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''"Symphony in Slang"'' is a 1951 cartoon short directed by Tex Avery, written by Rich Hogan and released with the movie ''No Questions Asked'' by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Minimalist and abstract in style (many of the "gags" are created either with single, still frames or limited animation), it tells the story of a man John Brown, who finds himself at the Pearly Gates explaining the story of his life to a bewildered Saint Peter and Noah Webster using slang of that era. The majority of the short is made up of sight gags based on Peter and Webster's imagined, literal understandings of such phrases as "I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth" and "Outside it was raining cats and dogs." ==Plot== A young man (a real swinging hep cat) goes to Heaven and steps before St. Peter. But his life story is so peppered with slang that neither St. Peter nor Noah Webster can understand him. What follows is a series of sight gags based on Webster's literal interpretations of the slang terms, such as his first job being helping out a proprietor who is 'short handed', but being 'unable to cut the mustard', he is 'given the gate'. In general outline the story follows the character's life. Beginning with being born with a silver spoon in his mouth, seeming 'to grow up over night', his first job, moving to Texas to 'punch cattle', 'flying' to Chicago, where a beautiful girl 'steps into the picture'. They spend time together 'painting the town red', but as the girl 'eats like a horse', he runs out of money. An angry restaurateur 'draws a gun on him', he escapes but the law is 'on his heels'. He is 'sent for a stretch in the jar', but after 'raising a big stink', and 'getting through a lot of red tape' he is 'sprung' by an 'undercover man'. After this he 'throws himself'; at his girl's feet, but she 'turns her back', and 'gets on her high horse'. After 'walking out on her', he 'falls to pieces', especially after he hears she is going around with an 'old flame', who is 'connected to the railroad', but is really just 'feeding her a line'. The man tries to 'chisel in', but is made to leave. He 'feels blue', and 'everything looks black', but he 'carries on'. After moving to 'the thousand islands' and becoming a 'beach comber', he still misses his girl, so he 'sends her a cable', and she responds with a 'wire'. So he catches the next boat back to the states, but after 'hot-footing it' to her apartment he discovers things have changed; the girl now has a 'bunch of little ones', and her old flame is now a suffering husband. All this amuses him so much he 'dies laughing'. Back in Heaven the man asks if Webster has followed him. The Master of the Dictionary stammers, to which the man asks if the 'cat has his tongue'. It does. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Symphony in Slang」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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