A Letter to Elia
2010 · 60 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 727 VOTES · DIR. Martin Scorsese, Kent Jones
Overview
Martin Scorsese reflects on the profound influence of director Elia Kazan, tracing his artistic journey from the Group Theatre to Hollywood success and the controversies of the blacklist era. Co-directed with Kent Jones, the film combines interviews and clips from Kazan’s classics—On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, and America, America—to portray him as a deeply personal filmmaker within an often impersonal industry.
Dialogue Timeline — 983 lines
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00:00:49 Would you like some tea? Would you like some rum?
00:03:28 ...and poorer now than when I started.
00:05:39 I would always ask myself when I was doing a scene,
00:08:22 Now, smile.
00:10:47 out in the world and back at home.
00:13:06 I was playing for peanuts.
00:15:24 I don't know how I could do any different.
00:18:06 I'm a doctor. I want to take a look at him.
00:20:32 made my face what it is today.
00:23:08 Hey! This bum here is my shadow.
00:25:11 I don't want you to do anything.
00:27:15 Listen to me, Terry.
00:29:46 taking it all in.
00:32:22 And he gave a performance that didn't care what you thought about it.
00:34:59 "and mine iniquity have I not hid..."
00:37:38 Yeah, I am. No. Well, kind of.
00:40:07 The framing,
00:43:31 or else he'll never be a man.
00:45:39 I studied them.
00:48:23 ...just gave way.
00:50:56 because it felt personal, hand-crafted,
00:53:41 But if I was going to make my own way and my own movies,
00:56:01 I don't think it would've been fair.
00:58:46 was by making movies.
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Dialogue Record
Lines indexed983
Dialogue density16.4 lines / min
First line00:00:49
Final line00:58:46
Production Record
DirectorMartin Scorsese, Kent Jones
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes727
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