Daily Dialogue — June 13, 2020

MacGruber: All right, we got a nuclear warhead to… Holy shit!

Sees a mass of confusing wires inside the missile nose-cone.

Vicki St. Elmo: What’s wrong, MacGruber?
MacGruber: What the fuck is this!
Lt. Dixon Piper: lt’s a warhead, MacGruber. You can defuse it, right?
MacGruber: Are you kidding me? Look at all this crap. There’s, like, a million wires in here. I’m more like a three-wire guy.

— MacGruber (2010), written by Will Forte & John Solomon & Jorma Taccone

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Bomb. Today’s suggestion by Jonathan Melikidse.

Trivia: A major influence on the film was Die Hard (1988) which is director Jorma Taccone’s favorite movie. Taccone actually located and used the prop C-4 explosives from that movie for action sequences in this one. In addition, Val Kilmer and Powers Boothe were both told in pre-production meetings with Will Forte and Taccone to act “like you’re in a Joel Silver-produced film in 1988.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: This is pure silliness, but it does involve a nuclear bomb.