Daily Dialogue — May 30, 2017

“Take off your clothes.”

— The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), screenplay by Jean-Claude Carrière & Philip Kaufman, novel by Milan Kundera

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Seduction.

Trivia: Jean-Claude Carrière’s original script deviated drastically from the final film version. Philip Kaufman feared it was too “arty” for a commercial audience. Milan Kundera read Carrière’s original script after seeing the film and said, “That’s how it should be done.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: The story, set in Czechoslovakia in 1968, involves Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis) who is involved with two women, Sabina (Lena Olin) and Tereza (Juliette Binoche). The line cited above is one he uses to seduce women, an admittedly direct approach.