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Philip Spade
Добавлен 14 июл 2013
"Now is the winter of our discontent" - Richard III by William Shakespeare
"Now is the winter of our discontent" - Richard III by William Shakespeare
With Laurence Olivier as King Richard
With Laurence Olivier as King Richard
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“This guy,” is Lord Laurence Olivier!
Well done buddy!
he combines it with the monologue from henry vi part 3, doesn‘t he ?
is the music by walton?
"... stabbed in my angry mood at Tewkesbury" - I just love that line and his delivery. He makes a premeditated murder sound like a minor inconvenience he took care of one idle afternoon.
its been 2 and a half years since i first watch this....
Imagine being this guy's therapist :)
Sir Laurence Olivier is still the best. I believe he will never be surpassed. I do enjoy other actors but they are not Olivier.
How would Richard himself react if he saw L.Olivier deliver this speech? Would he praise him and the play or be offended by this depiction of himself in history? Would he even recocnize himself as the villan in this play and what would he say about Shakespeare and the Tudors?😮
This is almost comical.
The Bard rules! Sir Lawrence at his right hand!
A truly brilliant play but totally biased propaganda. Historically wrong on many counts, the true Richard III's heirs could have sued for slander and won, if such legal remedies had existed back then. Willy, you were a bad boy...
Meh.
Great camera work
Isn't this a mix between the opening to Richard III and a speech from Henry VI Part 3?
Yes it is. Pretty bold move, given the length, but Olivier also cut some stuff in the RIII monologue that wasn't entirely needed. This play has the problem of being part 4 of a tetralogy, so some explainers, available in HVI(3), were required.
Well, he just predicted and outdid Browning in his Caliban's paradox. That's Shakespeare for you. Jesus, though, he's got nothing to do but illuminate his own shadow, and knowing what a liar-crook his own shadow is, chooses to mount a war on Olympus instead. If the definition of a fair cop is a judgment borne of actual living, I'm still not a fan (too preachy), but that is the way to do it.
One thing I've noticed is that all the actors only wear a single garter on their hose
He even looks like the real thing!
I read this play innumerable times in high school, and I found it so difficult to understand. I heard Olivier in this scene, and the whole play just exploded into reality! Olivier remains the epitome for me of all Shakesperian actors ... and any other role by any other author he performed. Such a genius!!
It has been a hard days night!
Brilliant script and actor.
My friend Mahad loves his hair and swagger.
Lord Farquads inspiration I see
Olivier acts Richard III. Actors act Olivier.
Imagine finding someone who can actually speak English the way it is supposed to be spoken. What a horror!
A work of genius. Nay, a masterclass in iambic delivery; its volume, rhythm, beats, syntax -- all superlative. How a person can understand such language and give it such emotional gravitas is an inspiration to all. God bless Olivier.
good stuff
I know this speech very well, having read it hundreds of times. And yet in this video there are many lines I haven't heard before. I wonder if Olivier took from other folios that didn't make it into the final published version. When Shakespeare's works were being compiled after his death, the editors had to confront many different versions of his plays that had been contaminated by different authors who had added their own lines and revisions. The editors did their best to take what they believed to be Shakespeare.
Yeah, there seem to be a lot of added lines that I've never heard before. I prefer Ian McKellen anyway.
A good portion of this version of the speech come from Richard‘s monologue in Henry VI, Part 3, Act 3, Scene 2. I suppose it‘s this way because Olivier didn‘t make productions of the Henry VI trilogy, and they make for good additions. These lines are: ‘‘That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring/ To cross me from the golden time I look for!’’ (126 - 127) ‘‘Why, love forswore me in my mother‘s womb;/ And for I should not deal in her soft laws,/ She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe,/ To shrink mine arm up like a wither‘d shrub,/ To make an envious mountain on my back,/ Where sits deformity to mock my body;/ To shape my legs of an unequal size,/To disproportion me in every part,/ Like to a chaos, or an unlick‘d bear-whelp/ That carries no impression like the dam.’’ (153 - 162) ‘‘Then since this earth affords no joy to me/ But to command, to check, to o’erbear such/ As are of better person than myself,/ I‘ll make my heaven to dream upon the crown,/ And whiles I live, t’ account this world but hell,/ Until my misshap‘d trunk that bears this head,/ Be round impaled with a glorious crown./ And yet I know not how to get the crown,/ For many lives stand between me and home;/ And I-like one lost in a thorny wood,/ That rents the thorns, and is rent with the thorns,/ Seeking a way, and straying from the way,/ Not knowing how to find the open air,/ But toiling desperately to find it out-/ Torment myself to catch the English crown;/ And from that torment I will free myself,/ Or hew my way out with a bloody axe./ Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,/ And cry “Content” to that which grieves my heart,/ And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,/ And frame my face to all occasions./ I‘ll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall,/ I‘ll slay more gazers than the basilisk,/ I‘ll play the orator as well as Nestor,/ Deceive more slyly than Ulysses could,/ And like a Sinon, take another Troy./ I can add colors to the chameleon,/ Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,/ And set the murderous Machiavel to school./ Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?/ Tut, were it farther off, I‘ll pluck it down.’’ (165 - 195) Also, I think the soliloquy I quoted above is, in it‘s full form, is the longest in all of Shakespeare- clocking in at 71 lines.
Great performance by lord farquad
this speech is a great cut of the end of richard of york and the beginning of richard iii
How many versions of this speech are commonly used? There sem to be passages in here that are missing from other references?
And it's spoken effortlessly. Pure
Ha!
Larry I love youuuuuuuuu....thanks for everything ......
Now watch Olivier as Henry V: "St. Crispin's Day" . No doubt Olivier was 20th century’s most brilliant classical actor and Old Bills best !!!
Just watched it. Thank you.
Please don’t forget Boguslaw Linda in eternal classic movie Psy of 1992. Both actors seat on the same throne
I can't think of a greater role ever written as R111
Confused---After the line: "And descant on mine own deformity" he leaves out the rest of this opening speech. Why??
2:10 - sounds like Hitler. Olivier: impeccable. What a performance, great camera work too.
i remember watching this in english class a few months ago we finished the whole play a couple days ago
Why did it take so long so finish the play?
@@lorddaver5729 cuz we watched it every now and again and the teacher always rewinded it back a few mins and we only watched it for like 10/20 mins
Before old mate comes over it’s Noel fielding
The magnificence of Sir Laurence Olivier.
The original incel
I have always loved Olivier, I'm not an actor or profess to know what's good or bad. All I know is Laurence Olivier is just mesmerizing, brilliant, authentic and captivating to watch. I love all his Shakespearean soliloquy/monologue's, but most importantly I just enjoy watching him. 🙏🏾
A classic opening phrase
I like McKellen’s better!
I don’t like the way they edit the text. They mix it all up. Add here, subtract there, cut and paste. Shakespeare soliloquies don’t need to be edited. Just say the words as written.
dude look like Lord Farquad
Acting par exellance. Olivier a God amongst actors. And this scene shows that extreme intelligence can so often be linked to incredible evil.
I never could follow, much less appreciate Shakespeare, until I heard Olivier.
"Now is the summer of our discontent made glorious summer..." What's all this shit? ~ John Wayne..
Wrong. He said "Who wrote this shit?"