Daily Dialogue — March 17, 2012

TATE: I once got this fortune cookie that said, “only when all who surround you are different will you truly belong.”

JANE: Thanks for the dance, Fred.

DEDE: Hey, it’s a party. Gotta wear your party hat, Jane.

TATE: Well, we were all different, that’s for sure. I’d see Jane every day at the Institute. And once in a while, Dede’d let her take us out to fancy restaurants. Sometimes we even had fun.

DEDE: Ready?

JANE: Waaahhhh!

TATE: For a while, I was the most famous kid at Jane’s school. But a year later, a six-year-old boy named Roy Yamaguchi got into law school and suddenly I wasn’t such a big deal any more. But I didn’t care, because I was happy.

— Tate (Adam Hann-Byrd), Jane (Dianne Wiest), Dede (Jodie Foster), Little Man Tate (1991), written by Scott Frank

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is statement of theme, suggested by John Penny. Today’s suggestion by Saint 716.

Trivia: Jodie Foster’s directorial film debut.

Dialogue on Dialogue: This is at least the second statement of theme this week that is sourced from someone other than the speaker, here a fortune cookie and in Forrest Gump the theme is his mother’s saying. Maybe a good way to avoid coming off as too on-the-nose.