For a contrast to Brando's interpretation of the role as Marc Anthony I recommend that everyone who watches this clip also look for the 1960 Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) version featuring William Shatner as Marc Anthony. I won't say one is better than the other, only very different. Shatner's Anthony is subtler, more nuanced, and at the end of his speech you can clearly tell he incited, what was just called here, a riot. There's also a clip somewhere here of a 1970 version of the play with Charleton Heston as Anthony. It's a standard approach to the role, neither having any major faults nor anything to it to set it apart from the pack.
wow nice catch. I believe that it's not accidental. Actors in his magnitude do know how to capture the drama in one scene and implement it in a different setting.
It's the subtle things Brando does with the way you can vocalize, and inflect with speech, that makes his dialogues, and speeches so PERFECT. For example, when he starts the speech with, "friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears". The way he does a slight dip to the word, "countrymen" made the speech so natural, and not forced, as if he's just an actor, acting, and playing the part of Marc Anthony, and being overly dramatic. But just that slight dip to "countrymen", makes it seem like he's actually giving the speech, and not acting out, or reciting the speech. I hope this makes sense to someone out there. It wasn't just how he acted, how he moved, or the tone, and passion in which he delivered his dialogue, and speeches, but it was the way he could manipulate the English language, and just speech in general that made him truly great to me, and something he understood, and only he could do as well as him. You could take a million actors to give the same speech, and give the exact same amount of passion, and pure acting brilliance to a part, but they'll never exactly get the nuances of the pattern of speech, or subtle twists and turns to a certain word, an ending to a sentence, etc. to give it that extra "mmph", and brilliance that Brando could. God, I'm so long winded lol.
Absolutely divine. Just when I thought I my respect for Brando had reached its peak. I did not even realize this was Brando at first, I had never seen him do anything Classical, he is just brilliant.
I remember seeing this when I was in high school. I couldn't imagine him in anything Shakespearean. And then I watched it and my mouth was left wide open in awe!
This speech cannot be done well without the actor shouting to a big crowd, and straining to be heard far at the back. Those who render this monologue in a confined place cannot give it all of its strength. This scene was set well by the director, staging it in a large open space with lots of people to listen. It was the perfect place for the actor to render this superb Shakespearian harangue exactly as it should, with the pressure of contained emotions whistling from the corner of the mouth until the lips could no more contain the rush of blame.
I think Brando is superb. But I would beg to differ with his doing it better than anyone else. I think people were so amazed that he could do Shakespeare at all and could speak so well that his performance is slightly overrated. Great, yes, but there are dozens of superb actors - at the Globe, the RSC, the National- who could play Antony just as well. Most people have never even heard of them.
it was because of this man that it WAS SO IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO FAIL MY COMMUNICATION SKILLS COURSES. He knows what to say, when to say it and how to say it!!!!!!!!!!!!my heart is with him in his peech and i must pause till come back to me.
truly, this speech by Mark Antony proves the greatness and the lofty ideals of Shakespeare... it's very inspiring indeed.... can't express how i feel every time i listen to this speech... it's new to me each and every time... thank you for sharing it
This is an amazing speech performed by an actor able to express the necessary emotional range of what the character is going through and has to hold back. When Caesar is assassinated by Brutus and Cassius Rome has reached a point of civil war and Mark Antony was Caesar's Field Marshal. Brutus and Cassius need Mark Antony on their side to avoid a civil war but are obviously not above assassinating Mark Antony if he shows he would cross them (which he later does, serving Caesar's adopted son, Augustus). Mark Antony knows of the peril he faces and knows he must sway the crowd towards him but no show defiance of the powerful Brutus and Cassius. He also has to bury a close compatriot and friend who he spent years campaigning for and with. Brando trembles with the fury Antony feels towards Brutus but shows a surface respect, both for Brutus' benefit and the crowd who have just heard Brutus' speech where he justifies the killing of Caesar for his ambition, with the repetition of "Brutus is an honorable man." He also condemns the crowd for being so fickle and ready to believe Brutus' lies then his voice catches as he becomes overwhelmed by the sorrow of the loss of his friend Caesar. This is an amazing speech interpreted by an amazing actor. I have read some people criticizing Brando for the speed in which he delivers the speech but don't we all speak rapidly when furious? Brando manages to get across the fury and the intelligent, reasoned parts of a speech that strives to express the complex feelings of Antony who is faced with being killed himself, must sway the people of Rome to support him against Brutus if there is to be a Civil War, act like he is not condemning Brutus when he is so Brutus won't assassinate him, grieve for the loss of Caesar, and cope with the fickle nature of a mob public. This is one of the best filmed versions of this dramatic, Shakespearean moment...
