The Nice Guys (2016)
Meredith Berg: Die-In Protester
Quotes
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[March and Healy are looking for Amelia at a demonstration where a bunch of people are lying motionless on the steps of the city hall wearing gas masks]
Die-In Protester : We can't talk to you. We're dead.
Holland March : No I- Yeah I get it. You know. I think it's very clever, I'm hip, but this is actually a really serious matter.
Die-In Protester : So is this! We've all been killed!
Holland March : No you haven't.
Die-In Protester : F*** you man, we're dead!
Smoker at Protest : They can't talk to you man, they're dead.
Jackson Healy : [to smoker guy] What's the protest about, do you know?
Smoker at Protest : [to the protesters] Any of you know why you're protesting?
Die-In Protester : The air!
Smoker at Protest : [to Healy] Air.
Holland March : You are protesting the air?
Die-In Protester : Pollution! The birds can't breathe!
Jackson Healy : So all of you died 'cause of the pollution?
Die-In Protester : [nodding] Right.
Jackson Healy : What about the gas masks? They didn't... save you?
Holland March : [when the guy can't answer Healy's question] That's f***ing... Alright!
[starts walking down and accidentally steps on a protester's hand]
Die-In Protester : [screams in pain and pulls her hand] F**ker!
Holland March : Sorry. I thought you were dead.
