Daily Dialogue — February 25, 2018
“They FUCK YOU at the drive-thru, okay? They FUCK YOU at the drive-thru! They know you’re gonna be miles away before you find out you got fucked! They know you’re not gonna turn around and go back, they don’t care. So who gets fucked? Ol’ Leo Getz! Okay, sure! I don’t give a fuck! I’m not eating this tuna, okay?”
— Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), screenplay by Jeffrey Boam, story by Shane Black & Warren Murphy
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Fast Food.
Trivia: Following the studio’s negative reaction on his script, and their demands for massive re-writes, Shane Black left the project after six months, earning only one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars for his work (Warren Murphy also earned the same amount), and never worked on any of the other sequels. Black said in later years in interviews how he considers his original script for Lethal Weapon 2, which was also called “Play Dirty”, to be his best work, and most intense script he has written, and how other than the scene where stilt house gets destroyed, his script was completely different than the one used for filming. He also said how the problem with the final version of the second movie, was that they did too much comedy, and how he dislikes the other two sequels of the film, because of the way they ruined Riggs’ character.
Despite many attempts by fans of the Lethal Weapon movies, and Shane Black, his original script for the second film was never found, and it remains a highly demanded, and the most wanted, of all of Black’s scripts.
Dialogue On Dialogue: Catch phrase. Something “the kids” will be mimicking to each other on Monday at school after seeing a movie on the weekend. That’s what “They fuck you at the drive thru” is.
