Daily Dialogue — April 18, 2018

Hacker Man: Wait a minute. Using an RX modulator, I might be able to conduct a mainframe cell layer and hack you into the download.
Kung Fury: What the hell does that mean?
Hacker Man: It means that with the right computer algorithms, I can hack you back in time. Just like a time machine.

— Kung Fury (2015), written by David Sandberg

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Technobabble.

Trivia: To give the film an ’80s feel, the visual effects artists softened the film quality to give it a 16mm feel and added video cassette wear effects as if the viewer was watching an old VHS copy of it on a VCR.

Dialogue On Dialogue: It almost always happens with technobabble. The babbler spews a complex side of dialogue. The listener basically says, “Wut?” Which sets up for the babbler to ‘translate’ the jargon into plain language. So why the technobabble in the first place? To demonstrate the inside knowledge the babbler has about whatever they’re babbling about.