Daily Dialogue — November 26, 2017

CLEMENT MATHIEU: You must know a song, right?
MONDAIN: Yeah, but…
CLEMENT MATHIEU: But what?
MONDAIN: You won’t like it.
CLEMENT MATHIEU: No harm in trying. Go ahead. Come on. I’m listening.
MONDAIN (singing): One summer day, I took out my knob to give myself a nice hand job.
CLEMENT MATHIEU: Enough.
MONDAIN (singing) Up yours I go…
CLEMENT MATHIEU: That’ll do.
MONDAIN: I told you so.
CLEMENT MATHIEU: Not bad. You’ll need to practice, but you’ll be a good baritone.
MONDAIN: A what?
CLEMENT MATHIEU: A Baritone. It’s not an insult. It means a deep voice. Go stand with the basses.
MONDAIN: Shit!
CLEMENT MATHIEU: Leave your shit out of it.

— The Chorus (2004), original title: Les choristes, written by Christophe Barratier & Philippe Lopes-Curval, screen story by Christophe Barratier; based upon „La Cage aux rossignols“, story by Georges Chaperot & René Wheeler, screenplay by René Wheeler & Noel-Noel

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: School, suggested by Gisela Wehrl who also recommended today’s movie.

Trivia: In 2004, this was the #1 movie at the French box office, with more than 8.6 million admissions.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Gisela: “Respect is school’s currency. Mondain tries to provocative Monsieur Mathieu who gives him a platform for some nasty lines. But the teacher succeeds as he brought his student to sing a song. Therefore he can judge Mondain’s voice. That’s the first step, that Mathieu can do, what he always wanted to — teaching Mondain.”