Absolutely love this speech.. I learned this in when I was 14 and now I'm 43 and I still remember every word. This is absolutely one of the greatest speeches of all time. And I must pause till it comes back to me.
Damian Lewis is by far the best I've seen performing this! Marlon Brando comes after him! And it sounds modern not so much because of Brando but because it's Shakespeare. It's timeless.
When my brother was 13 and in jr high he had to memorize this. I was 6. He and my mom practiced and said this aloud so much that I picked it up. I remembered the first part of this the rest of my life.
Although a small detail in a remarkable performance, that p-p-pause at the end is painstakingly heartfelt and soulful. Inspired Brando, hungry for it and true here.
IMO, this is the best delivery of this speech ever on film. Strong, but delicately colored, and sped up when he needs to make effects. The whole speech is ten minutes long, and he never lets up the pattern and the meaning he sees in it. If I recall, Gielgud said he helped him with the design.
The gifted American actor Marlon Brando, gives here, what in my mind is the finest realization of the greatest, rhetorically rich set speech in the ouevre of Shakespeare. Historically, we know the speech of Mark Antony had the effect that Shakespeare re-creates for us here; Antony (in history) spoke with eloquence, but we have lost that record. Shakespeare with Brando here gives us the best possible recreation in English. Thanks to the RUclips folks for posting such "immortal" realizations of the finest elements in our Western heritage.
Brandos' interpretation of mark Anthony is more powerful than of Heston's betrayal, sadly this was a short film clip and doesn't include his full speech.
I was able to watch Julius Caesar on TCM recently. And to see the full Marc Anthony speech by Marlon Brando is jus so POWERFUL. I wish RUclips have the full speech online.
Heston's only great role was in Orson Welles's masterpiece, Touch of Evil, before he got a swelled head & thought he was some kind of gun-toting messiah.
He’s so immersive and spontaneous. You can feel the emotions resonate from his voice. You can see the pain he feels for his friend in his eyes. Brandi builds this monologue almost to perfection. He is a genius. I think this and his streetcar performance are the best acting I’ve ever seen
“My heart is in the coffin with Caesar - and I must pause till it comes back to me”. I’ve watched multiple videos and read the this entire quote just for that part. Gets me every time
When I read this in class, I imagined this speech being delivered in a cool and calculated manner by Mark Antony. But it was really something hearing it here filled with so much anger, passion, and emotion. Like, this wasn't cold; this was _heated,_ and I kinda like that too.
I saw this a lifetime ago and it remained in my mind as a stunning reading and acting of Antony's speech to ...friends, Romans, countrymen... Brando was a greater talent than even his legendary legacy
I first performed JC with my sixth grade class . I don't remember much about it, but it must have been both painful and adorable. This summer I took part in a much more professional production of it, and I really began to appreciate the play on a way my little sixth grade mind had not been able to. Our Marc Antony (who was only nineteen. It was a young company production), was, if not as good as Brando, certainly up there, and as such, I have become ridiculously obsessed with the character of Marc Antony. I love Brando's version of this speech for its simplicity. I feel like so many Shakespearean actors feel the need to ridiculously over-exaggerate both speech and gestures, which, while it is useful to a certain extent when performing live theatre, can become exceedingly frustrating. Brando delivers his speech with a realistic simlicity, and a straightforwardness that is, in my opinion, much more effective than some of the overdramatic Antonys I have seen, both live and on film. Basically, long rant aside, our fantastic Antony led me to this fantastic Antony, and now I am inspired.
One brilliant feature of Brando's delivery here--rarely achieved by actors--is that he utters these centuries-worn words as if spontaneously just occurring to him ... and we believe him. His expressed appropriate emotions and gestures (of anger and grief ... as of Stanley Kowalski's) make them true. But here his bearing and speech are (fitting the role) admirably patrician.
Brando with full body language and 2:25 mumbling that last yelling "And, sure, he is an honourable man!" as one word... sublime acting!. As a native spanish this speech alone justifies all my years learning english, THANKS so much for posting and far from any ambition in a doomsday you can save the whole human race with this cultural gem :-).
Brando was really good in this scene. He really planned this out and designed it. From what I understand, Gielgud helped him with it. The best part is not here. Its at the end when he bows down next to the corpse, and raises his hand and roars: "When will come another." He turns and smirks to himself as the crowd goes nuts behind him: Mission Accomplished. This is not method acting, which he usually did. Its classical acting, played on the lines.
