Dialogue Autopsy
05Grice's maxims
Dialogue Autopsy examples
This instrument's output on published screenplays. Each sample is the interactive report a writer gets, run on a finished film.
Parasite (2019)
Screenplay by Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won
A line the report flags
Sc. 155
KI-WOOI'm going to make a lot of money. First I'll need to go to college. Then I'll get a job and get married. But ultimately, I want to get rich.
Theme announcement in voice-over. It spells out the whole deferred dream, which leaves the bittersweet telescope image little to do.
Nope (2022)
Screenplay by Jordan Peele
A line the report flags
Sc. 10
EMERALDNow did you know that the very first assembly of photographs in sequential order to create a motion picture was a two second clip of a Black man on a horse...?
Unprompted exposition. The scene stops dead so the film can hand its thesis straight to the audience.
Every instrument on one film: Parasite (2019), Nope (2022).