Daily Dialogue — December 4, 2019
Bill: What are we really talking about here? Huh? What’s the essence of what we’re talking about? Spell it out for you if I have to.
Bill: What are we really talking about here? Huh? What’s the essence of what we’re talking about? Spell it out for you if I have to.
Writing on chalkboard.
Bill: PROSTITUTION! Prostitution. Yeah, we can say it. We’re big kids now, right? You know a lot of times, it’ll help you to understand a word if you break it down, so let’s do that now, shall we? PROS… it doesn’t mean anything. Forget about that… TIT, I think we all know what that means. TU, kay two tit and TION, of course, from the Latin to shun… to say no, uh-uh, thank you anyway I don’t want it, to push away… it doesn’t even belong in this word really, so let’s get rid of that.
— Night Shift (1982), written by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Sales. Today’s suggestion by @iamalsoknownas.
Trivia: Brian Grazer conceived the story after finding a New York Times news story about a prostitution ring run from a city morgue. Grazer was exclusively contracted to Paramount Pictures, but the studio passed on the project. Grazer approached Ron Howard in summer 1980 after the pair had become acquainted on the Paramount Pictures studio lot, and began searching for a project together. They hired Happy Days (1974) writers Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel to draft the screenplay, which was approved for a 6.4 million dollar budget within a few days by The Ladd Company’s Alan Ladd Jr..
Dialogue On Dialogue: One of the funniest scenes in the movie.