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The Wolf of Wall Street · 2013 — 第 9 / 30 章 · 5'04" · B2

Max Confronts Jordan Over the Bill, Explained：loophole

Jordan's father Max storms into the office with the American Express bill and starts reading out the charges. Jordan insists they are just 'business expenses,' but the itemized list — steaks, champagne, sides, and a mysterious 'EJ Entertainment' — makes that hard to sell. The scene turns a family argument into an audit.

あらすじ

At the Stratton office, Jordan and Donnie are joking around when Jordan's father Max arrives, furious about the American Express bill. He goes through the charges one by one: Argentine steaks, expensive champagne, all the sides, and a line item called EJ Entertainment. Jordan tries to pass them off as business expenses, but his father keeps pressing.

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注目の表現

back pocketsafety firstloopholebusiness expenses

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このシーンの表現

loophole

a gap in the rules

Jordan plans to exploit a legal gap by not counting the person as human, calling it the loophole.

The company used a tax loophole to pay almost nothing.

このシーンの他の表現

  • back pocket

    keep as a backup option

  • safety first

    put safety before everything

  • business expenses

    costs incurred for work

  • prostitution ring

    an organized sex-for-money operation

  • T&A and T&E

    a slip between two expense codes

このシーンのメモ一覧

142 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ

表現 · B1throw something at someone

hurl things at someone

We're allowed to throw shit at 'em.
表現 · B2be built to do something

designed for a purpose

They're built to be thrown like a lawn dart.
発音built to be

The t in built often drops, so the words run together.

They're built to be thrown like a lawn dart.
文法 · B2The brother, you put a skateboard on him

fronted object: The object is fronted to set the topic, then a generic you explains the action.

The brother, you put a skateboard on him, you strap him to a skateboard,
スラング · B2No shit

seriously? no way — Casual surprise between friends; avoid it in formal talk.

- No shit. That's interesting. - Swear to fucking God.
表現 · A2by the way

incidentally

They are very ornery by the way, so you gotta be very careful with these little guys.
文法 · B1so you gotta be

result clause: So links a cause to its result, and gotta is the spoken form of got to.

They are very ornery by the way, so you gotta be very careful with these little guys.
表現 · B1stick with something

keep using something

But I say we stick with the loophole. Right? Okay?
発音stick with the

Link stick with the smoothly, with a weak the.

But I say we stick with the loophole. Right? Okay?
表現 · B2be in the clear

free from blame or danger

If we don't consider him a human, we just consider it an act, I think we're in the clear.
文法 · B2If we don't consider him a human

if-clause: The if-clause sets a condition and the main clause gives the consequence.

If we don't consider him a human, we just consider it an act, I think we're in the clear.
表現 · B1make someone look bad

damage someone's image

Like, it's gonna make Stratton look bad.
スラング · C1twat

a vulgar word for female genitals — A very vulgar insult; never use it in polite speech.

Yeah. Lick my twat.
表現 · B2business expenses

costs incurred for work

Confronted with the bill, Jordan insists the charges are business expenses and tells his father to relax.

Good morning. They're business expenses. Relax.
発音business expenses

Stress business and expenses to sell the excuse.

Good morning. They're business expenses. Relax.
表現 · B2charge something to someone

put on someone's account

That is what it is. But none of these were charged to me.
表現 · B2allow for something

permit or make room for

The IRS, they allow for T&A. It's fine.
表現 · B1make sense

be logical

and that makes sense because we did spend too much money. But I said T&E.
表現 · B2hold it in

keep feelings bottled up

Jordan urges his father not to hold his feelings in but to speak up.

Why do you hold it in? Why do you...
スラング · B2hooker

a prostitute — Crude; use sex worker in polite or formal contexts.

What kind of hooker takes credit cards?
スラング · C1Skanks

a slut-shaming slur — A slur against women; do not repeat it.

Finally, there were the Pink Sheets. Skanks.
表現 · B2get a shot

an injection of medicine

you'd have to get a penicillin shot the next day and pray your dick didn't fall off.
スラング · B1Pops

dad, old man — An affectionate name for dad; casual, not formal.

Pops.
表現 · B2fade away

gradually disappear

Jordan says the attraction between a couple kind of fades away over time, half complaining, half resigned.

After a while it kind of fades away a little bit.
表現 · B1love someone to death

love someone very much

- It doesn't work that way. - I love her to death.
表現 · B2on a whole other level

on an entirely different scale

Describing what women do now, Jordan says it is on a whole other level, and Max can hardly take it.

I mean... I mean, it's on a whole other level.
発音whole other

Link whole and other so they sound like one unit.

I mean... I mean, it's on a whole other level.

「Max Confronts Jordan Over the Bill」を読み解く

What's really going on

The joke is that Jordan has built a life where the absurd and the illegal look ordinary. He and Donnie can calmly debate how to throw a little person at a dartboard, then switch without missing a beat to whether the stunt is legal under a 'loophole.' Then Max arrives with the credit card bill, and the comedy snaps into something sharper: the same accounting that hides a 'prostitution ring' is the accounting that keeps the firm alive. Jordan's line — 'They're business expenses. Relax.' — is funny because it is also his entire defence, and it is exactly the excuse that later brings the FBI to his door. The father is not fooled by the numbers, only outranked by his son's confidence.

Theme

CorruptionIllegal habits and a fake expense report are treated as normal business, and the joke exposes how routine the fraud has become.
MoneyThe bill becomes the whole story: every steak and every business expense is a measure of how far Jordan has gone.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Every charge gets relabeled as a business expense.
  • The funniest line is a slip between two expense codes.
  • Max's anger is really about money and trust.
  • The father and son talk past each other about marriage.

発音のポイント

  • built to be — The t in built often drops, so the words run together.
  • stick with the — Link stick with the smoothly, with a weak the.
  • business expenses — Stress business and expenses to sell the excuse.
  • whole other — Link whole and other so they sound like one unit.
What kind of hooker takes credit cards?

The punchline that exposes the business: the pleasures are being charged to the company like any other purchase.

The sides did cure cancer. That's the problem.

Jordan's sarcastic defence of the inflated bill, deadpanning that the side dishes were worth their absurd price.

They're built to be thrown like a lawn dart.

Part of the absurd office conversation in which human beings are discussed like sporting equipment.

I want somebody with a fucking tranquilizer gun ready to knock this fucker out.

Jordan turning a cruel stunt into a safety memo, complete with weapons, as if this were ordinary management.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Max come to the office?

He shows up with the American Express bill, angry about the charges, and wants his son to explain how steaks, champagne, and EJ Entertainment became company expenses.

What is EJ Entertainment?

It is the name Jordan used to hide a prostitution ring on the books. His father reads it out from the bill, forcing Jordan to admit what the line item really is.

What does Jordan mean by 'business expenses'?

It is his catch-all excuse for spending on himself and his friends. In his world any purchase, however personal or illegal, can be written off as a cost of doing business.

Is the T&A line just a joke?

It starts as a slip of the tongue between T&E, the real tax term, and T&A. The scene plays it for laughs, but it shows how casually the firm treats rules that matter.

What does the loophole debate say about Jordan?

He treats the law as a puzzle to be worked around. Even when discussing something cruel, his first instinct is not whether it is right but whether it is legal.

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