Daily Dialogue — February 4, 2018

George Bailey: Now, will you do something for me?
Zuzu Bailey: What?
George Bailey: Will you try and get some sleep?
Zuzu Bailey: I’m not sleepy. I want to look at my flower.
George Bailey: I know-I know, but you just go to sleep, and then you can dream about it, and it’ll be a whole garden.
Zuzu Bailey: It will?
George Bailey: Uh-huh.

— It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), screenplay by Francis Goodrich, Albert Hackett and Frank Capra

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Whisper.

Trivia: The husband-and- wife writing team of Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett found Frank Capra disagreeable and difficult to work with and were angered when they found he had rewritten their script. They filed an arbitration with the Writer’s Guild to have Capra’s name taken off, but it remains on.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A nice quiet moment between father and daughter before the ‘noise’ of George contemplating suicide… until an angel who’s yet to earn his wings shows up to show George what the world would be like if he hadn’t been born.