Umm… no. Is that what you think?
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
SANDRA
A screenplay character in Anatomy of a Fall (2023).
- lines
- 243
- words
- 5,284
- scenes
- 30
- dialogue
- 31%
- avg words / line
- 22
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 156
Sample dialogue
I’m not imposing anything on Daniel. Don’t you talk about Daniel. YOU made us live here among the goats! You complain about a life that YOU chose! You’re not a victim! Your generosity conceals something dirtier and meaner. Your incapable of facing your ambitions, and you resent me for it. But I'm not the one who put you where you are. I have nothing to do with it. You aren't sacrificing yourself; you CHOOSE to sit on the sidelines because you're afraid! (You’re afraid because) your pride makes your head explode before you can even come up with a germ/an embryo of an idea! And now you wake up and you’re forty, and you need someone to blame. Well, YOU are to blame. You’re petrified by your own standards and your fear of failure. And THAT is the truth!! You're smart, and I know you know I'm right. And Daniel has nothing to do with it.
scene 51, source scene 50 — INT. CHALET, SALON-CUISINE - DAYThat you are.
scene 1 — INT. CHALET, SDB SANDRA + CHAMBRE DANIEL (A) / SALON SANDRA (B) / EXTÉRIEUR (ENTRÉE) (C) - DAYAllez on arrête, je vous remercie mais ça marche pas. On va… j’vais vous raccompagner. On va vous payer la séance…
scene 13 — INT. CHALET, ENTRÉE / SALON-CUISINE / CHAMBRE SAMUEL - DAYBecause he was ashamed. Samuel had a lot of issues with shame. It's complicated, there were a number of things: he was frustrated with teaching, it had become a burden. He wanted to write. He'd spent years working on a novel, before and after Daniel’s accident. I read everything he wrote and I thought it was really good and I told him so... but after a while, he couldn’t do it anymore. It made him feel like a coward, he would belittle himself. He ended up convincing himself that he couldn’t write because of his dependency on the medication, and he wanted to free himself of that. He couldn’t talk about this suicide attempt because his feelings of failure were too painful. It was all about the pills in his mind—
scene 43, source scene 41 — INT. (A) PALAIS DE JUSTICE, SALLE DES ASSISES / (B) CHALET, CHAMBRE SAMUEL + CUISINE - DAYAbout his responsibility for the accident, yes. Then perhaps… Earlier, the doctor called it a tragic situation. I very quickly refused to see it that way. I never saw Daniel as handicapped. I wanted to protect him from that perception. As soon as you pigeonhole a child that way, you condemn him to not imagining his life as his own; whereas in fact he should feel it’s the best life because it’s his own. He reads books, goes on social media like any other kid, he dreams, he plays, he cries, he laughs... He's a lively kid. Maybe I resented Samuel for projecting his own pain onto Daniel.
scene 43, source scene 41 — INT. (A) PALAIS DE JUSTICE, SALLE DES ASSISES / (B) CHALET, CHAMBRE SAMUEL + CUISINE - DAY
Bookends
Oui j’y ai pensé…