ERNEST

Sample dialogue

• Yes, I know. But white man’s laws are hard to understand... sometimes you have to do one thing even though you mean the other thing – and I know that’s hard for you to understand as Osage. So what I have to do is to go now and tell the real Truth about what these government men have done to make me lie to them... you see they beat me and tortured me so that I would say that my Uncle did these things... but now I am in my right way... and I cannot tell that lie about him. So I am going to do the right thing now and protect him.

  scene 175, source scene 229 — INT. LIZZIE/MOLLIE’S GRAY HORSE HOME – MORNING

• My gut burst.

  scene 5 — INT. HALE’S RANCH – LIVING ROOM

• You’re going to marry me Mollie. I want you to be my wife.

  scene 26, source scene 31 — INT. CAR – DUSK

• Henry Roan is dead.

  scene 96, source scene 134 — INT. POOL HALL TELEPHONE BOOTH – THAT MOMENT

• ...well, yeah, they’re dead.

  scene 155, source scene 206 — INT. CIVIL SERVICE ROOM – LATER

Bookends

Often appears with

• MOLLIE19 scenes
• HALE18 scenes
• TOM WHITE8 scenes
• BYRON5 scenes
• BILL SMITH4 scenes
• BLACKIE THOMPSON3 scenes