Wikipedia: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is a 1990 period black comedy film written and directed by Tom Stoppard based on his 1966 play. Like the play, the film depicts two minor characters from William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Here are some lines pulled from the Wikiquote page for Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and re-bejumbled:
Guildenstern: Has it ever happened to you that all of a sudden and for no reason at all you haven’t the faintest idea how to spell the word – “wife” – or “house” – because when you write it down, you just can’t remember ever having seen those letters in that order before …?
Rosencrantz: Half of what he said meant something else, and the other half didn’t mean anything at all.
Guildenstern: The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody. Demolish.
Rosencrantz: Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it going to end?
The Player: Life is a gamble, at terrible odds – if it was a bet, you wouldn’t take it.
Guildenstern: Words. Words. They’re all we have to go on.
The Player: I congratulate you on the unambiguity of your situation.
Guildenstern: There must have been a time, in the beginning, when we could have said – no. But somehow we missed it.
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