![]() ![]() ![]() Whose limbs were made in England, show us here That those whom you call’d fathers did beget you.Īnd teach them how to war. Have in these parts from morn till even foughtĪnd sheathed their swords for lack of argument: Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof! Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean. Like the brass cannon let the brow o’erwhelm it In peace there’s nothing so becomes a manīut when the blast of war blows in our ears,ĭisguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage Or close the wall up with our English dead. ![]() Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more Read Shakespeare’s ‘ Once more unto the breach, dear friends’ speech from Henry V below, along with a modern English translation: Spoken by Henry, Act 3 Scene 1 Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.Or a fairytale, as we might glean from the title – which pays homage to Sergio Leone’s visionary Once Upon a Time in America, a “memory piece” in the grandest sense.Īs always, Tarantino’s goal is to heighten the contradictions rather than resolve them, leaving us to guess whether he’s the idiot savant he’s so often taken for or whether he’s playing a deeper game than most of us can see. More precisely, Tarantino is bent on pitting the playful, weightless violence of genre storytelling against the traumatic violence of real-world history – as he has done previously in films like Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained.įor all the obsessive accuracy of the period detailing, it’s immediately obvious that this is not a literal, realist re-creation of a time and place, but something more like a troubled dream or hallucination. The encounter between fiction and fact is the crux of the film, however long we take to get there. Taken at face value the film is an old-fashioned buddy movie, built on the easy rapport between two stars, both close to their best: Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton, a faded actor in TV westerns, and Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth, Rick’s stunt double, dogsbody, and seemingly only friend.Īustralian actor Damon Herriman plays Charles Manson in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. There is a story, or at least the promise or semblance of one. Many of these take the form of lulls where drama is wilfully kept at bay, leaving all the more scope for Tarantino to nerd out over the cars, clothes, hairstyles, advertisements, TV shows and movies he associates with the Hollywood of 1969 (and hence with his own 1960s childhood). This is one possible secret centre of a very long film, which often appears to consist of nothing but secret centres. So too is Tarantino: there seems little doubt that every detail of the tableau has been selected to give him pleasure, and we are being permitted to witness a private ritual of self-gratification, on more than one level. Inside the theatre, she makes herself at home, slipping off her go-go boots and putting her bare feet up on the seat in front of her, while smiling at her onscreen counterpart (the actual Tate, not Robbie) as if the pair were sharing a private joke. ![]()
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