Man Friday
1975 · 115 MIN · IMDB 6.2 · 1,134 VOTES · DIR. Jack Gold
Overview
Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his own heritage and upbringing and is incapable of seeing Friday as anything other than a savage who needs Crusoe's brand of cultural and religious enlightenment. Friday attempts to share his own more generous and unashamed culture, but ultimately realizes that Crusoe can never see him as anything but an inferior being. With that awareness, Friday sets out to turn the tables on Crusoe.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,549 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:13 Man: "AND GOD CALLED THE FIRMAMENT 'HEAVEN.'
00:06:22 ¶ A MAN WHO WALKS OUTSIDE ¶
00:11:34 NO, NO, NO, NO. HERE.
00:18:31 ME MASTER.
00:22:23 WE'VE LEARNED TO SPEAK IN SENTENCES, HAVEN'T WE?
00:26:03 I ALLOWED HIM TO THINK HE WAS TEACHING ME
00:30:15 YES, BUT ENGLAND IS A VERY, VERY GREAT ISLAND.
00:33:35 WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING TO ME?"
00:37:33 ¶ GOD SAVE OUR GRACIOUS KING ¶
00:41:29 WELL, I'M NOT ANGRY WITH YOU, FRIDAY.
00:45:19 AND I SAID, "GOD, I AM VILE.
00:49:21 YOU'D BE TREATED AS A GUEST.
00:52:59 TO WORK JUST AS BEFORE.
00:59:44 I WOULD LIKE TO BE KILLED WELL.
01:04:00 THAT ALL TRUE STORIES ARE ABSURD.
01:08:30 I'M DANCING!
01:12:50 I USED SUNDAY TO BAPTIZE HER.
01:17:57 THERE'LL BE PRESENTS FOR BOTH OF YOU.
01:23:28 BOTH TOGETHER, THEN. READY, STEADY
01:27:45 IT'S NOT ONLY A PRINCIPLE OF EDUCATION, FRIDAY, IT'S A PRINCIPLE OF LIFE.
01:33:00 I MAY BE, I MAY NOT BE.
01:38:47 MAN IS THE KING OF THE EARTH... UNDER GOD.
01:43:09 AND I EDUCATED YOU.
01:48:55 BUT HE'S THREATENED OUR CHILDREN
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,549
Dialogue density13.5 lines / min
First line00:00:13
Final line01:48:55
Production Record
DirectorJack Gold
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,134