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by sdfsdfsfds 1032 days ago
This Hoover Dam trivia appears in the 2014 Richard Linklater film "Boyhood". From the script:

  MASON
  Yeah, in just a few years that's you

  (Indicates girls)
  And that's gonna be me

  He subtly indicates the Man Alone guy, stil1 sitting at his
  booth, giving a lecture of some kind, with data, etc.

  MAN ALONE IN BOOTH
  ...Also inlaid into the terrazzo floors was a star map, a celestial map of 
  heavenly bodies so accurately displayed that one could chart the
  procession of the Pole Star fourteen thousand years into the future, such
  that future generations upon...(Continuing Indistinct Under)

  SHEENA (O.S.)
  I wonder what his deal is. I mean, he obviously has money to eat here.

  MASON (O.S.)
  He just said. He's a UT professor, tenure and everything.