Well, let me start this way, Larry. What has science done for you lately?
Contact (1997)
JOSS
A screenplay character in Contact (1997).
- lines
- 97
- words
- 1,483
- scenes
- 16
- dialogue
- 11%
- avg words / line
- 15
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 107
Sample dialogue
...It's an old story. I grew up in South Boston, more or less on the streets. By the time I was thirteen I'd tried my first hit of heroin, by fifteen I'd stopped using but I was dealing full-time. By the time I was nineteen I decided I didn't want to live anymore, at least not in a world like that. One day I got on a bus; I got as far as Ohio before my money ran out, and after that I just kept walking. Didn't eat, didn't sleep... just walked. I ended up collapsing in a wheat field. There was a storm... I woke up...
scene 73 — EXT. NATIONAL SCIENCE MUSEUM - NIGHTMake that two.
scene 71 — INT. NATIONAL SCIENCE MUSEUM - RECEPTION - NIGHTDon't lean forward. Not even a hair.
scene 72 — INT. ANOTHER PART OF MUSEUM - NIGHTDo you really believe your life is meaningless?
scene 104 — EXT. MOUNTAINS - DAYAnd then what? Then you'll be safe?
scene 143 — INT. ELLIE'S QUARTERS - NIGHT
Bookends
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