Daily Dialogue — May 15, 2013

BLACK POOL PLAYER: He’s a deep motherfucker.
RUSTY JAMES: I’m gonna be just like him, too. I’m gonna look like him.
BLACK POOL PLAYER: You ain’t gonna never be like that.
RUSTY JAMES: How do you know? What the fuck do you know? I might look like him.
BLACK POOL PLAYER: You ain’t gonna be like that, man. He’s a prince. That’s right.
RUSTY JAMES: Give it time, buddy boy. Give it time. 
BLACK POOL PLAYER: Know what he’s like? Royalty in exile. You know what I mean?

— Rumble Fish (1983), screenplay by S.E. Hinton & Francis Ford Coppola, novel by S.E. Hinton

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is recounting a legend, courtesy of alexmatu. Today’s suggestion by plinytheelder_t.

Trivia: Author S.E. Hinton claims that the script to this movie was written “on one of the first personal computers” in less than two weeks.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary from pliny: “Possibly Mickey Rourke’s finest acting job.”