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They have as actual books, Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, as Shakespearean plays Cannoli Send a noteboard - 03/04/2014 01:28:15 AM

I shit thee not.

Star Wars came out last summer and Empire just last month. There're expressions and monologues that could have been lifted right out of one of Shakespeare's plays, there are characters explaining their motivations in asides, most hilariously R2-D2, whose dialogue to other characters consists of boops and meeps, only to reveal in his asides how he is plotting to bring Luke and Obi-Wan together. There's even subtle commentary, for example, where the guy who decides not to shoot down 3PO & R2 in their lifepod sounds kind of dumb when he gives his reasons in Shakespearean language. When Vader points out the plans were probably in the pod he says "Woman vile!/Howe'er could she deceive my subtle mind?/The plans in the escape pod! O, most rare!"

Sample dialogue from a more well-known scene:

LEIA
Darth Vader, only thou couldst be so bold.
When first my ship was under siege, I knew
'Twas thee who had this peaceful vessel sack'd
Th'Imperi'l Senate shall not stand for this.
For when they hear thou hast attack'd a ship
On diplomatic mission--
VADER
-Highness, peace!
Be thou not so surpris'd. For well thou knowst
A mercy mission this was not, this time.
Thine innocent appearance doth disguise
A heart with revolution at its core
Aye several transmissions were there beam'd
Unto this ship by rebel spies. I want
To know what happen'd to the plans they sent!
And prithee, speak thou well, or speak thy last!
For fairer necks than thine my hand hath crush'd.
LEIA
Thin idle threat is meaningless to me.
My neck, my tongue my mouth - these instruments
Of speech have not the power to relate
The knowledge that thou seek'st. For certain 'tis
I nothing know of what thou ask of me.
For I am but a member of the great
Imperi'l Senate, bound for Alderaan
On mission diplomatic.
VADER
- Nay, thou liest!
For thou art with the reb'l alliance vile,
And worse, a traitor! Take this one away!
[Exeunt Stormtroopers with Princess Leia
The blood and wires within me leap with fire
When all these trait'rous words I must endure.


It's all like that. This is a much better version of what they tried to do with "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies".

Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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They have as actual books, Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, as Shakespearean plays - 03/04/2014 01:28:15 AM 817 Views
I saw the first one in a bookstore a couple months ago. - 03/04/2014 04:39:27 PM 612 Views

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