Daily Dialogue — August 24, 2014

“I don’t think I want to know a six-year-old who isn’t a dreamer, or a sillyheart. And I sure don’t want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don’t have a college degree. I don’t even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they’re all good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they’re no good. You so much as scowl at my niece, or any other kid in this school, and I hear about it, and I’m coming looking for you! Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face. Good day to you, madam.”

— Uncle Buck (1989), written by John Hughes

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Smack Talk.

Trivia: During Miles’ interrogation of Uncle Buck (22:36 to 23:01), John Candy wrote out the script’s dialog and wore it atop his head so Macaulay Culkin could read the lines more quickly and keep the pace of the scene very fast. (Note that this would be the take of the scene when the camera was set for close-ups of Miles.)

Dialogue On Dialogue: Smack talk in the defense of an innocent is justifiable smack talk.

Also this: We miss John Hughes. We miss John Candy.