Daily Dialogue — March 28, 2017

Laurie Juspeczyk: I’m sorry. I invited you out to dinner to catch up and have a few laughs… but there don’t seem to be many laughs around these days.
Dan Dreiberg: What do you expect? The Comedian’s dead.

— Watchmen (2009), screenplay by David Hayter and Alex Tse

The Daily Dialogue theme this week: Cemetery, suggested by Angry Cyborg.

Trivia: Popular John F. Kennedy assassination-conspiracy-theory suggests that the President was killed by a bullet fired from the front; specifically, from a fence behind a grassy knoll; also that three transients arrested soon after Kennedy’s murder are said to be the “additional assassins”. The opening montage portrays the Comedian delivering the fatal bullet from the grassy knoll’s fence dressed in the same outfit as one of the “3 Tramps” as they were famously photographed. The puff of gun smoke said to have been seen, turns out to be Blake’s cigar smoke. At Blake’s funeral, the soundtrack plays “The Sound of Silence” by Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel, a song reportedly inspired by national emotional trauma from the Kennedy murder.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The cemetery scene has no dialogue, accompanied only by Simon & Garfunkel’s song “The Sound of Silence”. Sometimes a song says it better than characters talking.