This has to be one of my favorite monologues of all time. Marc lost his friend. A friend of his that he respected. And to see everyone hate him and say they’re glad he’s dead, to have the man who killed him who was supposed to be his right hand man clearly lie about him. “He was ambitious” yet Marc clearly shows that Brutus knew NOTHING about Caesar. Ugh it’s so powerful and amazing.
I'm still so impressed by Brando's performance. When I think of Brando I always think about the pop culture iconic movies like "On the Waterfront" and "Godfather", and I forget his excellent performance of the classics. His face and physique are also perfect for the part. He looks like he belongs in a toga. Very patrician.
"Friends, Roman's, countrymen, lend me your ears " 😂 my favorite line to quote from this play. I say it every time I need to speak among my friend group 😂
The monologue that Mark Antony delivers when he is alone is with Caesar's body when he expresses his true feelings at the death of his mentor and his hatred of his muderers is even more powerful.
Marlon Is without any doubt or fear of contradiction one of The greatest actor in The World. Here he is at his BEST. Let us just look at him and listen to him to share What I try to say. Many many Thanks.
This is one speech my English teacher showed us in the movie, after we read it in class... that struck me dead silent. It could've just been that he was a much better speaker than the dork assigned to speak as Antony in class, but either way... This speech shuts me up. The way he shouts at some points, the effect, the powerful voice, it's all just so amazing... Thanks for posting.
For what I've read, even though the words are lost, some notes were made about what Marc Antony said, and that Shakespeare did some very conscientious research about it. I like to think that if Marc Antony had anywhere near the command of rhetoric that Shakespeare credits him, he might well have gone in a direction like this.
Well Mark Antony did manage to quell an angry mob calling ceaser a tyrant into a jeering crowd demanding justice on his behalf so he must have had quite a bit of command in terms of rhetoric. I'd like to imagine that Brutus and his ilk collectively shit themselves while Mark gave his presentation
I had to commit this speech to memory for my 10th grade English class. My teacher encouraged us to "act" it out rather than just recite it. I and a girl in my class were the only two to wrap makeshift togas around ourselves and legitimately act it out, emotion and all. My teacher told us that we were the only ones to ever do that in her career. We were also the only two to get A's that day.
This speech seems to have been cut off before the end. I'm sure there was more stuff about Caesar's will and what he left the Roman people which gets the sympathy of the crowd.
Basically this is the part where Mark Antony speaks without any disturbance. After this there's discussion amongst the crowd so maybe that's why the scene's been cut off.
"and Brutus said he was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man!" every time he says this I smile "Bear with me my heart is in the coffin with Caesar..."
I have seen both of Heston's versions of this speech, 1950 and 1970. The latter one was a bit better. But I think Brando's is better than both. This is intricately planned, well understood, and then set ablaze with talent. He begins with a very low key approach, he then builds it from there. Then at the end, (which is not shown here), with the will in hand, and his arm waving over Ceasar's body, bending down and then rising and shouting, "Here lies our Ceasar, when will come another." That becomes a crescendo. But its then topped by the quiet smirk on his face and he walks away realizing he has taken advantage of the conspirators' mistake and caused a civil war. Brando was only 29 here. He had John Gielgud's help in planning this and building effects. I think its one of the best delivered long speeches of Shakespeare in films. But I should add in fairness to Heston, his 1950 version of the speech over Caesar's body is better than Brando's here in this film.
Wrong. Brando was far superior, not only because of the obvious, but all the little nuances which were what set him apart from every other actor. Just being overbearing, loud, not a good performance make. No, Heston was just being Heston. He should've stayed with more understated roles like the lead in Touch of Evil.
Too bad it ended, this was the moment when the crowd slowly begins to turn in favor of Brutus. Society has little changed, siding back and forth with whomever can tickle their ears with the greatest amount of Bravo Sierra.
Came here to watch this famous speech after recollecting my school days English class, a chapter on Mark Anthony, orating I here come not to praise ceaser but to bury him..."I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him" 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Loyalty and Respect to the Great King
9 years later and I'm using this to study for my final in english. its so interesting to see other people here from a while ago comment to share their thoughts. amazing :)
sam odysseus Worse Edition, at the begining he hold someone and says quietly to him friends roman's countrymen lend me your ears, then everybody heard it and hold on.? It's a bullshit for a scene how can a actor imagine that, it can be realistic. to plastic maybe at the Theater is that possible
I can think of no man who I disagreed with more than Marlon Brando ,.But his Mark Anthony was superb. The sheer power of his performance as well as James mason was an act done for eternity and the benchmark for all other actors who would ever attempt these parts.
Brutus - Note to self: NEVER let Antony speak AFTER.
