That is false. I have a typographic memory. I recollect the written word with considerable accuracy and detail -- but in other spheres my powers of retention are distinctly impressionistic. I am known to my intimates as a most forgetful man.
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)
ROEBUCK WRIGHT
A screenplay character in The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021).
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Sample dialogue
Though the infamous Ennui gang war “Winter Crimewave” had eradicated a healthy number of thugs and hooligans, it had also claimed the lives of a disgraceful proportion of innocent citizens. Due to the surprise capture of the racketeering accountant Albert the Abacus (in possession of a valise containing payroll stubs for all three of the city’s major syndicates), the law- abiding community’s hopes for an accelerated resolution to the crisis had been renewed. However: this turn of events had forcefully rattled the cages of the denizens of the criminal underworld.
scene 45 — EXT. NARROW AVENUE. DAYIf you must.
scene 42 — INT. TELEVISION STUDIO. DAYHis schoolrooms were the station house and the squad car.
scene 44 — INT. DINING ROOM. NIGHTThe Commissaire adored Gigi with all his voluminous heart.
scene 48 — INT/EXT. LAUNDRY CLOSET. NIGHTOften, in fiction, the illicit treasure which has cost and destroyed so many lives is finally plucked away by the hand of destiny, vaporized into smoke, dispersed to the winds, etc. This did not occur.
scene 53 — EXT. POLICE HEADQUARTERS. DAY
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