Daily Dialogue — April 27, 2012

“Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fuck up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life… But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin’ else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?”

— Mark “Rent-boy” Renton (Ewan McGregor), Trainspotting (1996), screenplay by John Hodge, based on a novel by Irvine Welsh

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is voice-over narration suggested by Lloyd Morgan. Today’s suggestion is by Liz Swan.

Trivia: Many of the book’s stories and characters were dropped in order to create a cohesive movie script of adequate length.

Dialogue On Dialogue: We’ve talked about monologues before, how they are typically frowned on by script readers. But when you write something as good as the one above, you can… [best Scottish accent possible]… blood well do what you want!

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