Note to Brutus: is that ambition or envy?
Well a better tip would be to not let him speak at all but what can ya do....
@@GerryBolger or even better just stab everybody.
Especially if he's played by Marlon Brando. That was a suicide.
Wilkins: Well, sorry to say but.. YOU HAVE NO FUTURE!
im going to make them a speech they cant refuse
i died at this hahahahah
Puranjay Samson Then how did you write this comment? ;)
LITERALLY
Arees187 Lol 😂🤣
Did you hear about the Chinese godfather? He made them an offer they couldn't understand
"Brutus is an honourable man" - first ever sarcasm.
+Kaylee Masson back then, sarcasm was known as "reducio absurdum"
Yes that is true.
You know nothing about ancient rhetorics, Jonless Snowsson.
Me?
Or were you referring to me?
"And Brutus is an honourable man" the origin of sarcasm
What an absolutely absurd claim.
Copy paste is so gay
Undoubtedly the best version of the speech. Full of passion, and very realistic in that this was basically a riot
A riot that Marc Anthony created by turning the mob against Brutus and his conspirators. Epic Brando performance.
For a contrast to Brando's interpretation of the role as Marc Anthony I recommend that everyone who watches this clip also look for the 1960 Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) version featuring William Shatner as Marc Anthony. I won't say one is better than the other, only very different. Shatner's Anthony is subtler, more nuanced, and at the end of his speech you can clearly tell he incited, what was just called here, a riot. There's also a clip somewhere here of a 1970 version of the play with Charleton Heston as Anthony. It's a standard approach to the role, neither having any major faults nor anything to it to set it apart from the pack.
Yeah the best one in 400 years. 😔😔
Please go look at Damian Lewis do this. It’s amazing how he portrays this
@@leothelion2593 yes that is the new best version
i had to memorize this speech for my English class a couple of weeks ago, now it has a place in my heart
Still remember it? Lol
@@addisonwillis46 I know I do 🤦🏿♂️
2:57 - "look how they massacred my boy"
wow nice catch. I believe that it's not accidental. Actors in his magnitude do know how to capture the drama in one scene and implement it in a different setting.
"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff". How well did he deliver that line? Such a nuanced and believable performance.
Yes!! Mr favorite part!!!
Brando owns this speech. No other Mark Antony on film comes close to the intensity he brought to this performance.
Heston.
Heston was OK at best. I will agree that the inaccurate clothing didn't help, but Brando gives life to Mark Antony.
There are many fans of James Purefoy and HBO'S Rome.
James Purefoy is unbelievable
Heston was far superior
It's the subtle things Brando does with the way you can vocalize, and inflect with speech, that makes his dialogues, and speeches so PERFECT. For example, when he starts the speech with, "friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears". The way he does a slight dip to the word, "countrymen" made the speech so natural, and not forced, as if he's just an actor, acting, and playing the part of Marc Anthony, and being overly dramatic. But just that slight dip to "countrymen", makes it seem like he's actually giving the speech, and not acting out, or reciting the speech.
I hope this makes sense to someone out there. It wasn't just how he acted, how he moved, or the tone, and passion in which he delivered his dialogue, and speeches, but it was the way he could manipulate the English language, and just speech in general that made him truly great to me, and something he understood, and only he could do as well as him. You could take a million actors to give the same speech, and give the exact same amount of passion, and pure acting brilliance to a part, but they'll never exactly get the nuances of the pattern of speech, or subtle twists and turns to a certain word, an ending to a sentence, etc. to give it that extra "mmph", and brilliance that Brando could.
God, I'm so long winded lol.
Brilliant observation
Mf was just born to act. Probably nbarely had to work for it even
👏👏👏👏👏
I don't know how many times I've watched this. It's phenomenal. Not many actors can convey emotions like Brando.
Absolutely divine. Just when I thought I my respect for Brando had reached its peak. I did not even realize this was Brando at first, I had never seen him do anything Classical, he is just brilliant.
I remember seeing this when I was in high school. I couldn't imagine him in anything Shakespearean. And then I watched it and my mouth was left wide open in awe!
This speech cannot be done well without the actor shouting to a big crowd, and straining to be heard far at the back. Those who render this monologue in a confined place cannot give it all of its strength. This scene was set well by the director, staging it in a large open space with lots of people to listen. It was the perfect place for the actor to render this superb Shakespearian harangue exactly as it should, with the pressure of contained emotions whistling from the corner of the mouth until the lips could no more contain the rush of blame.
brando is the final boss of acting
He is, and Daniel Day Lewis is the only one to beat the game.
