The Nightingale
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2014
- THE NIGHTINGALE is one of the all-time greatest episodes of FAERIE TALE THEATRE, featuring great performances, expert direction by Ivan Passer and a heartbreaking musical score.
The Emperor of Cathay (Mick Jagger) lives in a porcelain palace with his courtiers completely cut off from his people. When he hears about a magical bird called the Nightingale and it's exquisite song, he demands an audience with it. The Kitchen Maid (Barbara Hershey) swiftly leads the Prime Minister (Edward James Olmos) to the bird. When the Nightingale sings for the Emperor, it immediately gladdens his heart and giving nature.
But when a mechanical version of the Nightingale is given to the Emperor, he quickly dismisses the real bird. Now ill and close to death, the Emperor needs the love and companionship of the real Nightingale more than ever...
Featuring strong performances all around. Co-starring Bud Cort as the Master of Imperial Music. Look closely and you'll spot Anjelica Huston and Jerry Hall as the fairies Primrose and Pansy.
Highly-recommended 
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The Emperor of Cathay can't get no satisfaction haha
the 80's were wild
This episode ranks pretty high on my list of guilty pleasures.
Papa introduced me to Faerie Tale Theater in the 1980's. The Nightingale is my favorite of all that I've seen by far. Today this has more meaning than ever to me and of course only his court is allowed to behold the Emperor, but I could not take my eyes off of him. Forgive me. I do not want a punch in the stomach please no.🙏
R.I.P. Keye Luke (1904-1991) (Imperial Doctor), Mako (1933-2006) (Gardener / Minister) and Chao Li Chi (1927-2010) (Gardener).
BayareaGuy06 So the gardener is Iroh from A:tLA?
This episode always felt like a fever dream. It used to scare me when I was younger.
I know right?!
Me too. Actually a lot of FTT scared me when I was a kid
Thank you so much for posting this! When I was little my parents took me to the video story every Friday to rent a movie, and EVERY single week I picked this movie. For years. My dad would get so frustrated with me and beg me to pick something else. I watched every episode but this one was by far the best. Such good memories.
your welcome dear Suzanne
Wouldn't be able to get away with these casting choices nowadays, but this was so fun to watch, both as a kid and now. Love the king's bumbling entourage and the scene with the ridiculous dinner.
Since this was produced 40 years ago, and given the highly respectful nature if this episode's intended message, it's not hard to forgive the offense.
oh my god and the actor Bud Cort from Harold and Maude is the weird sidekick to the king I JUST noticed
I’m starting to see these old stories in a whole new light.
This is how I view "The Nightingale". The intention of dramatizing this story the way it was, was never to offend anyone but to include and celebrate the beauty of Hans Christian Andersen's story. The decade "The Nightingale" was produced was different, when casting choices were made in such a way, vs. now, of course you would want to have representation and rightly so. The cache of actors is broader and more diverse now than it was in 1983. But for what it was worth, nobody who was cast in "The Nightingale", ever stooped to portraying their role as a stereotype. Their make up was subtle enough as to emulate exotic beauty of China not make broad caricatures of any Chinese features. Yes, I know some people consider this 'subtlety' "yellow face", and I think this production walked a fine line in going there. Honestly, I believe if the project was too subversive, Mako and Keye Luke would have had nothing to do with it - and then it can be surmised, as actors maybe Mako and Keye Luke needed the money but as it has been observed over the years, acting on Faerie Tale Theatre, though I believe sincerely was a fun experience for a majority of the performers, every actor wasn't paid astronomically for their participation. To me "The Nightingale"'s one of the most diverse ensembles in the whole series, and how everyone embraces the Chinese culture to showcase its beauty, again, was never intended to offend.
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Well, because of discrimation in preceding decades, Hollywood didn't have too many big-name stars of Asian descent. Shelly obviously aimed for big-name talent...
At the time these were made people thankfully knew the difference between fiction and reality and did not get offended at the drop of a hat.
Like a handful of other episodes of FTT, this one will be understood better by adults than by kids. I definitely appreciate it more now than I did back in the day. The gentle music score and low key performances give it an almost dreamlike atmosphere. There's fine acting all around, with Mick Jagger doing surprisingly well in the lead. He seems like a random decision, but his performance is better than most of us would have expected. And as I mentioned before, there are some details that will go over kids' heads, such as just who the Death Spirit is. Plus, that bit with the two servants planning on calling it Nightingale whether it's a boy or a girl. I'm not so sure the very young will fully comprehend that scene. You might call this a quietly entertaining episode.
I suppose it is like "Ariel" a name for both boys and girls, at least I understood this part like that :B
Shelly pulled off subtle edutainment almost every single time she produced an episode.
