Daily Dialogue — September 3, 2018

“Don’t tell me how to rob a bank. I know how to rob a bank.”

— Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), written by William Goldman

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Bank. Today’s suggestion by Lise Pyles.

Trivia: Several critics took William Goldman to task for the contemporary, overly cool, and clever quality of the dialogue. Although he defended it by noting the picture was set in the early twentieth century therefore not as far removed historically as they claimed, he also later noted, “There’s a lot about the screenplay I don’t like, the smart-assness being just one of them. I also find there are too many reversals and that the entire enterprise suffers from a case of the cutes.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: Despite what Sundance believes, he does NOT know how to rob banks in Bolivia… where the Spanish language is a major issue.