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- What are you looking for? - My accordion.Witness for the Prosecution · 1957 — 第 12 / 27 章 · 2'30" · B1
Leonard Meets Christine in Hamburg, Explained：gave someone ideas
On the surface, two strangers banter about bombs, coffee, and a borrowed flat while the coffee heats. Underneath, they size each other up: the room is summed up as "pretty horrible. In a gemütlich sort of way," and he keeps asking whether she is married. Politeness is flirtation; poverty is the setting they both pretend is fine.
あらすじ
Leonard, an English soldier in postwar Hamburg, walks a dancer named Christine home after a night out. Her flat is almost falling down: one chair holds up a beam that holds up the ceiling. They fuss over a tin of coffee, she explains the ring she wears for work, and he mentions his weekend pass and asks whether she is married.
注目の表現
your own faultgave someone ideaslet someone downtake a chance
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このシーンの表現
gave someone ideas
spark risky desires
She grumbles that the costume in the photo was too eye-catching and gave the soldiers ideas.
That photo gave him ideas he could not shake.
このシーンの他の表現
- your own fault
you are to blame
- let someone down
disappoint someone
- take a chance
risk it
- make yourself comfortable
relax and settle in
- rate of exchange
currency rate
このシーンのメモ一覧
38 行のセリフに 19 件のメモ
In quick speech what are you blurs into a single sound like wacha.
- What are you looking for? - My accordion.you are to blame
Christine blames Vole for stepping on her accordion, and he fires back that it is her own fault.
Well, it's your own fault. That costume in the picture gave the boys ideas -spark risky desires
She grumbles that the costume in the photo was too eye-catching and gave the soldiers ideas.
Well, it's your own fault. That costume in the picture gave the boys ideas -disappoint someone
She says the costume first excited the soldiers and then the trousers disappointed them badly.
then those trousers let them down hard. - That costume went in the first raid.a can of coffee
How about a cup of coffee? I've got a tin of coffee.currency rate
She asks what the coffee costs, and he asks the rate of exchange, half seriously.
I don't know. What's the rate of exchange?ellipsis: Got any...? drops have you and asks whether hot water exists at her place.
Got any hot water at your place?risk it
She says the hot water is only sometimes there, but Vole shrugs and says let's take a chance.
- Sometimes. - Let's take a chance. Where do you live?Link take and a smoothly, then let the end of chance fade.
- Sometimes. - Let's take a chance. Where do you live?an evening free
Sorry, it's the maid's night off.formerly had
Oh, it's fine now. I used to have a roommate. A dancer.used to: Used to marks a past habit or state that no longer holds now.
Oh, it's fine now. I used to have a roommate. A dancer.relax and settle in
Inside, Christine tells Vole to settle in while she sees to the stove.
Make yourself comfortable, the stove is slow these days.leave for the weekend
That's all right, I've got a weekend pass.support from below
No, not that chair. It holds up the beam and that holds up the ceiling.some cover
I just wear it when I'm working. Gives a little protection with all the men.time clause: The when-clause with the present continuous states a habitual situation, not a one-off.
I just wear it when I'm working. Gives a little protection with all the men.Both t sounds in little flap into a light d.
I just wear it when I'm working. Gives a little protection with all the men.「Leonard Meets Christine in Hamburg」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene is built on cheerful deflection. Two people who have just met, in a city full of rubble, keep talking about small things — coffee, a chair, a costume — because the big things do not bear mentioning. The joke about the flat, "This is pretty horrible. In a gemütlich sort of way," doubles as pride: it refuses to apologize for being poor and refuses to invite pity. The running gag of the chair that holds up the ceiling is the same move — the room is absurd, so it gets named before anyone can mock it. When the ring comes up, the answer, that it is worn only for work and for 'a little protection with all the men,' says she is guarded but not taken. The flirtation works because both keep the tone light, and the lightest lines carry the most.
Theme
RomanceThe whole scene is a first meeting played as light banter; the coffee invitation and the questions about marriage are courtship conducted sideways.
ClassPostwar poverty fills the room — a chair holding up the ceiling, a maid who does not exist — and the jokes keep the hardship from becoming pity.
このチャプターで学べること
- War damage becomes a running joke about clothes.
