Daily Dialogue — January 5, 2018

“Keep your lovin’ brother happy.”

— Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), screenplay by Sergio Leone & Sergio Donati, story by Dario Argento & Bernardo Bertolucci & Sergio Leone

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Flashback.

Trivia: The first draft of the script was 436 pages long.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This line and the subsequent flashbacks makes one of the best uses of this narrative device in film history.

It’s also a setup for a powerful revenge payoff, a scene which also features quick flashback.