Daily Dialogue — November 21, 2013

MIA: Yummy!
VINCENT: Can I have a sip of that? I’d like to know what a five-dollar shake tastes like.
MIA: Be my guest. You can use my straw, I don’t have kooties.
VINCENT: Yeah, but maybe I do.
MIA: Kooties I can handle.
VINCENT: Goddamn! That’s a pretty fuckin’ good milk shake.
MIA: Told ya.
VINCENT: I don’t know if it’s worth five dollars, but it’s pretty fuckin’ good.

A very, very long silence.

MIA: Don’t you hate that?
VINCENT: What?
MIA: Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it’s necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
VINCENT: I don’t know.
MIA: That’s when you know you found somebody special. When you can just shit the fuck up for a minute, and comfortably share silence.
VINCENT: I don’t think we’re there yet. But don’t feel bad, we just met each other.
MIA: Well I’ll tell you what, I’ll go to the bathroom and powder my nose, while you sit here and think of something to say.
VINCENT: I’ll do that.

— Pulp Fiction (1994), written by Quentin Tarantino, story by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is First Date, suggested by igetsbuckets. Today’s suggestion is by JasperLamarCrab.

Trivia: Roger Avary’s credit stems from the incorporation of his short film script for “Pandemonium Reigns” forming a core element of Quentin Tarantino’s screenplay. Avary’s input can largely be found in the Butch/Fabienne scenes.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Jasper: “ One of the great things about Tarantino’s dialogue is it realistically portrays a situation we’ve all been in, an awkward silence on a date, in the midst of a situation that very few people have been in outside of the movies, a date with your gangster boss’s moll.”

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