Shakespeare meme and drabble

[beer_good_foamy]

Taken from shinodabear and mygothangel:

When you see a Shakespeare quote in a journal, post one in yours.

Well, this is possibly the coolest last words of any action movie anti-hero ever - Sam Jackson times Clint Eastwood CUBED - and it was written over 400 years ago. (And it annoys me to no end that the recent movie version somehow managed to cut this out - as if it wasn't bad enough to start with. I mean, you should see how they bring Birnam Wood to Dunsinane... what are they smoking in Australia?) Anyway, Macbeths realization that he's been duped by fate and that everything has been set up for him to bite it at the end:

MACBETH: I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!"

Man, that Willie S wrote some good stuff.

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Oh, and here's a drabble for open_on_sunday's challenge "Hunt":

That Nice Man

Sometimes, Anya made fun of Xander's collection of DVD box sets. Babylon 5, Twilight Zone, all Star Treks including the animated series... come on.

She always felt a little guilty about it, though. After all, it wasn't his fault that there wasn't a decent DVD collection of her favourite TV show.

So she hung onto her worn-out VHS tapes. She'd seen every episode more times than she could count, but still kept hoping that maybe this time... watching for every little pop culture reference, she'd mouth her hero's lines along with the TV:

"Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits."

Comments

[scarlettlily.livejournal.com]

Hehehe love this. And now it actually is out on DVD.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that, but... let's say that in the Buffyverse, it isn't. Or at least wasn't in 2002, heh. Thanks a lot!

[mygothangel.livejournal.com]

hee! you *so* got me with the last line! it's great :)

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was the first thing that sprung to mind when I saw the prompt... My brain is weird sometimes. I had half a mind to write a complete crossover in which Elmer Fudd gets to hunt vampiwes, but...

[mygothangel.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO!!
yes, please!! let him go after Angel! LOL

Elmer Fudd in the Buffyverse

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Oh, *yes* -- you have to do that!

Re: Elmer Fudd in the Buffyverse

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... as if I needed more plot bunnies ideas... hehe. We'll see.

[shinodabear.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Another of my favorites. :)

Willie S did write some fine things. *g*

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

He really did. Macbeth is one of my personal faves - I really need to rewatch Polanski's version. Did you know that there's a new British version in the works, featuring one Tony Head? Another one of these Shakespeare adaptations set in modern times, but hey, they work sometimes...

[shinodabear.livejournal.com]

Oh really? That sounds neat! I think the modern adaptations are really interseting. Have you read The Dead Fathers Club? That's a Hamlet-driven novel with an 11-year-old main character. Very cute.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Modern adaptations CAN be really interesting - I love the Richard III with Ian McKellen, set in 1940s England; at one crucial point during a bombing his jeep gets trapped in all the debris, and he screams "A HORSE! A HORSE! MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE!" Heh. (Then again, the recent Australian Macbeth I linked above is ludicrous; how does Birnam wood come to Dunsinane in 2006? Duncan et al drive a lumber truck from Birnam Forestry Co. through the gates of Macbeth's hi-tech Scarface-style villa... geez.)

I haven't heard of "The Dead Father's Club", will check it out, thanks! Here's a recommendation in return: there's a British writer named Jasper Fforde who's written a series of novels about the literary detective Thursday Next. In the fourth one, "Something Rotten", she gets a visit from Hamlet himself, who is outraged to learn that people in the modern world think of him as a wishy-washy flip-floppy guy who can't make up his mind. So Hamlet vows to do something about it. Maybe. Then again, maybe he shouldn't, because... hey, there's a lot of factors to weigh here and... etc etc. (Also, according to Hamlet himself, the most realistic portrayal of him was done by... Mel Gibson.) The book also has an army of cloned Shakespeares. Lots of fun.

[shinodabear.livejournal.com]

I haven't really seen many, to be quite honest. I've always wanted to, though. There are plenty of rainy days coming up, I should go rent some. :)

she gets a visit from Hamlet himself, who is outraged to learn that people in the modern world think of him as a wishy-washy flip-floppy guy who can't make up his mind. So Hamlet vows to do something about it. Maybe. Then again, maybe he shouldn't, because... hey, there's a lot of factors to weigh here and... etc etc.

Ha! That's brilliant. I will check that out. Thank you.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Durrr. Duncan? Macduff, of course. All scotch names sound the same without coffee...

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Hee -- Anya's hero, the bunny killer!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Indeed - thanks for reading!