Daily Dialogue — June 25, 2018

Christopher Johnson’s Son: How many moons does our planet have?
Christopher Johnson: Seven.
Christopher Johnson’s Son: This planet only has one. I can’t wait to see our planet again… it’s bigger than this one, isn’t it?
Christopher Johnson: [turns off holographic atlas of what seems to be the Alien home planet] Enough.
Christopher Johnson’s Son: We go home now?
Christopher Johnson: Not home, no. This is where we must go. [shows his son an MNU brochure outlining “Sanctuary Park Alien Relocation Camp” aka District 10] See that tent there? That might be ours.
Christopher Johnson’s Son: I want to go home!
Christopher Johnson: We can’t go home. Not anymore.

— District 9 (2009), written by Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchel

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Aliens.

Trivia: After the feature film based on the Halo: Combat Evolved (2001) video game series (which was to be directed by Neill Blomkamp) fell through, producer Peter Jackson went to Blomkamp and offered him $30 million to make whatever he wanted. The result was District 9 (2009).

Dialogue On Dialogue: In some kind of alien movies, it’s important to humanize them. Here we have a father-son moment to create some sympathy for the pair, stranded on Earth far from home.