Daily Dialogue — May 8, 2013

HAN: Well your Worship, looks like you managed to keep me around for a little while longer.
LEIA: (haughtily) I had nothing to do with it. General Rieekan thinks it’s dangerous for any ships to leave the system until we’ve activated the energy shield.
HAN: That’s a good story. I think you just can’t bear to let a gorgeous guy like me out of your sight.
LEIA: I don’t know where you get you delusions, laser brain.

Chewie is amused; he laughs in his manner. Han, enjoying himself, regards Chewie good-humoredly.

HAN: Laugh it up, fuzz ball. But you didn’t see us alone in the south passage. She expressed her true feelings for me.

Leia is flushed, eyes darting between Luke and Han.

LEIA: My…! Why, you stuck up,…half-witted,…scruffy-looking…nerf-herder!
HAN: Who’s scruffy-looking? (to Luke) I must have hit her pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh, kid?
LEIA: Why, I guess you don’t know everything about women yet?

With that she leans over and kisses Luke on the lips. Then she turns on her heel and walks out, leaving everyone in the room slightly dumbstruck. With some smugness, Luke puts his hands behind his head and grins.

— Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back (1980), written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, story by George Lucas

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is Profanity free insults, suggested by Mark Walker. Today’s suggestion by David Laudenslager.

Trivia: Leigh Brackett succumbed to cancer shortly after completing her first draft of the script of the film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary from David: “Such a great insult but the comedy comes from Han only taking offense to being scruffy-looking. Scenes like these reinforce him as one of the best rogues/anti-herooes in cinema. Using a character’s response to such an insult is a great way to subvert how an audience thinks a scene will play out.”