A work of genius. Nay, a masterclass in iambic delivery; its volume, rhythm, beats, syntax -- all superlative. How a person can understand such language and give it such emotional gravitas is an inspiration to all. God bless Olivier.
Stunning beyond all measure! The words and the delivery UNEQUALED! Unequaled. One can listen to this over and over again and always be awed. Bravo Sir Laurence Olivier !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have always loved Olivier, I'm not an actor or profess to know what's good or bad. All I know is Laurence Olivier is just mesmerizing, brilliant, authentic and captivating to watch. I love all his Shakespearean soliloquy/monologue's, but most importantly I just enjoy watching him. 🙏🏾
"... stabbed in my angry mood at Tewkesbury" - I just love that line and his delivery. He makes a premeditated murder sound like a minor inconvenience he took care of one idle afternoon.
I read this play innumerable times in high school, and I found it so difficult to understand. I heard Olivier in this scene, and the whole play just exploded into reality! Olivier remains the epitome for me of all Shakesperian actors ... and any other role by any other author he performed. Such a genius!!
Scathing! Talk about the art of the insult. Hilarious infact! Probably my favourite piece of prose of all time. Stating the obvious here, but pur Genius. Oliver is a God with this delivery. No one could ever do it better.
If you're familiar with "The Red Green Show" in its early years, you might remember a regular segment where Red reads a poem about winter, and that segment was called, "The Winter of our Discount Tent."
I know people in the modern day would like to ridicule and parody Olivier and his pattern of speech...but I did not need to read to script while he spoke to see EVERY IMAGE and FEEL IT when he transformed into Richard III.
@@Synochra most actors I met spoke how his cadence is mechanical. I completely disagree, but some modern actors who are in the Shakespeare world that I’ve met have said this. But it’s their opinion.
Try this. Recite the words with his pauses, his emphases, his phrasing. Use the same motions he does with his eyelids, his eyebrows, his withered shrub of an arm, his halting gait that makes dogs bark. Then turn toward the camera and away from the camera in his own choreography. While casting your voice out and returning it like a veteran fly fisherman. Do all these artful things. Then tell me he is less than God Incarnate upon the stage. I won't believe you.
@@milesfolley6840 Time to be slain by fanboys in the coments: Ironicaly many of out morden actors are worse than mechanical. They have no emotions, their faces are always the same in every situation and moment, and those who master some.emotion dont know how to change it to another. They rarely make transitions, its the same problem of our musical taste totday- no variations, no complexity, always the same tune and notes. Its all like a symphony that never leaves a crescendo. Tom Cruise, Ben Afleck, Di Caprio, Keanu R and so on. Thry only appease the girls and some adults that behace like teens.
The monologue is taken from two different ones of Gloucester's & skillfully interlaced & combined into one. Starts with Richard III then back to Henry VI (Part 3) then back again to Richard III then back to Henry to the end of the main speech then climbs the steps, looks out the window & descants about his desire for The Lady Ann, who is then pursued despite her hatred of him
The combination of Shakespeare's speech, Olivier's delivery, and the motion picture camera fixating full on--Richard speaks to each of us face to face; we are each his confidant; he unfolds to us his emotion, his greed, his lust for power. Absolutely fascinating.
He’s being ironic because even though England has passed into a glorious summer, he is in his own personal winter of discontent because he resents his lot in life and really wants to be the King
It is very difficult for an actor to bring Shakespeare's words to such life that common ordinary, uneducated folk such as me are enchanted by it and actually *understand* it. :) And yet Olivier could do it. It's like music. It's amazing.
I felt this way too. If I was reading this off the page, I don't think I'd have any idea what the fuck I'm reading, but his delivery, the inflections and tone and eyes really convey the meaning excellently.
Bravo, it s a real pleasure to hear a performance at this level of perfection..... Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. 5 Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; 10 And now, instead of mounting barded steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, 15 Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, 20 Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, 25 Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, 30 I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams, To set my brother Clarence and the king 35 In deadly hate the one against the other: And if King Edward be as true and just As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mewed up over a prophesy which says that "G of Edwards heirs shall the murder be." Dive thoughts down to my soul, here Clarence comes."
