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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 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.'"



I bet the Westworld scriptwriter for that episode was the author of the article above. He sounds pretty keen on telling everyone all about it.


If it is, he wasn't credited.


That was a joke. Sorry for the confusion.


There's also a scene in Big Short where Ryan Gosling's boorish character mangles the quote, attributing it to Caesar.




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