Daily Dialogue — May 11, 2014

Ripley: You’re going out there to destroy them, right? Not to study. But to wipe them out. 
Burke: That’s the plan. You have my word on it.

— Aliens (1986), screenplay by James Cameron, story by James Cameron and David Giler & Walter Hill, characters by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Lying.

Trivia: In an interview with Moviefone, Sigourney Weaver said that each time one of the actors was to “die,” she would give them a bouquet of flowers before filming began. When it was time for Paul Reiser to be killed, she gave him a handful of dead blossoms.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A truly insidious lie, the starting point of a behavioral pattern by Burke that justifiably resulted in him having a ‘date’ with the alien.

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