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Oh, I love this. To accompany “And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.” Sometimes attributed to Plutarch; actually Hans Gruber in Die Hard. https://twitter.com/lostinthemovies/status/1274509204368363521
Btw, screenwriting nerds might enjoy this excellent article detailing Tom Stoppard’s rewrite of Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, because of course the line was his: https://creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade-learning-from-stoppard/
Outstanding! We have a third example! Thank you, @WWATMD! https://twitter.com/wwatmd/status/1274682279252709376?s=21 https://twitter.com/wwatmd/status/1274682279252709376
And another one! Thank you @Jcstearnswriter! https://twitter.com/jcstearnswriter/status/1274746582941020163?s=21 https://twitter.com/jcstearnswriter/status/1274746582941020163
CORRECTION: looks like the text from the Tarantino Archive above fails to acknowledge that the “Exodus” line is borrowed from Sonny Chiba’s Karate Kiba. I didn’t know this! Long article on it here: https://medium.com/@philnguyen25/ezekiel-25-17-jules-s-transcension-to-a-righteous-man-6a10fc1fb49d Thanks to @SeraphOfFire: https://twitter.com/seraphoffire/status/1274749292880621568?s=21 https://twitter.com/seraphoffire/status/1274749292880621568
And another, via @shockproofbeats! https://twitter.com/shockproofbeats/status/1274756025250385935?s=21 https://twitter.com/shockproofbeats/status/1274756025250385935
Since people have been querying the first tweet in this thread all day: I wish I’d written more precisely that the *form of words* is from Die Hard; the story of Alexander weeping is much older. But the Die Hard formulation is often assumed to be the original.
Also, I’m aware of the Sid Waddell/Eric Bristow formulation too, which predates Die Hard by a few years. Waddell must have been riffing off the same source material. For exquisite comic effect, in his case.
This article traces some of the history, but I don’t appreciate it dismissing the writers of Die Hard as “monkeys”. It’s a brilliantly written screenplay. And their phrasing of the Alexander story is much more elegant than in any of these other sources. https://twitter.com/saintsoftness/status/1274700020747513857?s=21 https://twitter.com/saintsoftness/status/1274700020747513857
And of course not hurt by having Alan Rickman deliver it. (Apologies for the horrible aspect ratio: least bad I could find)
