Daily Dialogue — May 28, 2016

Rabbi Marshak: When the truth is found. To be lies. [clears throat] And all the hope. Within you dies. Then what? [clears throat again] Grace Slick. Marty Balin. Paul Kanta. Jorma…
Danny Gopnik: Kaukonen.
Rabbi Marshak: …something. These are the members of the Airplane. Interesting. Here.

He gives Danny back his radio.

Rabbi Marshak: Be a good boy.

— A Serious Man (2009), written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: The Coen Brothers.

Trivia: Rabbi Marshak misquotes the Jefferson Airplane’s “Somebody to Love,” changing “all the joy within you dies” to “all the hope within you dies” — appropriate given Danny’s family situation. Furthermore, he then names three or four members of the band (comically stumbling over Jorma Kaukonen’s last name), as an apparent attribution to the quote, but the song was in fact written by Grace Slick’s brother-in-law, Darby Slick.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Such an awesome scene and classic Coen brothers. Surprise after surprise — a Rabbi impressed by the Jewish members of a rock band? — ending with the return of a cherished item: Danny’s Walkman.