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title:: Books/Dialogue - icon:: 📖 tags:: #Books purchased:: Sep 9th, 2022 start:: Sep 9th, 2022 end:: published:: length:: author:: cover:: - dialogue list #P/Playing High Status - Do you, like me, memorize favorite lines? I think we learn dialogue passages by heart because reciting them again and again not only re-inspires the vivid word-pictures they paint, but in the echoes of the character’s thoughts we hear our own: - highlights - But what time dilutes, story condenses. #The Big Idea - Without the mnemonics of dialogue, how could we hold these paradoxes in memory? - No matter how seemingly vague and airy a speech may be, no character ever talks to anyone, even to himself, for no reason, to do nothing. Therefore, beneath every line of character talk, the writer must create a desire, intent, and action. That action then becomes the verbal tactic we call dialogue. #Status #Books / Impro - The etymology of the word “dialogue” traces back to two Greek terms: dia-, meaning “through,” and legein, referring to “speech.” These two terms translated directly into English become the compound noun “through-speech”—an action taken through words as opposed to deeds. - To argue within yourself, your mind creates a second self and talks to it as if it were another person. A character’s inner dialogue becomes a dynamically dramatized scene between two conflicted selves of the same person, one of which may or may not win the argument. Therefore, strictly defined, all monologues are in fact dialogues. - Modern stand-up comedy came of age when comics moved from joke telling to narratized dialogue. A stand-up comedian must either invent a character to play (Stephen Colbert) or perform a selected, characterized version of himself (Louis C.K.) for this reason: No one can step onstage as the exact same self that got out of bed that morning. It takes a persona to perform.