Small moves, Captain, small moves.
Contact (1997)
TED
A screenplay character in Contact (1997).
- lines
- 48
- words
- 562
- scenes
- 3
- dialogue
- 4.1%
- avg words / line
- 12
- shortest / longest
- 2 / 49
Sample dialogue
We are alone. For millions of years we've searched the cosmos... and after all the suffering, after all the chaos and desolation of the void --the one thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other. That's why I sent the message. That's why I made contact.
scene 174 — EXT. BEACH - LATERTalk to him.
scene 3 — INT. ARROWAY HOUSE - NIGHTWell let's see... the Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd say if it is just us, an awful lot of space is going to waste.
scene 5 — INT. ELLIE'S BEDROOM - NIGHTNot all. Some choose to stay at home and dream their dreams.
scene 174 — EXT. BEACH - LATERIf we don't engineer a consistent causality it'll work itself out on its own, and that's almost always worse.
scene 174 — EXT. BEACH - LATER
Bookends
Childhood is over, Ellie. It's time to grow up.