Daily Dialogue — January 31, 2012

Summer: We’ve been like Sid and Nancy for months now.

Tom: Summer, Sid stabbed Nancy, seven times with a kitchen knife, I mean we have some disagreements but I hardly think I’m Sid Vicious.

Summer: No, I’m Sid.

Tom: Oh, so I’m Nancy…

[Pancakes arrive]

Summer: Let’s just eat and we’ll talk about it later. Mmm, that is good, I’m really glad we did this. I love these pancakes… what?

[Tom gets up and walks away from the table]

Summer: Tom, don’t go! You’re still my best friend!

— Summer (Zooey Deschanel), Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), (500) Days of Summer, written by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is break-ups, suggested by Teddy Pasternak. Today’s suggestion by Diogo Figueira and david.

Trivia: Around the time of the movie’s release, director Marc Webb shot a short video for the Internet, which featured Zooey Deschanel as Sid Vicious and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Nancy Spungen, in reference to a conversation in this movie.

Here it is:

Dialogue On Dialogue: What is so great about this dialogue is Neustadter and Weber use deflection to deal with the break-up, a sleight of hand with the whole Sid and Nancy thing. So much more interesting than saying directly, “I’m breaking up with you.”

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