Daily Dialogue theme next week: Fish-Out-Of-Water

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The Daily Dialogue theme for next week: Fish-Out-Of-Water, suggested by Will King.

Fish-Out-Of-Water, or what I call FOOW, is a common movie story type. In fact, I wrote a post about it here. As I indicated in the post, FOOW stories do not have to be a LITERAL fish — or mermaid — out of water, but any character who is out of their element and in over their head.

Can we come up with 7 great movie examples of a Fish-Out-Of-Water character? I believe in you!

The usual drill:

• Copy/paste dialogue from IMDb Quotes or some other transcript source.
• Copy/paste the URL of an accompanying video from YouTube or some other video source.

I’d also ask you to think about why the dialogue is notable. Is there anything about the dialogue which provides some takeaway related to the craft of writing? If so, feel free to lay that wisdom on us.

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Upcoming schedule of themes:

December 19-December 25: Faith
December 26-January 1: Failure [Will King and Melinda]

Be sure to post your ideas for this week’s theme: Fish-Out-Of-Water.

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