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When Harry Met Sally... · 1989 — 第 16 / 20 章 · 4'02" · B2

Harry and Sally Have a Fight, Explained：take your anger out

The argument starts small and goes straight for the throat. Harry needles Sally for seeming untouched by her breakup: "Don't you experience any feelings of loss?" She fires back that she does not have to take it. What sounds like concern is really Harry taking his own misery out on her, and neither of them backs down.

あらすじ

Harry and Sally turn a night out into a fight. Harry accuses Sally of never getting upset, especially about Joe, and asks how she can be over him if she is not seeing anyone. She tells him to stop dumping his anger on her, and the argument ends with a grudging apology before they move on to a party game.

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take your anger outhow to live my lifecrapplanet of the dopes

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このシーンの表現

take your anger out

vent anger on someone

In their late-night fight, Sally tells Harry not to dump his temper on her.

Please don't take your anger out on the kids.

このシーンの他の表現

  • how to live my life

    how to run one's own life

  • crap

    nonsense (mild profanity)

  • planet of the dopes

    a pun on Planet of the Apes

  • sweeping the nation

    becoming wildly popular

  • last-minute thing

    something arranged at the last moment

このシーンのメモ一覧

69 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ

表現 · B1take something out on someone

vent anger on someone

In their late-night fight, Sally tells Harry not to dump his temper on her.

Hey! You don't have to take your anger out on me.
発音don't have to

Don't have to often collapses into don' hafta.

Hey! You don't have to take your anger out on me.
表現 · B1how to live one's life

how to run one's own life

Sally snaps that the last thing she needs is a neat freak telling her how to live.

especially when I'm being told how to live my life by Miss Hospital Corners.
文法 · B1I'm being told

passive progressive: The passive progressive shows an action being done to you right now.

especially when I'm being told how to live my life by Miss Hospital Corners.
表現 · B1what's that supposed to mean

what are you implying

- What's that supposed to mean? - I mean nothing bothers you.
表現 · A2get upset about something

feel unhappy about

- You never get upset about anything. - Don't be ridiculous.
スラング · B2crap

nonsense (mild profanity) — Casual complaining only; keep it out of formal talk.

I don't have to take this crap from you.
文法 · B1If you're so over Joe

conditional clause: The if-clause grants a premise; the main question then attacks it.

If you're so over Joe, why aren't you seeing anyone?
発音seeing anyone

Link seeing and anyone into one run.

If you're so over Joe, why aren't you seeing anyone?
表現 · A2break up with someone

end a relationship with

Have you slept with one person since you broke up with Joe?
表現 · B1have to do with something

be connected to

What the hell does that have to do with anything?
発音What the hell

What the blends into wha-da, with hell stressed.

What the hell does that have to do with anything?
スラング · B2the hell

on earth (for emphasis) — Adds angry emphasis; too rough for formal speech.

What the hell does that have to do with anything?
スラング · C1fuck

have sex (vulgar) — A strong swear; never use it in polite settings.

That will prove I'm over Joe because I fuck somebody?
文法 · B2see that turning

verb + object + -ing: See something turning means watch it change into something else.

and I don't see that turning Helen into a faint memory for you.
表現 · B2be out for revenge

determined to get even

not the way you do it, like you're out for revenge or something.
表現 · B1not say a word

keep completely quiet

Don't say a word.
スラング · B1dopes

fools — An insult, usually teasing; not for formal use.

- How about planet of the dopes? - It doesn't look like a baby.
スラング · B1Bigmouth

a loud talker — Teasing label for someone who talks too much.

Bigmouth baby. Mick Jagger as a baby!
表現 · A2time is up

the time has run out

- That's it. Time's up. - Baby talk.
表現 · B2industrial strength

extremely strong

- One tea. - Industrial strength.
発音down the hall

The weakens; down the runs together quickly.

- Where's the bathroom? - Through that door, down the hall.
スラング · A2gonna

going to (casual) — Everyday speech; avoid it in writing.

You were gonna show me the cover off your book.
表現 · B1have a nice ring to it

sound pleasing

I like saying, "It's in the den." It's got a nice ring to it.
表現 · A2get to know someone

become acquainted with

He's a good guy. You should talk to him, get to know him.
表現 · B1a last-minute thing

something arranged at the last moment

At dinner someone asks if the baseball outing was planned; the answer is it came together at the last minute.

