Daily Dialogue — April 13, 2014

Indiana: There’s a big snake in the plane, Jock!
Jock: Oh, that’s just my pet snake Reggie.
Indiana: I hate snakes, Jock! I hate ‘em!
Jock: Come on! Show a little backbone, will ya!

— Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas, story by Philip Kaufman

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Fear, suggested by Gordon.

Trivia: Despite having the dream team of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg behind the film, it was initially turned down by every studio in Hollywood. Only after much persuasion did Paramount agree to do it.

Dialogue On Dialogue: In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, we see a young Indy fall into a crate of snakes on a circus train. That triggered his fear of them.

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