King Lear - Laurence Olivier and John Hurt - Shakespeare - 1983 - TV - Remastered - 4K
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- Опубликовано: 23 июн 2021
- King Lear (1983 TV programme)
Laurence Olivier and John Hurt played respectively Lear and the Fool in this production to great acclaim, winning an Emmy for his performance. It was the last of Olivier's appearances in a Shakespeare play. At 75, he was one of the oldest actors to take on this enormously demanding role. (He had previously played Lear in 1946 at the Old Vic)
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Directed by Michael Elliott
CAST
Laurence Olivier - King Lear
Colin Blakely - Earl of Кеnt
Anna Calder-Marshall - Cordelia, King Lear's daughter
Jeremy Kemp - Duke of Cornwall
Robert Lang - Duke of Albany
Robert Lindsay - Edmund, Gloucester's son
Leo McKern - Earl of Gloucester
David Threlfall - Edgar, Gloucester's son
Dorothy Tutin - Goneril, King Lear's daughter
John Hurt - Fool
Diana Rigg - Regan, King Lear's daughter
Brian Cox - Duke of Burgundy
Edward Petherbridge - King of France
Geoffrey Bateman - Oswald
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Adapted by Maximianno Cobra, from Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens", the film exposes the timeless challenge of social hypocrisy, disillusion and annihilation against the poetics of friendship, love, and beauty.
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Good lord this rendition has moved me to tears! Hurt and Olivier did a fantastic job in showing the dynamic between the Fool and Lear, and everyone else breathed life into the characters just as greatly. Truly a phenomenal production.
Olivier was 76 and ailing, and still he could carry a woman, walking and speaking Shakespeare's lines at the same time. Impressive.
According to something I've read, Larry had a little help from wires in carrying Cordelia, though they did say the wires went slack for a moment or two. Watching carefully, you can see he could barely walk unaided. The man was not well at the time, which makes his accomplishment all the more impressive.
He was great in this, but did you like him in Hamlet? To me...he wasn't as good as Mel Gibson in his Hamlet. Olivier seemed....well...dull in Hamlet. But he's outstanding here.
I like that Olivier plays Lear as mischievous at the start, playing a humorous game of sorts with his daughters. A game that becomes a tragedy.
You can tell how much they’re enjoying themselves. Each and every one. Having a ball performing one of the densest, deepest, and complex productions in history.
Best King Lear ever!
This version is the best on RUclips, I think.
When Shakespearean language is spoken the correct pace and context; it makes it so much easier to understand. A bit like the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet x
For my money, there is no greater filmed Shakespeare than this 1983 production of Lear. And "starring Laurence Olivier" is like number #9 on the list of reasons. The fairytale tone, the spot-on interpretation, the minimalist staging... Robert Lindsay's monologues as Edmund induce shivers, Colin Blakely's Kent is superb, John Hurt as the Fool. Just brilliant.
Edmund : "No medieval devil ever bounded on to the stage with a more scandalous self-announcement"
"Not in the stocks, fool."
Agree!
The one by Kozinschev? Is better IMO
I wouldn't relegate Olivier's performance to number 9, though I would fully agree that much goes into this production to make it brilliant.
Riggs' Regan and Hurts Fool are a marvel! 👋👋👋
Everyone really. I've loved this performance for decades, since it was brand-new. They surrounded Olivier with the best of the best. The last couple of times I've watched, the stand-out for me was Geoffrey Bateman as Oswald. Another superb performance.
Simple brilliant and masterpiece!!! Pure Seduction I have got watching this King Lear by Sir Laurence 💜👏👏👏 Bravo. In his 76 he was still good looking man.
I remember watching this in 1988 when I was reading King Lear for my A Levels at college. And now, 35 years later, I am reading the same text book and watching the same production preparing for a visit to the theatre to see Lear on the stage. As WS intended.
This is an excellent production - so many fine performances. An interesting setting though - pre-Romano Britain.
How about that!!! I am currently in a theatre production of King Lear (I am portraying Kent) as we enter our performances this week and finding myself here again and to simply listen to the music of it all as it soothes and “tunes” me so to speak. I am ecstatic to here another Lear is out there!! Enjoy the show!!!
Olivier raised the bar and elevated his fellow players.
Sir Olivier as Lear, Dame Diana Rigg as Regan and Sir John Hurt as The Fool.. it's a truly shattering and magnificent version. I am mesmerized by Diana Rigg. She is truly a masterpiece.
Diana Rigg had M appeal.
I have just finished a semester where we explored the sources and adaptations of Shakespeare s play. This adaptation is really something. John Hurt as my favorite character is soemthign I didnt kbow I needed. The Gloucester plot is amazing as well.
Truly this gives life to one of Shakespeare's most horrific plays (it's incredible, but horrifying in the acts peformed there)
Anyone else here a fan of Robert Lindsay? This was a precursor to his Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (1984). He has a great comic gift!
Also, headbands. Lots of headbands. 😄
The greatest cast of all productions
"REASON NOT THE NEED!"
Incredible. Olivier assembled a remarkable cast. His Lear is paramount. Cheers
I used to have this on VHS, and watched it a lot.
A real treasure, and the best print quality version I've been able to see so far.
