Daily Dialogue — February 2, 2020

“It’s only my imagination. Only my imagination.”

— Home Alone (1990), written by John Hughes

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Basement.

Trivia: Writer and Producer John Hughes was worried that mothers would never believe a family could forget one of their kids. Chris Columbus recalled, “John really filled in every possible logic hole, and the audience always bought it.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: A boy’s over-active imagination transforms a home furnace in the basement into a monster.