Daily Dialogue — November 27, 2016

“And in the case of the telephone, it’s up to each and every one of you, my highly-trained Strattonites. My killers, my killers who will not take no for an answer. My fucking warriors, who will not hang up the phone until their client either buys or fucking dies!”

— The Wolf of Wall Street (2014), screenplay by Terence Winter, book by Jordan Belfort

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Enthusiasm.

Trivia: On a routine visit, Steven Spielberg spent a day on the set, watching the shoot of the Steve Madden speech. Martin Scorsese claims that Spielberg essentially co-directed the scene, giving advice to actors and suggesting camera angles.

Dialogue On Dialogue: This scene is enthusiasm run amok, the personification of rapacious capitalism on steroids, and cinematic proof of the Biblical verse that “the love of money is the root of all evil.”