Daily Dialogue — December 30, 2017

“Ahhh! Ahhhhhh! Ahhh! Ahhhh!”

— The Poseidon Adventure (1972), screenplay by Stirling Silliphant and Wendell Mayes, novel by Paul Gallico

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: New Year.

Trivia: Paul Gallico was inspired to write his novel by a voyage he made on the Queen Mary. When he was having breakfast in the dining room, the liner was hit by a large wave, sending people and furniture crashing to the other side of the vessel. He was further inspired by a true incident which occurred aboard the Queen Mary during World War II. Packed with American troops bound for Europe, the ship was struck by a gargantuan freak wave in the North Atlantic. It was calculated that if the ship had rolled another five inches, she would have capsized like the Poseidon.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Perhaps half the dialogue in the movie is people screaming “Ahhh!” as they plummet to their deaths on a doomed ship out for a New Year’s Eve celebration.