Dialogue Ideas
Narrative exposition
Journalist
to War Veteran: “Friendly!?”
WV
to J: “I’ll be whatever you want for that can of beans”
Command
to Enclave: “Contain the area. Don’t let word get out”
Enclave:
“Roger.”
Montage
of dialogue: “Tom? TOM!” Journalist: “We gotta leave!”
Radio Announcement: “This is the
President, stay in quarantine; I assure everything will be alright.”
Montage of news report “Global economy
is in meltdown. *static* Food supplies short. *static*Revolution is upon us.
Narrator: “I knew this place once. I
knew these people, I knew these streets. I knew myself.
Character: (laughs manically) Did you see it? Did you
feel the swift hand of god as he struck down the unrighteous hordes? Pillars of
smoke and blood will fill the air, and crack the sky.
(but the world held its breath; now
it’s not the place I once knew.)
No food, no water, no life.
"God
formed man out of the dust of the ground. Until the dust you will return."
Other
Journalist: “We had everything,
everything we could’ve ever wanted. Now we have everything we never wanted.”
Journalist: “War has changed too much,
should’ve listened to that Einstein fella.” - light humour
Army Veteran: “I’ll die, you’ll die,
just accept it; the world’s gonna die!”
“Life and death are supposed to be
extremes; not the same thing.”
“Well, my life is that of
investigation, and I’ve found out you’re not worth investigating.”
“I need to expose the truth; expose
the truth and things can go back to the way they once were.”
The Road- radio announcements at the
start whilst showing destruction of the earth, dramatic dialogue between
characters, mentions their goal/objective
Book of Eli – uses a lot of voiceover
from the protagonist giving narrative exposition, also stopping due to action
sequences.
Bible Quotes
"Earth to earth,
ashes to ashes, dust to dust" – spoken as a eulogy at many funerals, from
a text in the Book of Common Prayer.
In
sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord
Jesus Christ, we commend to Almighty God: (name). We commit her body
to
the ground; earth to earth; ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The Lord bless her
and keep her, the Lord maketh his face to shine upon her and be gracious unto
her and give her peace. Amen.
The
phrase is inspired by one that originates in Genesis 3:19, "By the sweat
of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from
it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. The Bible
makes several references to dust, one of the first being in Genesis 2:7,
"And I will show
wonders in the heavens and in the Earth: blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The Sun shall be turned into darkness, and the
Moon into blood, before the coming great and awesome Day of the Lord, and it
shall come to pass that whoever calls on the Name of the LORD shall be saved."
Revelation
6:6, 8
And I heard a
voice in the midst of the four beasts...
And I looked and behold, a pale horse
And his name that sat on him was Death
And Hell followed with him
And I looked and behold, a pale horse
And his name that sat on him was Death
And Hell followed with him
