『50 first dates』が英語のスピーキング勉強にちょうど良さそう！
懐かしのこの映画でスピーキングプラクティス
Netflixを見ていたらたまたま『50 first dates』が出てきました。
邦題は『50回目のファーストキス』ですね。舞台はハワイ。水族館で働くHenry（Adam Sandler）が、交通事故で記憶障害があるLucy（Drew Barrymore）に恋をするというお話です。
この映画に出会ったきっかけ
実はこのビデオ（VHSのことですΣ(ﾟДﾟ)）をアメリカ短期留学中に自分のお土産に買ったんです。（ビデオ、、という点が時代を物語ってます。。）当時も自分なりに映画をたくさん見て英語学習をしており、この映画は比較的繰り返しよく見たものです（字幕なし）。カートのかごに入れた場面やそのVHSをパツンパツンになったトランクに必死で詰めて持ち帰ってきたことなど蘇ってきて思い出の映画なんです。
これ私のスピーキング練習にピッタリのレベルかも！
それを久々に見ましたら、、これ私のスピーキングの練習にちょうどいいレベルかも？！ということを発見いたしました。
最近の映画はちょっと早いし難しい表現が多く、自分にとってハードルが高いんですよね。実際物にできるのは先そうだな〜って天井見上げてしまいます。。
この『50 first dates』は比較的優しい英語で短いセンテンスでまとめられていて、このレベルがペラペラ喋れるようになりたいのです。
これ、もしかしたら舞台がハワイということも関係してますか？（あまりハワイ英語詳しくないのですが、、）
plotはこちら
plotをこちらに載せておきたいと思います。（参照wikipedia）
Henry Roth (Adam Sandler) is a veterinarian at Sea Life Park on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. He has a reputation of romancing female tourists, a strategy he employs to avoid becoming involved in a serious relationship. One day while sailing, his boat is damaged when the mast breaks and destroys the wheel. He stops at the Hukilau Café until his boat can be towed back to port, and meets a young woman named Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore). Believing her to be a local, he avoids introducing himself, but the next day he returns. He and Lucy hit it off and she asks him to meet her again the next morning.
However, when Henry goes back to the café the following day, Lucy has no memory of their previous meeting. The restaurant owner Sue (Amy Hill) explains to Henry that, the previous year, Lucy and her father Marlin had a serious car accident on his birthday that left her with anterograde amnesia, which inhibits her ability to form new memories. As such, she wakes up every morning thinking it is Sunday, October 13, of a year ago.
To spare Lucy the heartbreak of reliving the accident every day, Marlin and Doug (Blake Clark and Sean Astin) , Lucy's lisping steroid-addicted brother, re-enact Marlin's birthday by following a script, including putting out the Sunday newspaper, refilling Lucy's shampoo bottles, re-watching the same Minnesota Vikings game, and re-watching the film The Sixth Sense.
Despite Sue's warning, Henry invites Lucy to have breakfast with him. Eventually she does, but it ends poorly when he unintentionally hurts her feelings. He follows her home to apologize, where Marlin and Doug instruct him to leave her alone. Henry begins concocting ways to run into Lucy on the following days. Eventually Marlin and Doug figure this out and tell Henry that Lucy sings The Beach Boys' "Wouldn't It Be Nice" only on days when she has met him. Thinking that Lucy may be making progress with her condition, they agree to let Henry keep seeing her.
One day, a police officer writes Lucy a ticket for her expired plates. She attempts to argue that they are not yet expired, but realizes it's not October 13 as she thought. Distraught and confused, Lucy rushes home; Marlin and Doug admit their ruse.
Henry comes up with an idea to make a video for Lucy that explains her accident and their relationship. Although she is upset each time she is told about her accident and memory loss, Henry believes that she is more upset about realizing her life has been a lie every day. Henry, Marlin, and Doug show Lucy the tape every morning and help her spend her days by picking up where the tape says she left off. She spends more time with Henry and goes to see some of her old friends.
One day, Lucy overhears Henry talking of his decision not to take a year-long sailing trip to Bristol Bay to study walruses, something he has been planning for the past 10 years, in favor of spending that year trying to help Lucy and make her fall in love with him every day. So she tells Henry that, for his sake, she will erase him completely from her life. Henry reluctantly helps Lucy destroy her journal entries of their relationship.
A few weeks later, Henry is preparing to leave for his trip. Before he departs, Marlin tells him that Lucy is now living at the brain injury institute where she was first diagnosed and teaching an art class there. He also tells him that she sings. As he is sailing away, Henry remembers that Marlin once told him that Lucy only sings after she meets him. Concluding that she remembers him, he rushes to the institute and asks her if Lucy knows who he is. She says she doesn't. Lucy then shows him dozens of pictures she has painted of him, saying that although she has no idea who he is, she dreams about him almost every night.
Some time later, Lucy wakes up and plays a video tape marked "Good Morning Lucy." It again informs her of her accident, but ends with her and Henry's wedding. On the tape, Henry says to put a jacket on and come have breakfast when she is ready. Lucy then sees that she is on Henry's boat, which finally made it to Alaska. She goes up on deck and meets Marlin, Henry, and their young daughter, Nicole.
- veterinarian 獣医
- anterograde 前進性健忘
- amnesia 記憶喪失
- form new memories
- concocting でっちあげる
いくつかのシーンのセリフ書き起こし
この映画のシーンをいくつか書き起こして暗記してみたいなぁと思っています。ここで書いたから必ずやるぞ！（少なくとも1シーンだけでも）
やりたいことはたくさんあってもなかなか時間が取れません。。
言い訳はしても何も生み出しませんので、、頑張ります！！
