Daily Dialogue — March 20, 2017

“I think… no, I am positive… that you are the most unattractive man I have ever met in my entire life. You know, in the short time we’ve been together, you have demonstrated EVERY loathsome characteristic of the male personality and even discovered a few new ones. You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you’re morally reprehensible, vulgar, insensitive, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humor and you smell. You’re not even interesting enough to make me sick.”

— The Witches of Eastwick (1987), screenplay by Michael Cristofer, novel by John Updike

The Daily Dialogue theme this week: Insult.

Trivia: According to George Miller, producer Jon Peters suddenly decided he wanted aliens to appear in the movie, even though it didn’t make sense with the story. Miller thinks that Peters was influenced by the box office success of Aliens (1986). He even showed up one day on set with a stunt man dressed as an alien and told Miller to put him in a scene, any scene. Miller and Jack Nicholson then left the set until Peters gave up on his fixation.

Dialogue On Dialogue: One of the great all-time bromides delivered expertly by Cher, received as only Jack Nicholson can, then topped off with his response: “Um, would you like to be on the top or the bottom?”