Yawg moth LOL Nice Joke 👍
@@yawgmoth5662 Mark Anthony in the HBO Series is much better I guess
No that title is held by Laurence Olivier.
Brando Nicholson De Niro Pacino Denzel
Brando was an honourable man
+Stuntplik .
Blaze of Glory And so were they all, all honorable men.
He really wasn't
Yet he and Charleston are both honorable men.
😁
Brando deserves credit for doing this better than anyone ever has or will- but give Shake the credit for creating this most perfect moment of climax
mike felix And give Sir John Gielgud credit for coaching him.
Peter Von Berg Gielgud's Cassius is beyond compare as well. The envy- the bitterness, that quivering accent lol
Oh my God yes. Sir John was the greatest verse speaker of the century. I have idolized him my whole professional life.
I think Brando is superb. But I would beg to differ with his doing it better than anyone else. I think people were so amazed that he could do Shakespeare at all and could speak so well that his performance is slightly overrated. Great, yes, but there are dozens of superb actors - at the Globe, the RSC, the National- who could play Antony just as well. Most people have never even heard of them.
it was because of this man that it WAS SO IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO FAIL MY COMMUNICATION SKILLS COURSES. He knows what to say, when to say it and how to say it!!!!!!!!!!!!my heart is with him in his peech and i must pause till come back to me.
truly, this speech by Mark Antony proves the greatness and the lofty ideals of Shakespeare... it's very inspiring indeed.... can't express how i feel every time i listen to this speech... it's new to me each and every time... thank you for sharing it
How do understand it? I don't even get what he's trying to say because the language is so old.
yeah.. u jst need 2 fall in love wid english... google the speech... u'll get 2 know wat he's sayin'
This is an amazing speech performed by an actor able to express the necessary emotional range of what the character is going through and has to hold back. When Caesar is assassinated by Brutus and Cassius Rome has reached a point of civil war and Mark Antony was Caesar's Field Marshal. Brutus and Cassius need Mark Antony on their side to avoid a civil war but are obviously not above assassinating Mark Antony if he shows he would cross them (which he later does, serving Caesar's adopted son, Augustus). Mark Antony knows of the peril he faces and knows he must sway the crowd towards him but no show defiance of the powerful Brutus and Cassius. He also has to bury a close compatriot and friend who he spent years campaigning for and with. Brando trembles with the fury Antony feels towards Brutus but shows a surface respect, both for Brutus' benefit and the crowd who have just heard Brutus' speech where he justifies the killing of Caesar for his ambition, with the repetition of "Brutus is an honorable man." He also condemns the crowd for being so fickle and ready to believe Brutus' lies then his voice catches as he becomes overwhelmed by the sorrow of the loss of his friend Caesar. This is an amazing speech interpreted by an amazing actor. I have read some people criticizing Brando for the speed in which he delivers the speech but don't we all speak rapidly when furious? Brando manages to get across the fury and the intelligent, reasoned parts of a speech that strives to express the complex feelings of Antony who is faced with being killed himself, must sway the people of Rome to support him against Brutus if there is to be a Civil War, act like he is not condemning Brutus when he is so Brutus won't assassinate him, grieve for the loss of Caesar, and cope with the fickle nature of a mob public. This is one of the best filmed versions of this dramatic, Shakespearean moment...
Dumbass
Absolutely love this speech.. I learned this in when I was 14 and now I'm 43 and I still remember every word. This is absolutely one of the greatest speeches of all time. And I must pause till it comes back to me.
how good was this actor? you forget it's Elizabethan language, that's how good. it sounds modern.
Phil K - utterly agree w you. I'm an actor - and... God help me, I study M. B. and no one else.
i disagree. take a look at damian lewis interpretation.
Damit lewis
A great director once said : "In acting there's before Brando and after Brando"
Damian Lewis is by far the best I've seen performing this! Marlon Brando comes after him!
And it sounds modern not so much because of Brando but because it's Shakespeare. It's timeless.
Dammit Brando! Why must have you been so perfect
+MrsFefeNinja let's just say the gods made him an offer he couldn't refuse
MrsFefeNinja laughton was also the best
"O judgement! Thou art fled to brutish beasts! And men have lost their reason!"
Brilliant
I could watch this a thousand-or-more times and Never get tired of it.
When my brother was 13 and in jr high he had to memorize this. I was 6. He and my mom practiced and said this aloud so much that I picked it up. I remembered the first part of this the rest of my life.
By far, the best rendition of this passage. What an inborn actor Brando was!
