Daily Dialogue — November 30, 2019

“A strange alchemical phenomenon seemed to have occurred. Not only Tita’s blood, but her whole being had dissolved into the rose sauce… into the quails… and into every aroma of the meal.”

— Like Water for Chocolate (1992), screenplay by Laura Esquivel based by her novel

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Feast.

Trivia: Like Water for Chocolate feaAn aspiring filmmaker from Texas, who was not involved with the project, spent time on set, because he was in town shooting a small budget ($5,000) full-length feature film for the Spanish home video market. That young filmmaker was Robert Rodriguez, and the film was El Mariachi, which became a hit at Sundance and launched his career.st

Dialogue On Dialogue: Wonderful use of voice-over narration to describe the meaning of the feast.