All right, enough is enough. You can't eat the Venetian blinds, Curly. I just had 'em installed on Wednesday.
Chinatown (1974)
GITTES
A screenplay character in Chinatown (1974).
- lines
- 569
- words
- 5,457
- scenes
- 60
- dialogue
- 45%
- avg words / line
- 10
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 146
source review flagged 2 dialogue lines
Sample dialogue
... and then they stop and they read a little Confucius and they screw some more and they stop and they smoke some opium and then they go back and screw some more and they stop again and they contemplate the moon or something and it makes it more exciting. So this other guy goes home to screw his wife and after a while he stops and gets up and goes into the other room only he reads Life Magazine and he goes back and he screws some more and suddenly says excuse me a second and he gets up and smokes a cigarette and he goes back and by this time his wife is getting sore as hell. So he screws some more and then he gets up to look at the moon and his wife says, 'What the hell do you think you're doing?
scene 12, source scene 13 — INT. GITTES' OFFICEDown the hatch.
scene 1, source scene 2 — INT. GITTES' OFFICEOh yeah? Can you think of something to charge me with?
scene 22, source scene 23 — INT. CORONER'S OFFICE HALLWAYBut that means that most of the valley's been sold in the last few months.
scene 39, source scene 40 — INT. HALL OF RECORDS – DAYI know what he says.
scene 63, source scene 64 — INT. KITCHEN
Bookends
Get him away from her. He's responsible for everything. Get him away from her!