A radio telegram was delivered and signed for by the girl at four a.m. The envelope was found near the body, but its contents were missing -- however: the telegraph office always keeps a carbon of the ticker-tape for twenty-four hours. I copied it down. It reads as follows: “Pack your things stop be ready to leave at moment’s notice stop hide-out is vicinity of Gabelmeister’s Peak stop destroy this message all my love full stop.” HENCKELS
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
LIEUTENANT
A screenplay character in The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
- lines
- 2
- words
- 232
- scenes
- 1
- dialogue
- 1.7%
- avg words / line
- 116
- shortest / longest
- 77 / 155
Sample dialogue
Where’s the basket? The lieutenant points across the room. Henckels sighs. He stands up and walks over to a laundry basket on top of a desk against the wall. Pause. He reaches into it and lifts out, by the hair: Serge’s sister’s severed head. TITLE: Part 5: “Gabelmeister’s Peak” INSERT: The radio telegram -- which has been torn to shreds, then carefully taped back together. It is speckled with blood. EXT. GAS STATION. DAY A lone fuel-pump in front of a service-shack at the foot of hill on a snowy, country road. A fourteen-year-old attendant in a greasy jumpsuit fills the tank of Jopling’s motorcycle. A sled-runner has been fitted over the front wheel. Jopling leans against the wall, silent, looking down at the radio telegram in his hands. The attendant chirps: PUMP ATTENDANT Where you headed, mister? Pause. Jopling’s eye-balls turn to the attendant. PUMP ATTENDANT Skiing? Sledding? Mountain climbing? Jopling looks away again.
scene 36 — INT. LIBRARY. NIGHTA radio telegram was delivered and signed for by the girl at four a.m. The envelope was found near the body, but its contents were missing -- however: the telegraph office always keeps a carbon of the ticker-tape for twenty-four hours. I copied it down. It reads as follows: “Pack your things stop be ready to leave at moment’s notice stop hide-out is vicinity of Gabelmeister’s Peak stop destroy this message all my love full stop.” HENCKELS
scene 36 — INT. LIBRARY. NIGHT
Bookends
Where’s the basket? The lieutenant points across the room. Henckels sighs. He stands up and walks over to a laundry basket on top of a desk against the wall. Pause. He reaches into it and lifts out, by the hair: Serge’s sister’s severed head. TITLE: Part 5: “Gabelmeister’s Peak” INSERT: The radio telegram -- which has been torn to shreds, then carefully taped back together. It is speckled with blood. EXT. GAS STATION. DAY A lone fuel-pump in front of a service-shack at the foot of hill on a snowy, country road. A fourteen-year-old attendant in a greasy jumpsuit fills the tank of Jopling’s motorcycle. A sled-runner has been fitted over the front wheel. Jopling leans against the wall, silent, looking down at the radio telegram in his hands. The attendant chirps: PUMP ATTENDANT Where you headed, mister? Pause. Jopling’s eye-balls turn to the attendant. PUMP ATTENDANT Skiing? Sledding? Mountain climbing? Jopling looks away again.