Daily Dialogue — May 28, 2014

Sam Deed: I’m not from Dubuque.
Ruby: Okay, you’re not from Dubuque. So where are you from then?
Sam Deed: Dubuque.
Ruby: [screams]
Sam Deed: I’m not from Dubuque in the way you think I’m from Dubuque.
Ruby: Well, how many ways can you be from Dubuque?
Sam Deed: I’m not from your Dubuque.
Ruby: My Dubuque? Since when is Dubuque mine. I’ve never even been to Ohio!
Sam Deed: Iowa.
Ruby: Whatever!
Sam Deed: Look, I’m just saying that my Dubuque is different from your Dubuque.
Ruby: How?
Sam Deed: It doesn’t exist.
Ruby: You just said it’s in Io-ho.
Sam Deed: Iowa!
Ruby: So your Dubuque doesn’t exist.
Sam Deed: Yet.
Ruby: Yet?
Sam Deed: Yet!
Ruby: Yet?
Sam Deed: Yet!
Ruby: So when will your Dubuque exist?
Sam Deed: …2470 AD. That’s in 471 years — from now.

— Happy Accidents (2000), written by Brad Anderson

Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Time Travel Talk, suggested by Bob_Reo_Inc. Today’s suggestion by FilmIntuition.

Trivia: Near the end of the movie’s theatrical run the director of a science fiction film festival contacted the distributor for a copy of the movie. According to the festival’s director, there was a long pause on the other end and the person at the distributor said, “Hmm. Science fiction. Maybe if we had sold it that way…”

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by FilmIntuition: “I love this romantic comedy spin on the time travel genre via Brad Anderson’s underrated 2000 indie HAPPY ACCIDENTS. It imparts a valid lesson of screwball humor applied in a scene that otherwise might’ve been too cliched and/or overly dramatic plus it’s beautifully played by Marisa Tomei & Vincent D’Onofrio.”

Note: We need more suggestions for this week’s theme. Thanks!

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