That made me smile. My husband & I shout ‘bookcase wanker’ every-time we see one of those videos on tv. Yep Ralph doesn’t need validation props, he knows he’s the bomb.
Great film... There are moments between Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan where it seems so real and not acted as if one is watching as a fly on the wall to the real events. Very moving... loved it:)
As someone who was born and bred in Norfolk I reckon the regional accent was pretty much spot on. I thought I was listening to my brother-in-law... :-) :-)
Loved Ralph Fiennes since he played Heathcliffe. THE DIG was exactly what I needed and I didn't even know it. Smashing to hear his take on Mr. Brown. The cast was just mindblowing.
I've always understood the term "Dark Ages" to reflect that there were no documents, no histories and so a vacuum of information. The Roman world had withdrawn and with it the writing. They told stories some of which have endured in later poetic writings, but the buildings were wood, and their art in metal likely got melted down if it was found. The Sutton Hoo treasure is a rare window into the richness of Anglo-Saxon culture.
Ralf Fiennes! Indeed, he is a fine intelligent actor. Ever since I watched him in " Maid of Manhattan", I really fell in love with the way he carries his character, so I have followed him since then.
I so enjoyed this film, I watched again the very next day. Gently absorbing, where time doesn't tick but whispers by. A deep story full of genuine sweetness and melancholy the mood and flavour somehow reminded me of the two BBC series: Detectorists and Gone Fishing...So very wonderfully "British".
I so agree! I watched it and then promptly sat down and watched it again. Beautifully written, filmed and acted in a way that only the Brits can do. Such an enjoyable interview with Ralph Fiennes. I appreciated his passion for the role and his dedication to getting it right and his understanding of the man, Basil Brown. I was also great to see an interviewer allowing the interviewee to fully answer questions without interruption.
And that’s how you conduct as interview. Enjoyed this movie, was expecting some audio from the lark ascending by Vaughn Williams, a missed opportunity I think. RF was brilliant.....
It's so nice to hear the accent again. My father's family comes from Suffolk and my mother's from North Norfolk, so I grew up with an East Anglian view of the world and their humour, thank god.
Wonderful hones interview, un forgettable movie, story and delivery, like all of your carefully chosen movies. Stay well and keep enlighten the world with the endless possibilities of marrying a good story with its teller, thank you kindly💐🕊💫
Should have asked him if he got any advice from his brother who is an archaeologist at a site near to me . I went to hear his brother host a talk one night a few years ago now, very interesting indeed 😊
The Dig was a great movie. All the class divisions and divisiveness based on formal education v. experience was maddening. I was especially irritated by the butler's insistence he wait outside the house when he came to see the woman who owned the land. He was so fussy and annoyed for no apparent reason. I kept finding myself feeling sorry for Basil. Tethered to his station in life unable to get a formal education or marry someone who even understood him. He is a different kind of hero to tolerate his circumstances with patience and grace.
Fiennes reminds me more and more of the late, great, Leonard Rossiter. In Grand Budapest Hotel, I expected him to say " Yes, Mrs Jones!" Fiennes is great at comedy, though, and is to be commended.
I’m pretty sure Fiennes has actually stated he was playing his character as Leonard Rossiter in Grand Budapest. If not a full on impersonation, the voice was incredibly similar
Wonderful interview. Really enjoyed the film. Terrific performances from everyone. I did think, however, that they should have ended the film with photographs of the Sutton Hoo treasure, which is fantastic. Made me wonder if the British Museum denied permission because they didn't like the way the film played fast and loose with historical fact and the way the real life characters were portrayed for dramatic effect.
Ralph Fiennes is so talented, so gorgeous, so engaging in everything he does or says! Not sure I’m too keen on the radiator, though, a plain white wall would look better, don’t you think Ralph?
Why is it that when Johnny Flynn is in one of his recent films, that he really isn't included in the discussion of the film? Johnny is quite intelligent and it's sad that they leave him out! Johnny is very well educated plus a poet a musician ( 5 instruments) singer!
Simon Mayo is the most underrated interviewer in the UK I still miss his Radio 5 Live show (The daily afternoon show, not the one with the bequiffed and flappy-handed one)
Looking forward to seeing this on its release in Denmark. I think Ralph could have been more explicit on the remarkable quality of the finds in the original 'dig', they are noted as 'never having being exceeded' in their quality, even if not true - they are extra-ordinary and should be viewed by all. If you don't believe me, try asking your local jeweller to recreate just one 'eyebrow' from the helmet - ignoring the challenge they would have with the sword! However I do think the interview rather lacked 'something', and I am not sure what, do neither people find the film actually 'interesting'?
