Daily Dialogue — April 13, 2018

“I’m poison, Swede, to myself and everybody around me! I’d be afraid to go with anyone I love for the harm I do to them!”

— The Killers (1946), screenplay by Anthony Veiller, story by Ernest Hemingway

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Femme Fatale.

Trivia: Author of the original short story Ernest Hemingway liked the film. Prior to its release, producer Mark Hellinger sent publicity man Al Horwits to Sun Valley, ID, to give Hemingway a private screening. Hemingway had a pint of gin in one pocket of his overcoat and a pint of water in the other so that he could sip from them if the film got bad. After the screening, Hemingway held up the full bottles, grinned and said, “Didn’t need ‘em”.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A self-aware femme fatale is a special kind of femme fatale.