Daily Dialogue — May 31, 2014

“Wait a tick. Basil, if I travel back to 1969 and I was frozen in 1967, presumably, I could go back and visit my frozen self. But, if I’m still frozen in 1967, how could I have been unthawed in the ’90s and traveled back to… [goes cross-eyed] Oh, no, I’ve gone cross-eyed.”

— Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), written by Mike Myers & Michael McCullers, characters by Mike Myers

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

Trivia: Basil’s remark to the audience about ignoring the mechanics of time travel was unscripted.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Here’s one key to writing dialogue in which characters attempt to explain time travel: Just acknowledge it’s not worth the effort and move on.

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