Suffolk and Norfolk accents are different, but Ralph Fiennes did a marvellous job, I have lived in Norfolk all my life and funny I do not have the accent only on certain words and my children do not have the accent either. My late father used to talk in the Norfolk dialect all the time as he was 52 years when I was born and a pig farmer but every day these old saying just pop into my head and I would pass them on to my children so they are not lost all together with todays generation. The film was wonderful to watch it was a shame there was not a little romance on set between the two main characters, I am sure it would of brought a smile to Basil Browns life, thank you for a great interview.
On the Wikipedia page for Sutton Hoo there is an actual photo from 1939 of Basil Brown and the site where he was excavating, and some pictures of the treasure unearthed. It might have been one of the related pages. This movie is so perfectly paced, and the characters all revelatory of some deeper aspect of life and history ... it's hard to say enough about it. It was a total surprise to me who did not know what to expect, especially when it started out so slow. Basil Brown: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo#/media/File:SHIP_MED.jpg Sutton Hoo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo
Saw this last week - thought it was spellbinding. Basil's description of the potential grandeur of the Anglo- Saxon funeral transcended time and space for someone who knows very little about history Pre - late 19th / 20th Century. Its been a great 18 months from Netflix with this, The Irishman and Da' % Bloods. I just hope there is room for the platforms continued success alongside a return to cinemas should the health issue end at some point.
When the Germanic peoples arrived in Britain, they arrived as seafarers and had a reputation for piracy. By the reign of Alfred the Great, this knowledge of boat craftsmanship was forgotten. With an oral tradition, there is no setting down of blueprints and plans. The King of Wessex had to capture Viking craft so that his workers in wood might gather the idea of how to build ships, and put a fleet together. For me, this is at the heart of what the Dark Ages were about.
I really liked this film but the boring predictable love story hammed in at the end dragged the film down for me, the first hour was the best part of the film. Wished it just was about the dig to be honest
if you cut the utterly pointless romance with the young girl and instead show them finding more of the artifacts then assembling the helmet etc then it would of been a great film. imagine if the bbc egypt carter episodes just shown a fleeting glimpse of the treasure and instead concentrated on the romance with evelyn carnarvon and carnarvons ilness how much of a disappointment that would of been. just like this actually was. its just a waste of the subject matter, and then to make matters even worse they didnt even show the actual treasure in the credits. came for a movie based in archeology, all i got was the usual costume drama
To the movie going public, history and archaeology are deadly dull. Those who make films need to see a return on investment, so they introduce sub-plots of war, romance, mystery, tragedy etc. to attract a wider audience. Surely that’s obvious. This is not a documentary, it is entertainment. There are several museum documentaries available on YT to make you feel better about yourself.
The problem is the helmet is famous and was important archaeologically, but it was found as a mass of brown lumps and assembled much later. And even then the first attempt at assembling it looked rather poor. The current one is alright, but much of it is missing and replaced by a brown substance to fill in the gaps, and most of the decoration has been lost. The really 'impressive' images you see of it are of a reconstruction of what it probably looked like originally. The more immediately 'impressive' finds were things like the ornate golden belt buckle and shoulder clasps. Seem to recall they showed the odd thing like that being found?
I won’t lie the accent he does in the movie is VERY good it’s quite rare in the Suffolk countryside you find someone with a “normal” sounding accent Thankfully I’m one of them as I’m not a fan of the accent
The Dark Ages, is when knowledge was not passed on? maybe because the generation showed no interest, bit like today where knowledge of how to make or do things is not passed on, we have a generation that is not interested (again) so are we entering another Dark Age?. Older people today have aquired years of many skills 'How To' but todays younger generation are not interested? Until one day they say 'I wonder how they did that'...
Now more than ever..The English need to understand our identity and History and not allow Woke BBC lefty types and others with their anti white agendas to put us down as being without our own identity and deep culture....Its a great film and one that Nationalists like myself should watch and be proud of. A very multi layered film i shall be watching again...The top class acting makes this film one of the Great British all time movies...
Fiennes is an endlessly fascinating actor. Your eyes and ears always gravitates towards him and his acting. One of the greats of the current era.
My family comes from Norfolk, and honestly his accent almost made me cry, it reminds me so much for my grandfather.
I thought the film was set in Suffolk??
@Guitar and Music Institute she's on drugs. Big big drugs.
