Daily Dialogue — March 29, 2014
RAMONA: I’m sorry. Dying probably sucks.
SCOTT: You know what sucks? Getting killed by THAT guy. Why him?
RAMONA: It’s complicated.
SCOTT: Well, maybe now would be the time to get into it. Seeing as I’m about to die.
RAMONA: Alright… the truth is, it was me who was obsessed. I was crazy about him. But he ignored me. I was more alone when we were together than I ever was on my own. That’s why I had to leave… and that’s when he started paying attention.
SCOTT: So why go back?
RAMONA: I can’t help myself around him, Scott. He just… has a way of getting into my head.
SCOTT: Well, that’s legitimately disappointing. I really will leave you alone forever now…
RAMONA: No. I mean, he literally has a way of getting into my head.
Ramona lifts her hair up on the back of her head, revealing a blinking CHIP implanted on her skull.
SCOTT: That is evil.
RAMONA: He’s like that.
Ramona covers the chip, self-consciously touching her hair.
SCOTT: So this kinda sucks for everybody, eh?
RAMONA: I’m sorry it had to end this way. We had a good run, I guess.
SCOTT: You can’t say I didn’t try. I really fought for you back there.
RAMONA: Uh-huh.
The winds blow harder, Ramona seeming to fade away.
RAMONA: But someone was fighting pretty hard for you back there.
Scott’s eyes go wide with epiphany.
SCOTT: Knives?
RAMONA: I wish I was ever as fanatically devoted to anything as that girl is to you.
Ramona slowly dissolves away in the sand.
SCOTT: I feel like I learned something. Which would be great if I wasn’t dead.
Ramona is gone. Scott slumps to his knees.
SCOTT:So…so alone.
DA-DING. The PILGRIM-HEAD appears and rotates around Scott.
SCOTT: Ahhhhhh…
We FLASH BACK to Scott swiping the PILGRIM HEAD, then FAST FORWARD through the breakup with Ramona and Sex Bob-Omb. We hear Scott screaming throughout this magical restart.
SCOTT: …AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…
INT. WALLACE’S APARTMENT — NIGHT
We FAST FORWARD all the way to Wallace’s apartment, as Scott enters. He flicks the light on.
— Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), screenplay by Michael Bacall & Edgar Wright, graphic novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley
This is a scene that didn’t make the final cut. Here is the trailer:
The Daily Dialogue theme this week: Self-Deprecation, suggested by JasperLamarCrab. Today’s suggestion by Alejandro.
Trivia: The original concept for “Scott Pilgrim” is based around 2 premises. First, what if, after a life of playing fighting games, someone confronted you and you actually had the ability to fight like a “Street Fighter” character. And second, Bryan Lee O’Malley’s was dating his future wife, Hope Larson, when he learned she had dated three different guys named Matthew. This led to the idea of a League of Matthews. This idea developed into the League of Evil Exes and Matthew Patel is the only Evil Ex to keep the name Matthew.
Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Alejandro: “I guess when the character hits the low point before he learns his lesson there’s sometimes a little self-deprecating.”
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