Daily Dialogue — June 27, 2018

E.T.: Come?
Elliott: Stay.

E.T.: [gestures to heart] Ouch.
Elliott: [gestures to his own heart] Ouch.

— E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), written by Melinda Mathison

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Aliens.

Trivia: The script was largely written while on location filming for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) during filming breaks. Steven Spielberg dictated the story to screenwriter Melissa Mathison who was there with her then-boyfriend and future husband Harrison Ford.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Four one-word lines of dialogue which break your heart. E.T. is a ‘boy and his dog’ story, only the dog is an alien.