Theater of Blood (1973)

Dennis Price: Hector Snipe

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• Edward Lionheart : I always admired you as a critic, Snipe. Your clever use of analogy and metaphor, plus you always strived to be complimentary. But not always complimentary.

  Hector Snipe : Critics make mistakes, Lionheart. We're only human.

  Edward Lionheart : An opinion I find myself incapable of sharing.

• Hector Snipe : You must admit I was most enthusiastic about your performance as Achilles.

  Edward Lionheart : Oh, yes. Yes, now that you mention it, I vaguely recall you wrote some review.

  Hector Snipe : I remember it very well. I wrote "Edward Lionheart's Troilus and Cressida must be considered as a brilliant theatrical achievement, and his own performance as Achilles unsurpassed." Well, something of that sort.

  Edward Lionheart : A splendid review, my dear Snipe. Splendid. What else did you say?

  Hector Snipe : More in the same vein.

  Edward Lionheart : Let me refresh your memory.

  [reads] 

  Edward Lionheart : "... Achilles unsurpassed. This clearly is Lionheart's own view. That actor's oft-expressed desire for solitude is well known. He must derive much satisfaction in knowing that he is absolutely alone in his opinion of this lamentable production."

• Edwina Lionheart : It's all right, sir. You're among friends, sir.

  Hector Snipe : Thank you. I was beginning to get a bit nervous.

  Edward Lionheart : We were just rehearsing Troilus and Cressida. Specifically the scene where Hector, thinking he's among friends, is unexpectedly killed by them.

  Hector Snipe : Lionheart, I came here for an interview, not a lecture on Shakespeare. Now tell me the amazing story of your resurrection.

  Edward Lionheart : It's a grave tale, Snipe. But I think you can rise to the occasion.

  [Snipe is catapulted onto the stage, where the tramps begin to attack him]