Daily Dialogue — December 15, 2014

INT. POLICE STATION HALLWAY

KORBEN: Found him…
AKANIT: (tense) Send someone to negotiate!
KORBEN: Mind if I go? I’m an excellent negotiator.
COP 1: Uh… Sure, go ahead.

Korben gets ready.

COP 1: We’re sending someone in who’s authorized to negotiate.

INT. POLICE STATION

Korben walks quickly into the room, heads straight for Akanit, raises his gun and puts a bullet through his head.

KORBEN: Anyone else want to negotiate?
COP 2: (to another Cop) Where’d he learn to negotiate like that?

— The Fifth Element (1997), written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Negotiation. Today’s suggestion by Jon.

Trivia: The hero (Bruce Willis) and the villain (Gary Oldman) never meet, nor do they communicate in any way. They are, in fact, unaware of each other’s degree of involvement.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Jon: “Very straight and to the point, showing the true nature of the cop world where “justice” is swift and immediate where ever possible; and also uses the element of surprise to at first make us think there might be a dialog. But this is Bruce Willis.”

If you have a suggestion for this week’s theme, please post in comments.