Daily Dialogue — November 5, 2016

Keys: Elliot, that machine, what does it do?

Elliot: [in a sickly voice] The communicator? Is it still working?

Keys: It’s doing something. What?

Elliot: I really shouldn’t tell. He came to me, he came to me.

Keys: Elliot, he came to me too. I’ve been wishing for this since I was 10 years old, I don’t want him to die. What can we do that we’re not already doing?

Elliot: He needs to go home; he’s calling his people. And I don’t know where they are, but he needs to go home.

Keys: Elliot, I don’t think he was left here intentionally, but his being here is a miracle, Elliot. It’s a miracle and you did the best that anybody could do. I’m glad he met you first.

— E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), written by Melissa Mathison

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: All Is Lost, suggested by Melinda Mahaffey.

Trivia: According to the film’s novelization, E.T. is over ten million years old.

Dialogue On Dialogue: E.T. is dying. This is about All Is Lost as you can get in a movie.

Can’t leave it with this, can we?