Daily Dialogue — August 16, 2019

Sera: Don’t you like me, Ben?
Ben Sanderson: Sera… what you don’t understand is — no, see, no. You can never, never ask me to stop drinking. Do you understand?
Sera: I do. I really do.

— Leaving Las Vegas (1995), screenplay by Mike Figgis, novel by John O’Brien

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Las Vegas.

Trivia: Author John O’Brien, on whose novel this movie is based, committed suicide two weeks after the movie went into production. Director Mike Figgis contemplated abandoning the project, but decided the film would make a good memorial for O’Brien.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Las Vegas. A prostitute. And an alcoholic screenwriter. That’s the essence of the movie.