The man who said "I'd rather be lucky than good" saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control there are moments in a matchwhen the ball hits the top of the net, and for a split second it can either go forward••• orfall back. With a little luck, it goes forward.•.and you win. Or maybeit doesn't••• andyou lose.
Match Point (2005)
CHRIS
A screenplay character in Match Point (2005).
- lines
- 386
- words
- 3,027
- scenes
- 71
- dialogue
- 30%
- avg words / line
- 8
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 80
source review flagged 33 dialogue lines
Sample dialogue
The man who said "I'd rather be lucky than good" saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control there are moments in a matchwhen the ball hits the top of the net, and for a split second it can either go forward••• orfall back. With a little luck, it goes forward.•.and you win. Or maybeit doesn't••• andyou lose.
scene 2 — EXT. TENNIS COURT -- DAYNo, no,no •..
scene 5 — EXT. SIDE STREET --DAYIt has some beautiful ariason it. And his voice expresses -- everything that's tragic about life.
scene 31 — INT.CHRIS'S FLAT -- EVENINGI don't care. Corne on.
scene 66 — EXT. STREET/NOLA'S FLAT -- DAYIt occurred to me that even if you had the child, I could help you out financially.
scene 89 — INT. NOLA'S FLAT -- DAY
Bookends
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