Daily Dialogue — September 10, 2012

Hannibal Lecter: [on telephone] I do wish we could chat longer, but… I’m having an old friend for dinner. Bye.
Clarice Starling: Dr. Lecter?… Dr. Lecter?… Dr. Lecter?… Dr. Lecter?…

— Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), screenplay by Ted Tally, novel by Thomas Harris

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is phone call revelations, suggested by Debbie Moon. Today’s suggestion by ButchMaier.

Trivia: Dino De Laurentiis, who had produced Manhunter, passed on Silence of the Lambs because Manhunter had flopped. He gave the rights away free to Orion Pictures.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Talk about double meaning [“having an old friend for dinner”]. And don’t forget, as far as Lecter is concerned, Dr. Alex Chilton is his Nemesis. So off to his Final Struggle he saunters…