Withnail and I... Hamlet Soliloquy (HD)
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- Опубликовано: 1 апр 2012
- I have of late, but wherefore
I know not, lost all my mirth
and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition;
that this goodly frame the Earth, seemes to me a sterrill
Promontory; this most excellent Canopy the Ayre,
look you, this brave ore-hanging firmament,
this Majestical Roof,
fretted with golden fire: why,
it appeares no other thing
to me, then a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
What a piece of work is a man,
How noble in Reason, how infinite in faculties,
how like an angel in apprehension
how like a God !
the beauty of the world,
the paragon of animals. and yet to me,
what is this quintessence of dust?
Man delights not me; no,
nor Woman neither;
-The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Act II, Scene ii, 285-300) 
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I absolutely love that the end of the film is foreshadowed by Uncle Monty's speech to both of them: "It's the most devastating moment in a young mans life, when he quite reasonably says to himself, "I shall never play The Dane!" It is at that moment that all ambition ceases to exist." And here is Withnail playing the Dane, but to an indifferent pack of wolves on a miserable day
i never made that connection
"My boys my boys... We're at the End of an Age."
Withnail replies to Monty "It's a part that I intend to play, Uncle", Monty replies "And you'll be marvelous." . Not played the way Withnail hoped I suppose. Marvelous nonetheless.
@@briansmith262 Yes, exactly. I think that was inserted to set up the final scene. It really works because Whitnail is a procrastinator like Hamlet
@@1seansouth Dude, this is all beautifully put and I thank you for it.
Fantastic performance. It's only in this scene that we finally get a taste of Withnail's acting talent, and realise that the self-worth which he derives from his apparent profession is not in fact baseless. Such a shame that the only witnesses are the lonely wolves... It's interesting to note that the final shot, as Withnail struts away, is taken from the wolve's perspective inside the cage which lends a certain sadness as Withnail departs alone after being left behind by his formerly stalwart companion, I.
publicenemymcmenemy -
And all the non player characters portrayed stumble in to their insignificance.
Ah but how much of that was acting, and how much of that was his heart breaking?
Even the wolves left him.
He bows to the wolves
Real character killed himself
The repeating of the line 'nor women neither' and the smile and bow he gives the wolves is fucking heart wrenching.
I've always took this to be a suggestion of his homosexual feelings for "I". Very poignant if so.
Not all love is sexual. I don't get sexual vibes from Withnail at all. Unlike Monty. But do sense a yearning to be adored.
Richard E. Grant absolutely shines here. What a movie.
Most certainly he does. Exceptional.
The greatest film ever made
Without doubt, is and always will be my No. 1
It Certainly is. A beautiful and heartfelt film, extremely well made with the perfect actors and locations and script.
Oh, what a piece of work is a man!
It's genuinely one of the best deliveries of this soliloquy
Definitely the best on screen.
In a drunken you tube review just now everything else seems totally fake and "actory". Grant's version perfectly meshes the character and the words and it is absolutely perfect in this context.
ruclips.net/video/KJlMqmhjEDg/видео.html this comes close
Apparently, not a soliloquy , as it is spoken to Rozenkrantz and Guildenstern. But like a solioquy in delivery. Not sure what it would be called, though? A speech? A statement? ...a lament? An explanation ..to his friends of his morbid behaviour
@@jandekock4345 good knowledge! sounds like he's just having a moan or thinking out loud 🤔
I consider myself very lucky to have known Vivian Mackerrel in real life. He was the most charming, interesting, funny and charismatic guy and the film captures him very well.
Incredible character, I hope it does him justice, it feels like it was made with love. I have been watching this film since I was teenager and still find new aspects to it with every watch. This particular scene is one of the best renditions of Hamlet ever in my opinion, the drunken bittersweet tone suits it so well.
He was nick-named ‘Crime’ because he never paid, yes?!🤔😳
Did he get some acting work? Please say yes.
