Daily Dialogue — July 19, 2015

Anderton sits there thinking about what she’s suggesting. She gets up, moves to one of her plants, starts feeding it with a sprayer. She reaches out and takes a long vine in her hand and strokes it…

IRIS: It’s funny how all living organisms are alike. When the chips are down… (she grips the vine)… when the pressure is on… (squeezes it tighter) … every creature on the face of the earth is interested in one thing and one thing only…

The vine suddenly whips out of her hand.

IRIS: Its own survival.

— Minority Report (2002), screenplay by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Survival. Today’s suggestion by Jon Raymond.

Trivia: The “PreCogs” were all named after famous mystery writers. Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Agatha Christie.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Jon: “There is some kind of universal known truth to this scene about the nature of cornering an organism with its own death. It will inevitably fight to the death since death is its only other alternative. That is the height of drama.”

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