Daily Dialogue — June 17, 2019

“What are your legs? Springs. Steel springs. What are they going to do? Hurl me down the track. How fast can you run? As fast as a leopard. How fast are you going to run? As fast as a leopard! Then let’s see you do it!”

— Gallipoli (1981), screenplay by David Williamson, story by Peter Weir

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Military. Today’s suggestion by @eighthdayarts.

Trivia: David Williamson adapted his screenplay from Bill Gammage’s book “The Broken Years” which is a collection of diary excerpts and letters from around one thousand soldiers who all fought at Gallipoli.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Below you can watch the setup from early in the movie to the climactic callback at the end. Gripping stuff.