Fa Love Pa?

This blog is a tribute to the 1973 film disaster The Day Of The Dolphin made by notable filmmaker Mike Nichols (The Graduate and Catch-22).  The one good thing to come out of this movie is that it is endlessly laughable.  Starring well-respected actors George C. Scott and Paul Sorvino alongside Fa, the dolphin, only doubles the hilarity.  The premise of the movie involves Scott's character as a lab scientist who teaches Fa (dolphin) how to talk.  He can only speak in one syllable words, and when asked why he speaks in English during an interview (an interview?), Fa answers with the most memorable line of the movie "Fa love pa" (he loves George C. Scott, his pa).  Memorably adorable!  

When Fa starts referring back to his old dolphin ways (not speaking English) they bring him in a dolphin girlfriend to lift his spirits.  Things eventually go down the shitter for Fa when his girlfriend gets taken away by the scientists who now try to coerce him into speaking.  Just wait for it....  wait for it......     The dolphins then get stolen and are to be used in an assassination attempt on the President of the U.S.   Oh, it gets better.  Fa somehow learns that killing the president is "bad" and he tries to stop his "girlfriend" from carrying out the assassination plan.  The moral fortitude of the little feller' just kills me!  By the end Scott and his wife decide the only way to keep the dolphins safe is to free them into the sea.  When the dolphins are released into the sea, Scott's character starts walking away and the last lines we hear from Fa are: "Pa? Paaaaaaaa!"   The end.  In all of it's magnificence.   

So now here I am.  A fan of movies, a fan of dolphins, and a fan of words, I've decided to dedicate this blog not only to things I'm a fan of, but also things I'm highly skeptical and a little afraid of such as monosyllabic dolphin speak.  I welcome you with open arms, with open fins, and with an open heart to my blog.  Ste welcs you..