Daily Dialogue — October 1, 2017

Woody: Hey, Buzz! You’re flying!
Buzz: This isn’t flying, this is falling with style!
Woody: [Excitedly] To infinity and beyond!

— Toy Story (1995), screenplay by Joss Whedon and Andrew Stanton and Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow, story by John Lasseter & Pete Docter & Andrew Stanton & Joe Ranft

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Transportation, suggested by Denise Garcia.

Trivia: Originally the main character was going to be Tinny, the title character in Tin Toy (1988). He would have gotten lost during a family trip and joined up with a sarcastic ventriloquist dummy in a search for a home. Eventually, Tinny was replaced with a toy astronaut named Lunar Larry, which then became Buzz Lightyear. The dummy, meanwhile, was given the identity of a cowboy, eventually becoming Woody.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This is a wonderful inversion of the phrase: “falling with style”. At first, a derogatory comment by Woody directed toward Buzz. Here embraced by Buzz as an ironic comment on the pair flying.