Daily Dialogue — November 7, 2016
“A eugoogalizer. One who speaks at funerals. Or did you think I’d be too stupid to know what a eugoogly was?”
“A eugoogalizer. One who speaks at funerals. Or did you think I’d be too stupid to know what a eugoogly was?”
— Zoolander (2001), screenplay by Drake Sather & Ben Stiller and John Hamburg, story by Drake Sather & Ben Stiller
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Embarrassment.
Trivia: According to an interview with Ben Stiller, Zoolander started out as a character sketch for VH1 Fashion Awards. After several written scripts and over several years, the studio finally agreed to film Zoolander.
Dialogue On Dialogue: Derek Zoolander gives the word a new level of meaning in this movie by embarrassing himself without even knowing he’s doing so — as with this moment.