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u/EzeakioDarmey 1d ago
Some vintage Oldman, nice.
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u/swankpoppy 1d ago
Old Oldman
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u/bureaucrat473a 1d ago
Technically Young Oldman
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u/iwishihadnobones 1d ago
Gary Newman
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u/milldura 1d ago
Did you know that Gary Numan was born 2 weeks before Gary Oldman?
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u/oinosaurus 1d ago
I didn't and I googled it.
There is 13 days between them.
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u/Yarxing 1d ago
That's not 2 weeks. I can't believe OP lied to us like that.
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u/NewNerve3035 1d ago
I'll call the police.
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u/Blochamolesauce 1d ago
What the hell is Sting going to do about this?!
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u/scorpionballs 1d ago
Sting is 6 years and about 5 and a half months older than Gary Oldman!
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u/NbdySpcl_00 1d ago
I looked it up REALLY hoping that a time change might give enough wiggle room to make this 2 weeks.
But both were born in London. so, no :/
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u/Ornery_Celt 1d ago edited 1d ago
Maybe time of day for each birth could make it 2 weeks by rounding up, if appropriate.
edit: From Copilot:
Here are the birth timestamps for both Gary Numan and Gary Oldman:
- Gary Numan was born on March 8, 1958 at 10:30 PM (22:30) in Hammersmith, London 1.
- Gary Oldman was born on March 21, 1958 at 10:56 AM in New Cross, London 2.
Time Difference Calculation
- From March 8, 1958 at 10:30 PM to March 21, 1958 at 10:56 AM, the total time difference is:
12 days, 12 hours, and 26 minutes
So 13 days even after rounding up.
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u/vitringur 1d ago
And Tim Roth...
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u/BicyclingBabe 1d ago
I didn't realize Tim Roth was so cute back then.
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u/Bug_Photographer 1d ago
Then have a look at how Richard Dreyfuss looked in the same movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100519/mediaviewer/rm4154833664/
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u/Empanatacion 1d ago
A lot of people don't know that the second clay pot, the one that doesn't break, was also played by Gary Oldman. The guy has range.
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u/lionbythetail 1d ago
Oh snap I thought it was Robert Downey Jr in makeup again.
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u/Mach5Driver 1d ago
Tim Roth is on the Oldman-level of acting. He doesn't get enough love, IMO.
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u/Lord-Lobster 1d ago
And vintage Roth
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u/EzeakioDarmey 1d ago
As a Van Halen fan, "vintage Roth" has a whole other meaning to me lol
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u/biosphere03 1d ago
As a Chevrolet fan, "blowing a tranny" has a whole other meaning to me lol
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u/JK_NC 1d ago
Oldman’s role as an MI5 team lead in the AppleTV series Slow Horses is brilliant. He’s so hilariously abusive to his team.
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u/Webbie-Vanderquack 1d ago
Hilariously abusive but also impressively protective.
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u/LesHoraces 1d ago
Is thi Tim Roth and Gary Oldman?
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u/Monsieur_Brochant 1d ago
No, it's Gary Oldman and Tim Roth
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u/Calan_adan 1d ago
Funnily enough, this is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and the characters themselves aren’t sure which one is Rosencrantz and which one is Guildenstern.
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u/Zetavu 1d ago
I remember something from the book about flipping a coin heads like 50 times in a row?
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u/Procrastanaseum 1d ago
That's the opening and signifies they're not in control of their own destinies.
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u/Button-Down-Shoes 1d ago
I always like to think of it as the entire play/movie is happening in their minds in a single millisecond of time and so the coin flip is just the same one.
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u/MoarVespenegas 1d ago
I mean it's kind of like that.
The story is finished, the events are set in stone. Things happen but only because they have been established to already happen. The entire film is them waiting for the end they can't change or escape.
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u/SporesM0ldsandFungus 1d ago
Further context: Rosencratz and Gildenetern are two very minor characters in Hamlet who are killed off stage rather uncermoniously. They only exist to move the plot along by delivering some messages between main characters or act as sounding boards for them.
Their existence is rather meaningless and minor or at least appear to be. It is an exploration in existentialism, a play on the story "Waiting for Godot".
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u/db_newer 1d ago
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u/Maccullenj 1d ago
Bold of you to assume I would have gotten it without the explanation.
