{"id":93,"date":"2007-02-19T09:19:48","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T14:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/93"},"modified":"2017-07-10T00:29:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T05:29:06","slug":"question-of-the-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/93","title":{"rendered":"Question of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s Oscar week once again.  If you have any opinions about which of the <a href=http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/79academyawards\/noms.html target=\"_blank\">nominees<\/a> are going to win, which ones you&#8217;d like to win, or who should have been nominated that wasn&#8217;t, feel free to post them here.  But that&#8217;s not the Question of the Week.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the ad campaign for the Oscars centers around great movie lines.  I may not agree with all of their choices, but I love the idea.<\/p>\n<p>What are your favorite lines from the movies?  What movies are they from?  Which lines made you smile in the theatre, and which lines made you gasp?  Which lines do you find yourself quoting when just the right situation arises, and which lines do you quote for no reason at all?  Which of your favorite lines are from your favorite movies, and which of your favorite lines are from movies that were otherwise ordinary?  Which lines are so famous that they are even larger than the movies themselves, and which lines bring us back to their original movies again and again?<\/p>\n<p>My personal favorite may be this one, from Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in <em>The Silence of the Lambs<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How about you?<\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s your favorite line from a movie?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s Oscar week once again. If you have any opinions about which of the nominees are going to win, which ones you&#8217;d like to win, or who should have been nominated that wasn&#8217;t, feel free to post them here. But that&#8217;s not the Question of the Week. This year, the ad campaign for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6186,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/6186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}