Daily Dialogue — August 26, 2015

Olive: [going over eye test pamphlets] Mom, Dwayne’s got 20/20 vision!
Sheryl: I bet he does…
Olive: OK, now I’m going to check to see if you’re colorblind.

Opens the pamphlet.

Olive: What’s the letter in the circle?

Dwayne looks confused.

Olive: No, no inside the circle, right there, see? It’s an A. Can’t you see it? Right there.
Frank: It’s bright green. Oh man.

Dwayne scribbles anxiously on his notepad — “What?”.

Frank: Dwayne, I think you might be colorblind.

Pause, Dwayne holds up his notepad again — “What?”

Frank: You can’t fly jets if you’re colorblind.

Dwayne immediately falls into an emotional breakdown.

Frank: Ah, we’ve got a little bit of a…Ok, we’ve got an emergency back here. I think we just need pull over man, just pull over.
Richard: What’s the emergency? We’re late as it is…
Frank: Dwayne, Dwayne it’s alright. [screams to Richard] Just pullover the car, I’m not kidding!
Richard: Ok, Ok.
Frank: Would you get him to pullover please?
Sheryl: Richard, pullover the car.
Frank: Richard, pullover the car.
Sheryl: It’s alright honey we’re pulling over.
Richard: I’m pulling over.

Dwayne tries to get out of the moving van.

Frank: No, wait, wait. Just sit down.
Richard: God, this better be good, I’m pulling over. Alright, alright.
Sheryl: Stop the car! Are you going to be Ok Dwayne? Dwayne? Oh God.
Dwayne: [runs from the van] FUUUUUUCK! Fuck! No, no….
Sheryl: What happened?
Frank: He’s colorblind. He can’t fly.
Sheryl: Oh, Jesus… oh, no.

— Little Miss Sunshine (2006), written by Michael Arndt

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Hysterics. Today’s suggestion by James Schramm.

Trivia: Michael Arndt, who wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Little Miss Sunshine, used the supporting character name “Stan Grossman” as a tribute to Fargo (1996), another Best Original Screenplay.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by James: “Well, if you’re going to break a 9 month self-imposed code of silence, you might as well be hysterical while doing it. Great scene from a great movie.”

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