There is a signal broadcast every second of every day through our television sets even when the set is turned off ...

They Live (1988)
BEARDED -MAN
A screenplay character in They Live (1988).
- lines
- 10
- words
- 266
- scenes
- 4
- dialogue
- 6.6%
- avg words / line
- 27
- shortest / longest
- 17 / 48
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Sample dialogue
We are receiv i ng commands from these creatures in the form of preconscious suggestions -- instructions that enter our brain below the thre s hold of awa reness. Their signal hypnotizes our 'grandmother cells' -- neurons in our brains that recognize familiar faces, parents, loved ones ...
scene 90 — SCRUFFY BLONDE MAN •... the movement began 8 months ago when we discovered, quite by accident, these signals being ...
scene 14 — RESEMOFES SLEEP . . •... as long as they're not discovered. That's their primary method of survival keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated ...
scene 14 — RESEMOFES SLEEP . . •... they're dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We're their cattle. We're being bred for slavery ...
scene 26 — EXT. JOSTICEVILLE - DAYThere is a signal broadcast every second of every day through our television sets even when the set is turned off ...
scene 90 — SCRUFFY BLONDE MAN •
Bookends
We are receiv i ng commands from these creatures in the form of preconscious suggestions -- instructions that enter our brain below the thre s hold of awa reness. Their signal hypnotizes our 'grandmother cells' -- neurons in our brains that recognize familiar faces, parents, loved ones ...