Daily Dialogue — August 18, 2012

Maggie: What’s your game?
Jamie: My game?
Maggie: Oh I’m sorry. Right. This is the part where we talk about where we come from and what we majored in in college.
Jamie: You have beautiful eyes.
Maggie: That’s it? That’s the best you got?
Jamie: I’m serious. They’re beautiful.
Maggie: Let’s go.
Jamie: Excuse me?
Maggie: You want to close right? You want to get laid?
Jamie: Now?
Maggie: Oh right, right, right. I’m supposed to act like I don’t know if it’s right. So then you tell me that there is no right or wrong. It’s just the moment. And then I tell you that I can’t while actually signalling to you that I can, which you don’t need because you’re not really listening. Because this isn’t about connection for you. This isn’t even about sex for you. This is about finding an hour or two of relief from the pain of being you. And that’s fine with me, see, because all I want is the exact same thing.

— Maggie (Anne Hathaway), Jamie (Jake Gyllenhaal), Love and Other Drugs (2010), screenplay by Charles Randolph and Edward Zwick & Marshall Herskovitz

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is smooth talking, suggested by David Proenza who also suggested Love and Other Drugs.

Trivia: The film is based on a book (‘Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman’) by a former Pfizer rep. He says the book is a “jumping off point.” In the book there is no love interest. The author, Jamie Reidy, says he left all of that out because he thought his mother would read the book.

Dialogue On Dialogue: David’s comment: “How about a smooth talker meeting his match and suddenly out of his element as a result.”

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