Daily Dialogue — May 10, 2016

INT. HEDLEY ESTATE — DAY

Chris enters and approaches a ping pong table.

NOLA: So — who’s my next victim? You?
CHRIS: I haven’t played table tennis in quite a while.
NOLA: Would you like to play for a thousand pounds a game?
CHRIS: What did I walk into?

They play. Chris smashes the ping pong ball across the table. He smiles.

NOLA: What did I walk into?
CHRIS: It’s like this. May I?

Chris goes around to Nola’s side of the ping pong table.

NOLA: Please.
CHRIS: You have to lean in…and hit through the ball.
NOLA: I was doing just fine until you showed up.
CHRIS: Ah, the story of my life. So tell me… what’s a beautiful, young, American ping-pong player doing mingling amongst the British upper class?

Nola lights a cigarette.

NOLA: Did anyone ever tell you, you play a very aggressive game?
CHRIS: Did anyone ever tell you, you’ve very sensual lips?
NOLA: Extremely aggressive.
CHRIS: I’m naturally competitive. Is it off putting?
NOLA: I’ll have to think about that for a while.

Tom enters.

TOM: Oh, there you are… I wanted to introduce you to Chris Wilton. Chris Wilton, this is Nola Rice. My fiancee.
NOLA: Ah-ha, so you’re the tennis pro?

Tom kisses Nola on the cheek.

TOM: Hello, darling.
CHRIS: My pleasure.
NOLA: He was trying to have his way with me over the table.
TOM: Oh, really? Yeah, well, you’d better watch out for this one. He’s made quite a living out of hustling.
NOLA: I’ll be ready for you next time.

Nola turns, kisses Tom.

NOLA: I’ll see you outside.
TOM: Oh, yeah.

Nola exits.

TOM (sighs): She’s quite something, isn’t she?

— Match Point (2005), written by Woody Allen

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Femme Fatale. Today’s suggestion by Gregory Netterville.

Trivia: Woody Allen’s first film in nineteen years to make a profit in America. The last was Hannah and Her Sisters (1986).

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Gregory: “More of a modern setting for the femme fatale character but ScarJo has it all: the hair (blonde), the allure, white attire, classics neck tilt while lighting a cigarette. Just a short classic setup for the femme fatale introduction.”