Daily Dialogue — August 12, 2017
“Redrum.”
“Redrum.”
— Danny Torrance (Danny Lloyd), The Shining (1980), screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson, based on the novel by Stephen King
The Daily Dialogue theme for this week: One Word.
Trivia: Stephen King did not know that “redrum” spelled murder backwards until he actually typed it. He loved the various connotations of the word. Red Rum was a famous racehorse in the 1970s.
Dialogue On Dialogue: My nomination for the Best Backward One Word Dialogue in the history of cinema.