Daily Dialogue — October 11, 2019

“Oh, bad luck. You’re in the rough.”

— Goldfinger (1964), screenplay by Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Golf.

Trivia: Ian Fleming partially based the title character of his original 1959 novel “Goldfinger” on the controversial Modernist architect Erno Goldfinger. When he learned that Fleming was naming the villain of his new James Bond novel “Goldfinger,” the architect threatened to file a lawsuit against Fleming’s publisher in an effort to stop the book’s publication. Fleming’s publisher then contacted the author to inquire whether Fleming might consider renaming the character, and the novel. Fleming replied that he’d be delighted to alter the name, if he could change the name of the character, and the novel, to “Goldprick.” Fleming’s publisher quietly settled the architect’s lawsuit out of court.

Dialogue On Dialogue: When is a golf match not about the golf? In a spy movie like Goldfinger.