Daily Dialogue — September 25, 2017

Peter Warne: Excuse me, lady, but that upon which you sit is mine.
Ellie Andrews: I beg your pardon?
Peter Warne: Now listen, I put up a stiff fight for that seat, so if it’s just the same to you… scram.

— It Happened One Night (1934), screen play Robert Riskin, short story by Samuel Hopkins Adams

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Transportation, suggested by Denise Garcia.

Trivia: First Hollywood movie to win the Big 5 Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Writing for the Screen.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Such a great line — “That upon which you sit is mine” — risque for the time and rife with subtext, a portent of things to come.