Daily Dialogue — September 2, 2018

“The only good thing about being wounded in the butt-ocks is the ice cream.”

— Forrest Gump (1994), screenplay by Eric Roth, novel by Winston Groom

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Ice Cream.

Trivia: Tom Hanks was not paid for this film. Instead, he took percentage points which ultimately netted him in the region of forty million dollars.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The contrast in moods between Forrest and Lieutenant Dan is stark: Forrest’s excitement about something as innocent as ice cream, Lieutenant lost in the first stages of misery and grief over losing his legs.