Daily Dialogue — August 2, 2017

Travis Bickle: You got a .44 magnum?
Gun Salesman (Andy): It’s an expensive weapon.
Travis Bickle: That’s all right. I got money.
Gun Salesman (Andy): It’s a real monster. It’ll stop a car at a hundred yards. Put a round right through the engine block.

— Taxi Driver (1976), written by Paul Schrader

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Transaction, suggested by Gisela Wehrl.

Trivia: Paul Schrader wrote the script in ten days via two drafts, one after the other. As he was writing, he kept a loaded gun on his desk for motivation and inspiration.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This is a transaction of the deadly kind… eventually.