@@GuitarandMusicInstitute yes it indeed was, but there is huge crossover between the Suffolk & Norfolk accent & dialect. 2 peas from the same pod
I loved how you nailed the accent and also were able to act out the humbleness of your character. Academy award performance!
Love the fact the he didn’t feel the need to have a virtuous bookshelf background. A radiator is perfect.
This isn't really an interview. It's a chat between two mates. Utterly hypnotic and brilliant.
Reassuring to see Ralph Fiennes doesn't need bookshelves filled with books behind him.
That made me smile. My husband & I shout ‘bookcase wanker’ every-time we see one of those videos on tv. Yep Ralph doesn’t need validation props, he knows he’s the bomb.
Great film... There are moments between Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan where it seems so real and not acted as if one is watching as a fly on the wall to the real events. Very moving... loved it:)
As someone who was born and bred in Norfolk I reckon the regional accent was pretty much spot on. I thought I was listening to my brother-in-law... :-) :-)
Beautiful movie with wonderfully understated performances.
He’s so wonderful and gentle with words like they are gold off his toung
Gardener Kate Carter … tongue... 👍🏼😉
"The Dig" was a really good movie, wonderful plot, wonderful acting, brilliant execution.
That’s what makes it so wonderful the fact Ralph liked playing Basil.
I really like Ralph Fiennes. He is a wonderful and honest actor.
Loved Ralph Fiennes since he played Heathcliffe. THE DIG was exactly what I needed and I didn't even know it. Smashing to hear his take on Mr. Brown. The cast was just mindblowing.
I've always understood the term "Dark Ages" to reflect that there were no documents, no histories and so a vacuum of information. The Roman world had withdrawn and with it the writing. They told stories some of which have endured in later poetic writings, but the buildings were wood, and their art in metal likely got melted down if it was found. The Sutton Hoo treasure is a rare window into the richness of Anglo-Saxon culture.
Ralph radiates class here.
Brilliant interview! As a resident of Rickinghall/Botesdale I know there is a lot of anticipation for the release of this film
Ralf Fiennes! Indeed, he is a fine intelligent actor. Ever since I watched him in " Maid of Manhattan", I really fell in love with the way he carries his character, so I have followed him since then.
Wow! I so missed Ralph! I am in London too. He is amazing and well done for this role!
I so enjoyed this film, I watched again the very next day. Gently absorbing, where time doesn't tick but whispers by. A deep story full of genuine sweetness and melancholy the mood and flavour somehow reminded me of the two BBC series: Detectorists and Gone Fishing...So very wonderfully "British".
I so agree! I watched it and then promptly sat down and watched it again. Beautifully written, filmed and acted in a way that only the Brits can do. Such an enjoyable interview with Ralph Fiennes. I appreciated his passion for the role and his dedication to getting it right and his understanding of the man, Basil Brown. I was also great to see an interviewer allowing the interviewee to fully answer questions without interruption.
Fantastic - great actor - wonderful !
And that’s how you conduct as interview.
Enjoyed this movie, was expecting some audio from the lark ascending by Vaughn Williams, a missed opportunity I think. RF was brilliant.....
interesting interview. Ralph' voice is wonderful
I can listen to him all day....
Living in Suffolk he has nailed the accent
Ralph, blink twice if you're handcuffed to that radiator. And stay on the line. We'll triangulate your position.
Wonderful movie, great acting. I loved it.
It's so nice to hear the accent again.
My father's family comes from Suffolk and my mother's from North Norfolk, so I grew up with an East Anglian view of the world and their humour, thank god.
You were wonderful in the film Mr. Fiennes, enjoyable film for sure...
Wonderful hones interview, un forgettable movie, story and delivery, like all of your carefully chosen movies. Stay well and keep enlighten the world with the endless possibilities of marrying a good story with its teller, thank you kindly💐🕊💫
Lovely movie. Lovely interview of an interested/interesting man. Well done!
Brilliant actor , wonderful cast and a beautiful film. What a refreshing diversion from the sex and violence of most modern day cinema!
Amen!
Ralph Fiennes: my favourite living actor under one hundred.
Lovely film,beautifully shot and well acted!you can keep your marvel rubbish!
Should have asked him if he got any advice from his brother who is an archaeologist at a site near to me . I went to hear his brother host a talk one night a few years ago now, very interesting indeed 😊
The Dig was a great movie. All the class divisions and divisiveness based on formal education v. experience was maddening. I was especially irritated by the butler's insistence he wait outside the house when he came to see the woman who owned the land. He was so fussy and annoyed for no apparent reason. I kept finding myself feeling sorry for Basil. Tethered to his station in life unable to get a formal education or marry someone who even understood him. He is a different kind of hero to tolerate his circumstances with patience and grace.
