Daily Dialogue — January 26, 2018

“You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve?”

— To Have and Have Not (1944), screen play Jules Furthman and William Faulkner, novel by Ernest Hemingway

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Question.

Trivia: The screenplay was rewritten to boost Slim’s role to take advantage of the public interest in the real-life romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Such a great line of dialogue. Slim asks the question, then provides the answer: “You just put your lips together… and blow.” The Hayes Code, which restricted ‘prurient content’, was a pain for writers, but it did lead to some great subtext in dialogue.