Twelfth Night: Or What You Will Page #2

Synopsis: Brother and sister Viola and Sebastian, who are not only very close but look a great deal alike, are in a shipwreck, and both think the other dead. When she lands in a foreign country, Viola dresses as her brother and adopts the name Cesario, becoming a trusted friend and confidante to the Count Orsino. Orsino is madly in love with the lady Olivia, who is in mourning due to her brother's recent death, which she uses as an excuse to avoid seeing the count, whom she does not love. He sends Cesario to do his wooing, and Olivia falls in love with the disguised maiden. Things get more complicated in this bittersweet Shakespeare comedy when a moronic nobleman, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and a self-important servant, Malvolio, get caught up in the schemes of Olivia's uncle, the obese, alcoholic Sir Toby, who leads each to believe Olivia loves him. As well, Sebastian surfaces in the area, and of course there is Feste, the wise fool, around to keep everything in perspective and to marvel, like we th
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Trevor Nunn
Production: New Line Home Entertainment
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
PG
Year:
1996
134 min
1,773 Views


She'll none o' the count: she'll not match above

her degree, I have heard her swear't.

Tut, there's life in't,man.

I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the

strangest mind in the world

I delight in masques and revels

sometimes altogether.

- Art thou good at these kickshawses, knight?

- Faith, I can cut a caper.

And I think I have the back-trick simply

as strong as any man in Illyria.

Wherefore are these things hid?

wherefore have

these gifts a curtain before 'em?

why dost thou not go to church

in a galliard and come home...

... in a coranto?

Is it a world to hide virtues in?

- My lady will hang thee for thy absence.

- Let her hang me: I fear no colours.

- I can tell thee where that saying was born.

- Where, good Mistress Mary?

In the war.

Well, God give them wisdom

that have it

and those that are fools,

let them use their talents.

- You are resolute, then?

- I am resolved on two points...

That if one break, the other will hold

or, if both break, your breeches fall.

If Sir Toby would leave drinking, thou wert as witty a

piece of Eve's flesh as any in Illyria.

Peace, you rogue,

no more o' that.

- God bless thee, lady!

- Take the fool away...

- Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady.

- I'll no more of you: besides, you grow dishonest.

bid the dishonest man mend himself

if he mend, he is no longer dishonest

if he cannot, let the

botcher mend him!

Any thing that's mended

is but patched...

virtue that transgresses

is but patched with sin

and sin that amends

is but patched with virtue.

As there is no true cuckold but

calamity, so beauty's a flower.

The lady bade take away the fool

therefore, I say again, take her away.

Sir, I bade them take away you.

Misprision in the highest degree!

Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.

- Can you do it?

- Dexterously, good madonna.

Make your proof.

I must catechise you for it, madonna.

Good my mouse

of virtue, answer me.

Well, sir, for want

of other idleness,

Good madonna,

why mournest thou?

Good fool, for my

brother's death.

- I think his soul is in hell, madonna.

- I know his soul is in heaven, fool.

The more fool, madonna, to mourn for

your brother's soul being in heaven.

Take away the fool, gentlemen.

What think you of this fool, Malvolio?

Doth he not mend?

Yes, and shall do till

the pangs of death shake him:

infirmity, that decays the wise,

doth ever make the better fool.

God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity,

for the better increasing your folly!

How say you to that,

gentle Malvolio?

I marvel your ladyship takes delight

in such a barren rascal...

Look you now, he's out

of his guard already.

unless you laugh and minister occasion

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Trevor Nunn

Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre director. Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and, currently, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. He has directed dramas for the stage, like Macbeth, as well as opera and musicals, such as Cats (1981) and Les Misérables (1985). Nunn has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical, winning Tonys for Cats, Les Misérables, and Nicholas Nickleby and the Olivier Awards for productions of Summerfolk, The Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida, and Nicholas Nickleby. In 2008 The Telegraph named him among the most influential people in British culture. He has also directed works for film and television. more…

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