Pass the ball, Stevens! Man, if I was half as good as youthink you are then I’d be in the god damn league.
Air (2023)
POP HERRING
A screenplay character in Air (2023).
- lines
- 12
- words
- 295
- scenes
- 2
- dialogue
- 2.8%
- avg words / line
- 25
- shortest / longest
- 4 / 183
Sample dialogue
Good. Because I’m all about simple. We complicate simple things all too often for no damn reason. People like the narrative... Michael Jordan cut from his high school basketball team. But you’re a smart guy. You’re an ad man. You know why people like that story. Because it means Michael Jordan is a human, just like them. They like the story because they can see themselves in it. If Michael Jordan got cut and made it... then Ican fail and still make it. But that’s just a story to sell shoes. The truth is... Michael was always going to be great. He was alreadygreat. You could tell. And that was the problem. He knew he was good. Nah... we saw his talent. But he was too young. So we put him on JV so he could grow... so he could play more. Thought it might light a fire. Which it did. When people tell that story... the story that Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team... what they fail to mention is he was back on Varsity eight months later.
scene 40 — INT. EMSLEY A. LANEY HIGH SCHOOL - POP’S OFFICE - DAYCan I help you?
scene 39 — INT. EMSLEY A. LANEY HIGH SCHOOL - GYM - DAYI already told them I’m not doing any interviews about Michael. No journalists.
scene 39 — INT. EMSLEY A. LANEY HIGH SCHOOL - GYM - DAYMichael’s favorite shoes are his Adidas. You know that already?
scene 39 — INT. EMSLEY A. LANEY HIGH SCHOOL - GYM - DAYI don’t need to know who you are to know what you’re doing here.
scene 40 — INT. EMSLEY A. LANEY HIGH SCHOOL - POP’S OFFICE - DAY
Bookends
Good. Because I’m all about simple. We complicate simple things all too often for no damn reason. People like the narrative... Michael Jordan cut from his high school basketball team. But you’re a smart guy. You’re an ad man. You know why people like that story. Because it means Michael Jordan is a human, just like them. They like the story because they can see themselves in it. If Michael Jordan got cut and made it... then Ican fail and still make it. But that’s just a story to sell shoes. The truth is... Michael was always going to be great. He was alreadygreat. You could tell. And that was the problem. He knew he was good. Nah... we saw his talent. But he was too young. So we put him on JV so he could grow... so he could play more. Thought it might light a fire. Which it did. When people tell that story... the story that Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team... what they fail to mention is he was back on Varsity eight months later.