Daily Dialogue — September 19, 2014

Ennis Del Mar: This is a one-shot thing we got goin’ on here.
Jack Twist: It’s nobody’s business but ours.
Ennis Del Mar: You know I ain’t queer.
Jack Twist: Me neither.

— Brokeback Mountain (2005), screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, short story by Annie Proulx

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Adultery.

Trivia: Heath Ledger, uncertain about the role when he was first offered it, was encouraged by his then girlfriend, Naomi Watts, to take it, immediately after they both read the script. After reading the script, Ledger said he would have flown to Taiwan to meet with Ang Lee in order to be hired for the role.

Dialogue On Dialogue: We often think about dialogue between the adulterer and the aggrieved party — husband, wife, girlfriend, boyfriend. But what about the pair who commit adultery? How do they respond when trying to calculate what it all means? One theme we see often: The act doesn’t really change things. That’s what gets articulated. But, of course, it does change things. As it does in Brokeback Mountain.

If you have a suggestion for this week’s theme, please post in comments.

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