Daily Dialogue — September 27, 2011

“The U.S. Marshal Service annually flies 155,000 prisoners around the country for transfers, legal hearings and medical exams. As you know, today’s flight is a special one. We’re populating Alabama’s Feltham Penitentiary, the newest super-max facility in the system. This place was designed to warehouse the worst of the worst. Now, most of these guys are lifers, some on death row. Pure predators, each and every one of them… In the ten years we’ve been operating, we’ve never had a breach of security…”

— Chief Devers (John Roselius), Con Air (1997), written by Scott Rosenberg

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is terrible exposition suggested by Teddy Pasternak. Con Air suggested by Betsy.

Trivia: John Malkovich was unhappy during production because the script was being rewritten virtually every day and he had no idea how his character was going to turn out.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Why do you think this dialogue is terrible exposition?

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