Still brilliant - BTW the Lady Ann was his childhood sweet heart - she had been forced to marry York dynastically - Richard and Ann loved each other very much and their marriage was a true love match
justyouraveragetwitterstan I think it’s true. Anne was manipulated into marrying Edward of Lancaster but I think Richard he did love her. He most likely also wanted her inheritance as well but he gave up most of it to marry her so that masked me think that Richard iii loves his queen
Why this way is so impressive? First of all because it remains so difficult to me to find another Richard as TERRIFIC as Olivier. His pronounciation of English is so eye-catching. Seriously I have boosebumps and feel scared... Fucking brillant...!
It's a joy to be among so many who appreciate this masterpiece. Here's where it comes from: 1. Richard lll, speaking as Gloucester (Richard): Now is the winter of our discontent... 2. Henry Vl, Part lll, Act lll, Scene ll (Henry): Why, love foreswore me in my mother's womb... 3. Richard: Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace... 4. Henry: Then, since this earth affords no joy to me... 5. Unknown. I can't find it. Meantime, I'll marry with the Lady Anne... 6. Henry: That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring....end.
Yes indeed. Except that even in Henry VI (part III), it's still Richard Gloucester who speaks (and not Henry, as you seem to have written ...) For the part you can't find ("Meantime, I'll marry with the Lady Anne. And here she comes, lamenting her lost love Edward, Prince of Wales", this is a line written by Olivier for the movie, followed by "whom I some small time since Stabbed in my angry mood at Tewkesbury- A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman This spacious world cannot again afford- And made her widow to a woeful bed" (this if from Act I, Scene 2 of Richard III, in the "Was ever woman in this humour wooed ?" monologue), "That from his loins no hopeful branch might spring To cross me from the golden time I look for." (and this from Henry VI as you rightly said)
+Daxkalak Btw, I love looking at the Technicolor that this movie was shot in back then. Apparently, Shakespeare had one foot in the historical world and one foot in the mythical, where everything and everyone is amplified and charged with a supernormal energy. If you look at such stories/plays with just your modern historical/empirical eye, then you miss the whole point.
He actually delivers one of the creepiest turns in film history. Oliver’s performance in this movie is so frightening at times that it could easily stand against any horror film.
I am about to rewind Gielgud in "Prospero's Books" as written and directed by Greenaway. I recognize the touches given by the Royal Shakespearean Society
The part of Richard's soliloquy that begins, "Love forswore me in my mother's womb" is actually from "Henry VI, Part III." It confused me when I heard him the first time. Olivier also used this version of Richard's speech on what I think was a radio production.
Sometimes parts of the Henry VI Part III is incorporated into this so the audience can understand Richard’s motive better. In fact, most of this was not from the actual Richard III. How do I know? I read it.
To recognise that the second scene from act 3 could be added to the first scene shows genius. It really works but it should have been rounded with "inductions have I laid etc"
I prefer hearing this missing portion as it further delivers the groundwork already enacted by this arch villain to demonstrate to the audience his soliloquy is not just angry outburst and nothing more. He indeed means all he says.
Greatest Shakespeare portrayals I've ever seen of characters I'd play if I were a decent actor. Richard III - Laurence Olivier Mark Antony - Marlon Brando Henry V - Kenneth Branagh The Ghost - Paul Scofield Puck - Stanley Tucci Caliban - Djimon Honsou Benvolio - Dash Mihok Cassio - Nathaniel Parker MacDuff - Sean Harris Don Pedro - Denzel Washington Lear's Fool - Sylvester McCoy Lucentio - Michael York
I would defo add John Geilgud as Cassius and then again, John Geilgud as Caeser to this list as well. But Laurence as Richard the third and Brando as Marc Anthony defo top the list for me as well, with Geilgud's performances a close third and fourth Defo need to check out some of the others on your lists tho, so thanks for this
3:40“Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart,And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,And frame my face for all occasions”
I can’t help thinking how proud Vivien Leigh must have been to be married to this genius of a man ; without him in her life, she never appeared to be the woman or the actress that she had been.She always kept his photo on her dressing-room table.Very sad.
