Daily Dialogue — July 24, 2018

Elevator Passenger: Cool Spidey outfit.
Spider-Man: Thanks.
Elevator Passenger: Where did you get it?
Spider-Man: I made it.

Long pause.

Elevator Passenger: Looks uncomfortable…
Spider-Man: Yeah, it’s kind of itchy… and it rides up in the crotch a little bit, too.

— Spider-Man 2 (2004), screenplay by Alvin Sargent, screen story by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar and Michael Chabon, comic book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Elevator.

Trivia: Phil LaMarr auditioned to play the elevator passenger. Hal Sparks got the role and LaMarr settled for an uncredited appearance as a train passenger.

Dialogue On Dialogue: An inspired elevator scene in which Spider-man, who suddenly loses his powers, is forced to take an elevator down to the ground floor of a high-rise building. In walks a passenger…