Daily Dialogue — March 3, 2018

Young Carl "flies" his blue balloon ("The Spirit of Adventure" hand-written on it) as he runs along the sidewalk. He still wears helmet and goggles.

Newsreel Announcer (V.O.): Here's Charles Muntz piloting his famous dirigible!! He hurdles Pike's Peak!

Carl jumps over a small rock.

Newsreel Announcer (V.O.): He hurdles the Grand Canyon!

Carl jumps over a crack in the sidewalk.

Newsreel Announcer (V.O.): He hurdles Mount Everest!

Carl jumps over a tree stump... and smacks into it instead.

Newsreel Announcer (V.O.): He... goes around Mount Everest! Is there nothing he cannot do? Yes, as Muntz himself says: “Adventure is — —

Girl’s Voice (O.S.): "Adventure is out there!"

Carl stops. Who said that?

— Up (2009), screenplay by Bob Peterson & Pete Docter, story by Pete Docter & Bob Peterson & Tom McCarthy

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Walk and Talk.

Trivia: The villain Charles Muntz is named after Charles Mintz, the Universal Pictures executive who in 1928 stole Walt Disney’s production rights to his highly-successful “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit” cartoon series. This led Walt Disney to create Mickey Mouse, who soon eclipsed Oswald in popularity.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The Pixar movie Up has an interesting use of ‘walk and talk’: We see young Carl on his sidewalk ‘adventure’ while hearing the Newsreel Announcer in voice-over narration accompanying the action. It’s a clever transition from the newsreel through opening credits to intersecting Carl with young Ellie.