What Realistic Film Dialogue Sounds Like

Very interesting, you’re very articulate… great quality in communication. Articulate politicians gain followers even if they’re lying or they’re talking crap. (Not saying you’re talking crap… I actually like your videos)

I love discussions about the differences in mediums for story telling.  Film is definitely my favorite, but from watching a lot of your content I feel like you have a pretty good grasp on how each one communicates differently.  Would love to see more of your thoughts on it!

Look at the play "The Wolves" it has some of the most realistic amazing dialogue in my opinion

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Love this video — a couple thoughts here! I would've been curious (and still am) to see if you think Baumbach is generally a strong screenwriter in his other films and why. Also, I know you're a Linklater fan, and I think throughout Boyhood and the Before Trilogy, there are plenty of examples of him doing the same thing! Maybe even moreso than Baumbach (or maybe more simply because of Linklater's longer filmography). I think Sorkin/Fincher did an excellent job covering the hypertext of two people/characters having too conversations at once too!

Brilliant! I love how you analyzed the subtle communication between characters through their body language and how they speak over or try to finish the others words. Nicely done!

The first time I seen anything like this was Steven Spielbergs Close Encounters of the Third Kind – in the aircraft control room scene – I thought it was awesome even then.

Good film is a fine, thoughtful specimen

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Adam Sandler is still annoying sounding.

I'm a really big fan of how you portray methods beings used by different authors. Seems very simple and yet so effective.

I think you’d really like “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency”

I wonder if the "talking over eachother" technique could be applied to comics as well?
There is a world bubble format where you stretch & connect what one character is saying in response to another character's responses, & you can make speech bubbles intrude into another speech bubble
(Idk, comics are just a really open, & not as examined medium – basically combining sequential pictures with prose – so I like exploring cinema and screenwriting to get a better understanding of, or more ideas for it)

Made ya boy cry with this analysis

For the literature, you have Louis-Ferdinand Céline whose writing style is considered as revolutionary because he is using an "oral language", with colloquial and slag vocabulary, and an abundant use of punctuation.

The lack of this kind of dialogue is why I can’t stand most network TV shows.

This was a great treatise on communication in general.

I feel exposed because I try to finish people's sentences all the time lol

I absolutely love your videos. The amount of research that you do and detail that you include is not overlooked. I feel as though I hang onto your ever word until the end, which I feel is very rare in a world full of distractions. Keep up the great work!

And subtitles? Nothing! Come on! Give the brazilian fans a chance!

But what about the movie – The Room. It has the most interesting dialogue. The iconic – o hi Mark. And poetic chip chip chip. And the jaw dropping, – how's your sex life

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Wonderful analysis

I wouldn't say it's more realistic, but rather more of an art. Not everyone talks like this, but there are some. The art comes into the fact that he manages to overwrite each piece of dialog with another so the viewer feels awkward, much like the family. I think a more realistic take on dialog would be something like the Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller moment of finishing each other's sentences, but not as severe as the writer does in this movie. The middle part particularly, where Stiller corrects Sandler by saying, "No." In reality, nobody talks over another person all the time, much like the film seems to imply, which is why I don't think it's as realistic as it is a literary device to depict the aforementioned disconnect. Additionally, accomplishing dialogue like this is incredibly hard because when you write the script you are essentially just writing the same stage notes to talk over one another. I'm sure they had to do many takes when filming, which kind of furthers my argument that it is more of an art form. Don't get me wrong, I do believe it is more realistic than the average movie, but people listen a lot more in reality than the write gives credit to, at least from my personal experience. A good example of real-feeling dialogue is another movie you have reviewed, Primer. When they come up with ideas, they bounce them off of each other and walk through it in both of their minds. You can feel a connection there, but I guess the same, but opposite, argument can be made here.

Another example of amazing dialogue is in "Attack the Block." They use so many colloquialisms that make you feel like you are there. They are also young, so there is a lot of emphasis on cussing, and although it may be rough at times to listen to them talk using foul language almost every-other word it feels like they are actually kids, and that I believe is what makes dialogue feel more realistic. In the end there is no definitive choice you can make to make the dialogue seem more realistic, rather it's a combination that makes it more complete.

Great vid.

Can you do a video on cassavetes?

that didn't seem realistic at all, it seems like it is more transparent as a falsehood because its trying too hard to be realistic and yet isn't

You sometimes take up projects on totally random things so I have a topic idea: ice skating. I have never been so touched emotionolly by dancing or any form of art (except for music) until I saw couples ice skating. If you could do any form of commentary or analysis or anything on this topic it would awesome!

Realistic dialogue between stupid/impolite people?

this movie has been on my netflix list for weeks, your video made me watch immediately and it made my day!

Really good. I like the way you represented overlapping film dialog. Your use of motion graphics throughout is informative and low key.

Have you ever considered diving into Frank Ocean? I find his creativity in songwriting, vocals, and production to be quite fascinating.

I have literally never experienced this in normal dialogue. I have only ever heard it in arguments, when people are basically shouting at each other and ignoring the other person anyway.

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FUCKING AMAZING VIDEO – WELL DONE.

Pretty amazing!.

good video, but it could have used some more missiles

They used to do this in Northern Exposure all the time. Two people are having a conversation but Person A is talking about their issue and Person B is talking about their issue. Only at the end does one actually listen to the other person's reply and then you get something like, "You're scared of committing to carrot farming?"
"Huh? I was talking about my divorce."
"I was talking about carrot farming."
"You do carrot farming?"

It was always pretty funny.

Is this an American thing? I've never been in conversations with people talking over each other like that ever.

These are constantly fantastic. Thank you.

Another classic NerdWriter video!
Keep it up..!!