Daily Dialogue — November 4, 2018

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What a filthy job.
Igor: Could be worse.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: How?
Igor: It could be raining.

Thunder. Lightning. And rain.

— Young Frankenstein (1974), screen story and screenplay by Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks, based on characters created by Mary Shelley

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Cemetery.

Trivia: When Mel Brooks was preparing for this film, he discovered that Ken Strickfaden, who’d made the elaborate electrical machinery for the lab sequences in the Universal Frankenstein films, was still alive, and living in the Los Angeles area. Brooks visited Strickfaden, and found that he had stored all the equipment in his garage. Brooks made a deal to rent the equipment, and gave Strickfaden the screen credit he hadn’t gotten for the original films.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The dialogue here is a classic setup and payoff, the latter being the sudden downpour of rain.