The Losers (2010), directed by Sylvain White, screenplay by Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt, from the comics by Andy Diggle and Jock. (After stealing some data, Jensen has been spotted by security and is on the run, looking for a way out of a heavily-guarded building...) JENSEN (CONT'D) Get me out of here, Clay... CLAY (O.S.) (THROUGH RADIO) There's a fire exit thirty yards north of your position. Jensen, heading for it... BIG SECURITY 1 (O.S.) Freeze like a statue, pretty boy! Jensen slow turns to find THREE GUNS trained straight at him. Major security. These guys look extremely competent. JENSEN I'm warning you, man, I'm a lethal weapon... Jensen turns on the big fellah. JENSEN (CONT'D) It was this secret government project. They did stuff to me. Spooky stuff. Anal stuff. Turned me into a dangerous Telekinetic. (wiggles index fingers) As the old saying goes - you don't start none... there won't be none. Big Security 1 moves in on Jensen with a pair of handcuffs. BIG SECURITY 1 Telekinetic your way out of this... Jensen RAISES HIS RIGHT HAND at the guard. Fingers cocked like a gun aimed at the guard's Kevlar covered vest. JENSEN Bang. The guard is HIT HARD, BLASTED BACKWARDS off his feet! Screaming in pain, he goes down. Jensen spins, aims his left fingers at the SECOND GUARD... JENSEN (CONT'D) Boom. ...and the second guard is blown backwards too, KEVLAR VEST SMOKING. Moaning: BIG SECURITY 2 You broke my ribs... Jensen - Fingers levelled at the THIRD GUARD... THIRD GUARD Please- d-don't shoot... TIGHT ON JENSEN: Full Dirty Harry. JENSEN Face down, or I'll make your hearts stop beating with my mind. They comply. Jensen looks down at them. Smiles. Then slowly turns looking out the FLOOR TO CEILING GLASS WINDOWS. Makes the "OK" sign out the window. JENSEN (CONT'D) Thanks, Coug... TIGHT ON THE CIRCLE OF JENSEN'S OK FINGER SIGN: Three tight bullet holes in the glass. SMASH ZOOM out the window, 500 yards to a neighboring office tower... INT. NEIGHBORING OFFICE BUILDING - HOUSTON - SAME Rifle, still smoking. Hat low, the ever vigilant COUGAR. COUGAR De Nada. (Clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcA1GaGSpRg) A great use of a reversal: Jensen seems to be bluffing, his bluff is called, and turns out not to be a bluff after all...

Thanks, Debbie. The reversal is a nice twist!

Movie: Tombstone Youtube: http://youtu.be/Ohw1uI1NsmU Wyatt Earp: All right, Clanton... you called down the thunder, well now you've got it! You see that? [pulls open his coat, revealing a badge] Wyatt Earp: It says United States Marshal! Ike Clanton: [terrified, pleading] Wyatt, please, I... Wyatt Earp: [referring to Stilwell, laying dead] Take a good look at him, Ike... 'cause that's how you're gonna end up! [shoves Ike down roughly with his boot] Wyatt Earp: The Cowboys are finished, you understand? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it! [lets Ike up to run for his life] Wyatt Earp: So run, you cur... RUN! Tell all the other curs the law's comin'! [shouts] Wyatt Earp: You tell 'em I'M coming... and hell's coming with me, you hear?... [louder] Wyatt Earp: Hell's coming with me! Comment: Is there a bigger threat one can make than bringing all of Hell with them? Great scene.

Agreed, great scene, James. Nice to get a Western in the mix this week. Thanks!