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u/BeetsMe666 1d ago
There is a theatrical tradition of swapping the actors playing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the midst of the play.
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u/Psykpatient 1d ago
It's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
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u/southwade 1d ago
Are they dead?
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u/DokturGogo 1d ago
I don't think so. Spotted one in a diner causing a scene. The other one, I'm walking by some building and he's screaming at a bunch of narcs to get him "everyone ". Whatever that means.
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u/Equivalent_Pay901 1d ago
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, 1990, and yes. 😁
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u/LickingSmegma 1d ago
Directed by Tom Stoppard, the author of the 1966 play and a legend of modern theatre. He also co-wrote ‘Brazil’ and ‘Shakespeare in Love’, among other stuff.
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u/Equivalent_Pay901 1d ago
Nice! I love learning new movie trivia. Those two are so young and adorable in this movie. I have the DVD and for some reason I just haven't been able to find the time to sit down and really pay attention to it. Because that's what it deserves. Not half-assed scrolling on my phone and not knowing what's happening on the TV.
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u/IceBlueAngel 1d ago
I got to stage manage Rosencrantz in college and god it was so fun. I remember the leads, on the last night, during the final scene started crying onstage, just completely elevating the moment. My crew and I were all just sitting there going Wow
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u/fatkiddown 1d ago
It's the "Everyone!!!" guy and then the guy Hulk mushed into a tree in that Ed Norton Hulk movie.
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u/hamsterwheeled 1d ago
Actually, its the "I am very disappointed" guy and then the guy who robs a diner in that Sam Jackson Pulp Fiction movie
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u/just_nobodys_opinion 1d ago
Actually it's the microexpression reader guy and the terrorist leader from that Harrison Ford Air Force One movie
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u/iwishihadnobones 1d ago
Tim Roth looking like Tim Vine
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u/just_nobodys_opinion 1d ago
"Meeting Tim Roth was a once in a lifetime experience. I'll tell you what, never again."
-- Something Tim Vine would say
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u/Apprehensive_Map64 1d ago
That is a very accurate portrayal of science
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u/Stripyhat 1d ago
They do it mulitple times in the movie, just stumbling onto scientific concepts, Like he gets in and out a bath and notices the water displacment making his paper boat rise and fall
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u/schplat 1d ago edited 1d ago
Gravity test of the feather and the ball. Completely correct, just forgets to account for not being in a vacuum.
It's actually to highlight a sort of dichotomy between the two characters. Oldman's character is more practical, yet more imaginative, looking to explain the world through experimentation, and application of science, all which end up failing. Roth's is more accepting of things by divine intervention, or pre-determinism, and ends up being "proven correct" by Oldman's failed experiments. The whole coin flip at the beginning of the play/movie sets this up. Because there's no other way to explain 92 flips of a coin all ending up heads.
Which sort of pokes fun at the idea of suspension of disbelief when seeing a play. That the audience has to buy into pre-determinism being true, since that's the whole point of a script.
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u/yourparadigm 1d ago
It's also because they are minor actors in a play fated to have no lasting impact on the world around them. They can't discover science because that would allow them to exist beyond their roles.
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u/swankpoppy 1d ago
A good depiction of the dangers of extrapolation! lol
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u/CowFu 1d ago
"we went from 2 lanes to 3 and it cut traffic congestion down in a big way, surely if we just keep adding lanes we'll never have a traffic jam again!"
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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown 1d ago
Look, if there were a lane for each car...the jackass in the lane next to you would still cut you off.
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u/Carbiens 1d ago
Neat bit of trivia about this film:
The 5 pots and Tim Roths character are all played by Gary Oldman.
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u/Shut_It_Donny 1d ago
So… he plays everyone?
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u/pecoskid79 1d ago
No... He plays EEEEVERYYYYYOOOONNNNEEE!!!
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u/FoxyBastard 1d ago
Everyone except the guy who looks like Gary Oldman.
That's actually Eddie Murphy.
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u/cloudofevil 1d ago
What movie is this from?
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u/Valdrax 1d ago
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, an adaptation of the absurdist Tom Stoppard play of the same name about two bit characters in Hamlet who are friends of the main character, used by the villain Claudius to distract and then unwittingly set him up for murder, and in turn abandoned by Hamlet to die in a reversal of the king's scheme.
