Daily Dialogue — February 10, 2014

Oliver Rose: You weren’t even multiorgasmic before you met me, were you?
Barbara Rose: You really expect me to keep on reassuring you sexually even now when we disgust each other?

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[Oliver Rose pees on the fish Barbara Rose had prepared for the guests]
Barbara Rose: I would never humiliate you like this!
Oliver Rose: You’re not equipped to, honey.

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[Finding out that they are going to get a divorce]
Oliver Rose: And you better get yourself a damn good lawyer!
Barbara Rose: Best your money can buy!

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Barbara Rose: [after learning that Oliver is moving back into the home] This is the stupidest thing you’ve ever done!
Oliver Rose: Second stupidest.

— The War of the Roses (1989), screenplay by Michael Leeson, novel by Warren Adler

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is sarcasm, recommended by blueneumann. Today’s suggestion by Illimani.

Trivia: The title of both this film and its source novel, “The War of the Roses”, references the real life “Wars of the Roses” which were, according to Wikipedia, “a series of dynastic wars fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the houses of Lancaster and York (whose heraldic symbols were the red and the white rose, respectively) for the throne of England”.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Illimani: “Sarcasm here fuels the hate between the two leads and propels the story forward, being present particularly in the retorts.”

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