Daily Dialogue — March 21, 2020

Phil: I’m a god.
Rita: You’re God?
Phil: I’m a god. I’m not the God… I don’t think.

— Groundhog Day 1993), screenplay by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis, story by Danny Rubin

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Diner.

Trivia: In the course of the film, Phil endures Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. Harold Ramis: “Danny Rubin actually took Elisabeth Kübler-Ross as a model — her five stages of death and dying — and we used that as a template for Bill Murray’s progress.”

Dialogue on Dialogue: The diner is a central setting in Groundhog Day as several scenes take place there including the “I’m a God” scene.