- A chair holding the ceiling says everything about the room.
- Bickering is how these two flirt.
- Coffee and a slow stove carry the first date.
発音のポイント
- What are you — In quick speech what are you blurs into a single sound like wacha.
- take a chance — Link take and a smoothly, then let the end of chance fade.
- a little — Both t sounds in little flap into a light d.
Then raid by raid, my other dresses, and now you've bombed my trousers.Her joke about wartime poverty and clothes: air raid after air raid destroyed her dresses, and now even her last trousers are gone. She uses the language of bombing for a wardrobe, which softens how little she has.
This is pretty horrible. In a gemütlich sort of way.A self-aware verdict on the shabby flat: it is genuinely awful, yet somehow cosy. The borrowed German word gemütlich does the work, admitting the mess while claiming it as home.
No, not that chair. It holds up the beam and that holds up the ceiling.A warning to the guest, and the scene's best gag: the only chair is structural, not furniture. Sit in it and the ceiling comes down — a comic image of how improvised her whole life is.
Finest Brazilian blend. The same brand that Field Marshal Montgomery drinks.Her proudest line about the cheapest thing she owns: the coffee is instant, but she gives it the grandest possible pedigree, name-dropping a famous Allied general.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Christine wear a wedding ring if she is not married?
She says she only wears it at work, because it gives "a little protection with all the men." As a performer in postwar Hamburg, a ring lets her keep admirers at a distance. It is a small piece of armour, not a marriage.
What does "gemütlich" mean in that line?
It is a German word for cosy, warm, homely. She is saying her flat is genuinely shabby but also has a snug, lived-in feeling. English borrows the word exactly because no single English adjective carries both meanings at once.
Why is only one chair safe to sit on?
The flat is so run-down that the other chair is propping up a beam, which in turn holds up the ceiling. Christine warns Leonard because sitting there could bring the roof down. It makes the poverty funny instead of pitiful.
Why does she ask about the rate of exchange for a cup of coffee?
It is a joke about the value of money after the war. When he asks how much the coffee costs, she counters by asking the exchange rate, as if the price depends on the currency. The tin of coffee is a small luxury she is teasing him with.
Is Leonard really interested in Christine, or just passing time?
He clearly pursues her: he follows her home, jokes, and asks whether she is married, using his weekend pass as an excuse to stay. The scene reads as a genuine first spark, which is why its warmth matters later in the film.
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第 2 章when her back is turnedSir Wilfrid Hides Cigars in His Cane
第 3 章circumstantial evidenceVole Tries to Hire Sir Wilfrid
第 4 章in the hands ofLeonard Tells Sir Wilfrid His Story
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第 6 章a hot potatoLeonard Recounts the Night of the Murder
第 7 章with flying coloursInspector Hearne Arrests Leonard
第 8 章call it what you likeChristine Vole Meets the Lawyers
第 9 章a way with womenChristine and the Green Socks
第 10 章worships the ground I walk onChristine Denies She's His Wife
第 11 章on the chance thatWilfrid Photographs Vole in Prison
再生中 · 第 12 章gave someone ideasLeonard Meets Christine in Hamburg
第 13 章clutching at a razor bladeVole Tells How He Married Christine
第 14 章to a pointLeonard Vole Pleads Not Guilty
第 15 章take someone by surpriseHearne Testifies About the Prints
第 16 章account forThe Bloodstained Jacket in Court
第 17 章hither and thitherJanet McKenzie Takes the Stand
第 18 章a scheming rascalWilfrid Cross-Examines the Housekeeper
第 19 章an accomplice toChristine Testifies Against Vole
第 20 章a chronic and habitual liarMyers Destroys Christine on the Stand
第 21 章shed new light onSir Wilfrid Calls Leonard Vole
第 22 章establish an alibiMyers Cross-Examines Leonard Vole
第 23 章wild-goose chaseThe Call About the German Wife
第 24 章on the slySir Wilfrid Buys the Letters
第 25 章a pack of liesSir Wilfrid's Blue Letter Trap
第 26 章dispose ofVole Is Found Not Guilty
第 27 章call someone namesChristine Reveals Leonard Was Guilty第 12 / 27 章 · 残り約 55 分