Daily Dialogue — September 2, 2018
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1 min readSep 2, 2018
“The only good thing about being wounded in the butt-ocks is the ice cream.”
— Forrest Gump (1994), screenplay by Eric Roth, novel by Winston Groom
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Ice Cream.
Trivia: Tom Hanks was not paid for this film. Instead, he took percentage points which ultimately netted him in the region of forty million dollars.
Dialogue On Dialogue: The contrast in moods between Forrest and Lieutenant Dan is stark: Forrest’s excitement about something as innocent as ice cream, Lieutenant lost in the first stages of misery and grief over losing his legs.