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.
00:01:40 and the headstreams of the black reach of the Nadder.
00:02:08 (thunder)
00:02:25 and dam the river at Gristling and again at Powder.
00:02:58 Agateer, free from the surveillance of a distant and ailing Harteaster
00:03:36 Agateer's vanguard came upon the Horwood to Bridzor Valley.
00:04:08 and the largest and most central lake for the Agateer household.
00:04:37 Once riddled with passageways, the banks have long since collapsed
00:05:07 It was on this date pole that Agateer's corpse was nailed
00:05:22 that they might carry his strength back into the water.
00:06:08 interrupted occasionally by pools of great depth.
00:06:33 Thanks to Adanaster
00:06:54 It seems that the lake has always been prone to silting up
00:07:13 This has reverted to the shallow stream
00:07:38 These islands were joined with a row of seven high-arched bridges
00:07:57 wrapped in wet flags.
00:08:09 He was garrotted with a fine fishbone hawser.
00:08:29 running thinly over the remains of the old gravel bed.
00:08:47 A row of seven small islands
00:09:11 At the northern end of the fourth lake
00:09:31 (bird call)
00:10:03 encouraged any reputation it might have earned as a place to be feared.
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