Daily Dialogue — September 19, 2017

Micky: Boxing’s a chess game. I’m gonna pick my punches, take him down. Go head body head body.
Charlene: What is ‘head body head body’?
Micky: I hit him in the head, then his hands have gotta go up to protect himself, that opens up his body, so when I hit him in the body, his hand goes back down, hit him in the head, hand goes back up, him in the body. Ya’ know, people who don’t know fighting think you do a lot of damage in the head, but you do more from the body. So whaddya think? Can I take you out?

— The Fighter (2010), screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson, story by Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson & Keith Dorrington

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Bar.

Trivia: Christian Bale got involved, when Mark Wahlberg asked him to take part in the movie. Wahlberg happened to know Bale through their daughters studying in the same elementary school.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Subtext. Head. Body. Head. Body. There is a physicality to the subject matter which translates into some heat between the two characters.