Daily Dialogue — September 17, 2016

“Why should Caesar just get to stomp around like a giant while the rest of us try not to get smushed under his big feet? Brutus is just as cute as Caesar, right? Brutus is just as smart as Caesar, people totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar, and when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody because that’s not what Rome is about! We should totally just STAB CAESAR!”

— Mean Girls (2004), screenplay by Tina Fey, book by Rosalind Wiseman

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Bullying.

Trivia: This movie is based upon the book “Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence” by Rosalind Wiseman, even though it is a non-fiction parental self-help guide with no narrative at all.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Great script and here is an example why: Caesar as a thinly veiled reference to the bullying exhibited by Regina.