Walks to the huge map with overleafs. He is a slender man in his sixties, who wears glasses and moves with surprising fluidity. He turns to a smaller, younger man, and nods. The man turns the overleaf on the map.
Chinatown (1974)
MULWRAY
A screenplay character in Chinatown (1974).
- lines
- 7
- words
- 199
- scenes
- 1
- dialogue
- 1.6%
- avg words / line
- 28
- shortest / longest
- 13 / 48
Sample dialogue
In case you've forgotten, gentlemen, over five hundred lives were lost when the Van der Lip Dam gave way core samples have shown that beneath this bedrock is shale similar to the permeable shale in the Van der Lip disaster. It couldn't withstand that kind of pressure there.
scene 7, source scene 8 — INT. COUNCIL CHAMBERSBelow him in watching the water trickling down from the outfall near Gittes.
scene 7, source scene 8 — INT. COUNCIL CHAMBERStwelve thousand acre water surface. Well, it won't hold. I won't build it. It's that simple. I am not making that kind of mistake twice. Thank you, gentlemen.
scene 7, source scene 8 — INT. COUNCIL CHAMBERSPulls up, parks. Hurries out of the car, across the park lawn and into the shade of some trees and buildings.
scene 7, source scene 8 — INT. COUNCIL CHAMBERSWalks to the huge map with overleafs. He is a slender man in his sixties, who wears glasses and moves with surprising fluidity. He turns to a smaller, younger man, and nods. The man turns the overleaf on the map.
scene 7, source scene 8 — INT. COUNCIL CHAMBERS
Bookends
Below him in watching the water trickling down from the outfall near Gittes.