Script: Dining Car Scene from North by Northwest Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Music by Bernard Herrmann

X: Well, here we are again. Y: Yes. X: Can you recommend anything? Y: The Brook Trout. A little "trouty," but quite good. X: Sold. pause; order. X: I know. I look vaguely familiar. Y: Yes.

X: You feel you've seen me somewhere before. Y: Um hum. X. Funny how I have that effect on people. It's something about my face. Y: It's a nice face. X: You think so? Y: I wouldn't say it if I didn't. X: Oh, you're that type. Y: What type?

X: Honest. Y: Not really. X: Good, because honest women frighten me. Y: Why? X: I don't know. Somehow they seem to put me at a disadvantage. Y: Because you're not honest with them? X: Exactly. Y: Like that business about the 7 parking tickets?

X: What I mean is, the moment I meet an attractive woman, I have to start pretending I have no desire to make love to her. Y: What makes you think you have to conceal it? X: She might find the idea objectionable. Y: And then again she might not. X: Think how lucky I am to have been seated here.

Music for theater? Music subservient? Diegetic music important for composer? Stepping on music? Music covers other conversations? Music expected in circumstances? Music irrelevant to scene?