Daily Dialogue — June 8, 2017

“Poor Bob! I almost felt sorry for him! Almost!”

— She-Devil (1989), written by Barry Strugatz & Mark R. Burns, based on the novel by Fay Weldon

The Daily Dialogue theme for next week: Triumph, suggested by Shannon Corbeil. Today’s recommendation by Gisela Wehrl.

Trivia: There was a title similarity between this feature film and actress Meryl Streep’s previous picture “Evil Angels“ (1988). Both titles had a word associated with demonology, “Devil” with this movie and “Evil” with the earlier film. Further, the words “She” and “Angels” are both associated with the female gender. Moreover, Streep would also go on to star in two later productions with titles where two of these words would appear again, in “Angels in America” (2003) and “The Devil Wears Prada“ (2006).

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Gisela: “If the revenge is as evil as in ‘She-Devil’, it’s devastating. Freedom is the last thing She-Devil has planned to destroy and she succeeds. The audience might feel, that the unfaithful ex-husband got too much. The dialogue anticipates this feeling as even She-Devil has this thought, but he fails to get her sympathy. She smiles viciously and triumphs.