Daily Dialogue — June 2, 2017
Cora: I gotta have ya’, Frank. Just us. If it was just you and me. Frank: What’re you talkin’ ‘bout? Cora: I’m tired of what’s right and…
Cora: I gotta have ya’, Frank. Just us. If it was just you and me.
Frank: What’re you talkin’ ‘bout?
Cora: I’m tired of what’s right and wrong.
Frank: They hang people for that, Cora.
— The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), screenplay by David Mamet, novel by James M. Cain
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Seduction.
Trivia: David Mamet’s first screenplay.
Dialogue On Dialogue: After their mutual sexual enticement, this scene presents another kind of seduction — Cora luring Frank into working together to murder her husband.