Daily Dialogue — July 8, 2014

Mills holds the gun at Doe’s head, undecided, furious.

SOMERSET: It’s what he wants. He wants you to shoot him.
MILLS: No!
JOHN DOE: Become vengeance, David. Become wrath.
MILLS: Tell me she’s alright!
JOHN DOE: She begged for her life, detective. She begged for her life …
SOMERSET: Shut up.
JOHN DOE: And for the life of the baby inside her.

Somerset SMACKS Doe across the face.

Mills’ face fills with confusion — then a wave of horror.

Doe’s eyes register shock.

JOHN DOE: Oh. He didn’t know.
SOMERSET: Give me the gun, David.

Mills’ raises his gun back up at Doe.

SOMERSET: David, if you kill him … he will win.

— Se7en (1995), written Andrew Kevin Walker

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Victory, suggested by NB. Today’s suggestion by noirdreams1941.

Trivia: Screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker wrote the script over a two year period while working at a branch of Tower Records.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A macabre sense of victory for John Doe whose own death means he wins. Such a great moment in such a great movie.

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