Daily Dialogue — January 27, 2019

“Think of it this way. You’re running on hot bricks. You leave your feet on the ground, you’ll get burned.”

— Chariots of Fire (1981), written by Colin Welland

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Exercise.

Trivia: When Colin Welland completed his first draft, the only title he could think of was “Runners”. Then, one Sunday evening he turned on BBC’s religious music series Songs of Praise (1961), featuring the hymn “Jerusalem.” The chorus including the words “Bring me my chariot of fire”. The writer leapt up to his feet and shouted to his wife, “I’ve got it, Pat! ‘Chariots of Fire’!”

Dialogue On Dialogue: One of several training sequences in the movie which cross-cut between alternate runners with divergent forms of exercise.