表現 · B1get embarrassingthey remember meeting me, and I don't remember meeting them, so that can get embarrassing.
スラング · B2off Top GearLook a bit like that guy off Top Gear.
文法 · B2one of the most enjoyable periods of my life

superlative with one of the most

I can honestly say it's one of the most enjoyable periods of my life.
表現 · A2give someone a clueI'll give you a clue. It's not a Muppet.
表現 · B1be out of shapeYou're a big man, but you're out of shape.
発音out of shape

liaison

You're a big man, but you're out of shape.
表現 · B1pop to the loo

to go to the toilet quickly

On the way, I had a bit of a Zulu, so I had to pop to the loo, and then, then, I... I...
発音pop to the loo

weak form

On the way, I had a bit of a Zulu, so I had to pop to the loo, and then, then, I... I...
表現 · B2not a lot of people know

a self-satisfied aside after sharing a fact

Not a lot of people know...
表現 · B2might as well be somethingHe might as well be the guy who comes and does his boiler.
発音might as well be

weak form

He might as well be the guy who comes and does his boiler.
表現 · B1dub the filmsBecause if he is an actor, in Spain, they dub the films, so I really...
表現 · B2a rough approximation of somethingNo, no, it's a rough approximation.
スラング · B2assSuch an ass.
表現 · B2blow something offYou were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.
文法 · B2I was thinking I could take the photographs

past continuous for a tentative suggestion

I was thinking I could take the photographs up in the hills.
表現 · B1sound a bit like somethingYeah, well, that sounds a bit like I'm lonely.
文法 · B1wouldn't wear that in the hills

wouldn't for advice

I wouldn't wear that in the hills.
表現 · B1walking gearI've got proper walking gear.
表現 · B1go for a rambleOh, might like to go for a nice ramble, Lyn, up Helvellyn.
スラング · B2you foolNo, you fool, crampons.
表現 · B2be up there with somethingYou could have written for the show, 'cause it's so up there with the best stuff.

「The Michael Caine Impressions」を読み解く

What's really going on

The beige room is a status check. "Very beige" sounds mild and means the place has no personality. The Yolanda worry is sharper: he wants "some sort of a system" because other people remember meeting him and he does not. Dinner turns that into a voice contest. "I can honestly say it's one of the most enjoyable periods of my life" is too polished to be a real review; it performs a good trip for the table. When the listener cannot name the actor, the famous voice shrinks. Dubbed films mean the actor "might as well be the guy who comes and does his boiler." "Wandered lonely as a cloud" gets waved off because it "sounds a bit like I'm lonely," and praise that the bit is "up there with the best stuff" dies in the next line: the executive producer still cannot quote any of it.

Theme

FriendshipEvery pause becomes a contest over whose Caine is better and who lands the last line.
IdentityA famous voice collapses when the listener cannot place it, and dubbed films turn the star into a boiler man.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Hear the crampons/tampons mix-up
  • Before my time as a job-history dodge
  • Out of shape for body or form

発音のポイント

  • out of shape — liaison
  • pop to the loo — weak form
  • might as well be — weak form
You're a big man, but you're out of shape.

A Michael Caine clue in the guessing game: the old tough-guy line, not a dig at anyone at the table. The voice is meant to give the name away.

You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.

Another Caine impression, the Italian Job line, used once the name is out to show which voice is sharper. It is the movie quote, not a plan about doors.

I can honestly say it's one of the most enjoyable periods of my life.

The reply to how the trip has been. It is so smooth and public that it plays as a performance for the table, not a private confession.

Look a bit like that guy off Top Gear.

A clothes check that turns sour. The outfit is said to resemble a Top Gear presenter, and the second guess is treated as worse than the first.

このシーンについての質問

Why do they start doing Michael Caine?

Yolanda is asked if she knows who that is, and two voices run the same bits: "She was only 15 years old," a croaky later Caine, and "Not a lot of people know." It stays a guessing game until someone says "My name is Michael Caine." Calling Rob's version entertaining but less accurate shows the real stake: whose impression wins.

Why doesn't the listener recognize the voice?

It is called familiar, then the guesser asks whether it is even an actor. The reason given is practical: in Spain they dub the films, so the English voice never arrived. A separate jab adds that he might as well be the man who fixes the boiler. The name only lands after it is spoken in full, when the listener says "I do recognize him now."

Is the line about the most enjoyable period of his life sincere?

It answers how the trip has been, on the heels of "Rob?" It is polished and said at the table, not offered as a quiet aside. The voice contest and the later digs make that cheer sound like part of the routine.

Why does "Wandered lonely as a cloud" get shut down?

It is offered, along with "a lone walker," as a pose for photographs in the hills. The reply is immediate: that "sounds a bit like I'm lonely." The poem is acceptable until it describes the man in the picture too well.

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