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This Is the End · 2013 — 第 11 / 27 章 · 3'21" · B2

Reading Revelations at Franco's, Explained：hear me out

After wildfires, earthquakes, and sinkholes, someone opens the Bible and makes the case that this is the Apocalypse. The proof is that the 'beams of blue light' match the Rapture — and the burning mountain is right outside. The others mostly crack jokes about the Hollywood Hills and freeway routes.

あらすじ

The group debates what is happening outside. Wildfires, earthquakes, and sinkholes get dismissed or joked about, and someone cites the Book of Revelations: the 'gigantic beams of blue light' are the Rapture, and the burning mountain is the Hollywood Hills. The others interrupt with driving-route jokes and call the theory nonsense, until they turn it back on its teller.

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Sinkhole de Mayofor all we knowhear me outthe Rapture

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このシーンの表現

hear me out

listen until I finish

Jay keeps getting cut off and asks the room to let him finish his case.

Hear me out before you decide I'm wrong.

このシーンの他の表現

  • Sinkhole de Mayo

    a pun on Cinco de Mayo

  • for all we know

    as far as anyone knows

  • the Rapture

    believers lifted to heaven

  • it s a hill

    just a hill, not a mountain

  • the rest of us

    the remaining ones of us

このシーンのメモ一覧

75 行のセリフに 24 件のメモ

スラング · B2Fuck

screw that guy — A crude dismissal; keep it out of polite or work settings.

Fuck that, dude.
表現 · B2for all we know

as far as anyone knows

Seth offers a wild guess about a basketball game to prove nobody knows anything.

I mean, for all we know, the fucking Lakers could have just won,
文法 · B2could have just won

modal perfect: Could have won marks a past possibility offered as a wild guess.

I mean, for all we know, the fucking Lakers could have just won,
発音for all we

Squeeze for all we into one weak run of sound.

I mean, for all we know, the fucking Lakers could have just won,
表現 · A2the reason why ...

the cause of it

and that's the reason why all this is happening.
文法 · B1the reason why

relative clause: Why introduces the clause explaining the reason just named.

and that's the reason why all this is happening.
表現 · A2every single time

each and every time

Every single time I turn on the news, sinkhole in South America.
表現 · A2turn on the news

to switch on the news

Every single time I turn on the news, sinkhole in South America.
表現 · B1chill out

calm down

Chill out. EMMA: Hey.
表現 · B1get sucked into something

to be pulled into it

Bunch of South Americans getting sucked into the ground.
表現 · B1hear someone out

listen until I finish

Jay keeps getting cut off and asks the room to let him finish his case.

Well, just hear me out and you tell me that what I'm describing
表現 · C1the Rapture

believers lifted to heaven

Jay matches the Bible verse to the blue beams in the sky and sounds convinced.

That's the Rapture. Those are the gigantic beams of blue light.
表現 · B2zip down somewhere

to speed along

I usually zip down Barham. Boys, can I just fucking finish?
表現 · C1a load of something

complete nonsense

Someone dismisses Jay's whole theory with the crudest label available.

It's a load of bullshit.
表現 · A2a bunch of something

a group of

what you're saying is Seth, me, Jonah, Craig, and Danny are a bunch of assholes.
表現 · A2the rest of something

the remaining ones of us

Jay turns the verdict around and puts the accusers in the same bucket as everyone left.

So that means you're just as shitty as the rest of us.
文法 · A2just as shitty as

as as comparison: Just as shitty as puts the accuser and the group on the same level.

So that means you're just as shitty as the rest of us.
発音rest of us

Link rest of us so the of nearly disappears.

So that means you're just as shitty as the rest of us.
文法 · A2does it

tag question: The tag invites agreement and quietly twists the knife.

Doesn't feel too good, does it?
スラング · C1no shit

obviously — Blunt agreement meaning obviously; blunt enough to offend.

Yeah, no shit.
表現 · B1off the menu

not on the regular menu

Danny slips Seth something good and mutters that it is off the menu.

Here. Off the menu, my man.
スラング · B2Holy shit

wow, no way — Surprised swearing that belongs among friends only.

Holy shit, man. Where did you get these?
スラング · B2Know what I'm saying

you get my point — A casual check that the listener follows you.

Hey, what's cheese without a few crackers? Know what I'm saying?
発音Should have

Should have reduces to a single blurred sound.

Should have thought of that before you drank a can full of ecstasy 19946623.

「Reading Revelations at Franco's」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is a theology argument played for laughs. One man arrives with the Bible and a case: the blue light is the Rapture, the fire is prophesied, and he only asks to finish — 'just hear me out and you tell me that what I'm describing isn't what's going on right now.' The others won't let him: they bicker about which canyon to take and whether the Hollywood Hills even count as a mountain. Then it turns personal. If only good people were taken, then everyone left — 'Seth, me, Jonah, Craig, and Danny' — is 'a bunch of assholes,' and the comeback is 'So that means you're just as shitty as the rest of us. Doesn't feel too good, does it?' The chapter is about a group that would rather insult each other's character than face what the evidence outside might mean.

Theme

FaithA literal reading of the Book of Revelations is offered as the explanation for the disasters, and the group argues over whether it holds.
Dark humorThe end of the world becomes a debate about freeway routes and whose character is worst, with everyone refusing to take the prophecy seriously.

このチャプターで学べること

  • For all we know flags a guess, not a fact
  • Hear me out asks for a full hearing
  • The rest of us pulls everyone left into one group
  • A load of bullshit is crude for total nonsense

発音のポイント

  • for all we — Squeeze for all we into one weak run of sound.
  • rest of us — Link rest of us so the of nearly disappears.
  • Should have — Should have reduces to a single blurred sound.
It's not wildfires. It's not earthquakes. It's not sinkholes.

The setup for the theory: he clears away the ordinary explanations one by one before naming what he thinks is really happening.

what you're saying is Seth, me, Jonah, Craig, and Danny are a bunch of assholes.

The logic trap: if the disaster took only good people, then everyone still standing is, by definition, not good.

So that means you're just as shitty as the rest of us.

The comeback that closes the argument: the person making the point is stuck in the same room, so he is no better.

Doesn't feel too good, does it?

The parting jab: having used his own logic against him, the others twist it into a taunt about how the accusation feels.

このシーンについての質問

What is the Apocalypse theory in this scene?

That the disasters are the end of the world foretold in the Book of Revelations: the beams of blue light are the Rapture, and the burning mountain is the Hollywood Hills on fire.

Why does the group make fun of the theory?

They keep getting distracted by trivia — which canyon to drive, whether the Hollywood Hills count as a mountain — and prefer needling each other to taking the prophecy seriously.

What is the argument that turns the theory back on him?

If only good people were taken to heaven, then everyone left behind is bad — so the man making the point is 'just as shitty as the rest of us,' and the room turns it into an insult.

What is the Rapture?

In the theory, it's the moment believers are lifted into heaven — which he matches to the 'gigantic beams of blue light' people saw being sucked into the sky.

Does anyone believe the theory?

Mostly no. One dismisses it as nonsense, another jokes about freeway routes, and Jonah just wants his Bible back — so the room argues about it rather than accepting it.

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