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Has anyone ever done a porn version/parody of a Shakespeare play? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Le petit fromage (talk • contribs) 11:08, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Undoubtedly. "Has anyone ever" is almost always answered with "Yes". --Jayron32 12:54, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

See Bone Up Your Shakespeare: A Study Guide to the Complete Porno Films of the Bard of Avon. Despite it's title, Daniel Radosh's list of six films (parodying A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, & Macbeth) is far from complete. For additional parodies of three of those plays see http://pornparody.com/tag/shakespeare/ .

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-- ToE 14:39, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Midsummer Night's Dream is silly enough that some Shakespeare scholars would probably consider a porn parody of a play in which, in the original, everyone falls inappropriately in love anyway, would be a good idea. A pornographic tragedy would be an interesting piece of work. With Romeo and Juliet, you really ought to change one important plot detail, and have the teenagers consummate their love, which they never did in the original, and maybe die in the process and get carried off stage nude. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:08, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Hence the expression la petite mort. -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 21:38, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Of course they consummated their marriage. After Romeo kills Tybalt, Friar Laurence and Juliet's nurse arrange for him to secretly spend the night with Juliet before being banished from Verona. The beginning of Act 3 scene 5 involves Romeo escaping from Juliet's bedroom before Lady Capulet sees him. It's a bit more explicit in Romeo and Juliet (1968 film) and Romeo + Juliet but it's pretty obvious what happened in the play as well. Adam Bishop (talk) 08:28, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

Question About Actor in Pixels (2015 film)

Either I am doing a distracted job of looking at the cast, or something is missing, probably the former. In Pixels (2015 film), there is an actor who apparently, like his character, has dwarfism, and is serving time in federal prison for hacking, and makes a variety of demands for his services in fighting the aliens, some of the demands being more reasonable than others. (His freedom, for instance, can of course be granted by the President). What is the name of the actor and the character? I couldn't find them in the article. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:12, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Peter Dinklage is a noted actor with dwarfism. Unless they have more than one dwarf in the cast, I'm guessing that's him. Ian.thomson (talk) 18:28, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

His characters name in the film is Eddie Plant. He has been a major part of Game of Thrones since its first episode and if you want to see just how good an actor he is see The Station Agent. MarnetteD|Talk 18:45, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

That's him. I didn't recognize him from his head shot because it is (reasonably) a head shot that doesn't show him as 4 feet 5 inches tall. I can see that in a show like "Game of Thrones", there could be a role for a dwarf in a royal household. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:50, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

It is a sign of the hubris of the character that he asks for Serena Williams, and, on actually getting her as his escort, he makes an advance to her and has to be warned off. She is 16 inches (40 centimeters) taller than he is, and has great right-arm strength. That's the character. Robert McClenon (talk) 18:56, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

(edit conflict) He is playing Tyrion Lannister in GoT Robert McClenon. It isn't the usual "jester to the royal court" role and it is to the point that it is hard to imagine the series with any other actor in the role. I forgot to mention that he also plays Bolivar Trask in X-Men: Days of Future Past. MarnetteD|Talk 19:00, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Indeed. Not a jester, but a serious devious tough-minded dwarf, like Eddie Plant. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:10, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Indeed, Tyrion Lannister is the much maligned scion of House Lannister, he's not a jester or fool, but rather a nobleman (and his father's legal heir after his older brother removes himself from the inheritance after joining the Kingsguard). His dwarfism causes others to treat him badly, in many ways, but he's both politically powerful (in one of the books he becomes acting Hand of the King and brilliantly organizes the defense of Kings Landing) and shrewdly intelligent. --Jayron32 20:13, 10 August 2015 (UTC)