Daily Dialogue — June 29, 2018

Steve Andrews: What’re they gonna do with that thing, Dave?
Lieutenant Dave: The Air Force is sending a Globemaster in. They’re flying it to the Arctic.
Steve Andrews: It’s not dead, is it?
Lieutenant Dave: No, it’s not. It’s frozen. I don’t think it can be killed. But at least we’ve got it stopped.
Steve Andrews: Yeah, as long as the Arctic stays cold.

— The Blob (1958), screenplay by Theodore Simonson and Kay Linaker, original idea by Irvine H. Millgate

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Aliens.

Trivia: The actual Blob, a mixture of red dye and silicone, has never dried out and is still kept in the original five-gallon pail in which it was shipped to the production company in 1958 from Union Carbide. It was put on display over the years as a part of the annual Blobfest, held over a three-day period each summer in Phoenixville, PA, which provided a number of the shooting locales for the film. In addition to displaying the Blob and miniatures used in the shooting, the event features a reenactment of the famous scene in which panicked theatergoers rush to exit the town’s still-functioning Colonial Theater, as well as several showings of the film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: When the words on screen “The End” morph into a question mark, well… that’s just pretty awesome.