Daily Dialogue — March 2, 2018

Ariadne: Why are they all looking at me?
Cobb: Because my subconscious feels that someone else is creating this world. The more you change things, the quicker the projections start to converge on you.
Ariadne: Converge?
Cobb: It’s the foreign nature of the dreamer. They attack like white blood cells fighting an infection.
Ariadne: They’re going to attack us?
Cobb: No. Just you.

— Inception (2010), written by Christopher Nolan

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Walk and Talk.

Trivia: If you take the first letters of the main characters’ names — Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal and Saito — they spell “Dreams”. If you add Peter, Ariadne and Yusuf, the whole makes “Dreams Pay”, which is what they do for a mind thief.

Dialogue On Dialogue: One of the advantages of ‘walk and talk’ is filmmakers can use movement to capture a viewer’s visual attention and thereby, distract them from the fact they are hearing exposition. And Inception is filled with heaping GOBS of exposition… and several ‘walk and talk’ scenes like this one.