'You wrote me...' / 'You wrote to me...'

Oh well; we'll have to agree to disagree about "You wrote me about my daughter..." as I don't buy it for a second. But I can be a stubborn wanker(1) so what do I know?
A saw a little bit of that so-awful-it's-great film "Meteor" the other day. At one point, Sean Connery says to Natalie Wood something like: "Do you want to go eat?". And I - slapping my forehead in exasperation! - said to the TV, "Do you want to go and eat! Go *and* eat!". I know; Connery was playing an American-based scientist in the film but he was supposed to play an Irish-American in "The Untouchables" and - Oscar notwithstanding - we know what happened there(2).
As for the cockney slang question, there seems to be different standards in film for different forms of slang. Essentially, American slang is (thankfully) left for non-American audiences to decipher by themselves. While non-American slang has to be broken down and spoonfed to US audiences.
I know people can find slang fascinating and might well want to know what it means but isn't slang used as a verbal short cut? If a character has to then stop and explain it to another character (and, by extension, the audience) then that short cut turns into the scenic route.
I haven't seen that new film "Brick" but, as I understand it, that uses a great deal of hard-boiled, 50s noir slang and puts its faith in the audience to do the work and decipher the meaning. "Miller's Crossing" is another film that comes to mind; one that has a similarly high regard for its audience.
Film makers: Use the slang and allow the audience to find its own way or just don't use the slang.

1. Similar to 'jerk off' but is deemed to be much more rude in a British context than 'jerk off' is in its American context(3).
2. Connery received an Oscar even though his accent wasn't anywhere near to his character's supposed background(3).

3. It's annoying when you get explanations for things you either know or could find out by using your own intellect, isn't it?




Edit: I've just read a feature, written by the superb Joe Queenan, in which he mentioned "Brick" and "Miller's Crossing" as two examples of slang in cinema. So, I hadn't read it before I mentioned the same two films, in the same context, in this posting. His feature was published 10 days before I wrote the above.

Do British people ever say: "you emailed me?" or "you cabled me?" or "you wired me?" or "you telephoned/phoned/called me?" At least on this side of the pond, these nouns(used as verbs collaquially), connatate the entire: You wrote an email to me, you placed a telephone call to me etc. I don't believe any of the former sayings are proper english over here in the states, but that is how we say it for the most part.

'You wrote me', is a shade different than, 'you wrote a letter to me'. (in which case the to is needed wherever you live). The wrote, in 'you wrote me' needs no preposition, in the same way you kicked me does not. You did something to me. The verb includes the to, so to speak. Seems somewhere along the line, over here at least, these verbiased nouns became more specific, and lost the need for prepositions. Not sure why.

Perhaps originally the verb 'to write' was born from the noun writ. Probably was vice versa, but your legal system was certainly around long before most people were literate. I dunno, I'm just talking out of my a** and am more curious than anything else.