It is rare to get a body albeit dead but so close to life.
Poor Things (2023)
BAXTER V/O
A screenplay character in Poor Things (2023).
- lines
- 6
- words
- 135
- scenes
- 4
- dialogue
- 1.5%
- avg words / line
- 23
- shortest / longest
- 8 / 53
Sample dialogue
I knew nothing about the life she had abandoned, except that she hated it so much that she had chosen not to be, and forever. What would she feel on being dragged from her carefully chosen blank eternity and forced to be in one of our understaffed, poorly equipped madhouses, reformatories or jails?
scene 29 — INT BAXTER’S HOUSE SURGERY - DAYDo you wish to marry her or not?
scene 38, source scene 40 — EXT BAXTER’S HOUSE GARDEN - DAYI have seen people look at each other with love, as an observer never a subject of course. I see it.
scene 34, source scene 36 — INT BAXTER’S HOUSE DRAWING ROOM - DAYNot dark at all. Men’s, indeed all sexuality, is basically amoral.
scene 38, source scene 40 — EXT BAXTER’S HOUSE GARDEN - DAYFor in this Christian nation suicide is treated as lunacy or crime. Who was I to decide her fate? But there was also on my part a recognition.
scene 29 — INT BAXTER’S HOUSE SURGERY - DAY
Bookends
Do you wish to marry her or not?