Daily Dialogue — March 17, 2014

Harry: I suppose you’ve got a gun up there.
Ray: Yeah.
Harry: What are we gonna do? We can’t stand here all night.
Marie: Why don’t you both put your guns down and go home?
Harry: Don’t be stupid. This is the shootout.
Ray: Harry, I’ve got an idea.
Harry: What?
Ray: My room faces out the canal, right? I’m going to go back to me room, jump into the canal, see if I can swim to the other side and escape.
Harry: All right.
Ray: If you go outside around the corner, you can shoot at me from there and try to get me. That way we’ll leave this lady and her baby out of the whole entire thing.
Harry: You completely promise to jump into the canal? I don’t want to run out there, come back in ten minutes, and find you fucking hiding in a cupboard.
Ray: I completely promise, Harry.
Harry: So, hang on — I go outside and I go which way? Right or left?
Ray: You go right, don’t you? You can see it from the doorway! It’s a big fucking canal!
Harry: All right. Jesus. I only just got here, haven’t I? Okay, on the count of one, two, three, go. Okay?
Ray: Okay. What? Who says it?
Harry: Well, you say it.
Marie: You guys are crazy.

— In Bruges (2008), written by Martin McDonagh

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Standoff.

Trivia: The screenplay contains a scene after the shoot out revealing, among other things, that Ray survived his wounds and the murdered boy’s name is Tobias.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This is a good bit of fun with a standoff negotiation.

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