Daily Dialogue — September 7, 2013

SLIM: You know, Steve… you’re not very hard to figure. Only at times. Sometimes I know exactly what you’re going to say. Most of the time. The other times… The other times you’re just a stinker.
STEVE: What did you do that for?
SLIM: I’ve been wondering whether I’d like it.
STEVE: What’s the decision?
SLIM: I don’t know yet. It’s even better when you help. Sure you won’t change your mind about this? This belongs to me, and so do my lips. I don’t see any difference.
STEVE: I do.
SLIM: Okay. You know you don’t have to act with me, Steve. You don’t have to say anything and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.

— To Have and Have Not (1944), screenplay by Jules Furthman and William Faulkner, novel by Ernest Hemingway

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is seduction, suggested by Despina. Today’s suggestion by Zach Jansen.

Trivia: The only film to date (2000) based on a novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author (Ernest Hemingway) to have its screenplay co-written by another Nobel Prize-winning author (William Faulkner).

Dialogue On Dialogue: Sometimes a whistle is not just a whistle.