Daily Dialogue — June 21, 2018

Charlie Croker: Napster, Gridlock every route except the one we chose. Force that truck to go exactly where we want it to go.
Handsome Rob: Where do we want it to go? We can’t have a shoot up without guns. We’d lose.
Charlie Croker: We do it like the Italian job.

— The Italian Job (2003), screenplay by Donna Powers & Wayne Powers, based on 1969 screenplay by Troy Kennedy-Martin

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Heist.

Trivia: James Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade wrote the first draft of the screenplay, a fairly faithful translation of the original, with a prologue set in World War II, in which Charlie Croker’s father tries and fails to recover the gold (tying the film in with Troy Kennedy-Martin’s other heist film Kelly’s Heroes (1970). A new story was commissioned from writing team “the Powers”, that relocated the action to Los Angeles. Early posters, and the trailer still credited Purvis and Wade as co-writers.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Normally, computer hacking scenes are pretty dull affairs. Someone sitting at a computer, hammering away on a keyboard, chattering nonsense. But this one in The Italian Job is cool because Napster punches some keys here and creates havoc there. That’s the way to pull off a sophisticated heist!