Daily Dialogue — November 17, 2011

They administer CPR for a long beat. Mia gets out of the car and watches Brian, struck by how earnest he is.

After a series of chest thrusts, Brian checks for a pulse. To his great relief, he finds one.

BRIAN: He’s back.

DOMINIC: He’s breathing.

Dominic’s relief is clear. He looks at Brian.

BRIAN: Someone doesn’t start a couple full bore IV’s, he’s dead in ten minutes.

Brian flips open his cell.

CHP OFFICER VOICE: Highway Patrol. State your emergency.

BRIAN: This is Officer Brian O’Conner. I’m off duty LAPD. I need a lifeflight rollout. My twenty’s the 86 highway at mile marker fifty-six. One trauma victim. Twenty two years old. Six foot. One eighty. He’s in shock, bleeding out and in cardiac arrest.

CHP OFFICER VOICE: Okay buddy, I’m putting them in the air. Gimme your badge real quick.

BRIAN: One nine six zero four.

Dominic looking at Brian, overwhelmed with betrayal. Brian feels just as betrayed, his jaw muscles rippling as he clenches his teeth. Then Vince begins shaking violently. Brian and Dominic give him their full attention.

— Brian (Paul Walker), Dominic (Vin Diesel), The Fast and the Furious (2000), screenplay by Gary Scott Thompson and Erik Bergquist and David Ayer, screen story by Gary Scott Thompson, based on a magazine article by Ken Li.

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is cop meets crook, suggested by Désirée. The Fast and the Furious suggested by Debbie Moon.

Trivia: There are over 15,000 individual sound effects in the first street race.

Dialogue On Dialogue: So let’s say you have a scene where you need to have a character sound all authentic and cop-like. How do you get your dialogue to come across as realistic as Brian’s side above?

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