Daily Dialogue — February 6, 2018

“Everything seems like nothing to me now, ’cause I want you in my bed. I don’t care if I burn in hell. I don’t care if you burn in hell. The past and the future is a joke to me now. I see that they’re nothing. I see they ain’t here. The only thing that’s here is you — and me. Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn’t know this either, but love don’t make things nice — it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren’t here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are bullshit. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed!”

— Moonstruck (1987), written by John Patrick Shanley

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Bed.

Trivia: The original screenplay featured a subplot that showed the characters played by Cher and Vincent Gardenia volunteering at a men’s homeless shelter as penance for their sins. The subplot was discarded.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Here the word “bed” means sex, yes. But it means much more including taking a chance.