Daily Dialogue — November 10, 2018

“The details of my life are quite inconsequential… very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we’d make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum… it’s breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.”

— Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), written by Mike Myers

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Support Group.

Trivia: The British television series Adam Adamant Lives! (1966) was a strong influence behind Austin Powers. Adam Adamant Lives! (1966) was about a Edwardian adventurer who is revived in 1966 after being frozen by his evil arch-nemesis “The Face”. Adam is bewildered by “Swinging 60s London” and fights evil, with help from the beautiful granddaughter of his sidekick, and helps him to adapt to life in “Swinging 60s London”.

Dialogue On Dialogue: One of THE best support group scenes in cinema history. Well… comedy history.