Daily Dialogue — October 11, 2011

“Attica!”

— Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), screenplay by Frank Pierson, based on articles by P.F. Kluge and Thomas Moore

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is memorable one-word lines. Dog Day Afternoon suggested by Nick West.

Trivia: Frank Pierson wrote his Oscar-winning script around only 12 sequences.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Why was this one-word line of dialogue voted by the AFI as the #86 all-time movie quote? Why does it mean? What is its subtext?

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