Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Flashbacks

After a week of celebrating victories, this week’s theme is flashbacks suggested by Alexander Gorelik. Some of the most famous scenes and sequences in cinema history have been flashbacks. For instance, what about Rick (Humphrey Bogart) remembering the way it was with he and Ilse (Ingrid Bergman) when they were in love and living in Paris:

[Yes, that is a theme song from the movie Inception accompanying the visuals].

And yet supposedly Hollywood loathes flashbacks. Actually in my view, that’s not true. Hollywood loathes the bad use of flashbacks, just like the bad use of voiceover. If you do it well and it works in the story, no problems.

Anyway what about some notable flashbacks in film? What are some great sides of dialogue from those flashbacks?

You know the drill:

* Copy/paste dialogue from IMDB Quotes or some other transcript source.

* Copy/paste the URL from accompanying video at MovieClips or YouTube.

See you in comments for flashback suggestions!

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