A Midsummer Night's Dream Page #2

Synopsis: Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is, Hermia's father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns hot for Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander plan to flee from the city under cover of darkness but are pursued by an enraged Demetrius (who is himself pursued by an enraptured Helena). In the forest, unbeknownst to the mortals, Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the faeries) are having a spat over a servant boy. The plot twists up when Oberon's head mischief-maker, Puck, runs loose with a flower which causes people to fall in love with the first thing they see upon waking. Throw in a group of labourers preparing a play for the Duke's wedding (one of whom is given a donkey's head and Titania for a lover by Puck) and the complications become fantastically funny.
Director(s): Michael Hoffman
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
61
PG-13
Year:
1999
116 min
2,326 Views


to seek new friends

and stranger companies.

Egeus:
Hermia!

Ohh.

Hermia!

Fare well, sweet play fellow.

Pray thou for us,

and good luck grant thee

thy Demetrius.

Egeus:
Hermia!

Ohh.

Keep word, Lysander.

I will, my Hermia.

Helena, adieu.

As you on him,

Demetrius dote on you.

Oh...spite!

Oh, hell.

[Church Bells Tolling ]

[ Italian Operatic Singing ]

Ah, buon giorno!

[Speaking Italian ]

Is all our company here?

Here, Peter Quince.

Best to call them

generally, man by man,

according to the scrip.

[ Laughing ]

Come here, here.

Here is the scroll

of every man's name

which is thought fit

through all our town

to play in our interlude

before the duke and duchess

on his wedding day at night.

But first,

good Peter Quince,

say what the play treats on,

then read the names

of the actors,

and so grow to a point.

Marry, our play is

The Most Lamentable Comedy

and Cruel Death

of Pyramus and Thisby.

A very good piece of work,

I assure you, and a merry.

Now, good Peter Quince,

call forth your actors

by the scroll.

Masters...

spread yourselves.

So, uh, answer as I call you.

Nick Bottom the weaver.

Ready.

Name what part I am for,

and proceed.

You, Nick Bottom,

are set down for Pyramus.

What is Pyramus?

A lover or a tyrant?

He's a lover

that kills himself,

most gallant, forlove.

All:
Ahh.

That will ask some tears

in the true performing of it.

If I do it, let the audience

look to their eyes.

I will move storms.

I will condole in some measure.

Now, to the rest.

Quince:
Well--

Yet, my chief humor

is for a tyrant.

I could play Ercles rarely,

or a part to tear a cat in,

to make all split.

Francis Flute--

The raging rocks

and shivering shocks

shall break the locks

of prison gates,

and Phibbus' car

shall shine from far

and...make and mar

the foolish fates.

Ha ha ha.

This was lofty. Ha ha.

Uh, ahem, Pyramus.

Uh, Francis Flute

the bellows-mender.

Here, Peter Quince.

Francis Flute,

you must take Thisby on you.

What is Thisby?

A wandering knight?

He's the lady

that Pyramus mustlove.

[ Laughing ]

Nay, faith,

let not me play a woman.

I have a beard coming.

And I may hide my face,

let me play Thisby, too.

Ohh--

I'll speak in

a monstrous little voice:

"Thisne, Thisne!"

Ah, Pyramus, my lover dear,

thy Thisby dear, and lady dear!"

Ohh!

No, no,

you must play Pyramus.

Snout...

and Flute, you Thisby.

[ Applause ]

Robin Starveling the tailor.

Here, Peter Quince.

Ah, well...

Snug the joiner,

you the lion's part.

Ahh.

And I hope we have

a play well fitted.

Have you

the lion's part written?

Pray you, if it be,

give it me,

for I am slow of study.

No, you may do it extempore,

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