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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Film For Your Post-Lunchtime Enjoyment

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:03 PM

I just watched Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead again last night, and this scene is so goddamned good:

You should play Questions with someone you love tonight. What else are you going to do?

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Its amazing how quickly I can disagree with you and then turn around and find you to speak such truth.

Posted by Akbar Fazil on December 29, 2009 at 1:12 PM

If there was a "Like" button on Slog I would be clicking it right now. Thanks for making my afternoon!

Posted by defman23 on December 29, 2009 at 1:21 PM

I fucking love that movie. Thanks Paul!

Posted by starsandgarters on December 29, 2009 at 1:29 PM

Gotta love Tom Stoppard's work. Another enjoyable cinematic game is to watch Terry Gilliam's Brazil and try to figure out which bits of dialog are Stoppard's, which are Gilliam's, and which are Charles McKeown's.

Posted by Fool multitude on December 29, 2009 at 1:35 PM

just last night at a party we were playing this and someone referenced this scene. nice timing.

Posted by ingopixel on December 29, 2009 at 1:55 PM

This is my favorite of Stoppard's plays. I think I need to find it and watch it again soon.

Posted by Sheryl on December 29, 2009 at 2:03 PM

@4 -- Holy shit! I'd love to watch that game.

Posted by dialogue on December 29, 2009 at 2:06 PM

I adore this movie.

Posted by Arboreality on December 29, 2009 at 2:12 PM

"Hamlet" in "The Twilight Zone"! It's fucking GREAT! Heads...heads...heads.

Posted by Timmytee on December 29, 2009 at 2:45 PM

Someone as rhetorically nimble and hotly fey as ol' Gary O should host a public version of this game at a bar or theater on Cap. Hill.

Posted by Stacey on December 29, 2009 at 2:55 PM

Funny coincidence, I just watched R&G for the first time two nights ago. Gary Oldman and Tim Roth are two of the best actors around.

Posted by K3 on December 29, 2009 at 3:57 PM

God, I love that movie and haven't seen it in over a decade. Thanks for posting that taste, Paul. Gary Oldman was so damn sexy in it too.

One is free on a boat, for a time.

Posted by Donna on December 29, 2009 at 6:47 PM

I really enjoy the movie but it's a fantastic play to read as well.

Posted by Kristi in Kitsap on December 30, 2009 at 2:57 AM

I wonder why play directors feel that the actors must move around the set ceaselessly in order to make a conversation interesting. It doesn't help me not to hate most plays.

Posted by Free Lunch on December 30, 2009 at 6:13 PM