Daily Dialogue — May 16, 2018

Joyce Cooper: Fascist!
Nicholas Angel: I beg your pardon?
Joyce Cooper: [doing a crossword puzzle] System of government categorized by extreme dictatorship. Seven across.
Nicholas Angel: Oh, I see. It’s “fascism.”
Joyce Cooper: “Fascism”! Wonderful. Now, we’ve put you in the Castle Suite. Bernard will escort you over there.
Nicholas Angel: Well, actually, I can probably make my own way up. Hag!
Joyce Cooper: I beg your pardon?
Nicholas Angel: Evil old woman, considered frightful or ugly, 12 down.
Joyce Cooper: [thinks about it] Oh… bless you!

— Hot Fuzz (2007), written by Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Double Entendre.

Trivia: hot fuAs this is the second part of the unofficial Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy, the blue wrapper makes its appearance in the film. Nick and Danny are seen eating vanilla flavor ice cream. According to Edgar Wright, blue represents the police, which is the main motif in the film. For Wright’s other films, Shaun of The Dead (2004), it was red and strawberry flavor, representing blood and zombies, while the final part, The World’s End (2013), it was green and peppermint with chip, representing science fiction and extraterrestrial elements. zz crossword

Dialogue On Dialogue: The movie is filled with double entendres. This one is particularly clever using the crossword puzzle as a ruse.