Actors and Movies with the Most Dialogue (article)

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https://www.kaylinpavlik.com/long-winde ... -dialogue/

Interesting breakdown of different genres, actors, and directors by number of words used. Looking for some dubbed films to watch?

On average, there are about 9,000 words in a movie script, which means that Casino packs dialogue from more than seven movies into one (albeit, nearly three hours long) feature...

It turns out that crime movies pack in the most words, though comedy movies pack in the most words per minute of runtime. Horror flicks feature the least dialogue.

I know tommus has done some research on the frequency of words appearing in TV news. I wonder which words and phrases appear the most in these extremely wordy films.

EDIT:

I did a couple of minutes of research on this with the book Ender's Game, which I've done other linguistic research on before. As part of that research, I cut out all the dialogue parts for analysis.

The book has about 101,000 words (different counting methods give different results) and about 42,000 words of dialogue - on par with the longest and most dialogue-heavy films.

I also downloaded the subtitles (in English) of the three wordiest films from that article: Casino, JFK, and Funny People. If you read Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead, it should take you about as long as watching these three films.

Taking a look at the text analysis of the two novels versus the three films, it's very clear that the films repeat their vocabulary a lot more. There are quite a few common four-word phrases repeated ten times or more: "he didn't want to," "do me a favor," "what do you mean," "you don't have to," etc. Even though the word count for the two Ender books is more than 250,000, only a handful of 4-grams are repeated as many as 10 times and most of them are things like "of the battle school" or "in the hundred worlds."