Daily Dialogue — July 16, 2019

Perry: How about you, Harry, did your father love you?
Harry: Ah, sometimes, like when I dressed up like a bottle. How about yours?
Perry: Well, he used to beat me in Morse code, so it’s possible, but he never actually said the words.

— Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), screenplay by Shane Black, screen story by Shane Black, novel (in part) by Brett Halliday

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Hospital. Today’s suggestion by @faithaselby.

Trivia: Shane Black had been suffering from writer’s block. It ultimately took him over a year and a half to write the script for this film. He then had enormous trouble trying to sell it. His former cachet, as being the highest paid screenwriter, meant nothing when he was shopping his screenplay around. Eventually, he took it to Producer Joel Silver, who gave him his first break back in 1987 when he bought Lethal Weapon (1987).

Dialogue On Dialogue: Where better for tough guys to have a heart-to-heart than in a hospital recuperating from ‘war’ wounds.