Man is unitary——a simple economic agent. Man’s institutions are split, expressing contradictions that must be worked through. And they are worked through in a causative, predictable way: history is science. This is the essence of the dialectic.
Hail, Caesar! (2016)
MARCUSE
A screenplay character in Hail, Caesar! (2016).
- lines
- 3
- words
- 86
- scenes
- 2
- dialogue
- 0.9%
- avg words / line
- 29
- shortest / longest
- 6 / 43
Sample dialogue
Our understanding of the true workings of history gives us access to the levers of power. Your studio, for instance, is a pure instrument of capitalism. As such it expresses the contradictions of capitalism, and can be enlisted to finance its own destruction.
scene 30 — INT. MALIBU HOUSE - DAYNo. I will work from within.
scene 68 — EXT. PACIFIC OCEAN - NIGHTMan is unitary——a simple economic agent. Man’s institutions are split, expressing contradictions that must be worked through. And they are worked through in a causative, predictable way: history is science. This is the essence of the dialectic.
scene 30 — INT. MALIBU HOUSE - DAY
Bookends
No. I will work from within.