Hey Henry, you know what’s happening out in Fort Green? There’s two dozen cops hassling anybody with a black face and a record on this Williamsburg shooting thing. If there’s gonna be a riot we’d better have somebody there, unless you want to get stomped two days in a row on the same story.
The Paper (1994)
CARMEN
A screenplay character in The Paper (1994).
- lines
- 14
- words
- 254
- scenes
- 5
- dialogue
- 2.9%
- avg words / line
- 18
- shortest / longest
- 2 / 54
Sample dialogue
Hey Henry, you know what’s happening out in Fort Green? There’s two dozen cops hassling anybody with a black face and a record on this Williamsburg shooting thing. If there’s gonna be a riot we’d better have somebody there, unless you want to get stomped two days in a row on the same story.
scene 10, source scene 11 — INT HENRY’S OFFICE DAY 12Boy, are you old.
scene 10, source scene 11 — INT HENRY’S OFFICE DAY 12They made a bust on Williamsburg, two , black kids, seventeen and nineteen, one of ‘em did six months for C) felonious assault but they look like babies, very poignant hiya Marty, I thought you were on leave?
scene 28, source scene 29 — INT HENRY’S OFFICE DAY 32Okay. Give him the cops, I’11 handle the poignant shit.
scene 28, source scene 29 — INT HENRY’S OFFICE DAY 32Nothing, I’m sorry. I walked into the building and all the detectives hid under their desks, they won’t talk to any reporters, the guy from the Sentinel was crying, no shit!
scene 40, source scene 41 — EXT BROOKLYN PRECINCT HOUSE . DUSK 44 (X)
Bookends
I’m telling you, they took one look at my press pass and --