I remember watching this on the Disney Channel back in 1995 out of sheer luck (as I was a budding Stones fan back then). Loved Jagger's acting. However, this episode today has aged as well as Bill Cullen's Minstrel Spectacular from 1959.
I have the dvd set. Looooved these. Amazing what celebrities did for free. I wish they did this again.
Omg I haven’t seen this in FOREVER!!!! If you are a big Mick Jagger fan like I am you will love this🕊💙
Considering the massive ego and superiority complex that Mick Jagger has he must have loved this role! One of my favorite episodes!
When they were serving him various foods, I could hear John Mulaney's imitation of Jagger yelling "No!"
I love Mick Jagger's Emperor character; he's so sweet!
Bud Cort did a brilliant job performing his role
Oh God the death character gave me nightmares as a kid!
I can see why
The Emperor can't always get what he wants, but sometimes he gets what he needs.
He was so cold, but nightingale was his beast of burden.
Time was on his side, and his nightmares are all over now.
He didn't smash the mechanical bird, even though it didn't give him satisfaction, but instead he painted it black.
you could go on...
@@RM-tc9pu Sympathy for the Emperor.
Now, Start me up
And instead of a candlestick, they were jumping jack flash
i love faerie tale theatre i have it on both dvd😃
Gracias Shelly Duvall! !😁👑🎁💎💎💎
Watched this a million times as a kid.
Me too. It started on tv and my sis and I would watch it before bed. Then we re-watched it from VHS tapes from the library! Ah, being a kid in the 80's!
I remember watching fairy tale theater when I was a Young Boy I really anyjoyed fairy tale theater somuch loved somuch thanks for sharing the vídeos
I love Mick Jagger, Bud Cort, Barbara Hershey, Edward James Olmos, Mako, Chao-Li Chi, Keye Luke, and Bobby Porter.
I remember this well from my childhood. I knew Mick Jagger was into this
Loved it when it first aired as did my then pre-teen daughters, and I fondly share it with my daughter's daughters today! Wow... Thanks for sharing.
The Nightingale, the faerie tale theater starred Mick Jagger, lead singer of The Rolling Stones.
Thank you I love the nightingale!
I love the fairies.
"Teatro de Cuentos de Hadas", así lo conocía en mi niñez... Y esta historia fue la primerita que vi. En mi niñez NO fue de mis favoritas, pero el ensamblaje de actores, el vestuario y el maquillaje fue lo mas llamativo para mi. Gracias Shelley Duval por hacer de mi infancia algo mágico. Thank you for uploading this video. 😘❤️
That stuffed peacock puts all the Thanksgiving menageries to shame!
It's hard to tell, but Anjelica Huston played one of the fairies.
Jansci7G And Iroh/Mako doubles as gardener and prime minister!
@@sandradermark8463 The Prime Minister was played by Edward James Olmos.
ohhh mick jagger and Edwars james olmos!!!
Thank you I love the nightggal!
your welcome and merry christmas:)
i love the bird the nightingale😃
Aw, man, a humble 'Thank you' is all I got. I loved this many moon ago, and I 😘 ve it again thanks be to you.
Wow, Cora has a great disguise before she goes back to the enchanted forest ;)
Saw this when I was a kid, the demon, whom the emperor hallucinates in his room, for some reason, always stuck in my head, I could never figure out why....
That part scared me so bad when I was little
@@gsco-bl4jk I can see and understand why...
Same experience 😄
Mako as one of the gardeners...!
Que delicioso Mick. 😁🌞😚de lo mejor que se ha hecho en tv.
I love this site!!!!!!!!!! Faerie Tale Theatre is my favorite and I remember watching it as a child.
This must be the only episode where Shelley Duvall, the creator of the whole Faerie Tale Theatre series hosts, narrates and stars in all at once.
she starred as Rapunzel
That's interesting that a comedienne like Shelley Duvall hosted and produced the entire Faerie Tale Theatre series and starred in some episodes like Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel, The Nightingale and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and narrated some of those episodes like The Nightingale, The Snow Queen and Puss in Boots while her friend, Teri Garr who is also a comedienne starred as the princess in the 1st episode, The Tale of the Frog Prince.
My favorite!!!
Watching for the Emperor's birthday weekend, happy almost birthday! 🙏
I welcome you all to Sleep Paralysis starring Mick Jagger
"And Your Bird Can Sing"?! Lol (Beatles song inspired by Mick Jagger, who plays the emperor)
The emperor of all Cathay will start us up.
I want whatever drugs, the Music Master is on.
I want the ones the gong player is on
@40:52 MY GOD! IT'S KEITH!!
Creepiest entry in the FTT series!
Trt de bu seriyi Türkçe dublajlı izlemiştim. Babam o zamanların teknolojisi band video kaswtlere kaydetmişti. Tekrar tekrar izlerdim. En çokda rapunzel ve kırmızı başlıklı kızı severdim.
