Daily Dialogue — November 21, 2014

“Wow, my own giant robot! I am now the luckiest kid in America! This must be the biggest discovery since, I don’t know, television or something!”

— The Iron Giant (1999), screenplay by Tim McCanlies, screen story by Brad Bird, book by Ted Hughes

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Friendship.

Trivia: Was originally meant to be a musical. Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff developed it as a stage musical, using songs from Pete Townshend’s concept album “The Iron Man” (much like the stage version of The Who’s Tommy (1975)). Des McAnuff decided it would work better as an animated feature and pitched it to Warner Bros.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A kid and his robot friend. Like a kid and his alien friend (E.T.).

If you have a suggestion for this week’s theme, please post in comments.