A worthy production of the pinnacle of WS's plays! Thanks for posting,
Our pleasure!
one can only marvel at the acting presented by Sir Laurence
Peerless. The definitive King Lear.
Watch him as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, or Maxim in Rebecca. Hard to believe he's the same actor, also directed himself in 2 classic Shakespeare films in the '40's. Or Sleuth, with Michael Caine, for some hammy theatrical over the top fun.
Amazing performances!
Thanks for putting this up. A greatly-done program for a great play.
Thanks for this upload. Only just getting into Shakespeare and I've found reading his work insufficient without the attendant performance. His works are meant to be seen acted, not read in my humble opinion- and the performances of this rendition appear second-to-none.
Such a beautiful language, English xx🙃
Amazing story 🤞
John Hurt right before his role as Winston Smith in 1984.
Watched and followed along with the script.
Sublime
@Shakespeare Network Thank you, so much!
Brilliant!!
At the time when the duke dies I like to think Edward is carved outta wood.
Accordingly my knowledge laurence best performance amongst shakespeare movies as 👑 king lear
If you could make just sense of Tolstoy's gripe against Lear and Orwell's subsequent justification of Lear, you would probably think of this as one the greatest productions of the play. And Olivier does something here that Ian McKellen or Orson Welles or Paul Scofield couldn't. He gives us an understanding of that sweet phase that lies between stateliness and cuckoo-ness.
This may be the most difficult shakespearean role to play really well. Its incredibly taxing.
Thank you! While it is, of course, a delightful experience to _read_ the play, watching a performance of it can be equally rewarding.
Great rendition. Had quite an audience and was celebrated in its day, despite it's flaws. Disappointing that it has only 1025 views. There's another copy on RUclips with less quality video.
what do people consider it’s flaws
The War Doctor was a fine young Fool, it seems. Wonder where his Tardis was during this...
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The acting makes me cry when cordelia is hanged
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2:30:48, Howl, howl,
Is there anything Brian Cox isn't in?
No. I've just checked.
He's so amazingly great though! Why *wouldn't* you want Brian Cox as part of the cast, even in such a minor role of that of Burgundy?!
Maybe he was thought of as the M. Emmet Walsh of British theatre . . .
@@patricktilton5377 Is. He's still with us.
Does anyone know who the guy w the orange hair is at :1:25:12
Jeremy Kemp. Among other appearances, he also played Picard's brother on STNG.
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14:31 "with our displeasure PIERCED"? Boy, is that going to bug me. Was that because of a typo that got printed up on the script they were using, or was that a mistake on Olivier's part? The world may never know.
It's not a typo. That's literally the line in the play.
@@tallowengart5156 The 1608 quarto has:
Lear. Right noble Burgundie, when she was deere to vs
We did hold her so, but now her prise is fallen,
Sir there she stands, if ought within that little
Seeming substance, or al of it without displeasure peec'st,
And nothing else may fitly like your grace,
Take her or leaue her.
The First Folio has:
Lear. Right Noble Burgundy,
When she was deare to vs, we did hold her so,
But now her price is fallen : Sir, there she stands,
If ought within that little seeming substance,
Or all of it with our displeasure piec'd,
And nothing more may fitly like your Grace,
Shee's there, and she is yours.
Maybe some later editor changed "peec'st" to "piec'd" then to "pierced" sometime afterwards, but the 1st quarto of 1608 and the 1623 folio have no 'r' between the 'e' and the 'c'. The Riverside Shakespeare I bought for my Shakespeare courses (back in the mid-to-late 1980s) has "piec'd" and the Stratford Town Edition text (copyright 1958) which I own, which has magnificent photo sets of all the plays, has "pieced." There may be editions which have emended the word to "pierced" but such a decision goes counter to what the earliest printed texts have. We'll probably never know what the original Manuscript had -- what the 'Grand Possessors' had to read -- unless by some miracle the original Shakespeare texts are discovered, but my guess is that the Folio text has it right: "piec'd" = "pieced" (where the apostrophe often reduced a two-syllable word ending in -ed to a monosyllable). Having said that, it isn't entirely unreasonable to emend it to "pierced" as that would make sense, too.
Diana Rigg was mustard.
Larry must have loved working with Emma Peel.
Me to the King:THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR DISOWNING CORDELIA
WASN'T SHE YOUR MOST FAVOURITE DAUGHTER?
Came for "I am the Walrus". The Beatles used a part of King Lear in that song, but most notable at the end. 2:02:42 is the spoken line
The plot doesn't hang around ; the old king declares his hand,
the daughters the same, and the rest of the cast, then we're off to the races.
Olivier is majestic - as a narcissistic silly old man who thrives on esteem, and is too
self consumed to function.
1:10:20 is this the great supreme golden acting of this great supreme golden Shakespeare actor i was asked to watch? What things impress people it baffles me.. hopkins was much better
This is CRAP comparing one actor's interpretation of a role to another.
Particularly of a work that has been performed for centuries, Hopkins' update is Amazon, abridged, modernized & NO comparison.
Hopkins walked out on his own Macbeth.
My MA English book suggested this video
Diana Rigg was SO gorgeous
My idol!! She is absolutely stunning and she has such a seductive voice I will miss her terribly
Gorgeous, but frightening in this role. If I were Oswald in that fourth act scene, I'd be terrified of her.