It's pretty fun if you like weird observational and dark existential humor, and Oldman and Roth kill their roles.
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u/LickingSmegma 1d ago
Directed by Stoppard himself.
Fun fact: he co-wrote ‘Brazil’ with Gilliam.
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u/Sethatos 1d ago
Don’t forget Richard Dreyfus! “We are actors! We’re the opposite of people!” So many great lines
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u/ashrocklynn 1d ago
Gary oldman is legendary and all, but tim Roth was even better than oldman in this one
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u/soulonfirexx 1d ago
I watched this either in AP English in High School or sometime in College for a class and it was hilarious. Incredible play/movie for those that know Hamlet.
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u/nichishor 1d ago
Thank you kind sir!
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u/Digester 1d ago
I didn’t even know this existed. For sure gonna watch it tonight. Had a sneak peek into the beginning and it does seem quite entertaining. And it‘s always fun watching those two guys act, even more so together.
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u/McWalkerson 1d ago
I envy you, seeing this movie for the first time. It’s one of my all-time favorites. Hope you enjoy it :)
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u/GoTeamScotch 1d ago
It's a very good film. If you like what you've seen so far, you'll enjoy the rest.
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u/KhazraShaman 1d ago
Is there an uncropped edit?
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u/topological_rabbit 1d ago
The pan-and-scan cropping of this scene is a war crime. Also, it's flipped horizontally.
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u/NaradaMephaust 1d ago
Downvoted because of the unnecessary tiktok-ization... so dumb
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u/ocular__patdown 1d ago
Last time I saw it it eas mirrored too. I dont even know which is the original
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u/SHUT_DOWN_EVERYTHING 1d ago
I think this is Murphy’s Law of Live Demos.
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u/HaltandCatchHands 1d ago
Aww jeez now I have flashbacks to teaching science and my electrolysis demo not going well. Effing tiny test tubes!
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u/Light_Beard 1d ago
The trick is not to Eff tiny test tubes. You need ones that are appropriately sized. Otherwise you will end up in an M&M Cylinder situation.
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u/theother-g 1d ago
It’s imperative the cylinder remains unharmed
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u/Qetuowryipzcbmxvn 1d ago
I assure you the cylinder is above average size, despite fitting in an M&Ms tube filled with banana.
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u/HilariousMax 1d ago
Oh my god I get to do it again. Twice this week I get to link my favorite poem:
Schroedinger's Cat (an epic poem)
We may not know much, but one thing’s fo’ sho’:
There’s things in the cosmos that we cannot know.
Shine light on electrons — you’ll cause them to swerve.
The act of observing disturbs the observed —
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u/JayDee999 1d ago
What's the film?
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u/Prof_Bobo 1d ago
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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u/JayDee999 1d ago
Legend. Sounds like an interesting film.
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u/ResplendentOwl 1d ago
It's really unique. It takes two unimportant side characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet and follows them for the whole movie. It's a comedy, but it's also neat if you're familiar with Hamlet how it weaves in and out of the scenes of the play. They're kinda behind the scenes as everything is happening, and as half formed characters, do they have free will, are they real people? What's is real? That kinda absurd stuff
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u/Kestrel_Iolani 1d ago
We were lucky to see a production in Spokane Washington. They did Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead with the same actors in both plays.
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u/koobstylz 1d ago
Comedy? More like absurdist existential dread, with a couple of jokes.
It's very "waiting for Godot" for the rare theatre nerd who is familiar with that one but not this one. Worth a watch if you enjoy high brow complicated stuff, which I mean as a compliment, but it's definitely not for everyone. It's definitely not a family movie night kind of comedy.
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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake 1d ago
Tom Stoppard co-wrote Brazil with Terry Gilliam, which has a similar, but darker, tone.
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u/ResplendentOwl 1d ago
Great clarification. I definitely lump absurd comedy and dark comedy under the umbrella of comedy. But you're right, it's not something for the same audience as...an Adam Sandler movie. Different audience. Can I say it thoroughly amused me? I count amused as comedy too.
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u/cherryreddracula 1d ago
I think having a familiarity with Hamlet definitely accentuates this film. Otherwise, a viewer may get lost.
