Daily Dialogue
1000s of Go Into The Story posts featuring dialogue in notable movies.
1000s of Go Into The Story posts featuring dialogue in notable movies.
I launched Go Into The Story on May 16, 2008. After an introductory article titled Fade In, the second post I ever uploaded was this:
Daily Dialogue — May 16, 2008
“If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
— Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck), To Kill A Mockingbird (1962), screenplay by Horton Foote, adapted from the Harper Lee novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”
That began a series I called Daily Dialogue. It was something I had in mind to do ever since I began thinking about hosting a blog: What better way to wake up than read some inspiring dialogue from a great movie?
I posted Daily Dialogues every day until June 25, 2020 which was the day I went in for some major shoulder surgery. In taking a two-month break from blogging, it occurred to me: Why not try something new? That led to the Page One series which in effect replaced Daily Dialogue.
And yet, Daily Dialogue is still near to my heart. If ever I’m feeling like my own dialogue is flat, I’ll randomly click through the Daily Dialogue archives and read a handful of movie quotes. That never fails to inspire me.
You can try it. Here are links to every single Daily Dialogue post from May 16, 2008 to June 25, 2020. That is a total of 4,424 articles!
Who knows. I may bring back the series someday. For now, I’m enjoying the Page One series. I may riff off that and switch to a Fade Out series: Instead of posting the first page of movie scripts, feature the last page.
In any event, the site’s archives have quite literally tens of thousands of articles, posts, reflections, and analysis. You can check them all out here.