Daily Dialogue — May 10, 2013

“I think… no, I am positive… that you are the most unattractive man I have ever met in my entire life. You know, in the short time we’ve been together, you have demonstrated EVERY loathsome characteristic of the male personality and even discovered a few new ones. You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you’re morally reprehensible, vulgar, insensitive, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humor and you smell. You’re not even interesting enough to make me sick.”

— The Witches of Eastwick (1987), screenplay by Michael Cristofer, novel by John Updike

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is Profanity free insults, suggested by Mark Walker. Today’s suggestion by Barbara Thomas.

Trivia: In an interview with the Australian magazine Cinema Papers in the early 1990s, the director, George Miller, revealed that the shoot had been extremely difficult as he was initially unfamiliar with Hollywood-style communication. In a meeting to discuss ways to reduce the budget Miller volunteered to give up his trailer because he was always needed on the set and had no time to use it. This was interpreted by the studio as him being a pushover, so they began to interfere with his production requests. If he asked for 50 extras, the studio would provide a dozen. If he asked for two cameras they would provide one. Miller decided to fight fire with fire and refused to shoot each scene until his production demands were met. The studio responded by looking for a new director but were prevented by Jack Nicholson, who supported Miller and vowed to walk off the production if he was replaced.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Princess Leia calls Han Solo “scruffy-looking.” Alexandra tells Daryla “you smell.” Therefore may we assume an effective exclamation point on a litany of put-downs is to have a go at the other character’s body or bodily functions?