Daily Dialogue — October 21, 2016

DR. LULL: Are you alright? Listen to me, he has been going on and on about Mars. He has really been there.
MCCLANE: Use your head, you dumb bitch. He’s just acting out the secret agent portion of his ego trip.
DR. LULL: I’m afraid that’s not possible.
MCCLANE: Why not?
DR. LULL: Because we haven’t implanted it yet!
MCCLANE: Oh shit. Oh shit.
DR. LULL: I’ve been trying to tell you. Someone has erased his memory.
ERNIE: Excuse me…someone? We’re talking about the fucking agency.
DR. LULL: Shut up!
TIFFANY: Bob, the client’s gone.
MCCLANE: Okay. All right. All right, look, here’s what we’re going to do. Renata, cover up any memory he’s got of us or Recall.
DR. LULL: I’ll do what I can. It’s pretty messy in there.
MCCLANE: Ernie, dump him in a cab around the corner. Tiffany, you help him. I’m going to destroy his file and refund his money. And if anybody comes asking, we never even heard of Douglas Quaid.

— Total Recall (1990), screenplay by Ronald Shusett, Dan O’Bannon and Gary Goldman, screen story by Ronald Shusett, Dan O’Bannon and Jon Povill, inspired by a short story by Philip K. Dick

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Cover Up, suggested by Will King who also came up with today’s post.

Trivia: This was one of the last major Hollywood blockbusters to make large-scale use of miniature effects as opposed to CGI. It was also one of the first major Hollywood blockbusters to use CGI (mainly for the scenes involving the X-Ray scanner) and have it look “photo-real”.

Dialogue On Dialogue: There a no better cover-ups than in science fiction movies and Total Recall is no exception.