Yeah the best in 400 years 😞😞
Although a small detail in a remarkable performance, that p-p-pause at the end is painstakingly heartfelt and soulful. Inspired Brando, hungry for it and true here.
IMO, this is the best delivery of this speech ever on film. Strong, but delicately colored, and sped up when he needs to make effects. The whole speech is ten minutes long, and he never lets up the pattern and the meaning he sees in it. If I recall, Gielgud said he helped him with the design.
The gifted American actor Marlon Brando, gives here, what in my mind is the finest realization of the greatest, rhetorically rich set speech in the ouevre of Shakespeare. Historically, we know the speech of Mark Antony had the effect that Shakespeare re-creates for us here; Antony (in history) spoke with eloquence, but we have lost that record. Shakespeare with Brando here gives us the best possible recreation in English. Thanks to the RUclips folks for posting such "immortal" realizations of the finest elements in our Western heritage.
Watched the Heston one first, wasn't really taken with it. Then this one. Brando is just so much more human.
Heston was a good Mark Antony. But Brando IS Mark Antony.
wisely spoken.
Brando looks like a legionare, Marc Anthony was a soldier, a general. Heston does not.
He clearly knows what it really feels like to lose your best friend - you have to know what that feels like to be able to perform this scene
Just did!
Brandos' interpretation of mark Anthony is more powerful than of Heston's betrayal, sadly this was a short film clip and doesn't include his full speech.
I was able to watch Julius Caesar on TCM recently. And to see the full Marc Anthony speech by Marlon Brando is jus so POWERFUL. I wish RUclips have the full speech online.
www.schooltube.com/video/53efe6c2cf1bb89f9e82/ - you can watch the full speech here
Heston's only great role was in Orson Welles's masterpiece, Touch of Evil, before he got a swelled head & thought he was some kind of gun-toting messiah.
You didn’t like him as Judah Ben Hurr?
@andrion waser So?
He’s so immersive and spontaneous. You can feel the emotions resonate from his voice. You can see the pain he feels for his friend in his eyes. Brandi builds this monologue almost to perfection. He is a genius. I think this and his streetcar performance are the best acting I’ve ever seen
Surely he is an honourable actor
Does it get any better than this? Perfection
+ChefMark - agreed
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Totally agreed with that!.
+ChefMark Oh I don't know. Good of course but you can act this out in a different way. It is open to interpretation how to execute this piece.
+ChefMark Can't swing a dead cat without hitting an actor who could do this than Brando.
Ugh!
“My heart is in the coffin with Caesar - and I must pause till it comes back to me”. I’ve watched multiple videos and read the this entire quote just for that part. Gets me every time
When I read this in class, I imagined this speech being delivered in a cool and calculated manner by Mark Antony. But it was really something hearing it here filled with so much anger, passion, and emotion. Like, this wasn't cold; this was _heated,_ and I kinda like that too.
Brando's delivery of the last line is really amazing.
I saw this a lifetime ago and it remained in my mind as a stunning reading and acting of Antony's speech to ...friends, Romans, countrymen... Brando was a greater talent than even his legendary legacy
Brando..the best Antony of all. Could watch this a hundred times straight.
I first performed JC with my sixth grade class . I don't remember much about it, but it must have been both painful and adorable. This summer I took part in a much more professional production of it, and I really began to appreciate the play on a way my little sixth grade mind had not been able to. Our Marc Antony (who was only nineteen. It was a young company production), was, if not as good as Brando, certainly up there, and as such, I have become ridiculously obsessed with the character of Marc Antony. I love Brando's version of this speech for its simplicity. I feel like so many Shakespearean actors feel the need to ridiculously over-exaggerate both speech and gestures, which, while it is useful to a certain extent when performing live theatre, can become exceedingly frustrating. Brando delivers his speech with a realistic simlicity, and a straightforwardness that is, in my opinion, much more effective than some of the overdramatic Antonys I have seen, both live and on film. Basically, long rant aside, our fantastic Antony led me to this fantastic Antony, and now I am inspired.
One brilliant feature of Brando's delivery here--rarely achieved by actors--is that he utters these centuries-worn words as if spontaneously just occurring to him ... and we believe him. His expressed appropriate emotions and gestures (of anger and grief ... as of Stanley Kowalski's) make them true. But here his bearing and speech are (fitting the role) admirably patrician.
Antony was so hurt by his best friends death and the actor really shows it here
Brando with full body language and 2:25 mumbling that last yelling "And, sure, he is an honourable man!" as one word... sublime acting!.
As a native spanish this speech alone justifies all my years learning english, THANKS so much for posting and far from any ambition in a doomsday you can save the whole human race with this cultural gem :-).
