Daily Dialogue — October 25, 2019

“I am sick of your foul language, your crude behavior and your sluttish manner. There are certain things a decent woman keeps private, and only a filthy slut would have done this and those who stood by and encouraged her are just as bad. I don’t care who’s responsible — you’re all to blame. Now, I am going to leave this room for five minutes by which time that disgusting object had better be removed and the windows opened to clear away the stench. If you must play these filthy games, do them in your homes, and not in my classroom!”

— To Sir, with Love (1967), screenplay by James Clavell, novel by E.R. Braithwaite

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Teaching. Today’s suggestion by @barbdignan.

Trivia: The film did so unexpectedly well in the States that Columbia Pictures did market research to find out why so many people had gone to it. Their answer: Sidney Poitier.

Dialogue On Dialogue: There’s nothing like a teacher blowing up with righteous anger as this scene in To Sir, with Love.