Daily Dialogue — November 15, 2019

Miles: Where do you live?
Buck: In the city.
Miles: You have a house?
Buck: Apartment.
Miles: Own or rent?
Buck: Rent.
Miles: What do you do for a living?
Buck: Lots of things.
Miles: Where’s your office?
Buck: I don’t have one.
Miles: How come?
Buck: I don’t need one.
Miles: Where’s your wife?
Buck: Don’t have one.
Miles: How come?
Buck: It’s a long story.
Miles: You have kids?
Buck: No. I don’t.
Miles: How come?
Buck: It’s an even longer story.
Miles: Are you my dad’s brother?
Buck: What’s your record for consecutive questions asked?
Miles: 38.
Buck: I’m your dad’s brother, all right.
Miles: You have much more hair in your nose than my dad.
Buck: How nice of you to notice.
Miles: That’s my job. I’m a kid.

— Uncle Buck (1989), written by John Hughes

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Interrogation.

Trivia: During Miles’ interrogation of Uncle Buck, John Candy wrote out the script’s dialogue, and wore it atop his head so Macaulay Culkin could read the lines more quickly, and keep the pace of the scene very fast.

Dialogue On Dialogue: An unusual and humorous interrogation.