Daily Dialogue — January 16, 2015

Leah: Dude, I think it’s best to just tell ‘em.
Juno MacGuff: I’m Pregnant.
Bren: Oh, God.
Juno MacGuff: But, uh ah, I’m going to give it up for adoption and I already found the perfect couple, they’re going to pay for the medical expenses and everything. And and what ah 30 or odd weeks we can just pretend that this never happened.
Mac MacGuff: You’re pregnant?
Juno MacGuff: I’m sorry. I’m sorry… And if it is any consolation I have heartburn that is radiating in my knee caps and I haven’t taken a dump since like Wednesday… morning.
Bren: I didn’t even know that you were sexually active.
Juno MacGuff: I, uh…
Mac MacGuff: Who is the kid?
Juno MacGuff: The-the baby? I don’t really know much about it other than, I mean, it has fingernails, allegedly.
Bren: Nails, really?
Juno MacGuff: Yeah!
Mac MacGuff: No, I know I mean who’s the father, Juno?
Juno MacGuff: Umm… It’s Paulie Bleeker.
Mac MacGuff: Paulie Bleeker?
Juno MacGuff: What?
Mac MacGuff: I didn’t think he had it in him.
Leah: I know, right?

— Juno (2007), written by Diablo Cody

Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Revelation.

Trivia: J.K. Simmons said that he was so impressed with the script that he would have been happy just to play the teacher who has no spoken dialogue — anything to appear in the film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Sometimes revelations are good news. Sometimes they are bad news. Juno’s reveal is seemingly bad news, but it marks her Call To Adventure to go through the journey she needs to go through, purge herself of trying to be all adult-like, so in the end, she can be the adolescent she deserves to be.

If you have any suggestions for this week’s theme, please post in comments.