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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)
Ooh! Ooh! @bwestcineaste ANT MAN: We'll set thee to school to an ant to teach thee there's no laboring i'th'winter.
— Jessica D. (@jwdmeow) January 12, 2016
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
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” -THE BIG SHORT #ShakespeareReviews2015Films
— Sam Woolf (@S_Woolf) January 12, 2016
@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
@bwestcineaste BROOKLYN: to unpathed waters, undreamed shores
— Jessica D. (@jwdmeow) January 12, 2016
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
@bwestcineaste “Journeys end in lovers meeting.” -CAROL
— Sam Woolf (@S_Woolf) January 12, 2016
@bwestcineaste CAROL: Groping for trout in a peculiar river.
— Jon "Tambourine Champagne" Đ Arthur (@jondauthor) January 12, 2016
@bwestcineaste CAROL: Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? #ShakespeareReviews2015Films
— Joanna Di Mattia (@JoannaDiMattia) January 12, 2016
@bwestcineaste also CAROL:https://t.co/1y8E6mLLhu
— Jon "Tambourine Champagne" Đ Arthur (@jondauthor) January 12, 2016
Chi-Raq
@bwestcineaste @Aaron_Hammond88 I'd say thatd go for Chiraq, though
— Jon "Tambourine Champagne" Đ Arthur (@jondauthor) January 12, 2016
Clouds of Sils Maria
@bwestcineaste CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA: Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
— Aaron Hammond (@Aaron_Hammond88) 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 “kylie” turner (@TyleKurner) January 12, 2016
@bwestcineaste that I speak it now–
— kyle “kylie” turner (@TyleKurner) January 12, 2016
@bwestcineaste EX MACHINA: "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't."
— Aaron Hammond (@Aaron_Hammond88) January 12, 2016
The Hateful Eight
@bwestcineaste the hateful eight: these violent delights have violent ends
— Jessica D. (@jwdmeow) January 12, 2016
@bwestcineaste THE HATEFUL EIGHT: Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
— Aaron Hammond (@Aaron_Hammond88) 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 (@Aaron_Hammond88) 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 “kylie” 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
@bwestcineaste MAGIC MIKE XXL
But when in other habits you are seen,
Orsino's mistress, and his fancy's queen.— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) January 12, 2016
@bwestcineaste There's also "what a piece of work is man" for MMXXL.
— M.R. Bowers (@mrbowers) January 12, 2016
@bwestcineaste MAGIC MIKE XXL: "Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better"
— Aaron Hammond (@Aaron_Hammond88) 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 "Laura Dern" Barber (@bortlb) January 12, 2016
The Martian (Read our review)
@bwestcineaste THE MARTIAN: an extravagant and wheeling stranger of here and everywhere.
— Jessica D. (@jwdmeow) January 12, 2016
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 “kylie” 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 (@Aaron_Hammond88) 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
“To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.” -SPOTLIGHT https://t.co/rtKzvkRfRU
— Sam Woolf (@S_Woolf) January 12, 2016
@bwestcineaste found a better SPOTLIGHT: No legacy is so rich as honesty
— Jessica D. (@jwdmeow) January 12, 2016
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
@bwestcineaste @Aaron_Hammond88 @TyleKurner how about: 'A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age'.
— Joanna Di Mattia (@JoannaDiMattia) January 12, 2016
@bwestcineaste @Aaron_Hammond88 @TyleKurner yes I saw too late. Also v good. This from Lear too: 'O, sir! you are old.' Nice & simple.
— Joanna Di Mattia (@JoannaDiMattia) January 12, 2016
…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'
— Lesbian Yellow-Sour-Fruit (@CaitlinSnark) January 12, 2016
…and finally, Shakespeare pays tribute to Bowie:
@bwestcineaste last one- I have to go to bed! BOWIE: When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars
— Jessica D. (@jwdmeow) January 12, 2016
