Daily Dialogue — October 4, 2017

Harold Lee: Can we have the right to make a phone call?
Ron Fox: Oh, yeah. Yeah, I’m sorry. You want rights now. You want freedoms. Right now. Is it time? Is it freedom o’clock?

— Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008), screenplay by Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Interrogation.

Trivia: In an April 24 2008 Newark Star Ledger interview, the writers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg mention that Kumar’s poem “The Square Root of Three” (parody of Joyce Kilmer’s Trees) was written by a classmate of theirs, David Feinberg when all three went to Randolph High School in New Jersey. They were happy they could include in the film a poem they loved while growing up, and Feinberg was thrilled to make a contribution to the film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This is an over the top interrogation scene befitting our era of over the top response to terrorism.