Don't Look Up · written by Adam McKay · 2021

Drask salutes Orlean and frames the launch as a sacrifice for the planet.

Scene 85 of 205 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Benedict Drask

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Begins 59 min into a 2:06 film

The story so farBefore scene 85

After PhD candidate Kate Dibiasky discovers a comet on a direct collision course with Earth, she and Professor Randall Mindy try to persuade a politically distracted President, a media-saturated public, and a powerful technology company to stop it before impact.

Scenes 1–7
Kate and Randall work within the familiar routine of astronomy and university research.
Scenes 8–26
They discover the impact deadline and need the government and public to respond, but Orlean refuses immediate action.
Scenes 27–60
Kate and Oglethorpe take the warning outside official channels, entering the press and television world to reach the public.
Scenes 61–72
The scientists navigate conspiracy claims, arrest, and political reversal as Orlean finally announces a deflection mission.
Just before
Scene 82
Drask shouts insults at children doing jumping jacks on the White House lawn.
Scene 83
Orlean excuses Drask as a man of another generation while Calder says she once dated him.
Scene 84
Drask asks the children whether they have seen inside a man’s torso.
Scene 85
This scene

85EXT. BATTLESHIP - NIGHT

Benedict Drask stands at attention in his private military uniform and salutes.

BENEDICT DRASK

Benedict Drask reporting for duty

sir!

The President returns the salute.

BENEDICT DRASK (CONT'D)

Some are saying this is a suicide

mission. Well all I ask is if I get

snuffed make sure you all earn the

extra living my sacrifice gives

you.