Gentlemen, today you can walk out that door, turn right, hop on a streetcar and in twenty- five minutes end up smack in the Pacific Ocean. Now you can swim in it, you can fish in it, you can sail in it but you can't drink it, you can't water your lawns with it, you can't irrigate an orange grove with it. Remember we live next door to the ocean but we also live on the edge of the desert. Los Angeles is a desert community. Beneath this building, beneath every street there's a desert. Without water the dust will rise up and cover us as though we'd never existed!
Chinatown (1974)
BAGBY
A screenplay character in Chinatown (1974).
- lines
- 2
- words
- 148
- scenes
- 1
- dialogue
- 1.2%
- avg words / line
- 74
- shortest / longest
- 38 / 110
Sample dialogue
Gentlemen, today you can walk out that door, turn right, hop on a streetcar and in twenty- five minutes end up smack in the Pacific Ocean. Now you can swim in it, you can fish in it, you can sail in it but you can't drink it, you can't water your lawns with it, you can't irrigate an orange grove with it. Remember we live next door to the ocean but we also live on the edge of the desert. Los Angeles is a desert community. Beneath this building, beneath every street there's a desert. Without water the dust will rise up and cover us as though we'd never existed!
scene 8 — INT. COUNCIL CHAMBERSThe Alto Vallejo can save us from that, and I respectfully suggest that eight and a half million dollars is a fair price to pay to keep the desert from our streets and not on top of them.
scene 8 — INT. COUNCIL CHAMBERS
Bookends
The Alto Vallejo can save us from that, and I respectfully suggest that eight and a half million dollars is a fair price to pay to keep the desert from our streets and not on top of them.