Daily Dialogue — June 14, 2020

Salim Abu Aziz: Do you know what this is?
Harry: I know what this is… this is an espresso machine. No, no wait. It’s a snow cone maker.

Salim approaches Harry.

Harry: Is it a water heater?

— True Lies (1994), screenplay by James Cameron, based on a screenplay by Claude Zidi and Simon Michaël and Didier Kaminka

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Bomb. Today’s suggestion by Lily Mulholland.

Trivia: James Cameron originally hired a team of writers to help him come up with the film’s jokes. However, after being mostly unsatisfied with their work, Cameron let them go and decided to try his own hand at comedy. He rewrote the script from scratch and kept only two jokes from the team of writers (one of which being Arnold Schwarzenegger’s famous “You’re fired!” line).

Dialogue On Dialogue: Only an action star like Schwarzenegger could pull off joking while confronting the possibility of a terrorist setting off a nuclear bomb.