Daily Dialogue — September 19, 2015

“Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your BOOK!”

— Patton (1970), screen story and screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, based on factual material from Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago and A Soldier’s Story by Omar N. Bradley.

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Minimum words, Maximum impact. Today’s suggestion by Will King.

Trivia: Although Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North are credited as co-writers, they never worked together and actually never even met each other until they were collecting their awards.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Will: “A character could give an entire monologue about how he had studied his enemy, the countless hours devoted to ‘knowing your foe,’ the endless internal debates about which strategy that might be used, and perhaps raise a toast at dinner to the enemy’s defeat. Or, a character could sum it all up in a single sentence, as delivered by George C. Scott.”