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Alex Heeney / January 12, 2016

2015 films according to Shakespeare

2015 films Shakespeare
2015 films according to Shakespeare.

Love Shakespeare? Listen to our Shakespeare podcast, 21st Folio. Love these 2015 films? Find out what we do at Seventh Row to cover films like these.

Last night, I posed a little challenge on Twitter, to pair Shakespeare quotes with 2015 films:

Challenge: summarize this year's awards hopeful films with a Shakespeare quote. You're disqualified if you use you know what for Mackers.

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

Here are the best pairings of 2015 films and Shakespeare quotes.

45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh)

@bwestcineaste @TyleKurner @bybowes Out, out, damn Kat

— Brandon 🚷 (@bnowalk) January 12, 2016

Ant Man (dir. Peyton Reed)

https://twitter.com/jwdmeow/status/686808955750723585

The Big Short (dir. Adam McKay)

THE BIG SHORT: I will stand the hazard of the die.

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

.@michaelkarenski THE BIG SHORT: As the indifferent children of the earth.

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

https://twitter.com/S_Woolf/status/686812367032840192

@bwestcineaste The Big Short: "Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides:
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.” (Lear again)

— Bright Wall/Dark Room (@BWDR) January 12, 2016

Bridge of Spies (dir. Steven Spielberg)

.@CaitlinSnark BRIDGE OF SPIES: 'Sblood, do you think I am
easier to be played on than a pipe? #ShakespeareReviews2015Films

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

@bwestcineaste BRIDGE OF SPIES: Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

— Citizen_Fur (@citizenfur) January 12, 2016

.@Aaron_Hammond88 leading me to BRIDGE OF SPIES: if that man
should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me; for, Harry,
I see virtue in his looks

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

Brooklyn (Read our review)

Revised for BROOKLYN because @bybowes was right about the better Carol quote https://t.co/E7oHPnHXxw #ShakespeareReviews2015Films

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

https://twitter.com/jwdmeow/status/686812088182784001

Carol

SPECTRE: and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges #ShakespeareReviews2015Films

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

@bwestcineaste CAROL: "Speak low, if you speak of love"

— Danny Bowes (@bybowes) January 12, 2016

https://twitter.com/S_Woolf/status/686806631645114368

@bwestcineaste CAROL: Groping for trout in a peculiar river.

— Jon D Arthur – jondauthor @ bsky (@jondauthor) January 12, 2016

https://twitter.com/JoannaDiMattia/status/686814231073669120

@bwestcineaste also CAROL:https://t.co/1y8E6mLLhu

— Jon D Arthur – jondauthor @ bsky (@jondauthor) January 12, 2016

Chi-Raq

@bwestcineaste @Aaron_Hammond88 I'd say thatd go for Chiraq, though

— Jon D Arthur – jondauthor @ bsky (@jondauthor) January 12, 2016

Clouds of Sils Maria

@bwestcineaste CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA: Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

— Aaron Hammond (@AaronH_88) January 12, 2016

Creed

CREED: No Legacy Is So Rich As Honesty https://t.co/bgkAv7VioQ

— Citizen_Fur (@citizenfur) January 12, 2016

@bwestcineaste CREED: Those who live in the shadow of thine own name need not feel restricted by it

— Simon Waite (@thecinemascene) January 12, 2016

@bwestcineaste Creed: “The wheel is come full circle: I am here.” (from Lear)

— Bright Wall/Dark Room (@BWDR) January 12, 2016

Ex Machina (Read our review)

@bwestcineaste Ex Machina: It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,
Which some did die to look on: and all this–
It wounds thine honor

— kyle turner (@TyleKurner) January 12, 2016

@bwestcineaste that I speak it now–

— kyle turner (@TyleKurner) January 12, 2016

@bwestcineaste EX MACHINA: "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't."

— Aaron Hammond (@AaronH_88) January 12, 2016

The Hateful Eight

https://twitter.com/jwdmeow/status/686804195580628992

@bwestcineaste THE HATEFUL EIGHT: Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

— Aaron Hammond (@AaronH_88) January 12, 2016

Inside Out

The best I've come up with for INSIDE OUT is "about my brains!". Help!#ShakespeareReviews2015Films

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

@bwestcineaste Inside Out: "“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

— Bright Wall/Dark Room (@BWDR) January 12, 2016

@bwestcineaste INSIDE OUT: Such as we are made of, such we be.

