Daily Dialogue — April 19, 2020

“Can’t you stop saying ‘fuck’ all the time? Can’t you stop talking about money?”

— Scarface (1983), written by Oliver Stone

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Bath.

Trivia: “Sidney Lumet had stepped into the deal,” Oliver Stone said. “Sidney had a great idea to take the 1930s American prohibition gangster movie and make it into a modern immigrant gangster movie dealing with the same problems that we had then, that we’re prohibiting drugs instead of alcohol. There’s a prohibition against drugs that’s created the same criminal class as (prohibition of alcohol) created the Mafia. It was a remarkable idea.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: A lengthy scene in which the bubble bath Tony takes is a backdrop for a lot of exposition.