Daily Dialogue — February 26, 2019

Ray “Bones” Barboni: Let me explain something to you. Momo is dead. Which means that everything he had now belongs to Jimmy Cap, including you. Which also means, that when I speak, I speak for Jimmy, e.g., from now on, you start showing me the proper fucking respect.
Chili Palmer: “e.g.” means “for example.” What I think you want to say is “i.e.”.
Ray “Bones” Barboni: Bullshit! That’s short for “ergo.”
Chili Palmer: Ask your man.
Bodyguard: To the best of my knowledge, “e.g.” means “for example.”
Ray “Bones” Barboni: e.g., i.e., fuck you! The point is that when I say “jump,” you say “ok,” okay?

— Get Shorty (1995), screenplay by Scott Frank, novel by Elmore Leonard

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Barber Shop.

Trivia: MGM didn’t want to extensively use Elmore Leonard-inspired dialogue in the film, and pushed Barry Sonnenfeld and Scott Frank to make many passages more generic than the book’s, but once John Travolta signed on to the film, he successfully pressured the studio to leave Frank’s original draft (which had a lot of colorful dialogue) intact for filming. A specific example of this end result came during the sequence where Chili Palmer (John Travolta) goes to retrieve his coat from Ray “Bones” Barboni (Dennis Farina).

Dialogue On Dialogue: Gotta love the grammatical discussion re the use of “e.g.” vs. “i.e.”