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Asteroid City (2023)
DR. HICKENLOOPER
A screenplay character in Asteroid City (2023).
- lines
- 39
- words
- 645
- scenes
- 5
- dialogue
- 6.4%
- avg words / line
- 17
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 131
Sample dialogue
Nobody! Wow. OK, well, what you’re going to see is a very simple, “dot, dot, dot”: three pin-points of light inside your refracting-box, which may not sound very exciting, at first -- until you consider how those dots managed to transmit themselves across a thousand billion miles of space onto that little scrap of black cardboard. Twice every fifty-seven years, when the earth, the sun, the moon, and the galactic plane of the Milky Way all combobulate along the same angle of orbital interest, the radiant energy of three neighboring stellar systems induces a parallel ecliptic transit; thus, all but proving the hypothesis of Celestial Flirtation. The hitch, of course, is that the math doesn’t work! But maybe one of you, one day, will be the genius who solves that problem.
scene 18, source scene 19 — EXT. METEOR CRATER. NIGHTHere we go!
scene 18, source scene 19 — EXT. METEOR CRATER. NIGHTThese are just marvelously luminous colors, aren’t they? Very exciting! Who doesn’t see it?
scene 18, source scene 19 — EXT. METEOR CRATER. NIGHTThen give it.
scene 30, source scene 31 — EXT. METEOR CRATER. EVENINGI ask that sincerely.
scene 38, source scene 39 — EXT. MOTEL CABIN #7. DAY
Bookends
I’m sorry about your mother. I miss mine, too. She died forty-six years ago.