Daily Dialogue — September 15, 2012

JIMMY: Who’s this?
VINNIE:This is Vinnie.
JIMMY: Vinnie, what happened? Did we get straightened out?
VINNIE: Well, we had a problem. We tried to do everything we could.
JIMMY: What do you mean?
VINNIE: You know what I mean. He’s gone, and we couldn’t do nothing about it. That’s it.
JIMMY: What do you mean? What do you mean?
VINNIE: He’s gone. He’s gone. That’s it.

— Jimmy (Robert DeNiro), Vinnie (Charles Scorsese), Goodfellas (1990), screenplay by Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese, based on Pileggi’s book

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

Trivia: While driving to and from the set, Ray Liotta listened to cassettes of interviews that Nicholas Pileggi did with Henry Hill. Liotta noted that Hill casually discussed murders and other crimes while eating potato chips.

Dialogue On Dialogue: JasperLamarCrab comments: “Repetition and devastating subtext in this scene.”