Daily Dialogue — March 21, 2012

POWELL: I’m here, John.

McClane tries walking on his foot. He winces in pain, clearly at the end of his resources.

MCCLANE: (long pause) Look…I’m getting a bad feeling up here…I’d like you to do something for me. Look up my wife…don’t ask how, you’ll know by then…and tell her…tell her…I’ve been a jerk. When things panned out for
her, I should’ve been behind her all the way …We had something great going until I screwed it up…She was the best thing that ever happened to a bum like me. She’s heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never got to hear this…honey…I’m sorry.
(pause)
You get all that?

POWELL: (clearly touched) I got it. But you can tell her yourself. Just watch your ass and you’ll make it.

MCCLANE: I hope so. But that’s up to the guy upstairs.

— McClane (Bruce Willis), Powell (Reginald VelJohnson), Die Hard (1988), screenplay by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. DeSouza, based on the novel “Nothing Lasts Forever” by Roderick Thorp

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is apology, suggested by John Arends who also suggested Die Hard.

Trivia: Much of the script was improvised due to the constant screenplay tweaks that were being made during filming.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Per the Trivia note, supposedly Willis ad libbed the apology excerpted above.

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