Daily Dialogue — January 2, 2017

“Shall we play a game?”

— War Games (1984), written by Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes

The Daily Dialogue theme for next week: Artificial Intelligence, suggested by Angry Cyborg.

Trivia: During their extensive research for the film, writers Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes made friends with many ‘hackers’ and security experts. They later wrote Sneakers (1992) another film featuring ‘hackers’ and security experts.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Never has a childlike innocent question like this dialogue had a more menacing potential in a movie — the very real possibility of global thermonuclear war.