Did you know him as a child, what happened to him to make him so self destructive?
My cousin also knew Vivian and directed him i several plays, chronologically after the ending of Withnail and I, one of which was Hamlet. The roles he gave him were out of kindness but couldn’t get him back on his feet. My cousin also visited his home in Islington and said the apartment in the film was very accurate. Very sad story.
Such beauty was lost on me as a child when my dad said 'watch this'. It'll be a film I return to for years to come.
Gatorade237 -
It wasn't lost. Sometimes it takes a while to percolate.
I've never seen his delivery of this scene bettered. The perfect end to a perfect movie.
I am dying from liver failure.
Homeless thanks to my brother and the only people who ever cared about me my grandparents and mam and dad are long gone.
Oh and one other, my beautiful partner who passed three weeks ago to the day.
She was such a caring soul.
I don't believe believe a God or afterlife but at least soon I will join them all in eternity.
I just hope the Quantum Theory of Immortality is wrong.
That truly is horrific 😢
“[The wolves are unimpressed. Withnail exits into the rain.]”
- last stage directions in the Withnail & I screenplay
Heartbreakingly beautiful.
One of the saddest and most poignant scenes from any film I can think of
I believe the original ending was even darker.
Ending of Midnight Cowboy?
@@ally11488 That's a good one
@@user-sw6xf6hw9z what was the original ending?
@@TomorrowWeLive i believe withnail shot himself in the mouth with montys shotgun after drinking loads of wine
The UK give us the BEST in arts
Thanks for that.
Regards from Chile
Used to. Past tense unfortunately. But thankyou. God Bless x
This is the best film ever made. No competition.
Always brings me to tears. (49 year old man) he is lonely, depressed and desperate for love.
Life.
Some people are far too sensitive for this cesspool of a world. ☹️
This ending can hit home pretty damn hard for people with depression/clinical depression (which I heavily think Withnail might have). The fact that his reciting of the soliloquy is a desperate cry for help in a cruel world, but no one will get help for him (this is the 60’s after all, and back then, depression/clinical depression and its effects on people were less well known than it is now)...it’s just heartbreaking.
Id say there are ten times the number per population of depressed individuals than there were in the 60's.
Hamlet was profoundly suicidal
@@MsMesemTen times the number of people who know they're depressed
@@jackmclean4120 No ....just more.
It's based on a real person too...
What a bloody brilliant film. Everything is right with it
Adam Unwin If you want to learn to act. Just do this.
brings tears to my eyes every time ....
Richard Grant was built different. One of the most greatest actors to ever grace the screen and stage.
Probably the best rendition of those lines. Absolutely incredible.
I watch it once a year and it truly never gets boring. One of my absolute favourite films. “the sky's beginning to bruise”.
Sherry?
@@thejoker114 sherry.
Sherry
“We’ve gone on holiday by mistake!”
best rendition ever.
Just the best ever and moving rendition of this soliloquy I have seen
This movie is just the perfection
My thoughts on this (and they are only mine) is that he was absolutely in love with “I” and he is now heartbroken. I feel that the repetition at the end of the soliloquy “nor WOMAN neither” confirms this point. This is cinema at its very best 😢
I've always thought that too.
I have of late, wherefore I know not, lost all of my mirth. And indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the Earth seems to me a sterile promontory. This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'er-hanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire. Why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! How like an angel in apprehension, how like a God! The beauty of the world, paragon of animals! And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me: no, nor women neither. Nor women neither.
What can be said in so few lines. Setting it in Regents Park with those nasty railings and facing caged animals. I wonder if it was real rain ? Not that it matters.
I know it’s out of context, but no actor except R.E. Grant has moved me to tears with this soliloquy before. Perfect meshing of story, mis-en-scene and acting. Timeless. Someone asked me recently for my favorite final movie scene and I said: Bob Hoskins as Harold Shand in the limo in “The Long Good Friday.” But today I thought of Grant in “Withnail,” and I watched it again, and here we are. Goddammit, sometimes I think I wanna top myself-no joke-but it’s the chance to watch primal, vital art like this again that pulls me back. “Life has meaning despite your momentary misery” is the message that gets through to me.