Fiennes reminds me more and more of the late, great, Leonard Rossiter. In Grand Budapest Hotel, I expected him to say " Yes, Mrs Jones!" Fiennes is great at comedy, though, and is to be commended.
I’m pretty sure Fiennes has actually stated he was playing his character as Leonard Rossiter in Grand Budapest. If not a full on impersonation, the voice was incredibly similar
*Miss Jones.
@@davidcopson5800 :-)
Wonderful interview. Really enjoyed the film. Terrific performances from everyone. I did think, however, that they should have ended the film with photographs of the Sutton Hoo treasure, which is fantastic. Made me wonder if the British Museum denied permission because they didn't like the way the film played fast and loose with historical fact and the way the real life characters were portrayed for dramatic effect.
Ralph Fiennes is so talented, so gorgeous, so engaging in everything he does or says! Not sure I’m too keen on the radiator, though, a plain white wall would look better, don’t you think Ralph?
Beautiful movie.
Why is it that when Johnny Flynn is in one of his recent films, that he really isn't included in the discussion of the film? Johnny is quite intelligent and it's sad that they leave him out! Johnny is very well educated plus a poet a musician ( 5 instruments) singer!
Simon Mayo lets Sir Ralph talk, which I find absorbing; no huh huh huh hurry ups.
Simon Mayo is the most underrated interviewer in the UK
I still miss his Radio 5 Live show
(The daily afternoon show, not the one with the bequiffed and flappy-handed one)
Wonderful artist, Ralph Fiennes!
Looking forward to seeing this on its release in Denmark. I think Ralph could have been more explicit on the remarkable quality of the finds in the original 'dig', they are noted as 'never having being exceeded' in their quality, even if not true - they are extra-ordinary and should be viewed by all. If you don't believe me, try asking your local jeweller to recreate just one 'eyebrow' from the helmet - ignoring the challenge they would have with the sword! However I do think the interview rather lacked 'something', and I am not sure what, do neither people find the film actually 'interesting'?
This, the English patient & schindlers list are his best performances imo
He's the highlight of Grand Budapest Hotel too
Suffolk and Norfolk accents are different, but Ralph Fiennes did a marvellous job, I have lived in Norfolk all my life and funny I do not have the accent only on certain words and my children do not have the accent either. My late father used to talk in the Norfolk dialect all the time as he was 52 years when I was born and a pig farmer but every day these old saying just pop into my head and I would pass them on to my children so they are not lost all together with todays generation. The film was wonderful to watch it was a shame there was not a little romance on set between the two main characters, I am sure it would of brought a smile to Basil Browns life, thank you for a great interview.
They are different. Little trace of any Norfolk accent these days although if I’m back I can lapse slightly.
Ps Priscilla Bacon charity? I knew her!
The magic of this film is that there was no romance, it was of a deeper value, soulful.
Eh, it's a shame they didn't invent a romance between Mrs Pretty and Basil Brown? No it isn't they already changed enough as it is.
On the Wikipedia page for Sutton Hoo there is an actual photo from 1939 of Basil Brown and the site where he was excavating, and some pictures of the treasure unearthed. It might have been one of the related pages. This movie is so perfectly paced, and the characters all revelatory of some deeper aspect of life and history ... it's hard to say enough about it. It was a total surprise to me who did not know what to expect, especially when it started out so slow.
Basil Brown: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo#/media/File:SHIP_MED.jpg
Sutton Hoo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo
There should be a movie about that time when there was a carcrash between two cars in Oslo. It could be called "the crash".
Does anyone know where you can find this 1960s documentary with Basil Brown in it?
Here on YT. "Sutton Hoo maarer".
Here’s the link :)
ruclips.net/video/6NTfxpre-J8/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/6NTfxpre-J8/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/2Y92UXexJWg/видео.html
Saw this last week - thought it was spellbinding. Basil's description of the potential grandeur of the Anglo- Saxon funeral transcended time and space for someone who knows very little about history Pre - late 19th / 20th Century. Its been a great 18 months from Netflix with this, The Irishman and Da' % Bloods. I just hope there is room for the platforms continued success alongside a return to cinemas should the health issue end at some point.
When the Germanic peoples arrived in Britain, they arrived as seafarers and had a reputation for piracy. By the reign of Alfred the Great, this knowledge of boat craftsmanship was forgotten. With an oral tradition, there is no setting down of blueprints and plans. The King of Wessex had to capture Viking craft so that his workers in wood might gather the idea of how to build ships, and put a fleet together. For me, this is at the heart of what the Dark Ages were about.
