英語の勉強をかねて海外ドラマは英語字幕を表示して見ているのですが、吹き替えは邦訳とは異なる作品の表現そのものにも興味があったので、特にこの作品はA Few Good Menなどで蘊蓄と理想を合わせた諧謔溢れる脚本を書いているAaron Sorkinの作品なので買ってしまいました(画像の左に写っている男性が彼です)。 Obamaが就任した際にこのドラマの大統領との対談を執筆するなど、アメリカではかなり人気がある政治ドラマです。 出来れば一部の話じゃなく全話の脚本集を発売して欲しかったなあ。
[barrels on anyway] Dad, I'm sorry, but Sam's asked me to have lunch with him and I need your permission.
Leo tells his call to hang on and puts the phone down.
LEO
What do you need my permission to have lunch for?
MALLORY
Sam?
SAM
She says she always asks her father's permission before she has lunch with fascists.
LEO
Oh. Yeah, okay.
MALLORY
He's in favor of school vouchers, Dad.
LEO
No, Mallory. He's really not.
MALLORY
Yes, he is.
LEO
No, he's not.
MALLORY
I read the position paper.
LEO
It's opposition prep.
MALLORY
Opposition prep?
LEO
When we're gearing up for a debate, we have the smart guys take the other side.
MALLORY
[to Sam] You stood there and argued with me.
SAM
Yes.
MALLORY
Why?
SAM
You made an appointment.
MALLORY
Sam...
LEO
Would the two of you take it outside?
SAM
I thought you were trying to drive a wedge between us.
LEO
Yeah, but now you're just boring the crap out of me.
MALLORY
Hey...
SAM
Mallory, education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. School should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge to its citizens, just like national defense. That's my position. I just haven't figured out how to do it yet.
MALLORY
[softened] You stood there and argued with me.
SAM
And we can continue the argument. But it's lunchtime now. We're going to have lunch.
And a fear of rectangles. That's not weird, is it? [pause] I didn't cut my hand on a glass. I broke a window in my apartment.
LEO
This guy's walking down a street, when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep. He can't get out. A doctor passes by, and the guy shouts up "Hey you! Can you help me out?" The doctor writes him a prescription, throws it down the hole and moves on. Then a priest comes along and the guy shouts up "Father, I'm down in this hole, can you help me out?" The priest writes out a prayer, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then a friend walks by. "Hey Joe, it's me, can you help me out?" And the friend jumps in the hole! Our guy says "Are you stupid? Now we're both down here!" and the friend says, "Yeah, but I've been down here before, and I know the way out."
Josh looks at him.
LEO
[cont.] As long as I got a job, you got a job, you understand? [gestures to Josh's hand] You wrapped that yourself, right?
JOSH
[raises eyebrows] The bandage?
LEO
Yeah.
JOSH
Yeah.
LEO
Okay. Donna's gonna take you to the emergency room.
JOSH
She knows?
LEO
She was the one who guessed.
JOSH
I don't need the emergency room.
LEO
Come on, it could be infected, you could have a thing.