The Neverending Story (1984) Screenplay by Wolfgang Petersen and Herman Weigel; based on the novel by Michael Ende; additional dialogue by Robert Easton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sEZmMeH96Q G'MORK: Don't you know anything about Fantasia? It's the world of human fantasy. Every part, every creature of it is a piece of the dreams and hopes of mankind. Therefore, it has no boundary. ATREYU: But why is Fantasia dying, then? G'MORK: Because people have begun to lose their hopes and forget their dreams. So, the Nothing grows stronger. ATREYU: What is the Nothing? G'MORK: It's the emptiness that's left. It is like a dispair destroying this world, and I have been trying to help it. ATREYU: But why? G'MORK: Because people who have no hopes are easy to control, and whoever has the control, has the power. ATREYU: Who are you really? G'MORK: I am the servant of the power behind the Nothing. I was sent to kill the only one who could have stopped the Nothing. I lost him in the Swamps of Sadness. His name was Atreyu. ATREYU: If we're about to die anyway, I'd rather die fighting. Come for me, G'mork. I am Atreyu! DIALOGUE ON DIALOGUE: Earlier in the story, Atreyu was hunted by G'Mork the assassin and barely escaped. He now comes face-to-face with his would-be killer as the world of Fantasia breaks apart. G'mork is also unaware that the figure before him is his intended victim as G'Mork never saw Atreyu's face. This exchange is poignant because it clarifies what the Nothing is, and why all physical attempts to defeat it, all of Atreyu's quests, have failed. It also gives Atreyu at least a partial victory over the villain that seeks to destroy Fantasia by killing its henchman.

The Incredibles (2004) Writer: Brad Bird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYmHYQPaHaw SYNDROME: Huh? Huh? Oh, come on, you gotta admit this is cool! Just like a movie! The robot will emerge dramatically, do some damage, throw some screaming people, and just when all hope is lost, Syndrome will save the day! I'll be a bigger hero than you ever were. MR. INCREDIBLE: You mean you killed off real heroes so that you could pretend to be one? SYNDROME: Oh, I'm real. Real enough to defeat you. And I did it without your precious gifts, your oh-so-special powers. I'll give them heroics. I'll give them the most spectacular heroics anyone's ever seen. And when I'm old and I've had my fun, I'll sell my inventions so that everyone can be superheroes. Everyone can be super. And when everyone's super (evil laugh), no one will be. DIALOGUE ON DIALOGUE: Syndrome's final statement creates an interesting corrlation between himself and Dash. It's a callback to a complaint voiced earlier in the story by Dash. After being accused of putting a thumbtack on a teacher's chair, Dash and his mother Helen discuss Dash's situation. Dash is frustrated because he has super powers he can't use; Syndrome is jealous that he doesn't have super powers and wants to render them inconsequential. Syndrome wants to achieve what Dash fears. HELEN: Right now, honey, the world just wants us to fit in, and to fit in, we gotta be like everyone else. DASH: But Dad always said our powers were nothing to be ashamed of, our powers made us special. HELEN: Everyone's special, Dash. DASH: [muttering] Which is another way of saying no one is.

Legend (1985) Writer: William Hjortsberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksk7wPX-MI4 DARKNESS: Eat. LILI: I'm not hungry. DARKNESS: You lie. (Chuckles) Just to please me. LILI: I do nothing for your pleasure. DARKNESS: All I wish is for you to sit and talk with me. LILI: Sit? Here? DARKNESS: Yes. Please. LILI: I prefer to stand. DARKNESS: Sit! Or stand, as you wish. It is enough that we are alone together, just the two of us. Some, uh, simple conversation. LILI: I have nothing to talk about. You've stolen my dreams away. DARKNESS: All things change, lady. The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity. Dreams are my speciality. Through dreams I influence mankind. My dream is of eternity with you. I offer you this rose, princess: my heart, my soul, my love. LILI: Love? DIALOGUE ON DIALOGUE: It would seem that even evil can be overcome by emotions such as love, or perhaps it's infatuation, or just plain lust. The Lord of Darkness is smitten by Lili and attempts to woo her, only to be rebuffed. As is so often the case, the villain believes that he can overpower his intended victim, either through force or seduction.

Howard Payne: Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug2hLQv6WeY Speed (1994) Written by: Graham Yost Dialogue on Dialogue: Movie Concept delivered in one line. Beautiful.

Clarice: And the questionnaire...? Dr. Lecter: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti... Fly back to school, little Starling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIahXVJrvT0&nohtml5=False The Silence of the Lambs by Ted Tally Based on the novel by Thomas Harris Dialogue on Dialogue: Dr. Lecter isn't even the primary villain, yet this dialogue from his first meeting with Clarice establishes him as a greater potential threat to her than an at-large serial killer. He's intelligent, cultured, horrifyingly insane, and a mortal threat to anyone who underestimates him. Even though he's behind bars, we fear him and this fear raises the tension of every scene in which he appears.

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"I'll be back" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZdVWKM1ILs The Terminator (1994) Written by: James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, William Wisher Jr. Trivia: The Terminator only has 18 lines of dialogue. Trivia No 2: James Cameron told Empire magazine he wrote Terminator, Aliens and Rambo in one summer. Dialogue on Dialogue: An iconic example of why less can be more. Note that The Terminator's chilling dialogue precedes the action.