Subject: Well...
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Posted on: 2013-05-07 08:50:00 UTC

Merchant of Venice

Take one: "DALEKS DO NOT BLEED! DALEKS ARE SUPREME!"
(Director) "Ok, ok...maybe we should rethink the casting."

Take two: "This line is illogical. While Vulcans do bleed upon...pricking, if I am to deliver this line to a human, it will lose all meaning. We do not bleed the same blood."
(Director) "Ok, I'll take that into account. Maybe we should try casting a human in the role of Shylock?"

Take three: (insane agent waving a knife) "I want my pound of flesh! Gimme my pound of flesh!"
(Director) "Look, can you at least pretend to speak in Shakespearian English?"
(pause)
(The agent) "I wantest my poundeth of flesh! Eth! Givest me thou my poundeth of flesheth! Etheth!"
(Director) "Flaming Denethor..."
(Agent) "What? I had a Sue speak like that on my last mission."

Take four: (An agent, presumably) "Eeeee, you're doing a play with Sherlock in it! Can I play him? Please? Please? Please??"
(Director) "Sorry, Sherlock's not in this."
(Agent) "But I read the script! He's totally in it. You're lying!"
(Director) "No, I'm not. The character's name is Shylock, not Sherlock."
(Agent) "...are you sure it's not just an accidental mini-Hound?"
(Director) "Look, Conan Doyle lived several hundred years after Shakespeare did. If anything, Sherlock would be a mini-Caliban."
(Agent) "HOW DARE YOU INSULT SHERLOCK??" *stabs*
(Director) *dodges* "Security! Can I get Security over here?"
(Aaaand...scene!)

--
Yup.

I wish I remembered more lines from the play, but I read it something like five years ago, so...most of what stuck in my head was about the pound of flesh and, of course, the famous 'If you prick us, do we not bleed?' line. Hope this amused in spite of its brevity.

~DF

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