Daily Dialogue — October 3, 2012

PRIMO: This place is eating us alive!
SECONDO: Good, I’m glad!
PRIMO: Where are you going? You’re always leaving. Stop! Stay! Stay still for a moment! I’ve tried, I’ve tried to teach you, Secondo. But you’ve learned nothing! You’re like a child! Why do you act like this? Why? Why do you want to stay here? This place… This place… is eating us alive! You want… You want me to make a sacrifice. If I sacrifice my work, it dies. It’s better… that I die.

— Primo (Tony Shalhoub), Secondo (Stanley Tucci), Big Night (1996), written by Stanley Tucci and Joseph Tropiano

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is All Is Lost, suggested by Teddy Pasternak who also recommended Big Night.

Trivia: Stanley Tucci co-wrote the film because he wanted a decent part for himself.

Dialogue On Dialogue: I love this movie. I featured it before on GITS here. Here is my favorite scene… and it has no dialogue, the ending of the movie, a payoff to the brotherly fight in the scene embedded above: