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Scene 7: Emails. |
Part 1:Questions
Watch the segment twice and fill in the blanks of the script with the exact words you hear.
【Keys & References】
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Part 2:Script
Section 1:
Kathleen: (off screen voice) Confession, I have read Pride and Prejudice about 200 times, I get lost in the language words like “wither”, “mischance”, “felicity”. I’m always in agony over whether Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are really going to get together. Oh, read it, I know you’ll love it.
Joe: (off screen voice) The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people this no decision making ability what so ever to make 6 decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat etc. So people who don’t know what the hell they’re doing or who on earth they are, can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee, but an absolutely defining sense of self. Tall decaf cappuccino.
Section 2:
Joe: Do you ever feel you’ve become the worst version of yourself? That a Pandora’s box of all the secret hateful parts of your arrogance, your spite, your condescension has sprung open. Someone provokes you, and instead of just smiling and moving on, you zing them. Hello, it’s Mr. Nasty. I’m sure you have no idea what I’m talking about.
Kathleen: (replies) No, I know what you mean, and I’m completely jealous. What happens to me when I’m provoked is that I get tongue-tied, my mind goes blank. And then I spend all night tossing and turning trying to figure out what I should have said. What should I have said, for example, to the bottom-dweller who recently belittled my existence? Nothing, nothing, even now. Even now, days later, I can’t figure it out.
Joe: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I could pass all my zingers to you. And then I would never behave badly, and you could behave badly all the time. And we both be happy. But then on the other hand, I must warn you that when you finally have the pleasure of saying the thing you mean to say at the moment, you mean to say it, remorse inevitably follows. Do you think we should meet?
Kathleen: Meet, meet? Oh, my God.
Section 3:
Kathleen: (off screen voice, in the scene Kathleen is decorating her Christmas tree in Shop Around The Corner.) It’s coming on Christmas, they’re cutting down trees. You know that Johnny Mitchell song? “I wish I had a river I could skate away on.”… such a sad song. And not really about Christmas at all, but I was thinking about it tonight as I was decorating my Christmas tree. Unwrapping funky ornaments made of Popsicle sticks, and missing my mother so much. I almost couldn’t breathe. I always miss my mother at Christmas, but somehow it is worse this year since I need some advice from her. And I need her to make me some cocoa and tell me that everything that’s going badly in my life will sort itself out.
Joe: (replies) What kind of advice do you need? Can I help?
Kathleen: Can you help? I wish you could help. I wish…
Joe: I had a gut feeling, you would be online now. Hi! I can give you advice. I’m great at advice.
Kathleen: Uh, oh, if only you could help.
Joe: Uh, is it about love? Please say no.
Kathleen: No. How cute was that! My business is in trouble.
Joe: Ha! Well, I’m a brilliant businessman. It’s what I do best. What’s you business?
Kathleen: No, no specifics, remember?
Joe: OK. Well, minus specifics, it’s hard to help, except to say, go to the mattresses.
Kathleen: (reads the words on the screen) Except to say, go to the mattresses? What? (to NY152) What does it mean?
Joe: It’s from the Godfather. It means you have to go to war, huh.
Kathleen: (to herself) Oh, what is it with men and The Godfather? (to NY152) Hello?
Joe: Oh, come on. Hello? Well, well, what can I, Michael, come on, The Godfather is the I-Ching. The Godfather is the sum of all wisdom. The Godfather is the answer to any question. What should I pack for my summer vacation? “Leave the gun, take the cannoli.” What day of the week is it? “Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday.” The answer to your question is go to the mattresses, go to mattresses. You’re at war, it’s not personal, it’s business. Recite that to yourself every time you feel you’re losing your nerve. I know you worry about being brave. Don’t. This is your chance. Fight! Fight! Fight to the death. Fight to the death!
Section 4:
Joe: I came home tonight and got into the elevator to go to my apartment. An hour later, I got out of the elevator. At the brink when I moved out, suddenly everything had become clear. It’s a long story, full of the personal details we avoid, so carefully, let me just say there was a man sitting in the elevator with me, who knew exactly what he wanted. And I found myself wishing l was lucky as he.
Kathleen: (replies) People are always telling you that change is a good thing. But all they’re really saying is that something you didn’t want to happen at all has happened. My store is closing this week. I own a
store. Did I ever tell you that? It’s a lovely store. And in a week it will be something really depressing. Like a baby gap, soon, it’ll just be a memory. In fact, someone, some foolish person probably think it’s a tribute to this saying, the way it keeps changing on you, the way you can never count on it, or something. I know because that’s the sort of thing I’m always saying, but the truth is, I’m heart broken. I feel as if a part of me has died. And my mother has died all over again. And no one can ever make it right.
Language Notes
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Thither （古）往彼处，更远处 |
Mischance 恶运，横祸 |
Felicity 幸运，福气 |
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Agony 极度痛苦 |
Starbucjs 一家美国著名的连锁咖啡店 |
Pandora’s Box 潘朵拉之盒，比喻罪恶之源 |
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Zing 尖牙利齿地攻击 |
Tongue－tired 张口结舌，说不出话 |
Spend all night tossing and turning 彻夜辗转反侧 |
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Belittle 小看，贬低 |
Zinger 尖酸有力地言辞 |
Remorse 后悔，悔恨 |
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Funky 反传统的，离奇可笑的 |
Sort itself out 表示（不用人操心）自己会理顺 |
A gut feeling 一种内脏里的感觉，即直觉，第六感 |
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Specific 具体的，细节的 |
Cannoli 一种意大利奶油甜卷 |
Lose nerve 失去勇气，胆怯 |
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Baby gap gap是一家美国著名的服装连锁店，baby gap是它的儿童部 |
Tribute ＝evidence of good，价值盒好处的体现 |
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