Daily Dialogue — March 15, 2020

“You don’t remember me. We spoke on the phone two days ago. I told you I would find you.”

— Taken (2008), written by Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Action Hero.

Trivia: Liam Neeson expected the film to bomb, but he signed on in order spend four months in Paris and learn karate, while playing the kind of role he had rarely been offered in the past. Ironically, not only was the film a massive hit, but created a new on-screen image for Neeson as an action hero.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Payoff to an earlier setup.

Here’s the setup:

Here’s the dialogue:

I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

Bad ass!