present perfect: The present perfect shows the four hours are already used up by now.
Gentlemen, you have had four hours. You had better have results. Mr. Creedy.V for Vendetta · 2006 — 第 3 / 25 章 · 2'13" · B2
Sutler's Cabinet Spins the Explosion, Explained：spin
The cabinet isn't investigating a bombing; it's managing a story. 'We're calling it an emergency demolition' turns a disaster into routine maintenance, and the room's real work is spin: blacklist the recording, flood the networks, line up experts. Sutler's worry isn't the dead — it's doubt, which he says could undo everything they believe.
あらすじ
After Parliament is destroyed, Chancellor Sutler summons his ministers for a crisis meeting. Creedy reports the area is quarantined and witnesses detained; Etheridge has found a recording device wired into the emergency broadcast system; Dascomb has a cover story ready. Sutler orders a blacklist, demands results, and tells the room that failure would let doubt bring the country back to chaos.
注目の表現
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このシーンの表現
spin
political spin
The spin chief reports that the network and the InterLink are all carrying their version of events.
The minister put a positive spin on the poor results.
このシーンの他の表現
- had better
should, or else
- line up
arrange in advance
- over-the-counter
bought without a prescription
- cling to
hold on to stubbornly
- a matter of
a question of
このシーンのメモ一覧
40 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ
Had better often shrinks to 'd better in speech.
Gentlemen, you have had four hours. You had better have results. Mr. Creedy.is sealed off
The Bailey area is quarantined.have been held
All significant witnesses have been detained.perfect passive: Have been plus a participle marks what has already been done to them.
All significant witnesses have been detained.connected into secretly
A recording device was found wired into the central emergency-broadcast system.passive with participle: Was found plus a participle describes the state it was discovered in.
A recording device was found wired into the central emergency-broadcast system.banned list — Jargon for a banned list, now used loosely.
Add it to the blacklist. I never want to hear that again.random checks
We also doubled our random sweeps and are monitoring phone surveillance...an official emergency teardown
We're calling it an emergency demolition.Blur calling it an into one run of sound.
We're calling it an emergency demolition.managed press coverage
We have spin coverage on the network and throughout the InterLink.Link network and and weaken and to un.
We have spin coverage on the network and throughout the InterLink.soundness of the structure
Experts have been lined up to testify against the Bailey's structural integrity.perfect passive + infinitive: Have been lined up to do means they are already arranged to act.
Experts have been lined up to testify against the Bailey's structural integrity.hold on to stubbornly
...and how we must avoid clinging to the edifice of a decadent past.don't know yet
-Who is she, Mr. Finch? -Not sure yet, sir.bought without a prescription
A technical officer explains the devices were homemade from chemicals anyone can buy, so they are hard to trace.
...these devices were homemade with over-the-counter chemicals...no matter who he is
Whoever he is, chancellor, he's very good.Link whoever he into whoever-ee.
Whoever he is, chancellor, he's very good.give us a break — Sarcastic; tells someone to stop talking.
Spare us your professional annotations, Mr. Finch. They are irrelevant.a question of faith
Moments such as these are matters of faith.Link matters of and soften the of.
Moments such as these are matters of faith.infinitive as subject: The infinitive subject names an act and its consequence.
To fail is to invite doubt into everything we believe...back into chaos
Doubt will plunge this country back into chaos, and I will not let that happen.causative let: Let plus an object and bare verb means to allow something to happen.
Doubt will plunge this country back into chaos, and I will not let that happen.「Sutler's Cabinet Spins the Explosion」を読み解く
What's really going on
The room's language is doing the hiding. 'We're calling it an emergency demolition' is not a description of what happened — it's a decision about what people will be allowed to believe. Every item on the agenda is the same reflex: quarantine the area, detain the witnesses, blacklist the recording, and manufacture reassurance through spin coverage and bought experts. Nobody asks who died. Finch, the one investigator thinking like a detective, offers a professional compliment — 'he's very good' — and Sutler shuts him down: 'Spare us your professional annotations.' What frightens Sutler isn't the terrorist; it's doubt itself, which he calls a threat to faith. The scene ends on a staged chant, 'England prevails,' repeated like a prayer to cover the silence.
