As Dreams Are Made On

As Dreams Are Made On is a 2004 short film written and directed by Gabriel Reid.

Not to be confused with The Dream That Stuff Was Made Of, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of, or The Things That Dreams Are Made Of.

As Dreams Are Made On
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Directed byGabriel Reid
Produced byJames Wallace
Gabriel Reid
Pageant Films
Written byGabriel Reid
StarringRaymond Hawthorne
Ian Hughes
Tanya Horo
Katherine Kennard
John Glass
CinematographyAlan Locke
Edited byGabriel Reid
Distributed byNew Zealand Film Commission
Release date
  • 2004 (2004)
Running time
11 minutes
CountryNew Zealand
LanguageEnglish

Ian Hughes plays Reuben Mills, a young actor feeling pressure to nest. With his company about to tour he finds himself at an emotional crossroads. The time has come to choose his path.

Gabriel Reid was inspired to undertake this project after researching his M.A. thesis examining film adaptations of Shakespeare. At the University of Auckland, his thesis was supervised by Professor MacDonald P. Jackson. Reid's research interviewees included John Barton, Hugh Cruttwell, Adrian Noble, Trevor Nunn, David Parfitt and Imogen Stubbs.[1]

The film's title is derived from lines uttered by the magician Prospero, in Act IV, Scene I, of Shakespeare's late romance The Tempest:

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

Festivals
gollark: Command computers can /give, and also that.
gollark: I think mostly on the lower bits.
gollark: I mean that half of it is just unoccupied towers, not that some shops are bad.
gollark: And yet we got a giant mall complex half of which nobody uses.
gollark: (Gold prices are far too high given the prevalence of automining now)

References
  1. "Mr Shakespeare Goes to Hollywood".


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