Daily Dialogue — February 13, 2019

Mr. Wolfe: Jimmy.
Jimmy: Uh-huh.
Mr. Wolfe: Do me a favor. Thought I smelled some coffee back there. Would you make me cup?
Jimmy: Uh, yeah, sure.

Jimmy starts away. Stops.

Jimmy: Oh, um, how do you take it?
Mr. Wolfe: Lots of cream, lots of sugar.

— Pulp Fiction (1994), screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, stories by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Coffee.

Trivia: Harvey Keitel reprising his role in 2014, in a series of commercials for the UK insurance company “Direct Line”, wasn’t to everyone’s liking as the following extract from User Reviews reads: “I’ve kind of lost respect for him. The Wolf was a mysterious character, and it’s been cheapened”. Obviously, this movie came twenty years before the Direct Line commercials, so Keitel had also aged somewhat, yet gracefully. The commercials are still on television in the UK, in fact a woman in the latest one says, “Here’s your coffee, Mr. Wolf. Lots of cream, lots of sugar”, a nod to how Keitel replied to Jimmie Dimmick (Quentin Tarantino) in this movie. Winston Wolfe also carried the takeaway paper cup, as opposed to holding a china cup, while standing still, making for a highly amusing scene.

Dialogue On Dialogue: When you tackle a problem like having a “corpse minus a head in a garage,” you’d better have a cup of coffee to stimulate the ol’ brain cells.