Tucker and Dale vs. Evil · 2010 — 第 2 / 19 章 · 3'43" · B1

Tucker and Dale Get Pulled Over, Explained:fall right in your lap

Two friends are on their way to a lake house when a cop pulls them over. What starts as panic over spilled beer and a stuck hand ends with the officer explaining, "I pulled you over cos you got a broken turn signal." The comedy comes from two harmless men being terrified of trouble they were never in.

あらすじ

Tucker and Dale are driving to their new vacation home, talking about Dale's bad luck with women. Before long a police car pulls them over, and the two panic, spilling beer and getting Dale's hand stuck. In the end the officer only warns them about a broken turn signal.

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back offa zero with the ladiesinferiority complexpull over

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このシーンの表現

back off

move away and stop

Dale panics when a stranger comes close, yet forces out a warning to stay away.

Back off, I'm not going to argue with you about this.

このシーンの他の表現

  • a zero with the ladies

    hopeless with women

  • inferiority complex

    a deep feeling of being worse

  • pull over

    stop by the roadside

  • cop

    police officer (casual)

  • strike out

    keep failing at something

このシーンのメモ一覧

58 行のセリフに 30 件のメモ

表現 · A2not want any trouble

want no trouble

Hey! Hey. Now, look... we don't want any trouble, all right?
文法 · B1the way you can

manner clause: The way you can drops the repeated verb and compares two speakers.

I ain't like you, Tucker, you know? I can't talk to the ladyfolk the way you can.
発音the way you

The way you links into something like the-way-ya.

I ain't like you, Tucker, you know? I can't talk to the ladyfolk the way you can.
スラング · B1ladyfolk

women (rural slang) — Rural and old-fashioned, slightly teasing.

I ain't like you, Tucker, you know? I can't talk to the ladyfolk the way you can.
表現 · B1get all + adjective

suddenly turn silly

I always get all stupid, and my hands get clammy, and I just act like a big fat idiot.
表現 · B1get clammy

turn damp and sweaty

I always get all stupid, and my hands get clammy, and I just act like a big fat idiot.
発音get all

Get all runs together with a weak all.

I always get all stupid, and my hands get clammy, and I just act like a big fat idiot.
表現 · B1go after what you want

chase the thing you want

Let me tell you something, life is short. You got to go after what you want.
文法 · B1what you want

object clause: The clause what you want is the object of go after.

Let me tell you something, life is short. You got to go after what you want.
表現 · B1fall in someone's lap

arrive with no effort

Cos it sure as hell ain't gonna just fall right in your lap.
文法 · B1ain't gonna just fall

double negative: Ain't plus the sense of it never happening; a common double negative.

Cos it sure as hell ain't gonna just fall right in your lap.
発音ain't gonna

The t in ain't often drops before gonna.

Cos it sure as hell ain't gonna just fall right in your lap.
スラング · A2ain't

is not (nonstandard) — Nonstandard speech; keep it out of writing.

Cos it sure as hell ain't gonna just fall right in your lap.
スラング · B1sure as hell

certainly, no doubt — Emphatic and a bit crude; avoid it in polite talk.

Cos it sure as hell ain't gonna just fall right in your lap.
スラング · B1reckon

suppose, figure — Southern and rural; fine in casual talk.

- That's true, I reckon. - Aw, shit.
スラング · B2shit

damn (vulgar) — Vulgar; only around friends when something goes wrong.

- That's true, I reckon. - Aw, shit.
表現 · A2got a cop

there is a police officer

- What are you doing? - Shit, shit. We got a cop.
スラング · A2cop

police officer — Casual; never call an officer cop to his face.

- What are you doing? - Shit, shit. We got a cop.
表現 · A2pull over

stop by the roadside

Lights flash behind them and Tucker reports that the officer is stopping by the road.

All right, he's pulling over.
発音isn't it

Isn't it weakens and blurs into izn-it.

- It's a beautiful day, isn't it? - Yeah.
表現 · A2be in the mail

sent and on its way

Uh, I lost my wallet a couple weeks back. New one is in the mail.
文法 · A2New one

nominal substitution: One stands in for wallet so the noun is not repeated.

Uh, I lost my wallet a couple weeks back. New one is in the mail.
表現 · A2be headed to somewhere

on the way to a place

We're headed to our vacation home up by Morris Lake.
表現 · B1sink every penny into something

put all your money into it

I sank every penny I had into it.
表現 · B1fix something up

repair and improve it

Me and Dale here, we're gonna go fix 'er up, maybe do a little fishin'.
文法 · A2gonna go fix 'er up

gonna contraction: Gonna replaces going to, and er replaces it in rural speech.

Me and Dale here, we're gonna go fix 'er up, maybe do a little fishin'.
表現 · B1with the ladies

around women

- Do a little fishin'. - He's been striking out with the ladies.
スラング · A2dude

guy, man — Casual youth slang; not for formal settings.

- Man, that was tense. - That dude's weird.
表現 · B1here's to + noun

a toast to something

Here's to the good life, huh?
発音Here's to

Here's to links into a single heres-ta sound.

Here's to the good life, huh?

「Tucker and Dale Get Pulled Over」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is the film's thesis in miniature. Tucker and Dale are two gentle men who assume the world sees them as dangerous, so when a cop appears they instantly act guilty. The joke is that the officer is bored and ordinary, and the only real problem is a broken turn signal: "I pulled you over cos you got a broken turn signal." Their fear is entirely self-generated, which is exactly what will drive the rest of the movie, where the pair keep being mistaken for killers. The earlier car conversation does the same work in a lighter key, with Tucker's advice that "life is short" and his warning that good things will not just fall in your lap. Everything here is about men misreading the world and the world misreading them.

Theme

IdentityTwo harmless men assume they look like trouble, and the fear they carry about how others see them drives the scene.
Dark humorA routine traffic stop is played as a near-disaster, with panic far out of proportion to anything at stake.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A pep talk gets interrupted by flashing lights.
  • Tucker's bragging is survival, not vanity.
  • Strike out comes straight from baseball.
  • The officer's warning is a joke in disguise.

発音のポイント

  • the way you — The way you links into something like the-way-ya.
  • get all — Get all runs together with a weak all.
  • ain't gonna — The t in ain't often drops before gonna.
  • isn't it — Isn't it weakens and blurs into izn-it.
Let me tell you something, life is short. You got to go after what you want.

Tucker's pep talk, the advice that sets up the rest of the ride.

Cos it sure as hell ain't gonna just fall right in your lap.

The blunt follow-up: good things do not arrive on their own, so go get them.

There ain't nothing up there but pain and suffering on a scale you can't even imagine.

The ominous warning about their destination, delivered with total sincerity.

You know what your problem is? You got an inferiority complex.

Tucker diagnosing Dale on the road, half joke and half the film's real subject.

Here's to the good life, huh?

The toast after the scare, celebrating a life that is far smaller than the phrase suggests.

このシーンについての質問

Why does the cop pull Tucker and Dale over?

Their turn signal is broken. The officer says so plainly, which makes the panic that came before it look completely unnecessary.

Why are Tucker and Dale so scared of the police?

They assume they look like trouble and expect to be treated as guilty. It is the same fear that shapes how they read every situation in the film.

What is Dale's problem, according to Tucker?

Tucker says he has an inferiority complex: Dale has decided in advance that women will reject him, so he freezes up around them.

What does 'fall right in your lap' mean here?

Tucker is saying good things will not simply arrive on their own. The phrase means something lands in your lap without effort, and he is warning Dale that this will not happen.

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