Daily Dialogue — May 13, 2012

JANE: Nice car.

SIMON: Thank you. It’s yellow. Of course it’s yellow. All right. Okay.

JANE: I thought you’d changed your mind.

SIMON: Oh. No way. It’s just… been a while since I did this.

JANE: You haven’t been going out?

SIMON: I go out a little. I just can’t remember the last time I was… set up.

JANE: Fixed up.

SIMON: Yeah. Yeah.

JANE: So, what do you think so far?

SIMON: So far it’s all right. I like it. I’m just… just a little surprised.

JANE: Why? What did you expect?

SIMON: No, it’s not you. I’m just surprised at how nervous I am.

JANE: Me, too.

SIMON: Yeah?

JANE: Yeah.

SIMON: That’s all right. At least now we know that much about each other. Yeah. Mack must have had some reason to think this would work. I guess you’ve known him a while, huh?

JANE: I don’t know him at all.

SIMON: Really? Wow. I don’t know him much, either. That’s funny. Maybe we’re the only two black people he ever met.

— Jane (Alfre Woodard), Simon (Danny Glover), Grand Canyon (1991), written by Lawrence Kasdan

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is first date, suggested by churnage. Today’s suggestion by Teddy Pasternak.

Trivia: The scene where Mack is nearly killed by a bus, was taken from writer/director Lawrence Kasdan’s own life.

Dialogue On Dialogue: “Maybe we’re the only two black people he ever met.” What a great line.