Daily Dialogue — February 28, 2018

Steve Jobs: You know what LISA stood for?
Lisa Brennan: What?
Steve Jobs: The computer. Do you know what LISA stood for?
Lisa Brennan: I’m sorry I said that about the iMac. It’s not what I really think.
Steve Jobs: Behind my back, at the office, do you know what it stood for?
Lisa Brennan: Local Integrated System Architecture. I was five. Why couldn’t you just lie?
Steve Jobs: I did. Of course, it was named after you. Local Integrated System Architecture doesn’t even mean anything.
Lisa Brennan: Why’d you say it wasn’t all those years?
Steve Jobs: I honestly don’t know.
Lisa Brennan: Why’d you say you aren’t my father?
Steve Jobs: I’m poorly made.

— Steve Jobs (2015), screenplay by Aaron Sorkin, book by Walter Isaacson

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Walk and Talk.

Trivia: The three-act film was shot in sequence. The actors spent four weeks on each act, rehearsing for two weeks and then filming for two weeks. Kate Winslet said that by act three, Michael Fassbender didn’t even have his script at the rehearsals, as he had memorized all one hundred eighty pages.

Dialogue On Dialogue: ‘Walk and talk’ is synonymous with Aaron Sorkin. Or vice versa. The TV series “West Wing” is filled with such scenes. Here is another Sorkin project: Steve Jobs and it’s more of a ‘stalk and talk’ with Jobs’ daughter stamping away from her estranged father… then a rooftop conversation which brokers a father-daughter connection.