film dialogue
Characters' spoken words
Film dialogue is the spoken words in a movie—what the characters say to each other or to the audience.
It includes scripted conversation, monologues, voiceover narration, and any other verbal content distinct from visual storytelling or music: The film dialogue crackled with wit.
Screenwriters craft dialogue to reveal character, advance plot, and create memorable lines that enter cultural memory.
- dubbingPost-production sound replacement
- idiolectIndividual's unique speech patterns
- talkiesMovies with audible dialogue
- expositionSystematic explanatory presentation
- subtextImplicit meaning beneath words
fourth wall · dramatic pause · accents · monologue · scriptwriting · catchphrase · screenplay · voiceover · one-liners · realism · taboo language · ADR · lip sync · sound design · cultural references · slang · backstory · ad-lib
- linguisticslinguistics, phoneme, phonemes, morpheme, morphemes
- screenwritingscreenplay, screenplays, screenwriter, screenwriting, script
film dialoguesilent film
Soundless motion picture
silent cinema · intertitles · title cards · silence · visual storytelling
film dialoguead-libbing
Unscripted spontaneous performance