Brando was really good in this scene. He really planned this out and designed it. From what I understand, Gielgud helped him with it. The best part is not here. Its at the end when he bows down next to the corpse, and raises his hand and roars: "When will come another." He turns and smirks to himself as the crowd goes nuts behind him: Mission Accomplished.
This is not method acting, which he usually did. Its classical acting, played on the lines.
The voice catch in “bear... with me, my heart is in the coffin there “ is just incredible
This has to be one of my favorite monologues of all time. Marc lost his friend. A friend of his that he respected. And to see everyone hate him and say they’re glad he’s dead, to have the man who killed him who was supposed to be his right hand man clearly lie about him. “He was ambitious” yet Marc clearly shows that Brutus knew NOTHING about Caesar. Ugh it’s so powerful and amazing.
What was so great about the film was all three leads were evenly matched. No one outdid the other. All were at the top of their games.
Acting at it's finest. What a performance. He literally feels and has us feel what he's saying.
God, Brando was good. Wish the entire speech were available here.
I'm still so impressed by Brando's performance. When I think of Brando I always think about the pop culture iconic movies like "On the Waterfront" and "Godfather", and I forget his excellent performance of the classics. His face and physique are also perfect for the part. He looks like he belongs in a toga. Very patrician.
this speech has been stuck in my head for 2 years
This is why he is the greatest of all time
"Friends, Roman's, countrymen, lend me your ears "
😂 my favorite line to quote from this play.
I say it every time I need to speak among my friend group 😂
The monologue that Mark Antony delivers when he is alone is with Caesar's body when he expresses his true feelings at the death of his mentor and his hatred of his muderers is even more powerful.
The fact this acting hasnt aged at all since its filming shows how phenomenally good it is.
The greatest performance in a motion picture I've ever seen
Marlon Is without any doubt or fear of contradiction one of The greatest actor in The World. Here he is at his BEST. Let us just look at him and listen to him to share What I try to say. Many many Thanks.
How great he was that he was capable of making even Shakespeare dialogues look natural
This is one speech my English teacher showed us in the movie, after we read it in class... that struck me dead silent.
It could've just been that he was a much better speaker than the dork assigned to speak as Antony in class, but either way...
This speech shuts me up. The way he shouts at some points, the effect, the powerful voice, it's all just so amazing...
Thanks for posting.
Too bad that Mark Antony's real speech was lost to history..
to bad King Leonidas never yelled "THIS IS SPARTA" and kicked someone into a pit
For what I've read, even though the words are lost, some notes were made about what Marc Antony said, and that Shakespeare did some very conscientious research about it. I like to think that if Marc Antony had anywhere near the command of rhetoric that Shakespeare credits him, he might well have gone in a direction like this.
Yes, but Shakespeare made Cleopatra, Caesar and Macbeth with own imagination.
Well Mark Antony did manage to quell an angry mob calling ceaser a tyrant into a jeering crowd demanding justice on his behalf so he must have had quite a bit of command in terms of rhetoric. I'd like to imagine that Brutus and his ilk collectively shit themselves while Mark gave his presentation
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That was amazing. Probably the best interpretation of Marcus Antony's monologue I've ever seen or ever will.
"Now let it work; Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt!"
Brilliant fucking scene and an even better performance by the legend himself, Marlon Brando.
epic speech, pure epicness.
brando does a fantastic job i to see a remarkable resemblance to the marc antony i had imagined
Shakespeare was a genius and Brando an incredible actor that brought his lively words to life
I love coming back to this video!! Love the way this speech has been delivered ❤️
Absolutely phenomenal.
I like to imagine a 30 year old Robert Duval standing with the entire speech taped to his chest.
"First time?"
What's amazing about Brando is he brings Shakespearean speech to life. He makes it sound natural, like it's truly happening in front of you.
I don't get how people say this is the best version of this speech. There's absolutely no emotion, so stoicism.
What an incredible speech. One of Brando's finest 👌.
I had to commit this speech to memory for my 10th grade English class. My teacher encouraged us to "act" it out rather than just recite it.
I and a girl in my class were the only two to wrap makeshift togas around ourselves and legitimately act it out, emotion and all. My teacher told us that we were the only ones to ever do that in her career. We were also the only two to get A's that day.
Who else here to memorize Antony’s speech
Me. I fucking hated Shakespeare after that.
Yep. Worst of all, it's for a test grade.
'You all did love him once, not without cause' that is so beautiful, it's so timeless.
This speech seems to have been cut off before the end. I'm sure there was more stuff about Caesar's will and what he left the Roman people which gets the sympathy of the crowd.
