Daily Dialogue — April 30, 2020

“Come with me if you want to live!”

— Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), screenplay by James Cameron, William Wisher

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Motorcycle.

Trivia: The motorcycle the T800 rides is a Harley-Davidson Softail “Fatboy.” Although never confirmed by Harley-Davidson, many believe that HD came up with the “Fatboy” model name as a tasteless joke, made by combining the nicknames of the two atomic bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan (“Little Boy” and “Fat Man”). The “Fatboy” bike was supposed to represent the re-emergence and dominance of American bikes over their Japanese counterparts. The bike is said to have similar design lines of a B29 bomber and its tank symbols resemble a bomber pilot’s flight wings. This could be a nod to Skynet’s inception as a software program for bombing missions and its utilization of nuclear weapons to destroy its enemies.

Dialogue On Dialogue: One hell of a chase sequence.