Daily Dialogue — April 7, 2018

“Top five things I miss about Laura. One… sense of humor. Very dry, but it can also be warm and forgiving. And she’s got one of the best all time laughs in the history of all time laughs, she laughs with her entire body. Two… she’s got character. Or at least she had character before the Ian nightmare. She’s loyal and honest, and she doesn’t even take it out on people when she’s having a bad day. That’s character. [holds up three fingers] Three… [long pause] I miss her smell, and the way she tastes. It’s a mystery of human chemistry and I don’t understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home. [shakes his head, recollecting, then looks back and lip synchs ‘four’ while holds up four fingers] I really dig how she walks around. It’s like she doesn’t care how she looks or what she projects and it’s not that she doesn’t care it’s just, she’s not affected I guess, and that gives her grace. And five? She does this thing in bed when she can’t get to sleep, she kinda half moans and then rubs her feet together an equal number of times… it just kills me. Believe me, I mean, I could do a top five things about her that drive me crazy, but it’s just your garden variety women you know, schizo stuff and that’s the kind of thing that got me here.”

— High Fidelity (2000), screenplay by D.V. DeVincentis & Steve Pink & John Cusack and Scott Rosenberg, book by Nick Hornby

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Breaking the 4th Wall.

Trivia: Touchstone acquired the rights to Nick Hornby’s book for $500,000.00, with Mike Newell attached to direct.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A great use of breaking the 4th wall as Rob (John Cusack) confesses a series of inner truths directly to us. Also, nice images of Chicago.