Daily Dialogue — July 25, 2012

“Oh, but anyway, Toto, we’re home! Home! And this is my room — and you’re all here! And I’m not going to leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all! And — Oh, Auntie Em — there’s no place like home!”

— Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland), The Wizard of Oz (1939), screenplay by Noel Langley & Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, adaptation by Noel Langley, based on a novel by L. Frank Baum

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is famous last words, suggested by Vic Tional. Today’s suggestion is by summertime.

Trivia: Although most of screenwriter Noel Langley’s ideas were used in the finished film, and he is credited as being the principal screenwriter as well as the adaptor, there were some revisions to his material. Langley was incensed that they had been done, and walked out on the project several times, although he was always persuaded to return. He was bitterly resentful of the final screenplay, and is on record as saying that he hated the finished film when he finally saw it. However, years later he changed his opinion, calling the film “rather sweet”.

Dialogue On Dialogue: One of the famous of famous last words in cinema history.