- You all went to a Met game together? - Yeah, but it was a last-minute thing.
文法 · B2where she was when

embedded question: A where-clause nested with a when-clause after asked her.

Of course when I asked her where she was when Kennedy was shot...

「Harry and Sally Have a Fight」を読み解く

What's really going on

What looks like Harry worrying about Sally is Harry unable to sit with his own feelings. His questions are all about her — "If you're so over Joe, why aren't you seeing anyone?" — but the charge is that she refuses to hurt the way he does, and he takes it personally. Sally names the move precisely: "I don't have to take this crap from you." The fight is the closest they come to admitting there is something between them, because the only reason her love life should bother him this much is that he cares. It ends, as their fights do, not with a resolution but with an apology and a joke, the pattern the film keeps returning to.

Theme

RomanceThe fight is really jealousy: Harry grills Sally about Joe because he cannot name what he wants from her.
HeartbreakBoth are nursing a breakup, and the argument shows how grief they cannot express turns into anger at each other.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A fight can turn on one exact word choice.
  • Sally draws a line instead of shouting back.
  • The drawing game hides the real tension.
  • Irony lands when the words are too big to be true.

発音のポイント

  • don't have to — Don't have to often collapses into don' hafta.
  • seeing anyone — Link seeing and anyone into one run.
  • What the hell — What the blends into wha-da, with hell stressed.
  • down the hall — The weakens; down the runs together quickly.
If you're so over Joe, why aren't you seeing anyone?

Harry's cross-examination of Sally's grief, which is really a way of asking why she is not available to him.

I don't have to take this crap from you.

Sally's line that ends the argument: she refuses to absorb Harry's temper and names exactly what he is doing.

Don't you experience any feelings of loss?

Harry's accusation that Sally is too composed, which lands as an attack on how she mourns.

Oh, but "baby fish mouth" is sweeping the nation. I hear them talking.

Sally's deadpan mockery after the game, pretending a nonsense phrase is a national craze.

このシーンについての質問

Why do Harry and Sally fight in this scene?

Harry is upset that Sally seems unaffected by her breakup, and he pushes her about seeing other people. She refuses to be his target, and the argument escalates.

Who is Joe?

Sally's ex-boyfriend. Harry uses him as proof that Sally has not really moved on, which is why the fight turns personal.

Is Harry right about Sally?

He is right that she keeps her feelings private, but he uses it as a weapon rather than a worry. Sally's point is that composure is not the same as not caring.

What game are they playing afterward?

A drawing game where players guess a word from a sketch. The running joke about a baby and an ape leads to the phrase baby fish mouth, which Sally mocks as a national craze.

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次のチャプター · 第 17 章a dead endSally Calls Harry About Joe
第 1 章in her right mindHarry and Sally Drive to New York第 2 章strong suitSally Explains the Weekday Underpants第 3 章get in the wayMen and Women Can't Be Friends第 4 章keep in touch withHarry and Sally Reunite on a Plane第 5 章grow apartHarry Amends the Friendship Rule第 6 章cushion the blowHarry Tells Jess About His Divorce第 7 章on a moment's noticeHarry and Sally Reunite in a Bookstore第 8 章as hard as nailsHarry and Sally Become Friends第 9 章high maintenanceHarry Calls Sally Late at Night第 10 章get out thereHarry and Sally Talk Like This第 11 章downshift into small talkSally Fakes an Orgasm第 12 章hit it offHarry and Sally Slip Out at Midnight第 13 章get over yourselfThe Double Date at the Restaurant第 14 章call off the dogsHarry and Sally Shop for a Gift第 15 章sooner or laterHarry Runs Into His Ex-Wife再生中 · 第 16 章take your anger outHarry and Sally Have a Fight第 17 章a dead endSally Calls Harry About Joe第 18 章one thing led to anotherHarry and Sally's Awkward Morning After第 19 章get past thisHarry and Sally Fight at the Wedding第 20 章consolation prizeHarry's Answering Machine Message
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