Daily Dialogue — June 8, 2014

Ned: You can stand here with me if you want but you’ll have to agree not to talk about the heat.
Matty: I’m a married woman.
Ned: Meaning what?
Matty: Meaning I’m not looking for company.
Ned: Then you should have said I’m a happily married woman.
Matty: That’s my business.
Ned: What?
Matty: How happy I am.
Ned: How happy is that?
Matty: You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.
Ned: What else do you like? Lazy, ugly, horny? I got ’em all.
Matty: You don’t look lazy.

Ned laughs.

Matty: Tell me, does chat like this work with most women?
Ned: Some, if they haven’t been around much.
Matty: I wondered. Thought maybe I was out of touch.
Ned: I want to buy you a drink.
Matty: I told you. I’ve got a husband.
Ned: I’ll buy him one, too.
Matty: He’s out of town.
Ned: My favorite kind. We’ll drink to him.
Matty: Only comes up on weekends.
Ned: [laughs] I’m liking him better all the time.

— Body Heat (1981), written by Lawrence Kasdan

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Flirting, suggested by Sabina Giado.

Trivia: Writer-director Lawrence Kasdan “wanted this film to have the intricate structure of a dream, the density of a good novel, and the texture of recognizable people in extraordinary circumstances”.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Kasdan was inspired by writers like Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain and Dashiell Hammett, and the subtext of this flirtatious dialogue evokes movies of the 30s and 40s.

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