Daily Dialogue — May 4, 2017

AARON: You follow sports?
AMY: Oh my God, sports. I love them.
AARON: Who’re your favorite teams?
AMY: The, uh, I like smaller teams, like not the big leagues. Like the Long Island… Mediums. The Acorn…Pinecones.
AARON: I haven’t heard of them.
AMY: The Fire Island Penguins. I like the Cincinnati Thunderwizards.
AARON: You can stop.
AMY: The Orlando…Blooms.
AARON: You can stop. You don’t follow sports.
AMY: I’m sorry, I don’t. I don’t know anything about sports.
AARON: That’s okay. I didn’t really follow sports either until I got into this field, to be honest.
AMY: Really? Oh my God, you have no idea what a huge relief that is. I was assigned this, this was not even my pitch.
AARON: Right, so you’re doing the article on me?
AMY: Uh-huh.
AARON: Awesome.
AMY: I think they’re just kind of weird and strange. Grown men, wearing jerseys with another man’s name on it. Like are you in jail? Are you his bitch?

Aaron points a framed jersey on his wall.

AARON: Kind of like that one?
AMY: That’s different because it’s in a frame.
AARON: I think sports brings people together and forms a community.
AMY: That’s what I was saying.
AARON: Obviously.

— Trainwreck (2015), written by Amy Schumer

The Daily Dialogue theme for next week: Meet-Cute. Today’s suggestion by Melinda Mahaffey.

Trivia: The idea of Trainwreck (2015) was discussed for over two years with Judd Apatow. The original draft of the script was written over a month and half. Amy Schumer confessed that she wrote the script with Apatow in mind to direct. So in her writing of the screenplay, she wrote in things that would attract him to the project.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Melinda: “ This is part of a much longer scene, but this section of dialogue highlights why Aaron and Amy are romcom perfect for each other: He works in sports while she hates sports. It’s a match made in heaven!”