Daily Dialogue — September 12, 2010

“You can’t handle the truth.”

 — Col. Nathan R. Jessep (Jack Nicholson), A Few Good Men (1992), screenplay by Aaron Sorkin based on his play

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is catch phrases. 

Trivia: Writer Aaron Sorkin got the story idea from his sister, who in real life experienced a very similar incident at Guantanamo from the “Lt. Galloway” perspective as a female military attorney. In that incident, the victim was similarly assaulted by nine soldiers and was badly injured, but did not die. Sorkin initially turned the idea into a play, and then this screenplay, which was his very first.