Daily Dialogue — May 6, 2016

Dale and Brennan are in beds next to each other.

Dale Doback: [whispering] Hey, you awake?
Brennan Huff: [also whispering] Yeah.
Dale Doback: I just want you to know I hate you. And so does my dad.
Brennan Huff: Well, that’s fine. ‘Coz guess what? I hate you, too. And this house sucks ass.
Dale Doback: Well, the only reason you’re living here is because me and my dad decided that your mom was really hot, and maybe we should just both bang her, and we’ll put up with the retard in the meantime.
Brennan Huff: Who’s the retard?
Dale Doback: You.
Brennan Huff: [raising his voice] Hey, ya’ll don’t say that!
Dale Doback: Shut up! You’ll wake up my dad and get me grounded.
Brennan Huff: Just shut up!
Dale Doback: You and your mom are hillbillies. This is a house of learned doctors.
Brennan Huff: You’re not a doctor… you’re a big, fat, curly-headed fuck!
Dale Doback: [Dale turns his face to Brennan] Oh yeah?
Brennan Huff: [Brennan turns his face to Dale] Yeah.
Dale Doback: I’m a curly-headed fuck?
Brennan Huff: Yeah. You better not go to sleep, ‘coz as soon as your eyes shut I’m gonna punch you square in the face.
Dale Doback: I hope you stay still when you sleep, ‘coz I’m gonna put a rat trap between your legs.
Brennan Huff: I’m going to take a pillowcase, and fill it full of bars of soap, and beat the shit out of you.

Dale turns away from Brennan.

Dale Doback: I want you out of my fucking house!
Brennan Huff: No way Kimosabe. This is my house now.

— Step Brothers (2008), screenplay by Will Ferrell & Adam McKay, story by Will Ferrell & Adam McKay & John C. Reilly

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Brothers.

Trivia: Adam McKay wanted to make this a drama, not a comedy.

Dialogue On Dialogue: In order to track the arc of a relationship, you need to start somewhere, so here you go. Establish a baseline of contempt the two step brothers have for each other.