Daily Dialogue — January 24, 2014

“When I go home people’ll ask me, ‘Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? What, you some kinda war junkie?’ You know what I’ll say? I won’t say a goddamn word. Why? They won’t understand. They won’t understand why we do it. They won’t understand that it’s about the men next to you, and that’s it. That’s all it is.”

— Black Hawk Down (2001), screenplay by Ken Nolan, book by Mark Bowden

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is rescue, suggested by Despina.

Trivia: When screenwriter Ken Nolan first read Mark Bowden’s book, he was so determined to work on the film version that he called up the studio and said “I’ll do anything, I’ll wash Jerry Bruckheimer’s car”.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Sometimes we try to go for subtext in dialogue. Other times, it’s best just to have a character lay it on the line, plain and simple — like this side by Hoot.

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