Daily Dialogue — February 5, 2012
ELLE: Here’s to us.
WARNER: The reason I wanted to come here tonight was to discuss our future.
ELLE: I‘m fully amenable to that discussion.
WARNER: I mean, we’re having a lot of fun now — but things are gonna be different when I‘m at Harvard Law school is a completely different world. I need to be serious.
ELLE: Of course.
WARNER: My family expects a lot from me. And I expect a lot from me. I plan on running for office some day.
ELLE: And I fully support that.
WARNER: But the thing is, if I‘m gonna be a senator by the time I‘m thirty — I can’t keep dicking around.
ELLE: I completely agree.
WARNER: That‘s why I think it’s time for us to… I think we should break up.
ELLE: What?
WARNER: I‘m sorry, Elle, I just –
ELLE: You’re breaking up with me?! (tearing up) I thought you were proposing.
WARNER: Proposing?! Elle, If I‘m going to be a politician, I need to marry a Jackie, not a — Marilyn.
ELLE: (stunned) You’re breaking up with me because I’m too — blonde?
WARNER: That’s not entirely –
ELLE: Then what? My boobs are too big?
WARNER: Elle — no — your boobs are fine.
ELLE: So when you said you’d always love me, you were just “dicking around”?
WARNER: I do love you, Elle. I just can’t marry you. You have no idea the pressure I‘m under. My family has five generations of senators. My brother is in the top three at Yale Law. He just got engaged to a Vanderbilt, for crissakes. It’s not like I have a choice, sweetheart.
— Warner (Matthew Davis), Elle (Reese Witherspoon), Legally Blonde (2001), screenplay by Karen McCullah Lutz & Kirsten Smith, based on a novel by Amanda Brown
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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is break-ups, suggested by Teddy Pasternak. Today’s suggestion by summertime.
Trivia: To prepare for her role as Elle, Reese Witherspoon spent two weeks studying the behavior of sorority girls, as she did not wish to portray a stereotypical airhead sorority image.
Dialogue On Dialogue: A big reversal as Elle is expecting a marriage proposal. An interesting second pivot in the scene where Warner asks Elle to see the thing from his perspective.