Daily Dialogue — February 19, 2018

Bill Foster: Why am I calling you by your first names? I don’t even know you. I still call my boss “Mister”, and I’ve been working for him for seven years, but all of a sudden I walk in here and I’m calling you Rick and Sheila like we’re in some kind of AA meeting… I don’t want to be your buddy, Rick. I just want some breakfast.
Sheila: You can call me Miss Folsom if you want.

— Falling Down (1993), written by Ebbe Roe Smith

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Fast Food.

Trivia: Every studio in Hollywood turned down Ebbe Roe Smith’s script. Producer Arnold Kopelson was getting to the stage of considering cable television, when Michael Douglas came across the script and pronounced it one of the best he’d ever read.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Breakfast stopped at 11:30AM. D-Fens (Michael Douglas) checks his watch: 11:33AM. Then all hell breaks loose in this fast food diner.