Daily Dialogue — October 15, 2015

Lola: [looks horrified] Burgundy. Please, God, tell me I have not inspired something burgundy. Red. Red. *Red*. *Red*, Charlie boy. Rule one. Red is the color of sex! Burgundy is the color of hot water bottles! Red is the color of sex and fear and danger and signs that say, Do. Not. Enter. All my favorite things in life.
Don: Who’s that?
Mel: Your boy’s got a new girlfriend in there.
Charlie: But they’re comfy.
Lola: Comfy? SEX, shouldn’t be comfy!
Mel: Thank God, I thought it was just me!
Lola: You may know what you used to making round here Charlie boy, but now you are making sex. 2.5 feet of irresistible, tubular sex. I mean that heel. For God’s sake–
Charlie: Yeah, it won’t break. That’s what you wanted innit?
Lola: No, if it means having to go around looking like a bloody Ukrainian peasant, no.
Charlie: Well, it’s better than prancing around like a–
Lola: Tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh. You want to show your niche market a little more respect, Charlie boy. I mean, let’s ask you girls.
Charlie: No!
Lola: Girls. Would you wear something like this to go out?
Girls: No.
Don: I bet you’d look alright in ’em, sweet’art.
Lola: [walks up to him slowly, sits on his knee, looks seductively into his eyes] Well, I’m very flattered, but frankly, if you can’t get women to wear them… [adopts a much deeper masculine voice] … you’ll never get blokes like me to wear ’em.

— Kinky Boots (2005), written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Cross Dressing. Today’s suggestion by Ricardo Bravo.

Trivia: Inspired by the true story of a traditional English men’s footwear factory in Northamptonshire which turned to production of kinky boots for transvestites in order to save the ailing family business and safeguard the jobs of the local community.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Ricardo: “Cross-dressing is usually portrayed as someone hiding his real identity by using a disguise. In this movie, however, Lola uses cross-dressing to reveal her true identity.”