Daily Dialogue — January 10, 2015

Dewey Finn: Ok, here’s the deal. I have a hangover. Who knows what that means?
Frankie: Doesn’t that mean you’re drunk?
Dewey Finn: No. It means I was drunk yesterday.
Freddy: It means you’re an alcoholic.
Dewey Finn: Wrong.
Freddy: You wouldn’t come to work with a hangover unless you were an alcoholic. Dude, you got a disease!
Dewey Finn: Hmmm… hmmm… What’s your name?
Freddy: Freddy Jones.
Dewey Finn: Ok, Freddy Jones, shut up!

— School of Rock (2003), written by Mike White

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Hangover.

Trivia: Mike White disowned the film after Richard Linklater decided to play up gay stereotypes without his involvement. Being bisexual and with a gay father, White was not pleased when he saw the final product.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Interesting how Jack Black’s character starts off as a pretty obnoxious, unlikeable guy. That must be why the movie bombed at the box office… what’s that? It did $131M worldwide? Huh. I thought you had to write sympathetic Protagonists…

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