Back to the Future, Part III (1990) Robert Zemeckis (story & characters), Bob Gale (story, characters & screenplay) Dialog on Dialog: Doc steps out of his generally goofy persona and stands up to the town bully in order to save Marty, complete with a gun that makes a Kentucky long rifle jealous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwuZzh79ds4 Mad Dog Tannen and his gang tow Marty McFly through the town at the end of a rope, ending at the new court house construction. TANNEN: We got ourselves a new court house. High time we had a hangin'. Tannen wraps the rope around Marty's neck and Marty is hauled skyward. A moment later, Doc Brown steps into the scene, takes aim and shoots the rope holding Marty. Doc cocks the rifle again and aims it directly at Tannen. DOC: I'll shoot the fleas off a dog's back at 500 yards, Tannen. Have it pointed straight at your head. Tanner motions for his gang to back down. TANNEN: You owe me money, blacksmith. DOC: How do you figure? TANNEN: My horse threw a shoe. Seein' as you was the one that done the shoe-in' I say that makes you responsible. DOC: Well, since you never paid me for the job I say that makes us even. TANNEN: Wrong! See, I was on my horse when it threw the shoe and I got throwed off. That caused me to bust a perfectly good bottle of fine Kentucky Red Eye. So, the way I figure it, blacksmith, you owe me five dollars for the whisky and seventy-five dollars for the horse. Marty: That's the eighty dollars! DOC: Look, if your horse threw a shoe bring him back and I'll re-shoe him. TANNEN: I done shot that horse! DOC: Well, that's your problem, Tannen! TANNEN: Wrong, that's your's. So, from now on, you better be looking' behind you when you walk, 'cause one day you're gonna get a bullet in your back. Tanner and his gang ride out of town.

Nice one, Will. I believe this may be the first time we will have featured BTTF III in the Daily Dialogue series. Thanks!

Pitch Black (2000) Writers: Jim Wheat (story & screenplay), Ken Wheat (story & screenplay), David Twohy (screenplay) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJhdUfXScwk Dialog on Dialog: The real threat here is all subtext. I've copied from the published script. It's interesting to notice the slight differences as filmed. Vin Diesel adds a line just after Fry says "You scare me Roddick..." that heightens the threat implication. INT. SKIFF - DAY The hatch closes, seals. CLOSE on a monitor. A "HULL INTEGRITY TEST" is underway. Fry scans rising pressure gauges. RIDDICK (O.S.) Looks like we're a few shy.... Fry whirls. Riddick is aboard, staring at the depleted battery bay. And he has Imam's blade. RIDDICK (CONT'D) Power cells. FRY They're coming. RIDDICK Strange, not doin' a run-up on the main drive yet. (half-beat) Strange unless he told you the particulars of my escape. FRY I got the quick-and-ugly version. RIDDICK An' now you're worried about a repeat of history? FRY Entered our minds. RIDDICK I asked what you thought. FRY You scare me, Riddick. That's what you wanna hear, isn't it? There, I admit it, Can I get back to work now? She finds the courage to turn her back on him. Riddick moves closer -- and takes a beat to scan the controls. The cabin pressure builds. RIDDICK Think Johns is a do-right man? You think I can trust him to cut me loose? A beat. Does Riddick already know? Is he testing her? FRY Why, what'd you hear? RIDDICK Well, guess if it was trickeration he'd just do me, huh? Then again...I am worth twice as much alive. (reading her face) Didn't know? Johns ain't a cop. Oh, he's got that shiny badge an' all, but nah -- he's just a merc and I'm just a payday. That's why he won't kill me. The creed is greed. It knocks her off stride, but... FRY Save it, Riddick. We aren't gonna turn on each other -- no matter how hard you try. Riddick moves right up behind her. RIDDICK I don't truly know what's gonna happen when the lights go out, Carolyn -- but I do know that once the dyin' starts, this little psycho family of ours is gonna rip itself apart. So you better find out the truth. Come nightfall, you better know exactly who's standing behind you. A monitor chirps the news: "HULL INTEGRITY --100%." EXHALING GASSES, the hatch opens automatically. RIDDICK Oh, ask him 'bout those shakes. And ask why your crew-pal had to scream like that 'fore he died.

Thanks, Will!