21x20 Media

A 21x20 Media series

Never Said It

Famous words, wrong mouths. Animated corrections that follow the quotation back to its receipt.

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Never Said It on blue-and-gilt porcelain cartouches between Marie Antoinette and a Victorian detective holding a magnifier, with a blank open book below.

Famous words. Show the receipt.

The quotation everyone knows meets the person who never said it. Each paper-collage short follows the original words, dates and later retellings, with a dry narrator and a subject ready to answer back. Porcelain lettering and a harpsichord flourish connect worlds from Versailles to Baker Street.

Episodes

  1. Episode 1Marie Antoinette Never Said Let Them Eat Cake1 minute, 9 seconds
  2. Episode 2Sherlock Holmes Never Said Elementary, My Dear Watson1 minute, 3 seconds