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The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
GUS LACEY
A screenplay character in The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009).
- lines
- 21
- words
- 306
- scenes
- 3
- dialogue
- 3.5%
- avg words / line
- 15
- shortest / longest
- 2 / 43
source review flagged 3 dialogue lines
Sample dialogue
It started when I was a kid. I used to lie on my bed and RV my cousin, Irene, undressing at night. Then, when I was in the army I joined Bill Django’s unit. He trained me and the rest, as they say...
scene 15, source scene 17 — INT. GUS LACEY’S HOUSE - DAYI can’t really talk about Bill.
scene 15, source scene 17 — INT. GUS LACEY’S HOUSE - DAYYou ever seen a hamster do that before?
scene 16, source scene 18 — BACK OFFICE - LATERNo, the other one’s just fallen over.
scene 16, source scene 18 — BACK OFFICE - LATERYeah well...(He gestures to his Mother) Mother said no. She said you might be a bleeding-heart liberal. She said “Don’t show him the hamster dying. Show him the tape where the hamster acts bizarre instead.”
scene 16, source scene 18 — BACK OFFICE - LATER
Bookends
Lyn Cassady. After Bill he was the most psi-gifted guy I ever met. He was like an Occultic force. (Beat) I think he runs a dance studio now.