Daily Dialogue — March 9, 2019

Mickey: Don’t you wanna hear my last words?
Joe: I just did.

— Heist (2001), written by David Mamet

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Robbery.

Trivia: Marrying two genres for this picture required the finesse of Pulitzer Prize winning Oscar nominated auteur David Mamet, who counts ‘Heist’ as his ninth film as a writer-director. “Film noir is rooted in two major elements”, Mamet explained. “One is violence, and the other is irony. I think that’s what makes a ‘film noir’ different from a simple gangster film. Gangster films are essentially sentimental. They’re violent and they’re sentimental. And ‘film noir’ is violent and unsentimental. It’s much colder than a gangster film. Violence is emotional, so to treat it unemotionally almost automatically makes it ironic”.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Continuing with the theme of violence and irony, here is the end of Mickey’s life.