Gawd t'hell bah you got it our accent hully right
Accent spot on !! I live in Rickinghall where Basil Brown lived. Apparently Ralph spent an evening in local pub talking to locals
‘Astronomy’, Ralph! Loved the film though.
he said it involved studying old charts, so maybe it was astrology?
If you watch the film, it’s clearly implied astronomy.
Must be a sign of the times.
1:01 “I’m good thanks Simon, how are you?” -“…uhm, I’m ok.”
Simon was not having a good day, lol!
i watched it and thought a few scenes look like they where filmed around here and they where
I really liked this film but the boring predictable love story hammed in at the end dragged the film down for me, the first hour was the best part of the film. Wished it just was about the dig to be honest
the actual woman who commissioned the dig was a clairvoyant and saw ghosts around the barrow - i hope this was included in the netflix production
I suspect the producers thought it best not to draw attention to her delusions.
She is said to have had a dream about historical figures going in and out of it. They left it out unfortunately.
@@orlando098 Probably to avoid embarrassing her descendants.
@@davidfiler5414 touched on it
That accent was perfect......lololol
God loves you,Mr Fiennes. He gave you your talent, give him your time.
He is an excellent actor and artist . Too bad he is not an equally nice person .
Everyone wants to be an archaeologist, but something always happens on the way to the forum...
Great British movie!
There wasn't a farmer telling people to get off his land, so it can't be Suffolk....
xD
if you cut the utterly pointless romance with the young girl and instead show them finding more of the artifacts then assembling the helmet etc then it would of been a great film.
imagine if the bbc egypt carter episodes just shown a fleeting glimpse of the treasure and instead concentrated on the romance with evelyn carnarvon and carnarvons ilness how much of a disappointment that would of been. just like this actually was.
its just a waste of the subject matter, and then to make matters even worse they didnt even show the actual treasure in the credits.
came for a movie based in archeology, all i got was the usual costume drama
To the movie going public, history and archaeology are deadly dull. Those who make films need to see a return on investment, so they introduce sub-plots of war, romance, mystery, tragedy etc. to attract a wider audience. Surely that’s obvious. This is not a documentary, it is entertainment. There are several museum documentaries available on YT to make you feel better about yourself.
The problem is the helmet is famous and was important archaeologically, but it was found as a mass of brown lumps and assembled much later. And even then the first attempt at assembling it looked rather poor. The current one is alright, but much of it is missing and replaced by a brown substance to fill in the gaps, and most of the decoration has been lost. The really 'impressive' images you see of it are of a reconstruction of what it probably looked like originally. The more immediately 'impressive' finds were things like the ornate golden belt buckle and shoulder clasps. Seem to recall they showed the odd thing like that being found?
Not pointless. Against a backdrop of the ancient there was a looming war and accelerating time.
The accent sounds rather like "West Country" without the "rrr".
I won’t lie the accent he does in the movie is VERY good it’s quite rare in the Suffolk countryside you find someone with a “normal” sounding accent
Thankfully I’m one of them as I’m not a fan of the accent
👍
The Dark Ages, is when knowledge was not passed on? maybe because the generation showed no interest, bit like today where knowledge of how to make or do things is not passed on, we have a generation that is not interested (again) so are we entering another Dark Age?. Older people today have aquired years of many skills 'How To' but todays younger generation are not interested? Until one day they say 'I wonder how they did that'...
It wasn’t dark. Just poorer pr by historians.
Feinnes seems kind of out of it, not very engaged and tired. Seems odd.
He’s always like that, I don’t think he’s a particularly chatty man.
Oh dear Ralph, it's astronomy not astrology. A slip, of course.
Now more than ever..The English need to understand our identity and History and not allow Woke BBC lefty types and others with their anti white agendas to put us down as being without our own identity and deep culture....Its a great film and one that Nationalists like myself should watch and be proud of. A very multi layered film i shall be watching again...The top class acting makes this film one of the Great British all time movies...
Fascinating historical subject. Boring AF overacted film. :)
A truly boringly turgid movie. If you need something for insomnia, look no further.
Go play with you ur toys. When you grow up, come back. This from an American who was captivated to the credits.
Are you devoid of culture?
@@NickBarling Are you devoid of accepting others’ opinions?
Oh dear. You would have served yourself much better MrDavey2010 by staying silent, or at least attempting to justify your opinion?
@@spibeson1 As would you!