by Ashley Bradley

Created on: November 06, 2008

What are you talking about?

Are you living under a rock?

Movie dialogue is as good, if not better, today than it was sixty years ago. Have you seen The Departed?!

Crash?! Little Miss Sunshine?! Superbad?!

Juno for god sakes?!

Movie dialogue is becoming increasingly more intricate, which makes for better, more innovative movies. If you're looking towards Star Wars and Indiana Jones for quality screen writing, than you should go out and buy yourself a pretty little DUNCE cap and go sit in the corner and stare at the wall. Both of those movies are strongly action based and have little to do with concentrating on speech than they do the actions of others.

And even action films are adapting the art of conversation, as my above example The Departed. This movie is chock-full of dropping bodies, but it does not stop short at conducting intriguing conversation that pulls the audience in even when someone is not being whacked.

In Crash, the movie's unspoken character is its dialoque. The emotional strains of the characters are spoken through suffering tongues. This movie would be nothing without the exceptional script as a foundation for the racial, social and economic tensions duking it out in this splendid film.

Little Miss Sunshine's gloriously accurate portrayal of imperfect family life, is do, in practically whole part to its script.

AND OH! Superbad! Teenage comedy had been reduced to stupid '90's sex farces such as American Pie and pretty much anything starring Freddie Prinze Jr. So, when this film was released teen comedy was reinvented (thankfully) for good. The quick lightening vocal sparring of these precociously eccentric teens allows movie-goers to see that even though teens may be obsessed with sex, they still have brains.

&& Juno....this movie deserves its own drama. Diablo Cody literally created her own language and wrote an entire script utilizing it. She created eccentric, interesting characters that have never before seen the light of day on screen. Even the minimal-line store clerk is an important assist to this innovative film, that breaks the barriers of film, and provides a home to anyone not interested in the popularity contest. Oh, and something else....she won an Oscar.

So, I don't know what films you've been watching, or if you're wearing ear plugs while in the movie theaters, but...

Today's movie dialogue has a perfect bill of health, and won't be declining or expiring anytime soon.

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