Daily Dialogue — January 30, 2019

“We have to go through with it, Walter. The tough part is all behind us. We just have to hold on and not go soft inside. Stick close together the way we started out.”

— Double Indemnity (1944), screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, novel by James M. Cain

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Supermarket.

Trivia: Raymond Chandler hated the experience of writing the script with Billy Wilder so much that he actually walked out and would not return unless a list of demands was met. The studio acceded to his demands and he returned to finish the script with Wilder, even though the two detested each other.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Shopping for groceries as a ruse for the star-crossed lovers to meet and argue once their plan is foiled.