Daily Dialogue — May 11, 2017

FORD: Barman, six pints of bitter and quickly. The world’s about to end.
BARMAN: Six pints coming up.
FORD: Keep the change. You got about ten minutes to spend it.
ARTHUR: Three pints each? At lunchtime?
FORD: Sorry. Ah. Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so. And eat those peanuts, because you’ll need the salt.
ARTHUR: Look, what is going on, Ford?
FORD: Arthur… What if I told you I really wasn’t from Guildford? I was from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse?
ARTUHR: Is that something you’re likely to say?
FORD: Remember when we met?
ARTHUR [in flashback]: Out the way! Oof!
FORD [in flashback]: Hi. 
FORD: Wasn’t it strange I was trying to shake hands with a car?
ARTHUR: I assumed you were drunk.
FORD: I thought cars were the dominant life form. I was trying to introduce myself. You saved my life that day. And now I’m saving yours. Please drink.
ARTHUR: It must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.
FORD: Look, Arthur, if this is about your house…
ARTHUR: No, it’s not about the house.

Phone beeps.

FORD: Who’s he?
ARTHUR: She. She. Tricia McMillan. We met at a fancy-dress party.

— The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005), written by Douglas Adams and Karen Kirkpatrick, based on the novel by Douglas Adams

The Daily Dialogue theme for this week: Revelation, suggested by @etom212. Today’s recommendation by Gisela Wehrl.

Trivia: The producers have stated that this film is not a literal translation of the books (just as the books were not a literal translation of the original radio show), but all of the new ideas and characters came from Douglas Adams himself. The hired writer simply came aboard to improve structure and make the screenplay more coherent.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Gisela: “You get reveled that the world will come to an end — within 10 minutes. Additionally your best reveals you, that he is an alien. But you don’t take it seriously, you just care about why you didn’t get the girl.”