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We are a movie- and musical- and play-quoting family.
If you hang around our house very long, you face the inevitable prospect of being exposed to a number of quotes from our favorite productions. Because that has become our shorthand way of sharing our favorite memories with one another.
See if you can remember which book/movie/play these quotes come from:
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?”
“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
“Well, I didn’t vote for you.”
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.”
“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
“Just a flesh wound.”
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
"As you wish."
Girls, girls! You're both pretty! Can I go home now?
"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
"Get some rest. If you haven’t got your health, then you haven’t got anything."
“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”
Having seen numerous incarnations of The Importance of Being Earnest, including at least a couple movie versions, we enjoyed quoting the play as we sat in the tiny, box-shaped theater at the GVSU campus and watched this rather interesting interpretation of the famous play. I say 'interesting' because there was a central conceit of this particular production wherein the Author (Oscar Wilde) is included as a character who is narrating the tale as he is writing it, sitting behind his desk and putting his actors into the precarious situations about which the play is concerned and then talking to the audience -- as if talking to himself -- to figure out how he is going to extricate them from their complex dilemma.
It was a very (if you'll pardon the expression) 'novel' approach to freshening up a well-known work and perhaps might've worked better with a few tweaks here and there. Overall, it was an amusing and enjoyable way to spend an evening out with Cheryl and Mary.
We prefaced our attendance with a quick stop for dinner at Noodles & Company (one of our favorite fast-food franchises) so that our tummies wouldn't be grumbling during the performance, and also so that our bodies would have some fuel to keep us warm as we walked to and from the theater. It was very cold and windy last night!
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1 comment:
That sounds like a lovely evening! And a clever twist on the play, even if not executed perfectly.
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