Daily Dialogue — June 29, 2019

“You know, certain words and phrases just keep drifting through my mind. Things like, incarceration, cavity search, death by electrocution, life imprisonment, shit like that. You know what I’m sayin’? So do I want to come out alive? I don’t know. I… I don’t know. I think we’re gonna have to think about that.”

— Thelma & Louise (1991), written by Callie Khouri

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Telephone Call. Today’s suggestion by @AmyEStarkey.

Trivia: Callie Khouri wrote her early drafts longhand at home, and then periodically transcribed the pages on a Kaypro computer in her workplace at night.

Dialogue On Dialogue: In a police chase movie, there is almost an inevitable telephone call in which a cop attempts to convince the person fleeing to turn themselves in. It doesn’t work with Louise in this scene.