Daily Dialogue — January 21, 2018

“Let me tell you the story of Right Hand, Left Hand. It’s a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cane iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: static. One hand is always fighting the other hand, and the left hand is kicking much ass. I mean, it looks like the right hand, Love, is finished. But hold on, stop the presses, the right hand is coming back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the ropes, now, that’s right. Yea, boom, it’s a devastating right and Hate is hurt, he’s down. Ooh! Ooh! Left-Hand Hate KOed by Love. If I love you, I love you. But if I hate you…”

— Do the Right Thing (1988), written by Spike Lee

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Monologue.

Trivia: Spike Lee wrote the script in two weeks.

Dialogue On Dialogue: One of the benefits of a monologue is it can give the script reader / moviegoer an extended glimpse into the soul of a character. That’s the case here with Radio Raheem. It also plays to one of the themes of the movie and helps to set the stage for the story’s dramatic ending.