Daily Dialogue — August 24, 2016
DODGER: Well, well. Looks like Louie’s got a visitor. Could be time for The Dodge to turn this into a total cat-astrophe.
LOUIE: Hey, get off me! Hey! Get out of here! Go on! Shoo!
DODGER: Boy, you sure picked the wrong guy to get hot dogs from, kid.
OLIVER: Hey, get away from me.
DODGER: Whoa, chill out, man. I don’t eat cats. Too much fur. I’ve been watchin’ ya, and I think you’re in serious need of some professional guidance. Now, what do you say we team up and change Old Louie’s mind about sharin’ some of those hot dogs?
OLIVER: I’m not going back there again.
DODGER: Hey, it’ll be a snap, kid. I’m an expert at these things. All you gotta do is learn some moves.
OLIVER: Moves?
DODGER: Y’know…tempo. A rhythm. This city’s got a beat. You gotta hook into it. Now, once ya got the beat, you can do anything.
OLIVER: I can?
DODGER: Absitively posolutely. The man you see before you is affectionately known as Old Louie, a well-known enemy of the four-legged world. Our mission, cat, is to liberate those all-beef kosher franks and high-tail it out of here. Startin’ to feel that rhythm?
OLIVER: Well…uh…yeah. Yeah, I do feel it. When are we gonna get those hot dogs?
DODGER: Right…now.
Dodger begins barking at Oliver and chases him into Louie’s cart. While Oliver tangles with Louie, Dodger loads up with hot dogs.
DODGER: Hey, you really got that rhythm, kid.
OLIVER: Uh, yeah? We were good, huh? So, when are we gonna eat?
DODGER: We?
OLIVER: Yeah. I’m starving.
DODGER: Listen, kid, I hate to break it to you, but the Dynamic Duo is now the Dynamic Uno.
OLIVER: What do you mean?
DODGER: What I mean is our partnership is herewith dissolved.
OLIVER: But, wait! Wait, you’re not being fair!
DODGER: Fairs are for tourists, kid. Consider it a free lesson in street savoir faire from New York’s coolest quadruped. Check ya later.
OLIVER: Hey, wait, I helped you get those! Half of those are mine!
— Oliver & Company (1988), screenplay by Jim Cox, Tim Disney and James Mangold, inspired by the novel “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Mentor, suggested by Michael Waters. Today’s suggestion by Will King.
Trivia: The first Disney film to have its own department set up expressly for the purpose of generating computer animation.
Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Will: “Not all mentors have the best of intentions, and some lessons are not meant to be beneficial to the student. Little Oliver learns a valuable lesson, but gets used in the process.”
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