Scene endings
Examples:
FROM 'SPACE DETECTIVES ARE GO!'
SPINNER - INNOCENT BOY
DAVE - STREETWISE BOY
SILICA - FEISTY GIRL AND HUMANOID ROBOT
17 Spinner: It's all a front. Human females- desirable- they're real, Get it? Silica doesn't care what it is, any female trait and she'll buy it.
18 Dave: Like Angel....
19 Spinner: Don't know what you mean.
20 Dave: You fancy Angel.
21 Spinner: I'm talking about Silica, but she doesn't know about the job yet, she's still in her room.
22 Dave: She really needs a bit of Davey-love to relax her.
23 Spinner: Is that all you ever think about?
24 Dave: I like to think so, yeah.
Be funny - but don't make them laugh. You look down - don't look them in the eye. A: I'm not joking
B: I'm not laughing
A: You recently left Earth. What does it feel like to be here?
B: About the same
Does anything strike you as unusual... Aside from the very obvious……. Still got a taste for the real thing? Anything for the MINING COMPANY A: Look - if we are going to be working together - we have to be straight with each other
B: Is that right?
A: What do we look like?
B: A couple of XXXX jackasses (laugh together)
We are an easy target
Well - colour you moody! So where did you learn …… (mental origami, the engine knowledge) You look like [Ronald MacDonald - CARTOON CHARACTER]…… threw up over you A: I don't care if you make a profit of eight million space rundles or …….
B: OK - you know enough a lot of numbers!I was a bad luck magnet - but I have been de-magnetized now - so the bad luck just slides off of me. A: Was it that good?
B: No - it doesn't happen very often - I just have to ration.
He is a guy - and yet he can achieve multiple sarcasm. Have you got bad credit or just bad taste? A role model for the stupid …. moronic….. dazed So many shows (OR fans), so little time.
I'm very busy, you know. I have many hobbies to tend to …… (SITUATION - OUR HERO IS AT THE MERCY OF THE VILLAIN, TIED UP, AND ABOUT TO BE TORTURED)
VILLAIN: So let me tell you just what's going to happen to you.
HERO: Be my guest. I feel some responsibility to keep up with everything new.
(sarcastic) Just waiting for you to share my narrow-minded viewpoint. Have you seen the people in Room 6? They look like they haven't sat in chairs before! (Silly name) Never trust a man with a name you wouldn't get on a coffee mug You scratch my surface and I'll scratch yours. I know what sort of [vampire OR villain] you are - an obscure one. If you have a problem with that, you should take it up with your …. pharmacist ….. Say it once, twice, three times - I still don't think it makes you a …… (annoyed) I don't know why that burns my toast - but it just does.
(SARCASTIC SUMMARY ABOUT AN ANGRY AND DEFEATED ENEMY - TYPICAL REMARK FROM FEISTY GIRL)
I guess the cheese has just slipped right off his cracker
(ironically and on the successful outcome of the scam or stratagem) If this was a cartoon - we'd be super-heroes! (SITUATION - THE HEROES ARE CAUGHT BY THE VILLAIN AND OVERCOME BY SMOKE OR SOME SUCH. ONLY ONE OF THE HEROES IS STILL AWAKE OR BREAKS THROUGH TO THEM FOR THIS CLIFFHANGER)
(coughing) Is everyone OK? …… They're all out cold!
Jed! Jed! - Be careful! What's your best chat up line (Robot - cheeky)
Shut up Robot!The primitive engine systems won't cope! A: In your dreams!
B: Why do you think I sleep so much!(SITUATION - PLOTTING THE SCAM OR STRATAGEM)
A: (this character has the plan and is explaining it) What is it that everyone across the universe needs?
B: Understanding? One love?
A: Get with it! Money!(End scene - go to another scene with some other action - then return to this plotting group for more details of the scam)
(From 'SPACE DETECTIVES ARE GO!' - FEISTY GIRL)
Silica: (Walking out) I can't work with amateurs.
Not only am I an amazing technician with a brilliant eye for detail - but I am stunningly handsome (fade down) A: (to INNOCENT BOY) Use it in your spare time
B: (FEISTY GIRL of INNOCENT BOY) I think they're one and the same thingI'll see that you never work in this galaxy again - the future looks incredibly bad. There's something marvellous about Planet Hustle in the morning- the …. (sarcastic exit) I'm still a big fan of your work. A good meal, a bottle of wine, and a not-so-quiet night in! Welcome to my world! David, are you going to come with me or not? (rapid fade) My mother does not know the meaning of the word 'quiet'.
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