20,000 Days on Earth

2014 · 97 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 12,130 VOTES · DIR. Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth

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Overview

A semi-fictionalized documentary about a day in the life of Australian musician Nick Cave's persona.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,352 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:44 (BABY CRIES)
00:06:29 NICK: And when I come out of that world
00:09:51 Now I'm singing a Lionel Richie song.
00:12:54 Hm.
00:16:14 It was a show on a street and I was kind of rolling around drunk and singing.
00:19:20 I mean, I think for a very long time
00:23:56 - Someone watching? - Yeah.
00:26:54 and stared at the audience with this expression of loathing on her face
00:30:32 within the business that I'm in, you know, and it was...
00:33:37 - How are you, mate? - All right. You all right?
00:36:11 - Terrifying. - ...up the front of the stage.
00:38:54 - (SYNTHESISER STOPS) - Yeah. Um...it sounded really good.
00:42:14 (SIREN BLARING)
00:46:22 # And a hundred black babies running from his genocidal jaw
00:50:50 It only becomes a story when we tell it and retell it.
00:54:04 and Tracy, noticing that the German person is urinating
00:57:47 And hair like this has always been something that I come back to all the time
01:00:47 (SYNTHESISER PLAYS)
01:05:22 KIRK: It's a beautiful last line to end on.
01:08:59 The mythologised, edited kind of memory of that person.
01:12:51 - (LAUGHS) - That probably doesn't sound...
01:16:23 (CROWD CHEERS AND CLAPS)
01:22:08 and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it.
01:28:29 (SoNG ENDS)

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,352
Dialogue density13.9 lines / min
First line00:00:44
Final line01:28:29

Production Record

DirectorJane Pollard, Iain Forsyth
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes12,130