Daily Dialogue — November 25, 2011

Gardner: Here’s to us, by God! To us, and that… and privileges of youth. Here’s to us and what we were.

Philip: And what we’ll be.

Gardner: And what we’ll be.

— Gardner (Kevin Costner), Philip (Judd Nelson), Fandango (1985), written by Kevin Reynolds

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is toasts. Fandango suggested by Pliny the Elder.

Trivia: The movie is based on a short student film directed by Kevin Reynolds when he was in USC film school. The student film is basically just the skydiving sequence, based on a true story. Steven Spielberg, having seen the student film, recruited Reynolds to direct a full-length movie based on it. 
 
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