Is it the love that he has for his craft, whilst being frustrated with his own current position in the acting world/industry that motivates his wonderful display? Knowing 'I' has gone off to join those circles + peers, does Withnail give into the futility of his situation, when he has been waiting for acceptance from the same crowd for some time? Is losing his partner an egregious pain that inspires such a passionate, true, breakout performance? Is it the first acting he does in the film, other than blagging strangers to get a freebie? He cannot do this until this experience occurs and his heart broken. Even if its just for the wolves in the rain? Will his love(of acting and/or 'I') be enough to carry him through to his next evolution? Or is losing his friend too much to take and will send him into a lonely retreat, while the wolves still have their pack, and 'I' has a new one.
Or is Withnail the apex wolf after all, who goes it alone, head strong with no doubt he will land exactly where he needs to be to thrive. Was he just helping out his other pack members first until they had the strength to fend for themselves and find their own feet and journeys. They are somewhat still behind bars in cages in Withnail's eyes, whereas he can only survive or feel alive outside their walls of protection, even if it means solitude. The fact he still has an umbrella gives me hope he still has regard for himself, as useless as it is in this scene, with the torrents around him. If he had bought some wellies when told to by Monty it might have done him better! Come to think of it, there is alot of references to feet and shoes in the movie. Do we all have to find our feet in harsh terrain and unstable ground? And start using them but look after them?! And the dealer whose had more drugs than hot dinners breaks into their place with nothing on his!!😂 Just some random thoughts brother seeing as you posted this recently. Stay on your feet and keep them moving forward!
Hope you are less inclined to do yourself in lately. As a point of information, love of theatre kept me going through YEARS of bleakness. 'It's a mystery'!
Thank you
My God! Harold Shand in the limo as it pulls out of the Savoy ! I watch that all the time.
His expression. And that music! I go there sometimes for a drink in the American Bar and when I come out I do the whole scene witn a taxi. I'm a lady by the way but I play Bob
And the IRA guy is Pierce Brosnan!
Let me know you are ok please
What a closing delivery. Perhaps, one of the most unheralded ever.
One of the most poignant endings ever. So very sad because you can’t help thinking that his time will very shortly be up.
I will never play The Dane :(
You'd be marvellous....marvellous
The regret that I'm too young to have seen Richard E Grant play the Dane.
...but he is the perfect age to play Claudius if they cast a young Hamlet
An evening at the Crow, I think...
We must make haste...the sky is beginning to bruise...
And to think the original ending was going to be even more tragic and darker. I'm glad we had this version instead.
what was the original ending? It's probably my most watched film but this is the first time i've heard there was an alternative ending. I'd love to know!
@@quinboy78 The original ending was going to be Withnail pouring wine into a shotgun then blowing his head off.
@@DrB81 for once, I’m more than satisfied with the non-alternative ending! Thank you, Dr Baptiste
@@quinboy78 Here hare here! Yeah that ending would have been powerful but ultimately sucked.
@ It also wouldn't have made any sense. Withnail was supposed to have stolen Monty's shotgun. But the cops would almost certainly have given the Jag a once-over and found it. So...a bit of a plot-hole there. No, thank God Bruce Robinson saw sense, this ending is infinitely more poignant.
I love this scene for so many reasons. The melancholy, the anger and frustration at being left behind, and the fact that I assume Robinson got Grant to mess up the lines, just as a drunk Withnail probably would have.
I’d like to believe that Withnail eventually found his way. In this life or the next.
Mess up the lines ?
@@Jlipnicki parts of it are missing; “how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable!”
How perfectly written Bruce! What pointed perfection of Shakespeare’s soliloquy!
