Daily Dialogue — May 8, 2017

“What were you doing in the bar if you didn’t know?”

— The Crying Game (1992), written by Neil Jordan

The Daily Dialogue theme for this week: Revelation, suggested by @etom212.

Trivia: Neil Jordan originally intended to title the film “The soldier’s wife”, however he was advised by his friend Stanley Kubrick to change it. Kubrick recommended this change because he believed that films with either religious or military titles usually deterred audiences and were often financial failures (something that Jordan had experienced when his religiously titled movies The Miracle (1991) and We’re No Angels (1989) flopped at the box office). Jordan selected the new title title from a 1960s hit British pop song.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Both Dil and Fergus were operating on assumptions: Fergus that Dil is a woman and Dil that Fergus knew his sexual orientation based on Fergus showing up in the nightclub.

By today’s standards probably fairly tame stuff, but back in 1992, this revelation scene caused quite a stir.