Daily Dialogue — June 11, 2014

Navin: I’m sorry I spoiled the party, Mom.
Mother: You didn’t spoil the party. I brought you a Twinkie.
Navin: I’m not hungry right now.
Mother: Feeling different again?
Navin: It’s like I don’t fit in. It’s like I don’t belong here.
Mother: It’s your birthday and it’s time you knew. Navin, you’re not our natural-born child.
Navin: I’m not?
Mother: You were left on our doorstep, but we raised you like you were one of us.
Navin: You mean I’m going to stay this color?
Mother: I’d love you if you were the color of a baboon’s ass. Come here.

— The Jerk (1979), screenplay by Steve Martin & Carl Gottlieb & Michael Elias, story by Steve Martin & Carl Gottlieb

The Daily Dialogue theme for this week: Birthday. Today’s suggestion is by Daniel Cossu.

Trivia: Stanley Kubrick was a big admirer of this film. Stanley would often recite lines from the film to cast and crew on his films and he once invited Steve Martin over so they could play chess.

Dialogue On Dialogue: To think this entire movie started with a line from Martin’s stand-up routine: “I was born a poor black child.”

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