An advanced dialogue technique is to have the scene progress from dialogue about action to dialogue about being. Or to put it another way, it goes from dialogue about what the characters are doing to dialogue about who the characters really are. When the scene reaches the hottest point, one of the characters says some form of the words “You are …” He then gives details of what he thinks about the other person, such as “You are a liar” or “You are a no-good, sleazy …” or “You are a winner.”
