If there is one thing that I love in a series or movie, it is those dialogues that two great characters show us in certain scenes. At that moment you see the true qualities of an actor, how he reacts in an argument or a scene of passion. In a good movie, the dialogue between its protagonists is usually a key moment, a unique moment in which the story decides to pause and show us a generally unique scene.
I suppose that you will realize that I am going to comment on three of the best dialogues that can be seen in the cinema, or at least three of my favorites.
Two great actors who revolutionize a simple movie
One of the issues that most attract my attention from Heat, the film directed by Michael Mann and starring De Niro and Al Pacino, together, for the first time, in the same time and space (they already coincided in The Godfather 2, but in they never shared a plane), is that the argument itself is very simple. If you stop to think, after all, it tells us the story of a policeman who tries to hunt down the thief on duty. In this film, you can see how two great actors and a good director can turn something very simple into an unforgettable movie.
I always had a predilection for Michael Mann; He brightened up my childhood with one of my favorite series: Miami Vice and he still maintains that Don Johnson style in most of his movies. The problem is that, generally, it tends to give one of lime and another of sand. He can make you a great movie and the next one ends up being disastrous. I loved Collateral, it's a movie that has a very Miami Vice style, with very elaborate characters and with almost all the actors developing their characters to perfection (all except Tom Cruise, I didn't like it at all; I think some better actors could play a better role, like Bruce Willis).
Going back to Heat, there is a scene that is perhaps the best thing in the movie. De Niro and Al Pacino give us a game of egos in an unforgettable moment. The Policeman finds the thief he has been chasing desperately for the last few days. Al Pacino, with a relaxed pose, tries to show calm and security, even though his movements denote nervousness. De Niro, for his part, shows a rigid and confident pose, showing his constant danger and display of discomfort from him. He tries to show Al Pacino that he is above all of this.
It is striking that De Niro in this scene appears elegant, well-dressed, and neat as if showing a comfortable life, while Al Pacino, on the contrary, is seen with an aged and slightly scruffy face, showing his stressful life. The thief lives well, and the policeman, on the other hand, does not have a minute to live. The director is trying to tell us, which side is worth being on?
Absurd humor clings to swallows
Choosing a good dialogue in the world of cinema is not easy; in fact, at first, I thought to go easy and talk about the final scene of Blade Runner; although in that case, it's more of a monologue because Harrison Ford never interacts with the villain. There are also brilliant dialogues like in Sin Perdón or Apocalypse Now. But no, I already told you about those movies in previous posts... In this case, I'm going to enter the wonderful world of absurd humor, perhaps one of my favorites, and I'm going to tell you about the mythical scene of the swallows that we can see in Los Knights of the square table.
Anyone may think that making an absurd humor movie is very simple because it consists of creating incoherent dialogues that lead nowhere. Well, they couldn't be more wrong, since writing an absurd humor script, despite its nonsense, is not an easy task. Even though the characters do not have an objective, it is not necessary to look for a development of each of them and their evolution is almost non-existent, but it is very difficult for all those moments to interest the viewer; since the problem with this type of humor is that it doesn't even have a middle ground; It can become unforgettable or something incomprehensible.
The best directors of this type of cinema were, without a doubt, Monthy Python. One of my favorite dialogues is the one that I show you below: The Swallows. It is, without a doubt, a clear example that to make a good film you don't need large sets or spectacular effects, a good script can turn a simple film into something mythical. This dialogue does not make sense, each sentence of the conversation is more bizarre; in fact, they begin to talk about the route of the swallows, something that does not come into account in the situation. Maybe that's it, the use of knowledge that seems to be taken from a documentary in the conversation between King Arthur himself and a strange soldier hiding behind the walls of a castle is something so strange, so unexpected, that it displaces the viewer and turns them into in a comedy Here is the scene:
The typical one we all know
I know it's a very typical scene, the one we all know, but that doesn't mean it's not a great dialogue. I don't like the love stories that are usually shown in the cinema, I think that true love stories were rarely made. Cases like the Bridges of Madison or Casablanca were some that did know how to show us what the pain of a breakup or the passion of seeing the woman of your life really is.
The final dialogue that Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman show us is a clear example of two people truly in love. The dense fog that covers the scene highlights the protagonists even more so that you can pay full attention to their performances. They already have us attentive, and now comes the dialogue.
Rick (Bogart) strikes a firm, determined pose, to bring some sanity to the fearsome sendoff, while Lisa (Bergman) is nervous, and overwhelmed by the situation. Although today this scene could not be done, since the protagonist holds the girl tight, to keep her firm, trying to say that he takes care of everything, he is going to keep her here to solve everything as it should be.
Humphrey Bogart has managed to leave in our cinephile memory a phrase as simple as "We will always have Paris". And I have yet to see a movie that ends with a better phrase than "This is the beginning of a great friendship." Outside of love, we always have friends.
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