I forget. Three days, or so. The whole hearing took a month.
Oppenheimer (2023)
STRAUSS
A screenplay character in Oppenheimer (2023).
- lines
- 173
- words
- 2,014
- scenes
- 45
- dialogue
- 15%
- avg words / line
- 12
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 76
Sample dialogue
I can’t imagine he’d do that. But whoever did unleashed a firestorm that burned a path from the White House right to my desk at the AEC. You see them in there trying to hang Oppenheimer around my neck. I’ve worked my whole life to get here- the Cabinet of the United States of America- and now, in front of the entire country, they want to put me back in my place... a lowly shoe salesman.
scene 227 — INT. SENATE OFFICE -- DAY (B&W)It’s pronounced 'straws'.
scene 9 — EXT. INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY, PRINCETON -- DAY (B&W)Why get caught holding the knife yourself?
scene 56 — INT. SENATE OFFICE -- DAY (B&W)Lomanitz wound up working the railroad, laying track...
scene 223 — INT. SENATE OFFICE -- DAY (B&W)Robb will have security clearance to examine Oppenheimer’s file...
scene 240 — INT. NICHOLS’ OFFICE, ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION -- NIGHT (B&W)
Bookends
He turned the scientists against me. One by one. Starting with Einstein. I told you about that? About Einstein, by the pond?