And you have succeeded, Mr. Burton.
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
DAVID LO PAN
A screenplay character in Big Trouble in Little China (1986).
- lines
- 38
- words
- 568
- scenes
- 9
- dialogue
- 7.6%
- avg words / line
- 15
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 63
Sample dialogue
My problem, Mr. Burton, is this place •.. this place is my tomb. I'm buried here. A young man, a warrior, a king ... entombed in an old man's crippled body. And I need a woman, Mr. Burton, a special woman with dragon green eyes to make me whole again. Young again. So that I can rule the Universe from beyond this grave.
scene 113, source scene 114 — •• NOTHING YOU WILL EVER UNDERSTAND.Yes. Miao Yin.
scene 155, source scene 146 — INT. MARRIAGE CHAMBER - DAYIt is the American girl. She will die, and I will live out my life with Miao Yin.
scene 170, source scene 158 — INT. HONORA.BL~ HALL OF THE INFERNAL JUDGE - DAYMr. Burton, if you have any influence over your youthful friend here, please exert it and encourage him to give me the information I require or I will have you both rolled off immediately to the Hell Where People Are Skinned Alive. It's that simple.
scene 113, source scene 114 — •• NOTHING YOU WILL EVER UNDERSTAND.There have been others. To be sure. There are always others, are there not? You seem like one who knows how difficult it is between men and women. How rarely it works out. And yet, like fools, we keep hoping. Who are these people?
scene 113, source scene 114 — •• NOTHING YOU WILL EVER UNDERSTAND.
Bookends
Thunder, please ... is it so much to ask? Kill him? For me?