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He seems pretty down on Hollywood script-writers but there's a scene in the 2nd season of Westworld where the Man in Black is at a party and corrects someone wh
by staplung 3y ago
He seems pretty down on Hollywood script-writers but there's a scene in the 2nd season of Westworld where the Man in Black is at a party and corrects someone who uses the Gruber mis-quotatation.
"That's a corruption. Plutarch didn't write that. He said 'When Alexander was told there was an infinity of worlds...he wept...for he had not yet become the lord of even one.'"
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y agoI bet the Westworld scriptwriter for that episode was the author of the article above. He sounds pretty keen on telling everyone all about it.
- aidenn0 3y agoIf it is, he wasn't credited.
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y agoThat was a joke. Sorry for the confusion.
- arduanika 3y agoThere's also a scene in Big Short where Ryan Gosling's boorish character mangles the quote, attributing it to Caesar.