Daily Dialogue — December 8, 2011

Sgt. Tree: The Coast Artillery Command has determined your property to be strategically advantageous for the installation of an enemy aircraft defense battery.

Ward Douglas: What?

Sgt. Tree: We wanna’ put this 40mm enemy aircraft gun in your yard sir.

Ward Douglas: Joan, they want to put this gun in our yard.

Joan Douglas: No. Absolutely not. I REFUSE to let you bring the war to my own front yard, NO!

Sgt. Tree (Dan Aykroyd), Ward Douglas (Ned Beatty), Joan Douglas (Lorraine Gray), 1941 (1979), screenplay by Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale, story by Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale and John Milius

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is World War II, suggested by Phil. 1941 suggested by Jeff.

Trivia: Reese and Foley are the names used by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale for any police officers or government agents in films they have written.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Even absurd humor like this couldn’t save 1941 from tanking at the box office.