Daily Dialogue —July 31, 2019

“You don’t ever disrespect me. FUCKER! YOU NEVER DISRESPECT ME, YOU FUCKER!”

— Boogie Nights (1997), written by Paul Thomas Anderson

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Limousine. Today’s suggestion by @lustforlaughs.

Trivia: Instead of following the template of having the characters change and be different people at the end of the film, Paul Thomas Anderson decided against it. “That doesn’t really happen here,” he told Indiewire in 1997. “Everybody is the same. Maybe if there’s a change, it’s like one degree. Normally you see a ninety-degree change in a movie. To me, they’re all pretty much the exact same people as they were at the beginning of the movie.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: In a movie filled with tough scenes, the limousine scene is just about the toughest and symbolically marks the end of the old porn movie era, hence, the dirge-like music and solemn bells in the soundtrack.