When you get so much publicity, after a while you must get blasé about it.
Chinatown (1974)
BARNEY
A screenplay character in Chinatown (1974).
- lines
- 8
- words
- 85
- scenes
- 1
- dialogue
- 0.7%
- avg words / line
- 11
- shortest / longest
- 2 / 38
Sample dialogue
Hey, c'mon, Jake. Sit down. Sit down. You hear about the fella goes to his friend and says, 'What'll I do, I'm tired of screwing my wife?' and his friend says, 'Whyn't you do what the Chinese do?'
scene 11, source scene 12 — INT. BARBERSHOP – GITTESTake it easy, Jake.
scene 11, source scene 12 — INT. BARBERSHOP – GITTESFace it. You're practically a movie star.
scene 11, source scene 12 — INT. BARBERSHOP – GITTESJake, for Christ's sake.
scene 11, source scene 12 — INT. BARBERSHOP – GITTES'Course you do, Jake.
scene 11, source scene 12 — INT. BARBERSHOP – GITTES
Bookends
So anyway, he says, 'whyn't you do what the Chinese do?'