O kasetler duruyor diyin bana :)
Poesía 😙🌹🍃🌹🍃🌹🍃🌹🍃🌹🍃🌹🍃
The Emperor of Cathay decrees that you like this episode and go forth to honor the remainder of the series or be punched in the stomach.
🤣😆 I love it! I met James Edward Olmos and he was thrilled that I remembered him in this.
The best part of all of these plays was the Star power of the actors. They had all A listers or in this case mick
Jagger.
Yes, putting white people in fake yellow makeup is the best part of any great production.
That was innocent and entertaining.
Knowing certain aspects of this will upset certain people makes it even more entertaining.
At the time this was made, it upset NOT a single person. And that's all that matters is there was a time in history when people had TOO MUCH going on in the REAL WORLD to get upset by something intended as entertainment.
I was in 3rd grade that was like 2001 that was like 22 years ago when I saw this. I didn’t think about it for a long time until I just found it.
My favourite part and made me record it as a beautiful melody, starts here 20:24
15:32 me after work
Is it just me or does the dude with the white hair look creepier than boy George did back then? That's saying something now isn't it?
Funny enough, Boy George was a fan of Bud Cort and went to visit him while Bud was recording lines for Electric Dreams (the soundtrack includes Culture Club) !
There is no Chinese actor so they use Mick Jagger of all people?
my 7 year old just asked me why he has an accent if he's supposed to be chinese
well of course! When you think of an ancient oriental nation, naturally the first person who comes to mind would be Mick Jagger!
/sarcasm
maureenavena33 Hell Pat Morita would have been a better choice, even as a Japanese-American.
Bruce Lee was dead and Jackie Chan was unknown in the US at the time, but there were still other Asian choices available..
Yes, what about James Hong, for example? He is probably best known to non-Asian audiences as the guy who called out "Seinfeld party of four!" in "The Chinese Restaurant" episode of "Seinfeld." But Hong, like Benson Fong, Keye Luke, and Sammee Tong along with and before him, was a familiar Oriental face in many episodic television series' and films, from the 1950s to the present.
Among some of Hong's more popular TV roles were in episodes of "All in the Family," "The Andy Griffith Show," "Dynasty," "Family Affair," "Here's Lucy" "Kung Fu," "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and "My Three Sons."
T G Whitefacing an Asian part. Also featuring Mako (AKA Iroh?).
Enchanting!
…..maybe less lip smacking from Jagger.
I don't think he can help that 😂
@@fiendishlybilly Judging from his performance, I’m sure that you’ve absolutely right. 😋
Pongan todos los cuentos de shelley duvall en español !
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This one’s OK
Rouxinol in portuguese
i love the barid naightingale😃
Uncle Iroh pushing tea earlier in his life.
53:24
Mako was in this?!
What network were these aired on? I don't remember ever seeing this series or even hearing about it.
Showtime. So glad it's on here now. 🙂
I watched them on PBS as a kid. They came on on Saturday nights in the early 1990s.
Originally on Showtime
everyone looks so asiany
Of course they look Asian! They were in Asia
@@maureenbrown1603 No
This was back when they only had four Asian actors in Hollywood.
No, it was back when there were many Asian actors in Hollywood, but those in power preferred to put famous white performers like Mick Jagger in yellowface to make more money.
Cope
This was always one of my favorites, visually and musically; I always loved the little nightingale, and it's a good story. However; it always bothered me that the main roles were played by Caucasians. Real Asians only played the lowest roles here, and that also deeply troubles me.
Let this be a lesson to all. Faeries no matter what kind won't do anything for you unless you tell them how pretty they are. Faeries really are the most disgusting and deplorable creatures in all the world, with the exception of the Leprechauns.
Faerie is a community or race of little creatures in nature.
Fairy- a member of the Faerie race that is very vain and selfish.
Pixie- a little bit smaller members of the Faerie race that are mischievous and flirtatious.
Sprite- the smallest of the Faeries they are the enforcers of Faerie law.
Imp- Any faerie that is trapped indoors from sunset to sunrise and must serve their captors
Leprechaun- cunning and mischievous members of the Faeries they are capable of bestowing luck either good or bad, they are the only ones that are not vain and have an attitude.
Brownies- little borrowing faeries that live in the walls of human houses
Boggarts- the malicious side of the Brownie
Nipsy- faeries that are in between the regular Fairy and a Pixie I'm size and can corrupt a human heart with their charms.
Above all of these things One thing is for certain Faeries DO NOT spread kindness and they all so MOST CERTAINLY DO NOT GRANT WISHES.
This could have been a beautiful production; instead it's a racist piece of crap. I'm disappointed in Shelly Duvall.
Get over yourself it was the late 80s
Lighten up. Not everything has to be a an issue.