Daily Dialogue — January 5, 2019

Ben Bradlee: So, can I ask you a hypothetical question?
Kay Graham: Oh, dear. I don’t like hypothetical questions.
Ben Bradlee: Well, I don’t think you’re gonna like the real one, either.

Silence.

Kay Graham: Do you have the Papers?

Another silence.

Ben Bradlee: Not yet.

— The Post (2017), written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Politics.

Trivia: This is Liz Hannah’s first produced screenplay which was picked up as a spec script on the Black List website by producer Amy Pascal.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The “Papers” is a reference to the so-called Pentagon Papers and lies at the heart of the movie’s plot in this tale of journalism meets politics.