I've seen the entire movie and yes you are correct, it was cut off.
Basically this is the part where Mark Antony speaks without any disturbance. After this there's discussion amongst the crowd so maybe that's why the scene's been cut off.
+Debashruto Bhattacharyya That's a pity. You just don't get the full force of the impact of the speech unless you hear it all.
+Helen Trope they all get drachmas, free use of the gardens and there was something else but i cant remember what it was
+ausar king You could check the speech by Charles Heston. It appears more realistic. I'm guessing you already did that.
"and Brutus said he was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man!" every time he says this I smile
"Bear with me my heart is in the coffin with Caesar..."
I have seen both of Heston's versions of this speech, 1950 and 1970. The latter one was a bit better.
But I think Brando's is better than both. This is intricately planned, well understood, and then set ablaze with talent.
He begins with a very low key approach, he then builds it from there.
Then at the end, (which is not shown here), with the will in hand, and his arm waving over Ceasar's body, bending down and then rising and shouting, "Here lies our Ceasar, when will come another." That becomes a crescendo. But its then topped by the quiet smirk on his face and he walks away realizing he has taken advantage of the conspirators' mistake and caused a civil war.
Brando was only 29 here. He had John Gielgud's help in planning this and building effects. I think its one of the best delivered long speeches of Shakespeare in films.
But I should add in fairness to Heston, his 1950 version of the speech over Caesar's body is better than Brando's here in this film.
garrison968 Interesting. I prefer Heston's 1970 speech, but you make a good point in favor of Brando's.
Wrong. Brando was far superior, not only because of the obvious, but all the little nuances which were what set him apart from every other actor. Just being overbearing, loud, not a good performance make. No, Heston was just being Heston. He should've stayed with more understated roles like the lead in Touch of Evil.
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Heston was nuanced, this is just screaming
@@DrJones20 He's talking to a large crowd, that's context
Thanks for the upload, did this speech for my school annual day back in 9th grade 15 years ago, goosebumps!!
MARK YOU'RE TOO LIT
Too bad it ended, this was the moment when the crowd slowly begins to turn in favor of Brutus.
Society has little changed, siding back and forth with whomever can tickle their ears with the greatest amount of Bravo Sierra.
Looks like Antony reasoned with them and made them an offer they can't refuse.
By far one of the best Shakespeare monologues to perform.
The way he pops that 'p' with the pause... Absolute legend.
Came here to watch this famous speech after recollecting my school days English class, a chapter on Mark Anthony, orating I here come not to praise ceaser but to bury him..."I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him" 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Loyalty and Respect to the Great King
Some actors can do Shakespeare,some cannot;Brando absolutely can!
Referring to this performance, John Huston said that watching Brando “was like seeing the door of a furnace opened in a dark room.”
"Was this ambition?"
Oh no
"But brutus is an honourable man"
Anyways
9 years later and I'm using this to study for my final in english. its so interesting to see other people here from a while ago comment to share their thoughts. amazing :)
I was reciting this in our school...
I was in 1st PLACE!!! (Nobody Cares, I know...)
Grats buddy
I'm rooting for ye
+xNightSky way to go, brother.
Good achievement! I was reciting this in my school as well and I came 3rd which is terrible out of 60 people.
Same
"O, for a Muse of fire . . ."I came in first with Dorothy Parker.
"Bear with me, my heart is in the coffin there with Ceasar, and I must pause till it comes back to me..."
Genius stuff..
This makes you wish Brando had done more Shakespeare, imagine what he could’ve done with King Lear or Richard III
unbelivable....i couldn't even imagine the way he spoke..really amazing!!!
those who want to talk about their school plays plz go to the Charlton Heston version...
sam odysseus Worse Edition, at the begining he hold someone and says quietly to him friends roman's countrymen lend me your ears, then everybody heard it and hold on.? It's a bullshit for a scene how can a actor imagine that, it can be realistic. to plastic maybe at the Theater is that possible
I can think of no man who I disagreed with more than Marlon Brando ,.But his Mark Anthony was superb. The sheer power of his performance as well as James mason was an act done for eternity and the benchmark for all other actors who would ever attempt these parts.
This video helped me memorize this speech for English
lol me 2
+marco takla me as well
to have to memorize antony's monologue...what a great time and world we live in....Brando...the best that ever lived.
Yes, guys, Brando was and is the best. See the whole movie. It's also the best!
Francis Anthony Peters
Please tell me how to watch and download the movie in laptop.
Please please tell me.
And I must p-pause til it come back to me" That little stammer there was amazing, it made the entire speech better. Wow.