Holy Globe Theatre Batman! !
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Agonus,
Posted on: 2011-05-17 08:41 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Neat. 23 of 30 correct.
Some thoughts:
Best point of the test: discovering the cleverest quote was, in fact, Shakespeare (from a pretty good play, too), not Batman, as I'd thought. As a Batman-loather, I would've been disappointed were it the other way around.
Wow, there was sure a lot of Titus Andronicus on there. In fact, I was surprised at how many obscure, rather than well-known, Shakespeare plays the creator used. Out of all the Shakespearean quotes, I only got about three or four right because I recognized them; the rest, I spotted by language.
Speaking of which, the fact that Shakespeare doesn't use many contractions, while the more naturalistic dialogue of Batman does, made it a lot easier.
Finally, needs more "'tis the pasture that lards the rother's sides."
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23 of 30, too. *shakes fist at Batman Begins' hammy script*
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21 out of 30 here. Maybe he should change his name to Bardman? Batspeare?
19 of 30 which isn't bad cause I haven't actually read batman comics.
I was fairly surprised by some of the answers.
Seems I'm winning, I got 24 out of 30 
Frustrating for me how many of the Batman movie ones I got wrong though! Given I only watched them again a couple of weeks ago, they should have been more fresh in my mind 
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Bah. Only 22. My old highschool english teacher would smack me upside the head if he knew.
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28 out of 30?! One misattribution in each camp, I'm ashamed to say. A perfect score shouldn't have been too great a challenge from the quotes posted in the version I took. Time for some remedial reading and brush up my Shakespeare.
TrueGentleman wins the thread, not only for getting the highest score, but also for providing a Cole Porter link.
This reminds me, having had to type "Shakespeare" a bunch of times on this thing, now I can understand how the man seemingly had so much trouble spelling his own name consistently. 
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Hardly. My imperfect score notwithstanding, your post had more substance. Your methodology was sound, and anyone taking the test cold could use it to beat the odds. The other tactic that might help is speaking the lines aloud since although the contemporary Batman sound bites are naturalistic, as you noted, the Shakespearean ones usually have an internal rhythm that lends themselves to recital, even when not blank verse. (One quibble - It's not that Shakespeare doesn't use contractions, it's that he uses Elizabethan ones, e.g. 'tis, e'er, o'er. But really, he'd shorten any word if he thought it would improve the line.)|
Originally Posted by Olantern
TrueGentleman wins the thread
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Also, I got tripped up on Titus Andronicus, too. Worst. Shakespeare. Play. Ever. (Also, debatably, his first.)
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Originally Posted by Olantern
TrueGentleman wins the thread, not only for getting the highest score, but also for providing a Cole Porter link.
This reminds me, having had to type "Shakespeare" a bunch of times on this thing, now I can understand how the man seemingly had so much trouble spelling his own name consistently. |
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19 of 30. I blame Frank Miller and all the DKR (which I never read) quotes. >.>
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27/30. I'm not even a big Batman fan, nor have I read that much Shakespeare (I think As You Like It is the only one from the list I've read, and that was years ago).
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15 out of 30... cuz shakespeare's name sucks so i just typed batman 30 times ^.^
21 out of 30.
24/30 w/ 1:20 left.
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