Daily Dialogue — July 2, 2013

Harvey Keitel: (as himself) Fuck you, fuckball.

— Get Shorty (1995), screenplay by Scott Frank, novel by Elmore Leonard

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is profanity, suggested by JasperLamarCrab. Today’s suggestion by Jeff Messerman.

Trivia: MGM didn’t want to extensively use Elmore Leonard-inspired dialogue in the film, and pushed Barry Sonnenfeld and Scott Frank to make many passages more generic than the book’s, but once John Travolta signed on to the film he successfully pressured the studio to leave Frank’s original draft (which had a lot of colorful dialogue) intact for filming.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Jeff: “One of the best gags in the film. What better way to sum up all the double and triple crosses, not to mention the daffy Hollywood yoyo’s who tried to reign in the world of Ray Bones and Chili Palmer…”