Daily Dialogue — May 29, 2016

“I should have had you wear double condoms. But if you ever do it again, which is a favour to women everywhere you should not. But if you do, you should be wearing condom on condom. And then wrap it in electrical tape. You should just walk around always, inside a great big condom. Because you are shit!”

— Inside Llewyn Davis (2014), written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

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

Trivia: This is the second Coen Brothers movie with a plot partly inspired by Homer’s The Odyssey. When the first one, O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), came out, the Coen brothers told several interviewers that had never actually read The Odyssey; in 2013, they told Terry Gross that they had still never gotten around to reading it. One of them said to Gross, “Yeah. It’s right by my bedside table. I keep looking over, at it and going, ugh.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: I wanted to feature the last line of the movie in which Llewyn, after having been beaten up, says, “Au revoir” to his assailant, in effect saying good-bye to his music career, but could not find supporting video. So here is one of the best bromides of woman vs. man ever.