Daily Dialogue — March 22, 2020

Boogie: You want to bet that she goes for my pecker — first thing?
Fenwick: The only hand on your pecker is going to be your own
Boogie: You want to bet me? You want to bet me twenty?
Fenwick: Yeah.
Eddie: I’m in.
Modell: Me, too.
Shrevie: Yeah, I’m in, too. But we need validation.
Boogie: All right. I’ll arrange it.
Shrevie: How? You gonna get fingerprints? I’m telling you, I’m not gonna do the dusting.

— Diner (1982), written by Barry Levinson

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Diner.

Trivia: Barry Levinson wrote and directed this movie, having started writing the screenplay during mid 1980, after the suggestion of Mel Brooks, who Levinson had collaborated with during the mid to late 1970s on both Silent Movie (1976) and High Anxiety (1977) as a screenwriter. The Executive Producer of this movie was Mark Johnson who had been an Assistant Director on Brooks’ High Anxiety. Johnson later teamed up with Producer Jerry Weintraub at MGM, which is where Weintraub and Johnson decided to collaborate as producers on making this movie, as Producer and Executive Producer respectively.

Dialogue on Dialogue: The banter between the guys is a combination of scripted dialogue and improvisation.