Daily Dialogue — December 24, 2014

“Russell, for assisting the elderly, and for performing above and beyond the call of duty, I would like to award you the highest honor I can bestow: The Ellie Badge.”

— Up (2009), screenplay by Bob Peterson and Pete Docter, story by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson and Tom McCarthy

Daily Dialogue theme this week: Celebration.

Trivia: All characters are based upon circles and rectangles, except for the villains who are triangles. Not only are Carl and Ellie based on squares and circles, but objects around them are based on their shapes, like their chairs and picture frames. When they both appear in a photograph, the frame is both circle and square.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This is such a wonderful payoff to something set up way back in the beginning of the story and a beautiful way of bringing Ellie into this celebratory moment. The Ellie Badge is a great example of a talisman, a physical object with a symbolic and emotional meaning.