Daily Dialogue — August 7, 2017

“Plastics.”

— The Graduate (1967), screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, novel by Charles Webb

The Daily Dialogue theme for this week: One Word.

Trivia: Within a year of the movie’s release, plastic manufacturing companies became enormously successful. Many people attribute this to Walter Brooke’s quote about “plastics”. Brooke himself once told his nephew that he would have invested in plastics, if he had known that the remark would lead to such success.

Dialogue On Dialogue: One of the most memorable one word lines of dialogue ever. And for my generation, it spoke volumes about the fake nature of some American values.