Daily Dialogue — March 30, 2019

Jack: I have to warn you, I’ve heard relationships based on intense experiences never work.
Annie: OK. We’ll have to base it on sex then.
Jack: Whatever you say, ma’am.

— Speed (1994), written by Graham Yost

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Police.

Trivia: Keanu Reeves initially turned down the lead, as he found Graham Yost’s original script to be too much like Die Hard (1988). He signed on after Jan de Bont brought in Joss Whedon to re-write the script. According to Yost, the credited writer, Whedon wrote most of its dialogue.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The last lines of a hit 90s movie with the soul of an 80s movie. A cop. A girl. And a bus rigged with a bomb.