No small talk, nothing that might reveal who we are, or what we do.
Tenet (2020)
BARBARA
A screenplay character in Tenet (2020).
- lines
- 30
- words
- 337
- scenes
- 3
- dialogue
- 3.0%
- avg words / line
- 11
- shortest / longest
- 2 / 55
Sample dialogue
A bullet may not seem like much, but it’s a simple machine – lead bullet, brass casing, gunpowder. If they can invert this – I see no reason they couldn’t invert pretty much anything. Even a nuclear weapon can only affect our future. An inverted weapon might be able to affect our past as well.
scene 33 — INT. ARCHIVE – CONTINUOUSNo. Something worse.
scene 31 — INT. OFFICE, LABORATORY – CONTINUOUSHow about now? –
scene 32 — INT. SHOOTING RANGE – MOMENTS LATERThat bullet wouldn’t have moved if you hadn’t put your hand there. Either way we run the tape, you made it happen.
scene 32 — INT. SHOOTING RANGE – MOMENTS LATERThey came with the wall. I was assigned it, like all the material I’m studying here.
scene 32 — INT. SHOOTING RANGE – MOMENTS LATER
Bookends
The detritus of a coming war.