This kid’s actually pretty good...
Challengers (2024)
ART
A screenplay character in Challengers (2024).
- lines
- 260
- words
- 2,345
- scenes
- 31
- dialogue
- 20%
- avg words / line
- 9
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 208
Sample dialogue
So what? This is a game about winning the points that matter. You beating me is a nice story for you to tell people when you’re giving them tennis lessons, but I guarantee you the thing they’ll all be the most excited about is that you met me at all. They’ll ask you what I’m like. They’ll ask you if I’m nice. They’ll ask you if we were friends. And then they’ll ask you how I did it. They’ll ask you to teach them how to be like me. And you won’t have a fucking clue what to tell them. I mean, I could try to explain it to you, but the truth is that you don’t really want to know. You just want to keep telling yourself whatever worthless stories you’ve been telling yourself about why our lives have turned out the way they have. And even if you did want to know, I couldn’t possibly explain it to you in a language you’ll understand, because the thing you learn when you’ve been operating at my level for as long as I have is that it’s so fucking lonely to win this much. Nobody gets it. But everyone on Earth gets what it’s like to be you.
scene 76, source scene 83 — INT. STEAM ROOM AT THE NEW ROCHELLE COUNTRY CLUB - DAYThat’s a challenger.
scene 12 — INT. THE FANCY HOTEL ROOM IN WINSTON-SALEM - EVENINGI’ve been studying your game since we were kids. It hasn’t made a difference.
scene 25, source scene 27 — EXT. BILLIE JEAN KING NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER - LATERWhere’s Patrick? I’ve been texting him.
scene 45, source scene 47 — EXT. OUTSIDE THE LOCKER ROOMS - A LITTLE LATERWhen we were teenagers.
scene 76, source scene 83 — INT. STEAM ROOM AT THE NEW ROCHELLE COUNTRY CLUB - DAY
Bookends
Fuck off.