— Aaron Hammond (@AaronH_88) January 12, 2016

Joy

JOY: You are too full o the milk of human kindness.

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

Macbeth (Read our review)

MACBETH: Let's talk of graves, of worms, of epitaphs;/ make dust our paper and with rainy eyes/ Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

Mad Max: Fury Road

MAD MAX FURY ROAD: Strong Reasons Make Strong Actions https://t.co/bgkAv7VioQ

— Citizen_Fur (@citizenfur) January 12, 2016

Better MAD MAX: "Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once." https://t.co/bgkAv7VioQ

— Citizen_Fur (@citizenfur) January 12, 2016

@bwestcineaste Mad Max: To darkness fleet souls that fly backwards.

— kyle turner (@TyleKurner) January 12, 2016

.@jwdmeow MAD MAX FF: You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will
more willingly part withal: except my life, except
my life, except

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

Magic Mike XXL

https://twitter.com/labuzamovies/status/686805257599385600

@bwestcineaste There's also "what a piece of work is man" for MMXXL.

— Mr. Bowers (@mrbowers) January 12, 2016

@bwestcineaste MAGIC MIKE XXL: "Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better"

— Aaron Hammond (@AaronH_88) January 12, 2016

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

@bwestcineaste Perhaps “Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it”; or “Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent“

— Laurence Barber 🍉 (@laurencesmb) January 12, 2016

The Martian (Read our review)

https://twitter.com/jwdmeow/status/686808262067367936

MARTIAN: Brought to this shore; and by my prescience, I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star #ShakespeareReviews2015Films

— Citizen_Fur (@citizenfur) January 12, 2016

Mistress America

@bwestcineaste Mistress America: So I have heard and do in part believe it.

— kyle turner (@TyleKurner) January 12, 2016

@bwestcineaste MISTRESS AMERICA: "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man (or woman in this case) knows himself to be a fool."

— Aaron Hammond (@AaronH_88) January 12, 2016

The Revenant

THE REVENANT: exit pursued by bear

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

One more for THE REVENANT (just because it's mean): Look sir, I bleed! – Leo

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

Results (Read our review)

RESULTS: thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably #ShakespeareReviews2015Films

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

Room

.@bybowes ROOM: I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space.

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

Sicario (Read our review)

SICARIO: There is a tide in the affairs of men…bound in shallows and in misery. #ShakespeareReviews2015Films

— Citizen_Fur (@citizenfur) January 12, 2016

Spectre (Read our Shakespeare-filled review — so many Lear references!)

SPECTRE: and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges #ShakespeareReviews2015Films

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

Spotlight

SPOTLIGHT: Truth Is Truth To The End Of Reckoning https://t.co/bgkAv7VioQ

— Citizen_Fur (@citizenfur) January 12, 2016

https://twitter.com/S_Woolf/status/686808267218141184

https://twitter.com/jwdmeow/status/686809905412476928

Steve Jobs

@bwestcineaste STEVE JOBS: "You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

— Danny Bowes (@bybowes) January 12, 2016

.@bybowes alternatively, in the same vein: STEVE JOBS: words, words, words

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

Straight Outta Compton

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON: The Object Of Art Is To Give Life A Shape https://t.co/bgkAv7VioQ

— Citizen_Fur (@citizenfur) January 12, 2016

Youth

.@bwestcineaste YOUTH: Thou shouldst not have been old before thou hadst been wise. #ShakespeareReviews2015Films

— Alex Heeney (@bwestcineaste) January 12, 2016

https://twitter.com/JoannaDiMattia/status/686838649225269249

https://twitter.com/JoannaDiMattia/status/686840136974245888

…and the TV remake of his Richard III:

@bwestcineaste I found one for House of Cards: 'And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs'

— Ancient Queer Bickerings (@CaitlinSnark) January 12, 2016

…and finally, Shakespeare pays tribute to Bowie:

https://twitter.com/jwdmeow/status/686813260658520064

Filed Under: Essays Tagged With: Shakespeare, stage vs screen

About Alex Heeney

Alex is the Editor-in-Chief of The Seventh Row, based in San Francisco and from Toronto, Canada.

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