Daily Dialogue — July 13, 2013

THE BRIDE: — I’m not through telling you. Failure to keep our date, or duplicity of any kind, will result in me putting a xoxo hollow point bullet into the back of your skull from a window of a building across the street from Nikki’s elementary school. Now, feel free to respond.
VERNITA: Look…I know I fucked you over. I fucked you over bad. I wish to God I hadn’t, but I did.

The blonde listens to the black woman with a poker face.

VERNITA… If I could go back in a machine I would, but I can’t. All I can tell you is I’m a different person now.
THE BRIDE: I don’t care.
VERNITA: Be that as it may, I know I do not deserve mercy or forgiveness. However, I beseech you for both on behalf of my daughter.
THE BRIDE: — Bitch, you can stop right there.

The B-word stops Vernita short, almost like a cold-handed slap in the face (it should affect the audience that way as well).

THE BRIDE: (leans in close) Just because I have no wish to murder you before the eyes of your daughter, does not mean parading her around in front of me is going to inspire sympathy. You and I have unfinished business. And not a goddamn fuckin’ thing you’ve done in the subsequent five years — including getting knocked up — is going to change that.
VERNITA: You have every right to wanna get even –
THE BRIDE: — But that’s where you’re wrong, Vernita. I don’t want to get even. To get even, even Steven. I would
have to kill you, go into Nikki’s room, kill her, then wait for your old man, Dr. Bell, to come home and kill him. That would make us even. No, my unborn daughter will just hafta be satisfied with your death at her mother’s hands.

Vernita knows no matter what else is said, blood will spill.

— Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), written by Quentin Tarantino

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is begging for one’s life, suggested by Despina. Today’s suggestion by GlintofLight_79.

Trivia: Uma Thurman was offered the script to Kill Bill, and her role as “The Bride”, as a 30th Birthday present from Quentin Tarantino.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Once again, playing the “I have a child” card, an attempt to evoke sympathy on the part of the would-be killer.