Daily Dialogue — July 26, 2011

Raymond: Yeah, flying’s very dangerous. In 1987, there were 30 airline accidents. 211 were fatalities and 230 were definitely passengers. 
Charlie: This plane is very safe. Believe me. I gotta get to L.A. I don’t have time for this shit. 
Raymond: Oh, I don’t know. I don’t know. 
Charlie: You don’t know? 
Raymond: No. 
Charlie: Is it this airline?
Raymond: Yeah. 
Charlie: Okay, fine. We can — There’s an American plane. 
Raymond: American flight 625… crashed April 27, 1976. 
Charlie: We don’t have to take American. There’s a lot of flights. 
Raymond: Pick another airline.
Charlie: Continental. We’ll take Continental. 
Raymond: Continental crashed November 15, 1987. Flight 1713. 28 casualties. 
Charlie: This is very serious.
Raymond: Yeah, very serious. 
Charlie: I have to get to Los Angeles. So you’re gonna get on that plane. Do you understand me? 
Raymond: Yeah. 
Charlie: You have to get on a plane.
Raymond: Yeah, get on a plane. 
Charlie: Now, there’s a Delta. 
Raymond: Yeah.
Charlie: It leaves at midnight. How’s Delta? 
Raymond: Delta crashed August 2, 1985. Lockheed L-1011. Dallas-Fort Worth. Terrible wind shear. 
Charlie: All airlines — 
Raymond: 135 passengers. 
Charlie: All airlines have crashed at one time or another. That doesn’t mean that they are not safe. 
Raymond: Qantas. 
Charlie: Qantas? 
Raymond: Qantas never crashed. 
Charlie Qantas?
Raymond: Never crashed. 
Charlie: Well, that’s — 
Raymond: Never crashed. 
Charlie: That’s gonna do me a lot of good. Qantas doesn’t fly to L.A. out of Cincinnati. You have got to get to Melbourne…
Raymond: Australia. 
Charlie: …in order to get the plane that flies to Los Angeles. Do you hear me?
Raymond: Canberra’s the capital. 16.2 million population.
Charlie: Let’s go.

 — Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), Charlie (Tom Cruise), Rain Man (1988), screenplay by Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow, story by Barry Morrow

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is factoids, suggested by CWillGoWrite. Today’s suggestion by Teddy Pasternak.

Trivia: Dustin Hoffman spent a lot of time with savant Kim Peek, the inspiration for Raymond’s character. Rain Man writer Barry Morrow first met Peek in 1986, and on winning an Oscar for the screenplay of “Rain Man” in 1989, gave his Oscar trophy to Kim Peek. Hoffman he made Kim’s father (the main caregiver) promise that he would “share Kim with the world.” For nearly 20 years until his death, Kim Peek went all over the world impressing people with his incredible memory and ability to recall minute details from centuries of history.


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