Daily Dialogue — April 15, 2013

INT. BAR — NIGHT

A smoky cocktail bar downtown Detroit.

CLARENCE WORLEY, a young hipster hepcat, is trying to pick up an older lady named LUCY. She isn’t bothered by him, in fact, she’s a little charmed. But, you can tell, that she isn’t going to leave her barstool.

CLARENCE: In “Jailhouse Rock” he’s everything rockabilly’s about. I mean he is rockabilly: mean, surly, nasty, rude. In that movie he couldn’t give a fuck about anything except rockin’ and rollin’, livin’ fast, dyin’ young, and leaving a good-looking corpse. I love that scene where after he’s made it big he’s throwing a big cocktail party, and all these highbrows are there, and he’s singing, “Baby You’re So Square… Baby, I Don’t Care”. Now, they got him dressed like a dick. He’s wearing these stupid-lookin’ pants, this horrible sweater. Elvis ain’t no sweater boy. I even think they got him wearin’ penny loafers. Despite all that shit, all the highbrows at the party, big house, the stupid clothes, he’s still a rude-lookin’ motherfucker. I’d watch that hillbilly and I’d want to be him so bad. Elvis looked good. I’m no fag, but Elvis was good-lookin’. He was fuckin’ prettier than most women. I always said if I ever had to fuck a guy… I mean had too ’cause my life depended on it… I’d fuck Elvis.

Lucy takes a drag from her cigarette.

LUCY: I’d fuck Elvis.
CLARENCE: Really?
LUCY: When he was alive. I wouldn’t fuck him now.
CLARENCE: I don’t blame you. (they laugh) So we’d both fuck Elvis. It’s nice to meet people with common interests, isn’t it?

— True Romance (1993), written by Quentin Tarantino

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is fan boy/girl conversations, suggeted by plinytheelder who also suggested True Romance.

Trivia: The screenplay of True Romance was originally part of a 500 page screenplay written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary called The Open Road. The other half of it was used for the film Natural Born Killers. In both films Tom Sizemore plays a cop.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Fanboys [and fangirls] come in all shapes and sizes, and are fans of all sorts of things, but mostly celebrity figures. And they don’t get much bigger than Elvis.

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