Daily Dialogue — October 9, 2012

[Bill Foster approaches the gang after they crashed]
Bill Foster: You missed.
[Foster picks up the UZI and shots to the car]
Bill Foster: I missed, too.
[Foster threatens the gang member as he begs for his life. Foster shoots him in the leg]
Bill Foster: There, you see? That’s a concept.
[Picks up the gym bag with the guns]
Bill Foster: Take some shooting lessons, asshole.

— Bill Foster (Michael Douglas), Falling Down (1993), written by Ebbe Roe Smith

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is Anti-Heroes [or Villain Protagonists], suggested by Shaula Evans.

Trivia: Every studio in Hollywood turned down Ebbe Roe Smith’s script. Producer Arnold Kopelson was getting to the stage of considering cable TV when Michael Douglas came across the script and pronounced it one of the best he’d ever read.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Four short lines. And a huge plot point: Foster now empowered with a bag full of weapons.

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