Daily Dialogue — April 27, 2013

“Elaine! Elaine!”

— The Graduate, (1967), screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, novel by Charles Webb

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is making a scene, suggested by Trent Carroll.

Trivia: Although Calder Willingham and Buck Henry share screen writing credit, Buck Henry wrote the shooting version of the screenplay without assistance, and Henry was not even aware of Willingham’s draft. Henry was the fourth screenwriter asked to try to adapt Charles Webb’s novel, however, and Willingham filed a challenge with the Writer’s Guild for screen credit after the movie was completed. Because Webb’s novel consists of large passages of dialogue, and both writers lifted various lines that appeared in each version, Willingham’s challenge was successful.

Dialogue On Dialogue: If you’re going to make a scene, what better place to do it than at a wedding.

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