Daily Dialogue — September 4, 2018

“Are you desirable? Are you irresistible? Maybe if you drank bourbon with me, it would help. Maybe if you kissed me and I could taste the sting in your mouth it would help. If you drank bourbon with me naked. If you smelled of bourbon as you fucked me, it would help. It would increase my esteem for you. If you poured bourbon onto your naked body and said to me “drink this”. If you spread your legs and you had bourbon dripping from your breasts and your pussy and said “drink here” then I could fall in love with you. Because then I would have a purpose. To clean you up and that, that would prove that I’m worth something. I’d lick you clean so that you could go away and fuck someone else.”

— Leaving Las Vegas (1995), screenplay by Mike Figgis, novel by John O’Brien

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Bank. Today’s suggestion by Eric Rudnick.

Trivia: Author John O’Brien, on whose novel this movie is based, committed suicide two weeks after the movie went into production. Director Mike Figgis contemplated abandoning the project, but decided the film would make a good memorial for O’Brien.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Ben (Nicholas Cage) is not just a drunk. He’s a screenwriter. In this scene, we see he’s a brilliant wordsmith.