Daily Dialogue — August 14, 2012

Trent: Bring a James Bond for me and my boy Mikey, and if you tell the bartender to go easy on the water…
(holds up a half-dollar) …this Kennedy has your name on it. Now run along, I’m timing you.

The waitress smiles in spite of herself, shakes her head, and walks away.

Mike: What an asshole.
Trent: That was money. Tell me that wasn’t money.
Mike: That was so demeaning…
Trent: She smiled, baby.
Mike: I can’t believe what an asshole you are.
Trent: Did she, or did she not smile.
Mike: She was smiling at what an asshole you are.
Trent: She was smiling at how money I am, baby.
Mike: Let’s go. I’m not paying for a room, and if we don’t leave now we’ll never make it.
Trent: Leave? The honey-baby’s bringing us some cocktails.
Mike: What are you, nuts? You think she’s coming back?
Trent: I know she’s coming back.
Mike: I don’t think so.
Trent: Baby, did you hear her? “You shouldn’t leave without getting something for free.” She wants to party, baby.
Mike: You think so?
Trent: You gotta give Tee one thing. He’s good with the ladies.
Mike: I’m too tired for this. Let’s just go.
Trent: Baby, this is what we came for. We met a beautiful baby and she likes you.
Mike: She likes you.
Trent: Whatever. We’ll see. Daddy’s gonna get her to bring a friend. We’ll both get one. I don’t care if I’m with her or one of her beautiful baby friends.
Mike: I don’t know…
Trent: You gotta get that girl out of your head. It’s time to move on. You’re a stylish, successful, good looking cat. The ladies want to love you, you just gotta let them.
Mike: That’s bullshit.
Trent: It’s not. You’re money. Any of these ladies would be lucky to pull a cat like you.
Mike: It’s just that I’ve been out of the game so long. Trent, I was with her for six years. That’s before AIDS. I’m scared. I don’t know how to talk to them, I don’t know…
Trent: You can’t think like that, baby. It’s hard, I know. I’ve been there. Not for six years, but I know. You just gotta get back out there.
Mike: It’s just tough, after sleeping with someone you love for so long, to be with someone new… who doesn’t know what I like… and you gotta wear a jimmy…
Trent: … gotta…
Mike: … and then I’m struggling to impress some chick who’s not half as classy as my girlfriend, who I’m not even really attracted to…
Trent: Oh fuck that. You don’t have to try and impress anyone. You think I give a shit? You think I sweat that skanky whore waitress…

Tee is interrupted by the WAITRESS who, thank God, barely missed his comment.

Trent: (recovering, looking at watch) … One fifty-nine, Two minutes.
Waitress: Two vodka martinis, straight up, shaken not stirred, very dry, easy on the water.
Trent: Beautiful. What time are you off… (reads nameplate)… Christy?
Waitress: Six.

Mike can’t believe it. Tee is just making it happen.

Trent: Call a friend and have her meet the three of us at the Landlubber Lounge at 6:01.
(Trent throws the half-dollar on her tray)

SMASH CUT TO:

INT. TREASURE ISLAND CASINO — COFFEE SHOP — SAME NIGHT

Trent and Mike are looking at menus. They’re smoking at the table because the can.

Mike: That was so fuckin’ money. It was like that “Jedi mind” shit.

— Mike (Jon Favreau), Trent (Vince Vaughn), Waitress (Deena Martin), Swingers (1996), written by Jon Favreau

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is smooth talking, suggested by David Proenza who also suggested Swingers.

Trivia: When director Doug Liman first sent the script to studios, they were interested in financing it. When Liman said he wanted to cast the writer and his friends as actors, the studios backed off. The money to shoot the film was raised independently and Liman cast who he liked.

Dialogue On Dialogue: One key to smooth talking is supreme confidence to be able to pull it off. Trent nails it.

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