Daily Dialogue — May 19, 2018
“You know you don’t have to act with me, Steve. You don’t have to say anything, and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe…
“You know you don’t have to act with me, Steve. You don’t have to say anything, and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and… blow.”
— To Have and Have Not (1944), screen play by Jules Furthman and William Faulkner, novel by Ernest Hemingway
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Double Entendre.
Trivia: At the funeral for her husband, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall put a whistle in his coffin. It was a reference to the famous line in the film.
Dialogue On Dialogue: Who knows exactly what the specific subtext is here with this double entendre, but the message is clear: There is sex in the air!