Daily Dialogue — June 14, 2018

“I cooked artichokes with hollandaise sauce which is melted butter that’s been whipped into a frenzy with egg yolks until it’s died and gone to heaven, and let me say this: is there anything better than butter? Think it over: every time you taste something that’s delicious beyond imagining and you say, “What is in this?”, the answer is always going to be, Butter. The day there’s a meteorite heading toward the earth and we have thirty days to live, I am going to spend it eating butter. Here’s my final words on the subject, you can never have too much, butter.”

— Julie & Julia (2009), screenplay by Nora Ephron, book by Julie Powell, book by Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Nora Ephron.

Trivia: Nora Ephron’s last film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: It may be conventional wisdom that voiceover narration is sloppy, flaccid writing, but Nora Ephron used it a LOT in her movies including this notable blog post by Julie (Amy Adams).