ACTIVE EYE

More from Lucas Hnath:

So if we were to experiment with language
let’s do so minimally

Broken english? Been there done that.
It’s a possibility but let’s leave it.

What words do you really need?
Yes
No
Come here ... that’s a useful one although you could just as easily pull them.
I like that. No respect for how you’re supposed to act with people. You want it? Just pull it over to you. No language. We don’t need this phrase...
Unless the person wasn’t responding. To show non-responsiveness “come here come here”
is interesting.

Okay.
‘Okay’ and ‘okay then’ and ‘okay?’ and ‘yeah okay’ and ‘okay yeah no okay.’ Okay tells you how the mental computer is operating.
A character is registering a thought with okay. They’re giving it a file label.
Sometimes they’re saying okay to make someone else believe they’ve filed that thought when they have absolutely no intention of saving the thought for more than 30 seconds.

Kume/Cowboy says “Okay then.” That’s his thing. “Okay then.” That’s a cowboy thing to say. It also implies action. Okay (the thought has been registered) then (then I will take action on it).

Uhhhhhh
Tells us that the mental computer is working.
A pause plus half tells us the same. A look down to the ground with a pause tells us the same.