Water Wrackets

1978 · 12 MIN · IMDB 6.0 · 515 VOTES · DIR. Peter Greenaway

Overview

Multifarious images of a lake are overlaid with water effects and a narrated history of the campaigns fought by the fictional water-wracket army.

Dialogue Timeline — 121 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:01 the Wracket Dispersal reached the first limit of its eastward rush.
00:01:43 Greable's third son, Agateer
00:02:17 killing or enslaving the local populations.
00:02:34 From then on, every Nadder hole was smeared with grease
00:03:19 militarily secure settlement as soon as he found a site that suited him.
00:04:03 One lake each for the seven Creons, one lake for the Wracket shieldfleet
00:04:37 Once riddled with passageways, the banks have long since collapsed
00:05:10 at the end of the First Mariott War.
00:05:55 Once wide with parallel banks
00:06:20 for the household of the Second Creon.
00:06:44 and acquired a sanctity that was to be respected
00:07:10 with a short, navigable channel.
00:07:34 held two long, narrow and parallel islands, Bassender and Spast.
00:07:57 wrapped in wet flags.
00:08:18 The third lake was joined to the fourth
00:08:36 The fourth lake was dredged and dammed largely by the Fourth Creon.
00:08:55 They featured prominently in water competitions
00:09:22 This forest protected, sheltered and isolated the fifth and final lake
00:09:59 The ritual and the privacy of the Palace Lake, hidden by the Tersh
00:10:28 and opened hostilities with the Mariotts of the White Sheet Hills.
12:04:07 Harteaster succeeded Sacksettor

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed121
Dialogue density10.1 lines / min
First line00:01:01
Final line12:04:07

Production Record

DirectorPeter Greenaway
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes515