Movie Quiz #20

I really tried. I did, I really tried hard to finish the first round of 20 movie quizzes before the summer began. I was going to give us the summer to relax and rest from the stress and confusion that occurs during the movie quizzes. With that said, it clearly didn’t happen. Most might think I just hopped right into summer and forgot that I had a movie quiz out ready to be answered. Well the truth is that craziness happened right before summer started preventing me from finishing the movie quizzes off. For those of you not aware of what happened check the previous posts for pictures of the little wonder that happened to cause a great deal of stress and chaos during finals week. Add Sophie to the West Valley City Attorney’s Office summer law clerk position plus enjoying the constant company of friends and family, you get a full schedule and a loss of blogging time. However, now that summer is coming to an end, along with school resuming, and a return to Omaha pending, I am able to pick up where I left off hopefully with the same number of followers if not a few more.

For those of you who simply skimmed the long previous paragraph but still want to know what it is about this is the shortened version….I’m sorry, let’s move on.

I left you last time with a famous quote that has been used by many in the years since it was written. The quote was…

“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, for he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother…”

Last time I left you with two hints that might help you uncover the movie. The first hint was that I wasn’t limiting you to a single adaptation, that piece of information should have told you that the movie in question has been remade and redone at least once like maybe Laurence Olivier in 1944...

or Kenneth Branagh in 1989...

The second hint was that the movie quote was said on October 25th. That piece of information could have lead you to think about holidays or observances on the 25th of October. Not many would know that it is the feast of St. Crispin but I thought I might try to see if anyone actually knew. Knowing it was St. Crispin’s day might lead you to a famous speech by the English King Henry V on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt. Therefore one might conclude that the movie quote was from Shakespeare and his speech of Henry V on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt. If you thought that, you would be right.

I was impressed by how many actually knew where this came from. The first point goes to Dan who casually guessed that the play (movie) might be Henry V. However he failed to carry through with his guessing and a speaker or a situation in the movie. Therefore only one point to Dan. Jorden gets two points for naming Henry V as the speaker and the context which was right before the last battle. I’m also giving a point to Jamie (by way of her husband) for simply knowing the movie quote was from the St. Crispin’s Day speech. I’ll give Tana a half point just for trying (aren’t I great?). I’ll also give a point to Mark for knowing everything necessary for all four points yet being dead last to comment.

I don’t think I have to recommend everyone out there to read (or at least watch their favorite versions of) Shakespeare’s plays. Henry V is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays as it recounts the famous Battle of Agincourt where a larger French force was beaten by Henry V and the English. I could spend a whole post on the Battle of Agincourt so I’ll leave it in that condensed version.

Now let’s move on to the last movie quiz before we take a break for the summer total up the points and give out awards before beginning a new season of movie quizzing.

Since this is the last quote in this “season” of movie quotes I will be making this a harder one from a cult classic…

“My dear chap, I never would have dreamt of depriving you of your moment of triumph. Alas, a moment was all I could spare.”

Good luck.