Chimes At Midnight - Shakespeare

In Chimes at Midnight (1965), Orson Welles as Sir John Falstaff reminisces with Robert Shallow as the enact the second part of Shakespeare’s play, Henry IV. Falstaff agrees, “We have heard the chimes at midnight.“ This line is again delivered later by a stunned and bewildered Falstaff to Henry V after the king pronounces judgment on his old running buddy in the 1989 movie, Henry V, starring Kenneth Branagh. The scene shown in this video - with Orson Welles as Falstaff - is enacted in My Own Private Idaho (1991) with Bob as Falstaff and Budd as Shallow. The scene cuts immediately to Keanu Reeves lifting a bottle of Falstaff. Elegant. In 2011, a hapless hotel manager, Sonny, (Dev Patel) tells his guests that he understands their agedness in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: “You have heard the chimes at midnight, and you have grown long in the tooth.“