Daily Dialogue — January 10, 2012
Sundance: I wasn’t cheating.
Macon: You can die. For that matter, you both can die.
Sundance: If he invites us to stay, then we’ll go.
Butch: We gotta leave anyway.
Sundance: He’s got to invite us to stick around.
Butch: I’m over the hill, but it can happen to you.
Sundance: That’s just what I want to hear.
Butch: Every day you get older, now that’s a law.
Butch approaches Macon.
Butch: What would you think about maybe asking us to stick around?
Macon: What?
Butch: You don’t have to mean it or anything, just ask us to stick around, I promise you —
Macon shoves Butch aside. Butch turns to Sundance.
Butch: I can’t help you, Sundance.
Macon freezes. Sundance stands up.
Macon: I didn’t know you were the Sundance Kid when I said you were cheating. If I draw on you, you’ll kill me.
Sundance: There’s that possibility.
Butch: No, you’d be killing yourself. Why don’t you just invite us to stick around? You can do it. And easy. C’mon.
Macon: Why dontcha stick around?
Butch: Thanks, but we gotta get going.
— Sundance (Robert Redford), Butch (Paul Newman), Macon (Donnelly Rhodes), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), written by William Goldman
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is card games, suggested by David Proenza. Today’s suggestion by Annika Wood.
Trivia: William Goldman wrote the project as a spec script and sold it for six figures, arguably the first spec script sale of the contemporary era.
Dialogue On Dialogue: The thing that really makes the scene is Sundance’s twisted logic: The guy has to ask them to stick around, then they will leave. Without killing the dude, of course.
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