Daily Dialogue — October 25, 2013
Cora refuses to get in the wagon, puts up a fight. She’s about to get punched in the face when Quigley and his sheathed gun, step in.
QUIGLEY: I don’t reckon the lady’s all that anxious to get in your wagon.
CORA: Roy? Oh, Roy, it’s you!
QUIGLEY: I’m not Roy, lady.
CORA: Every time there’s a ship from America I come down here looking for you. Thank God you’ve come for me! I’m sorry, Roy. I’m sorry. I’m sorry for everything.
COOGAN: Does Crazy Cora belong to you?
QUIGLEY: Didn’t say that. I said she don’t wanna get in your wagon.
COOGAN: The boss says we can take some white tarts back, ’cause we’re sick of black ladies. So you just tell Cora to come quiet, and we’ll feed her regular and everything.
CORA: Please take me home, Roy.
COOGAN: Bugger off, mate.
QUIGLEY: Excuse me. I’m new here, so I ain’t rightly certain. Is everybody in this country as butt ugly as you three?
Big fight scene, three on one.
CORA: Look out, Roy. Sorry, Roy!
QUIGLEY: You stay out of this!
CORA: I’m sorry, Roy.
QUIGLEY: My name ain’t Roy. It’s Matthew Quigley.
COOGAN: You? You’re the fella Marston sent us to bring back.
CORA: We sure showed ’em. Didn’t we, Roy?
— Quigley Down Under (1990), written by John Hill
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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is meet cute, suggested by bolo boffin. Today’s suggestion by Traci Nell Peterson.
Trivia: The film was to have been Steve McQueen’s follow-up to The Hunter, but he fell ill shortly after filming The Hunter, so the project was scrapped. It was revived several times throughout the 1980s, with various stars in mind for the lead. Harrison Ford was offered the lead role, but turned it down because he considered it too visibly similar to Indiana Jones. The role was offered to Tom Selleck twice, first in 1985, but he had to turn it down because of his commitment to Magnum, P. I. When this series concluded in 1988, he quickly asked if the role was still available and accepted it. The producers spent another year gathering a reasonable budget.
Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Traci: “One of the best Western-esque meet cutes: ruffians, deranged prostitute, manly-gentle Hero, and an old-fashioned fight scene. This meet cute accomplishes A LOT. It sets up the audience’s curiosity–”Who the heck is Roy?”–sets up a running gag, a MacGuffin, gives us a very tragic insight into Crazy Cora’s backstory, that then bolsters her into lucidness.”