Dear Heavenly Father, We thank Thee kindly for a terrific bus ride. I ate three boxes of Crackerjacks and got a dog- whistle and a miniature map of the original thirteen colonies. Also: we saw a coyote get run over by a fourteen- wheeler, and it left him flat as a pancake. Boy, oh, boy! What else? The bus driver had to stop twice because Bernice couldn’t hold it.
Asteroid City (2023)
FRECKLED BOY
A screenplay character in Asteroid City (2023).
- lines
- 8
- words
- 145
- scenes
- 5
- dialogue
- 1.4%
- avg words / line
- 18
- shortest / longest
- 2 / 69
Sample dialogue
Dear Heavenly Father, We thank Thee kindly for a terrific bus ride. I ate three boxes of Crackerjacks and got a dog- whistle and a miniature map of the original thirteen colonies. Also: we saw a coyote get run over by a fourteen- wheeler, and it left him flat as a pancake. Boy, oh, boy! What else? The bus driver had to stop twice because Bernice couldn’t hold it.
scene 7, source scene 8 — EXT. LUNCHEONETTE/MOTEL. DAYYipe! It works.
scene 18, source scene 19 — EXT. METEOR CRATER. NIGHTWe thank Thee for the ketchup, and we thank Thee for the mustard. We thank Thee for the relish, and we thank Thee for the onions. We thank Thee for the --
scene 11, source scene 12 — EXT. MOTEL GARDEN. EVENINGThen why’d he steal our asteroid then, if he’s such a gentleman?
scene 27, source scene 28 — EXT. MOTEL GARDEN. DAYI did the alien’s flying saucer with a hubcap and a chicken pot pie tin.
scene 37, source scene 38 — EXT. MOTEL GARDEN. DAY
Bookends
I did the alien’s flying saucer with a hubcap and a chicken pot pie tin.