My reason for the speech was to humanize a decisive character who didn’t really have room for many emotional moments in their decisions and to attract a name actor to the role. Because the character was sending people into battle knowing that some might not return, I decided to give the character a speech about the heavy responsibilities of this decision.
On my HBO World Premiere Movie Steel Sharks (1997) I created two major supporting roles designed to attract stars, including a Navy Admiral onboard an Aircraft Carrier who is organizing a rescue operation. So those long blocks of talking by one character aren’t actually dialogue, they are “accidental speeches” and you should add the “di” and the “con” and change them into verbal battles between two or more people.īut what if you really want to write a speech? If one character talks for too long, it will lose its "bounce". Dialogue should bounce back and forth between two (or more) characters. If one person is doing all of the talking, you've left the "di" out of dialogue and the "con" out of conversation.
If two people agree with each other, they have nothing to talk about. So dialogue requires at least two people who have opposing viewpoints. The root word of conversation is "converse" which means "contrary, opposite". According to Webster's, dialogue is "a conversation between two or more persons".
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