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  • #31
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    I don't know if anyone's noticed this, but I observe that dialogue in the older, classic films used to have paragraphs rather than one or two lines per speaker. And every word had weight and meaning for the character....

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    • #32
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      The first meeting of Dirk Diggler and Jack Horner.

      This isn't the Howard Johnson's.

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      • #33
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        i know it's not back & forth dialogue, but i still love this from Rebel without a Cause:

        JIM
        You know something? Sometimes I
        figure I'll never live to see my
        next birthday. Isn't that dumb?

        JUDY
        No.

        JIM
        Every day I look in the mirror and
        say, "What? You still here?" Man!
        .....

        JIM
        Like even today. I woke up this
        morning, you know? And the sun was
        shining and everything was nice.
        Then the first thing that happens
        is I see you and I thought this is
        going to be one terrific day so you
        better live it up, boy, 'cause
        tomorrow maybe you'll be nothing.

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        • #34
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          I have never seen Betrayal on stage. I've read the play and seen the movie. I'm not really sure how one splits the difference on opinions. Sorry, Betrayal is my favorite.

          The particular exchange -- when Roger (is that his name?) has picked up the mail from the post office and has just found out that his wife is cheating on him. The conversation is definitely not about his discovery, but it's incredibly deft subtext. A great learning tool for any writer -- in my opinion. And, Ben Kingsley delivers the performance with incredible subtlety and grace.
          "Boobsie is Tassle. Exotic dancer, exotic private investigator. Icy Stoli cranberry gives her the superhuman ability to project her voice to deadly decibel levels." -- StrayGatsby

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          • #35
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            The Muppet Movie.

            KERMIT: Bear left.
            FONZIE: Right, frog.

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            • #36
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              A Bear in his natural habitat: a Studebaker.

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              • #37
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                Boobsie, on stage it was done on a carousel that was cut into three segments and turned according to the scenes. It starred Michael Gambon, Penelope Wilton and Daniel Massey, and was directed by Peter Hall at the Cottosloe Theatre at the National. It was not well-received by the critics at the time, but, as big Pinter fans, we went to see it.

                Far better, a few years earlier, was "No Man's Land", which we had the pleasure to see with John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson. A masterful play, beautifully-acted.

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                • #38
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                  That was the one adapted for the 80's era Charlie Sheen movie, right?

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                  • #39
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                    That sounds delightful Jake. Really. But this is a thread about favorite dialogue exchanges in a film. Do you have any?
                    "Boobsie is Tassle. Exotic dancer, exotic private investigator. Icy Stoli cranberry gives her the superhuman ability to project her voice to deadly decibel levels." -- StrayGatsby

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                    • #40
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                      Oh, snap!

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                      • #41
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                        Earlier on in the thread, Boobsie. (I didn't include any Pinter, simply because there's too much of his work I like. But it was his influence on my first script--a teleplay for the UK market when I first moved there--that got me my first film/TV agent. Long story.)

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                        • #42
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                          CASABLANCA:

                          Rick: Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.
                          Ilsa: But, Richard, no, I... I...
                          Rick: Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie?
                          Captain Renault: I'm afraid Major Strasser would insist.
                          Ilsa: You're saying this only to make me go.
                          Rick: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
                          Ilsa: But what about us?
                          Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
                          Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you.
                          Rick: And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.

                          BULL DURHAM:

                          Annie Savoy: These are the ground rules. I hook up with one guy a season. Usually takes me a couple weeks to pick the guy - kinda my own spring training. And, well, you two are the most promising prospects of the season so far, so I just thought we should kinda get to know each other.
                          Crash Davis: Time out. Why do you get to choose?
                          Annie Savoy: What?
                          Crash Davis: Why do you get to choose? I mean, why don't I get to choose, why doesn't he get to choose?
                          Annie Savoy: Well, actually, nobody on this planet ever really chooses each other. I mean, it's all a question of quantum physics, molecular attraction, and timing. Why, there are laws we don't understand that bring us together and tear us apart. Uh, it's like pheromones. You get three ants together, they can't do dick. You get 300 million of them, they can build a cathedral.
                          [Crash laughs]
                          Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: So is somebody going to go to bed with somebody or what?
                          Annie Savoy: Honey, you are a regular nuclear meltdown. You better cool off. Ha ha, ha ha!
                          [to Crash]
                          Annie Savoy: Oh, where are you going?
                          Crash Davis: After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don't try out. Besides, uh, I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart.
                          Annie Savoy: What do you believe in, then?
                          Crash Davis: Well, I believe in the soul, the ****, the *****, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.
                          [pause]
                          Crash Davis: Goodnight.
                          Annie Savoy: Oh my. Crash...
                          Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: Hey, Annie, what's all this molecule stuff?

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                          • #43
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                            WOODY- We're flying!

                            BUZZ- This isn't flying! This is falling with style!


                            Words I live by.
                            myhomeconvalesceblog

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                            • #44
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                              • #45
                                Favorite Dialogue Exchange

                                JEKYLL & CANADA (free .mp4 download @ Vimeo.com)

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