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Thread started 09/29/05 4:19pm

shaomi

the art of dialogue

MILO: Don't anybody move or i'll blow his scheming head off! I mean it!
WOMAN: We know you do, Milo. Just calm down. Don't do anything rash.
MILO: Rash! You're talking to me about rash? You people killed Chubby Chicken, for crying out loud! And you're telling me not to do anything rash!
(...)
MILO: And then you had to use Chubby as your fall guy! Poor misunderstood Chubby Chicken, who would never hurt anybody, ever!
WOMAN: I'm leaving for a few minutes, Milo, but i'll be back and we'll discuss this.
MAN: Don't go! Don't leave me here with this... madman!
(...)
MILO: Because of you Chubby Chicken's dead!
MAN: Listen to yourself, Milo! You're talking about a cartoon chicken! Nobody can kill a cartoon!
MILO: Of course you can! You kill him in people's hearts, don't you see? That's where a cartoon character lives! You had that impostor ruin Chubby's reputation. You destroyed kid's faith in Chubby! You might as well have deep fat fried chubby himself! You don't appreciate what Chubby Chicken meant to kids like me... Fat kids with no other hero of their own! Chubby was our idol! Every fat joke, every possible humiliation was heaped on Chubby and we indentified with that! In a sense, Chubby Chicken was all of us! But he was better than we could ever be! He suffered his disasters bravely, never complaining, never holding a grudge! He was a... a saint! And the other chickens loved him the way we wanted to be loved! And you turned him into a monster! I should kill you for that.
(...)

POLICEMAN: I understand you've called the perp's parents?
WOMAN: He's on the phone to them now.(...) We thought they might be a calming influence.

FATHER ON PHONE: Are you out of your mind, Milo, is that what it is? (...) What's the matter, Milo? Vegetables aren't good enough for you? You have to deal in dad-blamed beef!?

Jan Strnad, 1990.
Excerpt from Stalkers #9.


Dammit i hope u've enjoyed it: it was so damn boring 2 rewrite all that text!!!

lol

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[Edited 9/29/05 16:21pm]
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Reply #1 posted 09/29/05 6:03pm

Ace

JERRY: Elaine, what percentage of people would you say are good-looking?

ELAINE: Twenty-five percent.

JERRY: Twenty-five percent, you say? No way! It's like 4 to 6 percent. It's a twenty-to-one shot.

ELAINE: You're way off.

JERRY: Way off? Have you been to the Motor Vehicle Bureau? It's like a leper colony down there.

ELAINE: So what you are saying is that 90 to 95 percent of the population is undateable?

JERRY: UNDATEABLE!

ELAINE: Then how are all these people getting together?

JERRY: Alcohol.
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Reply #2 posted 09/30/05 3:55am

shaomi

Ace said:

JERRY: Elaine, what percentage of people would you say are good-looking?

ELAINE: Twenty-five percent.

JERRY: Twenty-five percent, you say? No way! It's like 4 to 6 percent. It's a twenty-to-one shot.

ELAINE: You're way off.

JERRY: Way off? Have you been to the Motor Vehicle Bureau? It's like a leper colony down there.

ELAINE: So what you are saying is that 90 to 95 percent of the population is undateable?

JERRY: UNDATEABLE!

ELAINE: Then how are all these people getting together?

JERRY: Alcohol.


Mmmh... not 2 bad. Where does it come from?
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Reply #3 posted 09/30/05 7:24am

Ace

shaomi said:

Ace said:

JERRY: Elaine, what percentage of people would you say are good-looking?

ELAINE: Twenty-five percent.

JERRY: Twenty-five percent, you say? No way! It's like 4 to 6 percent. It's a twenty-to-one shot.

ELAINE: You're way off.

JERRY: Way off? Have you been to the Motor Vehicle Bureau? It's like a leper colony down there.

ELAINE: So what you are saying is that 90 to 95 percent of the population is undateable?

JERRY: UNDATEABLE!

ELAINE: Then how are all these people getting together?

JERRY: Alcohol.


Mmmh... not 2 bad. Where does it come from?

Seinfeld.
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Reply #4 posted 09/30/05 7:32am

retina

I'm sorry, but the original post is a good example of crappy dialogue. It doesn't sound natural, it's trying too hard to be funny in a post-pulp fiction kind of way, it contains standardized phrases etc.

I just watched The Assasination of Richard Nixon. Now there's some good dialogue for you. thumbs up!
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Reply #5 posted 09/30/05 12:23pm

shaomi

retina said:

I'm sorry, but the original post is a good example of crappy dialogue. It doesn't sound natural, it's trying too hard to be funny in a post-pulp fiction kind of way, it contains standardized phrases etc.

I just watched The Assasination of Richard Nixon. Now there's some good dialogue for you. thumbs up!


I didn't post it cuz it was especially good, i posted it because it was surrealistic!

Stalkers, though, was an excellent series, but this dialogue makes no sense without the pictures, with it it works very well.
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