Daily Dialogue — August 12, 2012

Hector the Toad: So, you got the money?

Tony Montana: Yep. You got the stuff?

Hector the Toad: Sure I have the stuff. I don’t have it with me here right now. I have it close by.

Tony Montana: Oh… well I don’t have the money either. I have it close by too.

Hector the Toad: Where? Down in your car?

Tony Montana: [lying] Uh… no. Not in the car.

Hector the Toad: No?

Tony Montana: What about you? Where do you keep your stuff?

Hector the Toad: Not far.

Tony Montana: I ain’t getting the money unless I see the stuff first.

Hector the Toad: No, no. First the money, then the stuff.

Tony Montana: [after a long tense pause] Okay. You want me to come in, and we start over again?

Hector the Toad: [changing the subject] Where are you from, Tony?

Tony Montana: [getting angry and suspicious] What the fuck difference does that make on where I’m from?

Hector the Toad: Cona, Tony. I’m just asking just so I know who I’m doing business with.

Tony Montana: Well, you can know about me when you stop fucking around and start doing business with me, Hector!

— Tony Montana (Al Pacino), Hector the Toad (Al Israel), Scarface (1983), screenplay by Oliver Stone

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is drug deals suggested by Jonathan Webb. Today’s suggestion by blknwite.

Trivia: Oliver Stone wrote this film while fighting a cocaine addiction.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Tension. A common dynamic in drug deals. Someone on the make. Someone is the mark.