Daily Dialogue — August 15, 2018

The inmates are playing cards and betting with cigarettes.

Martini: [rips a cigarette in half] I bet a nickel.
McMurphy: Dime’s the limit, Martini.
Martini: I bet a dime.

Puts the two halves onto the table

McMurphy: This is not a dime, Martini. This is a dime. [shows a whole cigarette] If you break it in half, you don’t get two nickels, you get shit. Try and smoke it. You understand?
Martini: Yes.
McMurphy: You don’t understand.

— One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), screenplay by Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman, novel by Ken Kesey

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Gambling.

Trivia: Second of only three movies, the other two being It Happened One Night (1934) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991), to win every major Academy Award (Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay, Adapted or Original).

Dialogue On Dialogue: Gambling takes on its own particular flavor in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in which the inmates drive McNulty ‘nuts.’