The writer, who should be as skilled in the dialogue of images as of words, must have the capacity to anticipate, visually and in detail, the finished film.
Then he had flown back to Hollywood, and to the demands of his employers, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and had made "The Asphalt Jungle," a picture about a band of criminals engaged in pursuits that Huston described somewhere in the dialogue of the movie as "a left-handed form of human endeavor".
They read much in the writings of the ancients, says Josephus (hence, no doubt, the many scrolls in the caves), yet (Philo) they do not cultivate the logical side of philosophy, do not expend "any superfluous care on examining Greek names" (by which is evidently meant such subtle discussions of words as one gets in the dialogues of Plato), but only occupy themselves with the moral side.
Military historians challenged Holocaust historians in an ineffectual debate characterized as the "Dialogue of the Deaf".
In keeping with the overall hothouse atmosphere, the violence can be as baroque as the dialogue, in the style of another work set in a Minnesota of the mind, the film "Fargo".
Mr. O'Riley and Mr. Brey elegantly traversed the work's varying moods, as in the spirited dialogue of the opening movement and the gracious Cavatine.
In its earliest form, as exemplified by the dialogues of Willaert, seven voices is the norm, and the texture is not yet clearly separated into two groups.
Correcting Plato's "tenfold error", a mistranslation from Egyptian to Greek, the document pinpoints the location of Atlantis in the Mediterranean, 300 miles from Greece, instead of 3000 as mentioned in the dialogue Critias.
Here Norris diverges from Malebranche's view as stated in the second dialogue of Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion that God is "infinitely infinite," which strikes the reader as comparable to Spinoza's infinite attributes.
The 1983 film, directed by David Jones, was restorative, capturing the musical elements in the dialogue as well as the shifting chords of the characters (played by Jeremy Irons, Patricia Hodge and Ben Kingsley).