Makes me cry everytime. Shakespeare's words and the film.
I love cinema . Ive seen many movies and shows. I like to think i have good taste. This scene is in my top 5 for sure.
Those wolves got the best performance of Hamlet ever done ❤😂
This is the scene where you realise Withnail is the true talent but too flawed and not the zeitgeist of the moment.
Such is life isn't it...
thank you for uploading the HD format, this is such a lovely film.
It was a part he intended to play.
You'd be marvellous at it! Marvellous!
When the rain washes you clean you'll know...
A close rendition, some editing from the original lines...an interesting interpretation re "how like a God" gives it a unique flavour. Most enjoyable.
Please explain? 🤔🧐🤨
What a fantastic movie, probably my favorite ever.
Perfect film, and a perfect performance from Richard E Grant!!!!
I have of late, (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth,; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition; that this goodly frame the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy the air, look you, this brave o'er hanging firmament, this majestical roof, fretted with golden fire: why, it appeareth no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man, How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, how like an Angel, In apprehension how like a god, The beauty of the world, The paragon of animals. And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor Woman neither;
Shame that Richard E. Grant never got to play Hamlet.
It's not too late.
In my opinion this is one of the saddest movies ever made not because it is showing despair not because it is about despair but because the characters are despairing. It's a comedy at least allegedly, but you see that desperation bubble 4th as a reason to every action and interaction. A series of unwhole people Trying their best backed up against a ledge
And it is only here at the end when our lead dramatist is alone that the movie says the quiet part almost out loud, Plain enough for anyone who has lived there to see it and for anyone who has not to hear it
From the greatest film, ever made. Sherry? :)
Can't find the rosemary?
@@HHM706 Hahahahahaha!! One of the reasons why the ending scene in 'Withnail and I' does it for me. Drama school since 1985. Hamlet. Awesome story! 1987, I watched WNand I, that blew me away too!! Rented on vhs cassette!! :)
@@ksturmer5388 a brilliant film..very funny but also poignant.
@@HHM706 Thank you!! It is!! Both, are wonderful highlights of our art. Best wishes to you, sir.
@@ksturmer5388 and to you!
The best “Dr Who” we never had.
The older I get, the more I think about this scene.
The director said I is a victim in the beginning and middle but withnail is a victim in the end
I've only just noticed, but isn't there a verse missing? The third verse should be "forgone all custom of exercises". Still, one of the best films ever and also probably one of the best deliveries... So good, I only just realised that line was missing, yet everytime I remembered this scene it was there!
Oh, GOD I need another drink
Sublime.
(Great Film).
what a beautiful piece of work is it
I cracked the boards in my youth.
Crept the boards
@@Lee-eo3ek Cracked. In Canada, they cracked.
Any minute now you're going to rush off and get into your tights.
Worse when you think what he's walking back to. The previous scene had them learn they're about to be evicted. He refused all roles offered to him and he's helplessly addicted. Soon he'll be homeless, without a friend or hope in the world
I like to believe he eventually found his way. We'll we can hope so rather :)
breaks my heart
Fuck me ....when you have a hearts desire that seemingly fills your life as it appears to be that way ....and it doesn't go 'that' way .....then you quote this ..,..and think fuck it all...am better off on my own ......with my own company and faults.xx
It's one of those films that you don't want to end, always find it difficult viewing when they get back to London. You want them up in Monty's cottage longer. On a feast of roast meals, fine wines, cards and sexual burglary!
Great. (Classic) .
Well, he will never play the Dane... except for a few lines to some uncomprehending wolves in the park.
Alas.
Wolves? Weren’t those deer??
Nope, just watched it again, the clip here at least, and that ain’t no deer but does rather look like a wolf indeed!
I love this film but it makes me think. Speak your truth. Xx
I have seen this done by so many people and this is indeed the best version. It is, however, a monologue not a soliloquy.
