Daily Dialogue — September 7, 2019

Jackie Brown: …the money won’t convict him, guns will.
Max Cherry: You’re rationalizing.
Jackie Brown: Well, that’s what you do to go through with the shit you start, you rationalize. I can do it, Max, I know I can. I just can’t do it without you.

— Jackie Brown (1997), screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, novel by Elmore Leonard

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Shopping Mall. Today’s suggestion by
@pauldecesare41.

Trivia: Quentin Tarantino compares the film to Rio Bravo (1959). “It’s a hangout movie”, he explained. “Jackie Brown is better the second time, and I think it’s even better the third, and the fourth time. Maybe even the first time we see it, we go, ‘Why are we doing all this hanging out? Why can’t we get to more of the plot?’ But, now the second time you see it, and the third time you see it, you’re not thinking about the plot anymore. You’re waiting for the hangout scenes. To me, that’s the thing that Rio Bravo did. I remember the first time I saw Rio Bravo, but I remember more the fifteenth time I saw Rio Bravo. It’s about hanging out with the characters.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: This is such an interesting scene because it plays out through the vantage point of Max Cherry (Robert Forster), calmly seated in the shopping mall watching the bag exchange go down.