Daily Dialogue — June 12, 2010

Gaff: You’ve done a man’s job, sir. I guess you’re through, huh?

Deckard: Finished.

Gaff tosses Deckard his pistol.

Gaff: It’s too bad she won’t live. But then again, who does?

 — Gaff (Edward James Olmos), Deckard (Harrison Ford), Blade Runner (1982), screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Webb Peoples, based on “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick

The Daily Dialogue theme this week is film noir movies. Blade Runner suggested by Garrett York.

Trivia: Although Philip K. Dick saw only the opening 20 minutes of footage prior to his death on March 2, 1982, he was extremely impressed, and has been quoted by Paul Sammon as saying, “It was my own interior world. They caught it perfectly.” However neither Ridley Scott nor screenwriter David Webb Peoples actually read Dick’s novel.