Time To Enjoy
In my previous post, I wrote about the importance of living (one’s own life) in the moment. Theodore “T-bag” Bagwell, portrayed by Robert Knepper, the viciously intelligent and rather witty killer from the TV-show Prison Break knows what I’m talking about. And so do the Italians, as T-bag will tell you in this two minute clip.
To cut a long story short, T-bag wants access to the local post office to get an address from their files. The woman he picks up in this coffee shop is his ticket to it. He’s done a quick background check on her before he moves in and learnt that her ex-husband was a dentist. That’s all the information he needs.
There is little point in posting this other than:
1. Robert Knepper is phenomenal as T-bag and I really like him as an actor (which I can’t say about a lot of the others on the show).
2. I love the dialogue in this clip.
3. I felt a need to balance my previous post with something undisputedly more shallow.
4. What T-bag is driving at is directly linked to my previous post about living in the moment.
marcusbrown
April 19, 2007
It is brilliant dialogue – impossible to write and yet, obviously not because there it is.
fredrik sarnblad
April 20, 2007
Isn’t it great?
Marcus
April 20, 2007
Yup. Try and write that kind of stuff. It’s so hard to do. I bet that scene took ages to write, was planned, sketched binned and written again a thousand times over.
fredrik sarnblad
April 20, 2007
I bet YOU could do it though.
Marcus
April 20, 2007
no Fred, I don’t think I could.
Rob
April 20, 2007
I would just like everyone to know that Fred has watched – and forced everyone to watch – that clip god knows how many times over the last few months.
He is in love …
lauren
April 21, 2007
i think i’d like that even more if he said “no-one takes the time to enjoy their lunch anymore. denise, would you do me the honour, of enjoying your lunch?” [minus the “with me”]
tee hee. have a good weekend fredrik!
Marcus Brown
April 21, 2007
Lauren – he’s got to say that. It’s important. The whole dialog builds up to it.
fredrik sarnblad
April 21, 2007
Lauren, I have to agree with Marcus since T-bag is talking about life, not lunch.
Have a good weekend both of you!