Daily Dialogue — February 26, 2017

[No dialogue]

— Drive (2011), screenplay by Hossein Amini, book by James Sallis

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Elevator.

Trivia: Hossein Amini felt that the source novel was a rare book to receive from a studio because it was short, gloomy and like a poem. Because the novel does not present a linear story but has many flashbacks and jumps around in time, Amini found the adaptation challenging. He felt the non-linear structure made it “a very tricky structure” for a feature film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Sometimes… oftentimes… the best dialogue is no dialogue.

Impossible to improve this scene with any verbal interaction. All visuals. One. Hell. Of. A. Scene.