Daily Dialogue — September 12, 2019

Air Traffic Controller: TWA 517 do you want to report a UFO, over? TWA 517 do you want to report a UFO, over?
TWAPilot: [over radio] Negative, we don’t want to report.
Air Traffic Controller: Air East 31, do you wish to report a UFO, over?
AirEast Pilot: [over radio] Negative, we don’t want to report one of those either.
Air Traffic Controller: Air East 31, do you wish to file a report of any kind to us?
AirEast Pilot: [over radio] I wouldn’t know what kind of report to file, Center.
Air Traffic Controller: Uh Air East 31, uh, me neither.

— Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), written by Steven Spielberg

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Radio. Today’s suggestion by @AdamFrederick10.

Trivia: The film was partly inspired by an experience from Steven Spielberg’s childhood when, without advance warning, his parents rushed the children into their car one night, drove to an area where many others were gathered, and watched a spectacular meteor shower.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The build-up of this movie is terrific, a series of disconnected scenes which stitch together the foundation for the rest of the movie: UFOs. In this scene, the dialogue via radio slowly ratchets up in tension. Note how Spielberg adds intensity through the growing group of men gathered around the main air traffic controller’s station.