Critical Dialogue with Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes #1
Tom: This play sucks.
Katie: Why?
Tom: Because it uses dialogue to introduce characters with absolutely no subtlety. Like, a guy comes out on the stage and says, “I’m a manic-depressive smoker who likes bicycles and has no regard for other people’s feelings, but that’ll change soon.”
Katie: And I suppose you like films that feign cleverness by having the wise character decry the predictability of identity in modern life by listing off every character and pronouncing their title? “The smart girl who sucks up to everyone, the emo kid who pretends to be a loser to get sympathetic girls, the dumb kid who everyone thinks is cool because he never says anything. Isn’t it terrible how identities are prepackaged!”–cheap character development cloaked in tired social commentary?
Tom: Well, not anymore.
jewsicle wrote:
curious. is this a situation you wrote? does your inner dialogue sometimes come through in the voices of katy and tom?
Posted on 09-Jun-06 at 2:29 pm | Permalink
beau wrote:
not all my inner monologue, just the complex stuff and my inner singing voice.
Posted on 09-Jun-06 at 9:33 pm | Permalink