United 93 · 2006 — 第 13 / 17 章 · 3'04" · B1

Passengers Learn the Pilots Are Down, Explained:get through

The passengers finally reach their families by phone, but nobody can reach the cockpit. Then a flight attendant comes back with the news that changes everything: "The pilots are on the ground." The reassurance that follows, everything's gonna be fine, sounds hollow, because the people saying it already know the plane is not being flown.

あらすじ

Passengers on United 93 use the onboard phones to call home, but they cannot get through to the cockpit. Someone goes forward to check and comes back with terrible news: the pilots are lying on the floor outside the cockpit, and a flight attendant is trying to keep everyone calm. It is the moment the passengers understand the plane is not being flown by its crew.

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注目の表現

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このシーンの表現

get through

reach by phone

Repeated calls to the cockpit bring no answer, and We can't get through says it all.

The line was busy, so I couldn't get through.

このシーンの他の表現

  • has a pulse

    have a heartbeat

  • stab

    pierce with a knife

  • co-pilot

    second pilot

  • oh my god

    an exclamation of shock

  • everything's gonna be fine

    a hollow reassurance

このシーンのメモ一覧

46 行のセリフに 21 件のメモ

表現 · A2believe me

trust what I say

You believe me, don't you, Mom?
発音don't you

Don't you often links into don-cha in fast speech.

You believe me, don't you, Mom?
表現 · A2take someone back

carry someone back

Just take us back to the airport...
表現 · A2let someone see

allow someone to look

Let us see the passenger. Just the passenger.
表現 · A2let me talk to someone

put me through to someone

I'm on the plane. Let me talk to Lyzzie.
表現 · B1contact someone

reach someone

Did you contact the pilot?
表現 · B1get through to someone

reach someone

No, nobody said anything. We can't get through to the cockpit.
文法 · A2can't get through

modal negation: Can't marks inability; here it means the cockpit cannot be reached at all.

No, nobody said anything. We can't get through to the cockpit.
表現 · B1can't get through

cannot connect

We can't get through.
表現 · B2has a pulse

have a heartbeat

With a stab victim on the floor, someone calls out to see if he has a pulse.

See if he has a pulse. Is he breathing?
発音See if he

See if he runs together, so if he can sound like if-fee.

See if he has a pulse. Is he breathing?
スラング · A2my God

goodness — Expresses shock; use Oh dear in formal settings.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
表現 · A2what's happening

what is going on

Stewardess, what's happening up there? What is happening?
スラング · B1Stewardess

female flight attendant — An older term; flight attendant is the neutral choice now.

Stewardess, what's happening up there? What is happening?
表現 · A2be fine

turn out okay

Just... We're going back to the airport. Everything's gonna be fine.
発音gonna be

Gonna swallows going to into one word, with be barely sounded.

Just... We're going back to the airport. Everything's gonna be fine.
表現 · B1find out something

discover

We're just finding out what we can find out.
表現 · A2outside somewhere

beyond the cockpit

That was the pilots. They're on the ground outside the cockpit.
文法 · A2aren't flying

present continuous negative: Aren't flying is present continuous negative, stressing that no pilot is at the controls now.

The stewardess just said the pilots aren't flying the plane.
表現 · B1two bodies

two dead people

She saw two bodies in front of the cockpit on the floor.
文法 · A2in front of the cockpit

prepositional phrase: In front of the cockpit is a place phrase telling where the bodies were seen.

She saw two bodies in front of the cockpit on the floor.

「Passengers Learn the Pilots Are Down」を読み解く

What's really going on

The horror here is not a sudden event but a slow realization. The passengers are already scared, but they still assume the crew is in control; the calls home are filled with soft reassurance. What breaks that is a single report from the front of the cabin. "The pilots are on the ground," someone says, and then it is repeated to the people still on the phones: the pilots are lying on the floor outside the cockpit. From that point the flight attendant's line, "Everything's gonna be fine," can't be believed by anyone, because nobody can get through to the cockpit and the plane has stopped following its route. The scene turns fear into a decision the passengers haven't made yet.

Theme

SurvivalThe passengers learn the crew is gone and begin to realize they will have to save themselves on a plane nobody is flying.
Death & griefThe news that the pilots are on the floor hits the cabin as both terror and loss, spoken over phones still connected to family.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A cockpit that will not answer is its own kind of verdict.
  • Calling them bodies, not pilots, changes everything.
  • Reassurance can be the most misleading line in a scene.
  • Short first-aid orders keep panic from taking over.

発音のポイント

  • don't you — Don't you often links into don-cha in fast speech.
  • See if he — See if he runs together, so if he can sound like if-fee.
  • gonna be — Gonna swallows going to into one word, with be barely sounded.
Let us see the passenger. Just the passenger.

Someone at the front of the cabin asks to check on the man who was stabbed, keeping their voice level while the situation around them is already out of control.

No, nobody said anything. We can't get through to the cockpit.

The key early clue: repeated attempts to reach the flight deck get no answer, which tells the passengers the crew is no longer responding.

See if he has a pulse. Is he breathing?

An urgent check on the stabbed passenger, turning the abstract fear into a concrete medical emergency at the front of the plane.

Listen! The pilots are on the ground.

The line that changes the scene: the crew is not merely silent, they are down, and someone is shouting the news so everyone hears it.

The stewardess just said the pilots aren't flying the plane.

A passenger relays what a flight attendant told them, making it plain that the aircraft is no longer under the crew's control.

She saw two bodies in front of the cockpit on the floor.

The most explicit confirmation: two bodies are lying outside the cockpit, which means the pilots have been killed or incapacitated.

このシーンについての質問

Why don't the passengers realize at first that the pilots are dead?

They hear no answer from the cockpit, but that could mean many things, so they keep hoping. It's only when a flight attendant comes back and reports seeing the pilots on the floor that the truth becomes impossible to ignore.

Who tells the passengers the pilots aren't flying the plane?

A flight attendant does, and passengers then pass the news along the cabin and into their phone calls. The film keeps that chain of rumors visible rather than giving one all-knowing narrator.

Why do the passengers keep calling home?

The phones are their only link to the outside world, and calling family is both a source of comfort and a way to learn what is happening elsewhere, including the attacks in New York and Washington.

Is there really a bomb on the plane?

One passenger reports that a hijacker has a bomb strapped to his waist. Whether it is real is never confirmed to the passengers, but the threat is enough to control the cabin.

Why does the flight attendant say everything's gonna be fine?

She is trying to keep the cabin calm, whether or not she believes it herself. The line is not dishonest so much as a script people reach for when they have nothing reassuring left to offer.

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