Theme
PowerSutler controls what the public is allowed to know: quarantine, blacklist, spin, and a chant of 'England prevails' instead of answers.
DeceptionThe explosion is rebranded as an 'emergency demolition,' experts are lined up to lie, and doubt itself is treated as the enemy.
このチャプターで学べること
- A calm tone can make a lie sound like routine.
- Spin is how a government decides what a blast is called.
- Over-the-counter goods leave almost no trail.
- Calling a crisis a matter of faith ends the argument.
発音のポイント
- had better — Had better often shrinks to 'd better in speech.
- calling it an — Blur calling it an into one run of sound.
- network and — Link network and and weaken and to un.
- Whoever he is — Link whoever he into whoever-ee.
Gentlemen, you have had four hours. You had better have results. Mr. Creedy.Sutler opens by pressuring his security chief: four hours have passed and he expects results, not excuses.
We're calling it an emergency demolition.The regime's official story: the destroyed Parliament was not a target of terrorism but a dangerous building brought down on purpose.
I want Prothero to speak on the dangers of these old buildings...Sutler's media plan: Prothero will go on air and blame the building's age, so the public blames decay instead of the government.
Moments such as these are matters of faith.Sutler reframes the crisis as a test of loyalty — the issue isn't facts but whether the regime's people still believe.
To fail is to invite doubt into everything we believe...He warns that losing this fight would make people doubt the whole ideology they have built and fought for.
Doubt will plunge this country back into chaos, and I will not let that happen.His closing threat: doubt spreads like contagion and would return the country to chaos, so it must be crushed.
このシーンについての質問
Why do they call the attack an 'emergency demolition'?
It's the regime's cover story. Calling it a demolition makes the explosion look like routine safety work, so the public never connects it to V or to a successful act of rebellion.
Why does Sutler care so much about doubt?
Norsefire rules through faith, not evidence. If people doubt the government's version of events, they might doubt the whole system, which is exactly what V is trying to trigger.
Why does Sutler silence Finch's praise of the terrorist?
Finch calls the bomber 'very good,' which sounds like respect. Sutler needs the man to be a monster, not a skilled opponent, so he cuts the comment off as irrelevant.
What is 'spin coverage'?
Spin is political manipulation of how a story is told. 'Spin coverage' means news reports shaped to push the government's version — here, that the explosion was planned demolition.
Who is the girl in the photo Creedy's men detained?
Finch has her picture, but when Sutler asks who she is, he says he is not sure yet and that they are working on several leads. The girl turns out to be Evey, and that lead matters later.
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次のチャプター · 第 4 章truth be toldV Hijacks the Emergency Broadcast
第 1 章in the name ofV's Opening Monologue
第 2 章in lieu ofV Introduces Himself to Evey
再生中 · 第 3 章spinSutler's Cabinet Spins the Explosion
第 4 章truth be toldV Hijacks the Emergency Broadcast
第 5 章Johnny-on-the-spotV Escapes the Jordan Tower Raid
第 6 章in all probabilityV Shows Evey the Shadow Gallery
第 7 章put someone offBreakfast and a Debate With V
第 8 章in the wrong lightV Confronts Prothero at Home
第 9 章get me every timeV Shows Evey Monte Cristo
第 10 章no good deed goes unpunishedEvey Confronts V About Prothero
第 11 章a man after my own heartEvey Tells V Her Story
第 12 章mea culpaV Kills Bishop Lilliman
第 13 章let aloneEvey Hides Out at Gordon's
第 14 章the illusion of coincidenceV Kills Delia With a Rose
第 15 章a matter of national securityThe Larkhill File and the Doctor's Diary
第 16 章what ifFinch Questions the St. Mary's Attack
第 17 章neutralizedV Hijacks Deitrich's Live Show
第 18 章the best years of my lifeValerie's Letter
第 19 章use lies to tell the truthEvey Learns V Tortured Her
第 20 章getting back atEvey Says Goodbye to V
第 21 章the ends justify the meansFinch Meets the Informant Rookwood
第 22 章pinned like a butterflyV Recruits Creedy to Kill Sutler
第 23 章under siegeFinch Explains the Pattern
第 24 章on the eve ofV Asks Evey to Dance
第 25 章kept my side of the bargainV Kills Sutler in His Bunker第 3 / 25 章 · 残り約 70 分