Daily Dialogue — January 8, 2020

“Tonight, we will be partaking of a liquid repast as we wind our way up the Golden Mile. Commencing with an inaugural tankard in The First Post, then on to The Old Familiar, The Famous Cock, The Cross Hands, The Good Companions, The Trusty Servant, The Two-Headed Dog, The Mermaid, The Beehive, The King’s Head, and The Hole in the Wall for a measure of the same, all before the last bittersweet pint in that most fateful terminus, The World’s End. Leave a light on good lady, for though we may return with a twinkle in our eyes, we will be in truth blind — drunk!”

— The World’s End (2013), written by Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Drunk. Today’s suggestion by Eoin O’Sullivan.

Trivia: Each of the names of the twelve pubs featured, foreshadows events that take place there. The first pub they visit is “The First Post”; The interior of “The Old Familiar” is exactly the same as “The First Post”; Gary King (Simon Pegg) is finally recognized as the banned teenager in “The Famous Cock”; they work together during a fight at “The Cross Hands”; All of the guys are acting like they are happy except Gary, which is reflected in the sign for the “Good Companion”, which shows four sad masks and a happy one; the drug dealer, Reverend Green (Michael Smiley), is met in “The Trusted Servant”; the bitchy twins are met in “The Two-Headed Dog”; at “The Mermaid”, the characters are tempted to their downfall by beautiful women; the characters fight off swarms of enemies at “The Beehive”; at “The King’s Head”, Gary King makes a last stand, and decides to continue his journey without anyone else’s help; a car is driven through “The Hole in the Wall”, leaving a hole in the wall; and the events that transpire at “The World’s End”, lead to the end of the world.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This scene is not about being drunk, but about anticipating being drunk as this monologue suggests.