Daily Dialogue — April 18, 2013

Ronald Fisher: Beer and pussy. That’s all I need.
Sean Smith: We gotta find ourselves a Smurfette.
Ronald Fisher: Smurfette?
Sean Smith: Mm-hmm. Not some, like, tight-ass Middlesex chick, you know? Like, this cute little blonde that will get down and dirty with the guys. Like Smurfette does.
Donnie: Smurfette doesn’t fuck.
Sean Smith: That’s bullshit. Smurfette fucks all the other Smurfs. Why do you think Papa Smurf made her? Because all the other Smurfs were getting too horny.
Ronald Fisher: No, no, no, not Vanity. I heard he was a homosexual.
Sean Smith: Okay, well, you know what? Then she fucks them while Vanity watches. Okay?
Ronald Fisher: What about Papa Smurf? I mean, he must get in on all the action.
Sean Smith: Yeah, what he does, he films the gang-bang. Later on, he beats off to the tape.
Donnie: [matter-of-factly] First of all, Papa Smurf didn’t create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel’s evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village. But the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her. And as for the whole gang-bang scenario — It just couldn’t happen. Smurfs are asexual. They don’t even have reproductive organs under those little white pants. That’s what’s so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. What’s the point of living… if you don’t have a dick?
Ronald Fisher: [pause] Damn it, Donnie. Why do you gotta get so smart on us?

— Donnie Darko (2001), written by Richard Kelly

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is fan boy/girl conversations, suggeted by plinytheelder. Today’s suggestion by Mark Walker.

Trivia: Richard Kelly said that the movie had a very difficult time finding a US distributor. Since the film embodied myriad genres and tones, distributors were confused by the movie’s message, and how to market it. Additionally, Kelly also claims that “Darko” was very close to premiering on the Starz network until Newmarket Films picked up the film for theatrical distribution.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary from Mark: “Donnie Darko discusses the Smurfs. Not only is this a very funny scene it also made it very difficult for me to see the Smurfs in the same light afterwards….

The dialogue, in my opinion, sets Donnie apart from his slightly less sophisticated mates, showing him as more intelligent (albeit in relation to the sexual activity of Smurfs) setting him aside as someone special, that special things are happening too.

It also happens to be one of the finest films of the 21st Century.”