Hollywood evidently has more pressing priorities, such as cinematic dialogue with its own previous Roman epics.
Putting together the words "American" and "pimp" sets off instant buzzers and creates huge expectations for a provocative cinematic dialogue between flag-waving righteousness and urban sleaze.
This line, spoken by John Rooney, the gangster patriarch played by Paul Newman in "Road to Perdition," has become one of the summer's most frequently quoted bits of cinematic dialogue.
While Staten wrote much of the cinematic dialogue, combat lines could be improvised by the voice actors.
The sequel to Ridley Scott's lore-relevant Prometheus is no closer to coming into focus, so a shift in the cinematic dialogue is helpful, and last year's excellent Alien: Isolation video game returned the franchise to its terrifying roots.
The story is built on vignettes, driven by nearly cinematic dialogue, always to the end of stripping what each character has to say to a recognizable, often hilarious, element.
