2つの文化の衝突〜西洋と東洋〜 Part 2
Clash of Two Cultures Part 2
From Season 4 episode 8, "Swiss Diplomacy"
3回にわたって、エピソード8のバックグランドの解説をお届けしています。
先週に引き続き、今週も二つの文化の衝突に関する話題をお届けしましょう。
まず、バートレット大統領、首席補佐官レオと参謀たちのやりとりを見てみましょう。
Serviceman:
If it leaks, you've got the clerics.
Leo:
But it sends a message to the reformists.
Liberal Aide:
Thank you, at a time when they're breaking 70% in local elections.
Serviceman:
If you're looking for ways to temper support to the
Shi'ites, I don't recommend...
Liberal Aide:
A benevolent power must make sure...
Serviceman:
Please, this is not the time....
Pragmatic Aide:
Let's not forget about the Shehab program and
whats-his-name and the transport corridors along the Silk Route.
President:
How old is he?
Pragmatic :
I'm sorry?
Pragmatic Aide:
How old is he?
Pragmatic Aide:
Fifteen.
President:
Fifteen. The Shiites, Manny, that's what you want me to take back to my thoracic-surgeon wife? Get this boy in preop. Somebody tell the Swiss to stop standing in the damn doorway with a mouse in their mouth. If they're coming in, come in.
"The Iranians, they've taken to the streets." Perfect. That goes to the Margaret Museum.
Leo:
Please don't forget all politics are local.
President:
Ah, bite me.
Leo:
He's got to say something...
President:
Please.
Leo:
He's got to say something to his hard-liners.
President:
He didn't want to try, "My son is dying and these guys maybe can fix him. And maybe if our citizens didn't spend quite so much energy denouncing the infidels, they'd have time to build a damn medical school!"