Daily Dialogue — April 21, 2016

Buzz Lightyear: Right now, poised at the edge of the galaxy, Emperor Zurg has been secretly building a weapon with the destructive capacity to annihilate an entire planet! I alone have information that reveals this weapon’s only weakness. And you, my friend, are responsible for delaying my rendezvous with Star Command!
Woody: [pauses and looks incredulous] YOU! ARE! A! TOYYYYY! You aren’t the real Buzz Lightyear! You’re — you’re an action figure! You are a child’s play thing!
Buzz: You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity. Farewell.

— Toy Story (1995), screenplay by Joss Whedon and Andrew Stanton and Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow, story by John Lasseter & Pete Docter & Andrew Stanton & Joe Ranft

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Pixar.

Trivia: This was the first animated film in Oscar history to be nominated for a Best Screenplay Academy Award — Adapted or Original.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The relationship between Woody and Buzz in the original Toy Story is wonderful, and this moment is a great example, the irony of Woody telling the truth, then being dismissed as a “sad, strange little man” by Buzz. Great stuff.