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American Fiction (2023)
ARTHUR
A screenplay character in American Fiction (2023).
- lines
- 79
- words
- 904
- scenes
- 10
- dialogue
- 8.5%
- avg words / line
- 11
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 96
source review flagged 4 dialogue lines
Sample dialogue
These are all made by the same company. The Red is shit, the Black is less shit, and the Blue is good. But fewer people buy the Blue, because it’s expensive, and at the end of the day, most people just want to get drunk. For most of your career, your books have been Blue -- they’re good, they’re complex, but they’re not popular, because most people want something easy. Now, for the first time ever, you’ve written a Red book. It’s simple, prurient. It’s not great literature, but it satisfies an urge, and that’s valuable.
scene 41 — INT. ARTHUR’S OFFICE - DAYThere you are.
scene 41 — INT. ARTHUR’S OFFICE - DAYCan I say it’s performance art?
scene 35 — INT. ARTHUR'S OFFICE - DAYI’m sorry to rush, Paula, but can we talk business? Mr. Leigh values his time outside of a cell.
scene 43 — INT. THOMPSON-WATT - PAULA BADERMAN'S OFFICE - SAME TIMEYeah, man! He called you “the real deal." Said that you took off the moment you heard police sirens.
scene 57 — INT. ARTHUR’S OFFICE - BATHROOM - MOMENTS LATER
Bookends
I don’t. Bye.