Captain Mertin?
Being John Malkovich (1999)
TINY WOMAN
A screenplay character in Being John Malkovich (1999).
- lines
- 5
- words
- 120
- scenes
- 1
- dialogue
- 1.3%
- avg words / line
- 24
- shortest / longest
- 2 / 65
Sample dialogue
was not built with me in mind. Door knobs are too high, chairs are unwieldy, high-ceilinged rooms mock my stature. Nor am I a married lady, Captain. after all, who would marry a person of my diminutiveness? So I am forced to work for my few pennies a week as an optometrist. Why cannot there be a place for me to work safe and comfortable?
scene 36 — INT. 19TH CENTURY OFFICE - DAYI am not a child, Captain Mertin, but rather an adult lady of miniature proportions.
scene 36 — INT. 19TH CENTURY OFFICE - DAYI am not asking for alms, but rather the ear of a kind man with a noble heart.
scene 36 — INT. 19TH CENTURY OFFICE - DAYCaptain Mertin, surely I am a God- fearing Christian woman like yourself, but alas, I am afraid that the world
scene 36 — INT. 19TH CENTURY OFFICE - DAY
Bookends
was not built with me in mind. Door knobs are too high, chairs are unwieldy, high-ceilinged rooms mock my stature. Nor am I a married lady, Captain. after all, who would marry a person of my diminutiveness? So I am forced to work for my few pennies a week as an optometrist. Why cannot there be a place for me to work safe and comfortable?