Daily Dialogue — August 30, 2012

Allan: That’s quite a lovely Jackson Pollock, isn’t it?
Museum Girl: Yes, it is.
Allan: What does it say to you?
Museum Girl: It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of Man forced to live in a barren, Godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation, forming a useless bleak straitjacket in a black absurd cosmos.
Allan: What are you doing Saturday night?
Museum Girl: Committing suicide.
Allan: What about Friday night?

— Allan (Woody Allen), Museum Girl (Diana Davila), Play It Again, Sam (1972), screenplay by Woody Allen, based on his play

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is Woody Allen, suggested Sean Harris.

Trivia: The original Broadway production of “Play It Again, Sam” opened at the Broadhurst Theater on February 12, 1969 and ran for 453 performances. Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts and Jerry Lacy reprise their roles in the movie.

Dialogue On Dialogue: GITS reader Vito Delsante emailed me a link to an article he wrote about Woody Allen at Trip City. You can read that here.