Indeed, its delivered directly to Rosencrantz.
so·lil·o·quy
/səˈliləkwē/
noun
noun: soliloquy; plural noun: soliloquies
an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
@@Cloudstrike_a soliloquy is spoken to the audience, with an understanding that the character speaking is talking to. Themselves and nobody present on the stage can hear them, only the audience.
He does say, “Look you!”
I was shown this movie when i was 16. Although i enjoyed it, it was mostly lost on me until i lived it a little (being skint in bedsit land and living with someone who left this grandiose lifestyle for the heights of being an eternal student [to this day] in some craphole uni in Northern Wales) unfortunately, i was from a poor background unlike the characters played in the film. But the film became slightly relatable,
Oh jolly jolly good
No better way of saying goodbye cruel world
Fan Made Videos Shotgun filled with shells and merlot. What a way to go.
I cry at this and in butchers shop
They don’t make films like this anymore
I'd love to know what Wuthnail's childhood was like, how did he turn out so badly. It's so sad but I suppose we don't know how many people fall through the cracks.
Would have loved to see him play The Dame in his youth. A real missed treasure
*Dane
Quintessence of dust!
Indeed.
richard e grant is absolutely perfect in this movie
Agreed.
Im out of fucking cigarrites now! Finding catarsis with this video.
If only Withnail knew, it was gonna get even worse - Chris Evans would later nick his coat and get it covered in cowshit in a farmer's field in some go-cart and shit celebrity shenanigans. Bloody Hell.
:-)
Sherry
Sherry
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Cin cin *
Sherry
Fuckin Beautiful Baby, couldn't be more relevant tha Today now...🙏👁🌏🌀🍻
Chin chin...
Nor women neither
Bow
I think this is based on a friend of Bruce Robinson who never had any acting roles, who was an alcoholic and who died in his 20's or 30's.
He wasted his talent because of his need for alcohol and he eventually had no confidence of his acting ability and died never achieving something which was not too hard or delusional or not in his reach, and because he was increasingly depressed his alcohol problems worsened and so did his behaviour and reputation which led to him to never even get offered an unpaid role in a small town, and a name for being too unreliable to be considered for most roles so it became an almost self fulfilling prophecy and a vicious circle of negative thoughts..
I am not a fan of Shakespeare but I am impressed by this.
Almost, yet Vivian M did indeed land a few parts and his rather slim filmography can be found on Wikipedia. His final film role “Ghost Story” from 1974 landed him next to some big acting names, and could’ve gone on much higher, alas that is where his filmography ends. To me, that is far more tragic than him never having any roles at all. Salut.
some of the lines from the speech are missed, such "forgone all custom of excersies" and "i action how like and angel, in apprehension how like a god" anways was really good
He did say the latter part.
i love it.keep up the good work.what type of mic did u use.
Bittajones it’s from a movie called Withnail
And I dude
@@BeefMissileband fancy not knowing, such a shame. Youth is wasted on the young.....
most surreal comment i've ever seen.. i'm glad you loved this clip though. It shows you have taste at the very least. In the 7 years since you made this comment I hope you've progressed with your enjoyment and knowledge of great films.
hurrah
Nihilism 1:Wolves 0
Rhesus negative Bloody Mary?🍷
Not a soliloquy, he says it to rosencrstz and guildenstern in the middle of their conversation in act 2 scene 2
so·lil·o·quy
/səˈliləkwē/
Learn to pronounce
noun
noun: soliloquy; plural noun: soliloquies
an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
I'm glad he didn't recite anything from the Scottish play
What? Macbeth!
AHHH!!! HOT POTATO, ORCHESTRA STALLS, PUCK WILL MAKE AMENDS!
My teacher told me to be more Shakespeareang so i showed her this
Hahaha, WHAAAAT?
me watching Withnel and I: haha uncle durnsly got the gay
Me at the end: feels
Shakespeare. Work shows promise. Should try harder. See me outside my study for a few things you could improve.
:-)