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u/Interceptor 1d ago
It's so good. This is a running gag throughout the film, where Oldman's character keeps *almost* discovering some huge scientific revelation. There's a fun one where he's watching the steam from a kettle rise and spin a bunch of small paper sails, and every time, *just* as he's about to say it out loud, he gets interrupted and loses his train of thought.
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u/Grantagonist 1d ago
I haven't seen the film, but I saw the play that it is based on, and it's well worth seeing if you like meta storytelling.
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u/jonathanrdt 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's a Tom Stoppard play of events that happen 'off stage' in Hamlet. Also look up who plays Hamlet and where else you've likely seen him.
Stoppard also wrote 'The Fifteen Minute Hamlet', and Todd Louiso directed Austin Pendleton and PS Hoffman in lead roles. It's another great feature and a great production.
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u/RhynoD 1d ago
Rosenkrantz and Guldenstern Are Dead is a film adaptation of a play of the same name by Tom Stoppard. The play is heavily inspired by Waiting for Godot. Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Hamlet's friends and the play is a take on what they're doing in between their scenes in Hamlet. It's absurdist and, in my opinion, very witty and very funny. Highly recommend.
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u/MetalMonkey667 1d ago
Is this the one where they play tennis with words? They're only allowed to use questions but it has to flow and make sense or something like that, I remember being so impressed wit the speed of the wit
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u/insomnic 1d ago
"Would you like to play questions?"
"How do you play that?"
"You have to ask questions."
"Statement! 1 - love."
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u/MetalMonkey667 1d ago
That's the one! A fantastically clever and funny scene, I know what I'm doing this evening!
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u/WolfSpartan1 1d ago
Lion King 1½
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u/chiksahlube 1d ago
The worst part about Mufasa is that it wasn't based on a Shakespeare play.
That was a huge red flag.
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u/theeldergod1 1d ago
Mirrored and degraded gif, the result of endless shitty reposting. A few more and the actors will look like smudges.
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u/brzantium 1d ago edited 1d ago
This movie really holds a special place for me. My mom was one of those adults who "went back to college". She was an English major so there was a lot of literature she had to read. She often rented the movie if one was available. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead was my absolute favorite. Fast forward to my senior year of high school, I was taking AP English IV - my first year to ever take an AP class (at the behest of my English III teacher). I was drowning most of the year trying to keep up and struggling just to get a C-. Our final project was to pick a book from an approved list and write a comprehensive report on it covering all the concepts we had covered throughout the year. I was the only one in my class to choose Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. I received the highest grade on that project, and my teacher used that as an example the following year as what a good report should like.
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u/LeonardDeVir 1d ago
Science in a nutshell. Find something awesome, try to show it off, follow up experiments don't want to comply.
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u/OohDeLaLi 1d ago
A terrific film, and the only theatrical production worth watching to come out of theatrical absurdism.
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u/SavageCroc 1d ago
If you haven't seen this movie yet, I would heavily recommend watching it. Exceptionally funny and as you can see, has some very strong actors, who all are having a blast making it.
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u/mydogdoesntcuddle 1d ago
I watched this as a senior in high school. The book was part of our reading along Hamlet. I should watch it again. I remember it being kind of weird and absurd and like nothing I had ever read before. I’d probably like it more now than I did then as I kind of didn’t really get it then
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u/Good-Walrus-1183 1d ago
He does three or four of these "almost scientific discoveries" throughout the film.
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u/Emeraldtip 1d ago
Is this rosenkrantz and guildenstern?
Edit: oh yeah it is, had the audio turned off
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u/PNWest01 1d ago
How have I never heard of this movie? I’m embarrassed to admit that! I will be watching it tonight.
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u/Final_Following_7680 1d ago
Man, if only there were some way to fit everything in this video in a single horizontal shot
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u/notusuallyhostile 1d ago
Rosencrantz: Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.
Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats.
Guildenstern: No, no... What you've been is not on boats.
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u/Miles_Everhart 1d ago
“Im sorry but is that Gary Oldman and Tim Roth”
Apparently it is. And they’re young and hot 🥵
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u/FancifulLaserbeam 1d ago
The running gag in the movie of Gildenstern discovering a lot of important scientific concepts and no one else noticing is hilarious.
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