Daily Dialogue — March 26, 2016

DOORMAN: All right, you want to come in, you’re gonna have to go to the end of the line and wait like everybody else.
DEBBIE: I’m not gonna go to the end of the fucking line. Who the fuck are you? I have just as much of a right to be here as any of these little skanky girls! What, am I not skanky enough for you? You want me to hike up my fucking skirt? What the fuck is your problem? I’m not going anywhere! You’re just some roided out freak with a fucking clipboard! And your stupid little fucking rope! You know what? You may have power now, but you’re not God! You’re a doorman! Okay? You’re a doorman, doorman, doorman, doorman, doorman! So, fuck you, you fucking fag with your fucking little faggy gloves.
DOORMAN: I know. You’re right. I’m so sorry. I fucking hate this job. I don’t want to be the one to pass judgement and decide who gets in. This shit makes me sick to my stomach. I get the runs from the stress. It’s not ’cause you’re not hot. I would love to tap that ass. I would tear that ass up. I can’t let you in ’cause you’re old as fuck, for this club, not, you know, for the Earth.
DEBBIE: What?
DOORMAN: You old. She pregnant. Can’t have a bunch of old, pregnant bitches running around. That’s crazy. I’m only allowed to let in 5% black people. He said that. 5%. That mean if there’s 25 people here, I get to let in one-and-a-quarter black people. So I got to hope there’s a black midget in the crowd.
DEBBIE: Now I feel guilty. I’m sorry.
DOORMAN: Why y’all wanna be in here anyway? Y’all need to be at a yoga class or something. What the fuck is she doing at the club? That’s not even good parenting right there. Your old ass should know better than that.
DEBBIE: Oh, God.

— Knocked Up (2007), written by Judd Apatow

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Pregnancy. Today’s suggestion by Katha.

Trivia: Since “knocked up” doesn’t mean anything in most languages, the film’s translation in Russia is “A little bit pregnant.” In Brazil it’s “Slightly Pregnant”. In Italy it’s ‘Very Pregnant’ (‘Molto Incinta’). In Germany “At the first go”.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This is tangentially about pregnancy — the subject comes up once late in the scene — but it’s a great scene with some wonderful reversals and character revelations.