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American Beauty (1999) Written by Alan Ball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt0rz5iPuaA EXT. SALE HOUSE - BACK YARD - LATER Carolyn stands by the pool next to two fortyish WOMEN. CAROLYN You know, you could have some really fun backyard get-togethers out here. WOMAN #1 The ad said this pool was "lagoon-like." There's nothing "lagoon-like" about it. Except for maybe the bugs. WOMAN #2 There's not even any plants out here. CAROLYN (re: shrub) What do you call this? Is this not a plant? If you have a problem with the plants, I can always call my landscape architect. Solved. WOMAN #2 I mean, I think "lagoon," I think waterfall, I think tropical. This is a cement hole. CAROLYN I have some tiki torches in the garage. The way how Carolyn tries to lure her customers with cheap lies about the house is a reflection of her incapacity to perceive how her own life is a hoax.

While the entirety of GGGR is a sales pitch, this particular passage, is masterful. Writing that actors want to say. Dialogue that speaks without speaking. While it is verbose it also speaks to non-verbal, non-explicit dialogue. The whole thing is a reframe by Roma tying nihilism, mortality and making a mark to the sale of a piece of land. Spectacular. ROMA I don't know. For me, I'm saying, what is is, it's probably not the orgasm. Some broads, forearms on your neck, something her eyes did. There was a sound she made...or, me, lying, in the, I'll tell you: me lying in bed; the next day she brought me café au lait. She gives me a cigarette, my balls feel like concrete. Eh? What I'm saying, what is our life? (pause) It's looking forward or it's looking back. And that's our life. That's it. Where is the moment? (pause) And what is it that we're afraid of? Loss. What else? (pause) The bank closes. We get sick, my wife died on a plane, the stock market collapsed...the house burnt down...what of these happen...? None on 'em. We worry anyway. What does this mean? I'm not secure. How can I be secure? (pause) Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond all measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed. How can we act? (MORE)  35. ROMA (CONT'D) The right way, we would say, to deal with this: "There is a one-in- a-million chance that so and so will happen...Fuck it, it won't happen to me..." No. We know that's not the right way I think. (pause) We say the correct way to deal with this is "There is a one-in-so-and- so chance this will happen...God protect me. I am powerless, let it not happen to me..." But no to that. I say. There's something else. What is it? "If it happens, AS IT MAY for that is not within our powers, I will deal with it, just as I do today with what draws my concern today." I say this is how we must act. I do those things which seem correct to me today. I trust myself. And if security concerns me, I do that which today I think will make me secure. And every day I do that, when that day arrives that I need a reserve, [a] odds are that I have it, and [b] the true reserve that I have is the strength that I have of acting each day without fear. (pause) According to the dictates of my mind. (pause) Stocks, bonds, objects of art, real estate. Now: what are they? (pause) An opportunity. To what? To make money? Perhaps. To lose money? Perhaps. To "indulge" and to "learn" about ourselves? Perhaps. So fucking what? What isn't? They're an opportunity. That's all. They're an event. A guy comes up to you, you make a call, you send in a brochure, it doesn't matter, "There're these properties I'd like for you to see." What does it mean? What you want it to mean. (MORE)  36. ROMA (CONT'D) (pause) Money? (pause) If that's what it signifies to you. Security? (pause) Comfort? (pause) All it is is THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO YOU. (pause) That's all it is. How are they different? (pause) Some poor newly married guy gets run down by a cab. Some busboy wins the lottery. (pause) All it is, it's a carnival. What's special...what draws us? (pause) We're all different. (pause) We're not the same. (pause) We are not the same. (pause) Hmmm. (pause, sighs) It's been a long day. (pause) What are you drinking? LINGK Gimlet. ROMA Well, let's have a couple more. My name is Richard Roma, what's yours? LINGK Lingk. James Lingk. ROMA James. I'm glad to meet you. (they shake hands) I'm glad to meet you, James. (pause) I want to show you something. (pause) It might mean nothing to you...and it might not. (MORE)  37. ROMA (CONT'D) I don't know. I don't know anymore. (pause. He takes out a small map and spreads it on a table) What is that? Florida. Glengarry Highlands. Florida. "Florida. Bullshit." And maybe that's true; and that's what I said: but look here: what is this? This is a piece of land. Listen to what I'm going to tell you now CUT

Iron Man (2008) Writers: Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum, Matt Holloway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0GOh3nGlik Tony Stark: They say that the best weapon is the one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I prefer the weapon you only have to fire once. That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it, and it's worked out pretty well so far. I present to you the newest in Stark Industries' Freedom line. Find an excuse to let one of these off the chain, and I personally guarantee, the bad guys won't even wanna come out of their caves. Ladies and gentlemen, for your consideration... the Jericho. Trivia: The script was not completely prepared when filming began, since the filmmakers were more focused on the story and the action, so the dialogue was mostly ad-libbed throughout filming; Jon Favreau acknowledged this made the film feel more natural. Some scenes were shot with two cameras to capture lines improvised on the spot; Robert Downey Jr. would ask for many takes of one scene since he wanted to try something new. Gwyneth Paltrow, on the other hand, had a difficult time trying to match Downey with a suitable line, as she never knew what he would say. Agent Phil Coulson, played by Clark Gregg, was originally a much smaller part. In fact the character at first was only called 'Agent' and as filming went on and it became apparent on Clark Gregg's chemistry with all the other actors, they added more and more scenes.