Daily Dialogue — January 18, 2020

Roland Turner: What’s the “N” stand for? Lou N. Davis?
Llewyn Davis: Llewyn. Llewyn, L-L-E-W-Y-N. It’s Welsh.
Roland Turner: Well, it would have to be something, stupid fucking name like that. You don’t look Welsh.

— Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), written by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Hitchhiking.

Trivia: The browns and dirty whites that constitute much of the color palette for the film were modeled on the cover art of Bob Dylan’s second album, “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” recorded and photographed in New York during the winter of 1962–1963. Cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel told American Cinematographer Magazine that the Coen brothers instructed him to give them “a slushy New York.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: As a hitchhiker, you have to put up with the vagaries of who picks you up. This is something Llewyn Davis discovers with the pontifications of Roland Turner (John Goodman).