They say that history is always written by the victors. In this case, it's definitely true, and that is sad. Anyone who has studied Richard 3 knows that Shakespeare's description of him isn't very accurate. Most recent studies say he was a short guy with thin limbs and BAD scoliosis. I mean... BAAAAAAD scoliosis. I've seen his alleged skeleton, and that poor bastard must have been in intense pain all his life.
This is not the full speech...well it’s a mix of the “winter of our discontent’” speech and bits of others from “Henry VI Part 3” , in which he was also a main character
just noticed the massive crown hanging above the throne at 3:40. Contemporary interpretations almost always focus on "realism" or worse, "update" the play and change the historical setting...I much prefer the simpler, though more symbolic, touches of the old school plays like this one.
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imagine walking into the wrong door and this guy starts talking to you like this
Lol
Jes Kvell id take notes, sounds like it would make a decent play
In 'Westworld' that could be a real possibility.
Omg 😂😂😂😂😂
/opens door/
Richard III: "Do you mind!?"
Me: /shuts the door/
I love the intro to Richard III because he makes you a co-conspirator in his evil, to the point where you almost root for him
That's the challenge of playing this tole: the audience HAS to like you a little or it doesn't work.
Almost
Probably inspired house of cards
@@Vpopov81 Richardson in the original House of Cards (I don't like the US version) clearly based Urquhart on Olivier's Richard III
The audience pretty much roots automatically for a character who’s ambitious and whose motivation they know intimately. It’s human nature.
"Whom I, some small time since, stabbed in my angry mood, at Tewkesbury."
We've all been there, Richard.
Most underrated comment ever
Possibly the greatest four and a half minuets of English writing and acting. Truly amazing.
AJ Shakespeare was alright, but he was no Ta Nahesi Coates lol.
Bloody brilliant
Between him and Ken Branagh
hear! hear!
Imagine being an actor auditioning for Richard and the guy before you does this lol
As you're looking at the script being like, "wait, I memorised a different speech."
Lol
I’d get my coat
Thats when you crank it up to 11 lol
"Anyone need a tea maid"
A work of genius. Nay, a masterclass in iambic delivery; its volume, rhythm, beats, syntax -- all superlative. How a person can understand such language and give it such emotional gravitas is an inspiration to all. God bless Olivier.
I'm going to memorize this speech for the next time a cop pulls me over and asks me if I know what the speed limit is.
that will throw him.
So how'd that work out for you?
Laurence Olivier was brilliant.
can you even imagine most of the so called actors today mumbling that speech
Stunning beyond all measure! The words and the delivery UNEQUALED! Unequaled. One can listen to this over and over again and always be awed. Bravo Sir Laurence Olivier !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
60 odd years on and its still wonderful.
Olivier shows his majesty right here.
I have always loved Olivier, I'm not an actor or profess to know what's good or bad. All I know is Laurence Olivier is just mesmerizing, brilliant, authentic and captivating to watch.
I love all his Shakespearean soliloquy/monologue's, but most importantly I just enjoy watching him. 🙏🏾
What a great actor Laurence Olivier was. Even actors like Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart regarded Olivier as the finest of his peers.
Shakespeare would have been amazed by this performance. No-one will ever claim to be the equal of Laurence Olivier.
Great Acting by the World's Greatest Actor Laurence Olivier
Beautiful ain't it. And yet, here was an actor who longed to appear opposite Bernard Youens on Coronation Street.
Hm.
Plenty will claim it. But they'll be wrong.
I think Sir Ian McKellen nailed this performance in his movie.
The magnificence of Sir Laurence Olivier.
Breathtaking! Simply breathtaking. Olivier is a master, a virtuoso, Beethoven on the stage. He speaks like Pavarotti sings.
"... stabbed in my angry mood at Tewkesbury" - I just love that line and his delivery. He makes a premeditated murder sound like a minor inconvenience he took care of one idle afternoon.
He looks like Lord Farquaad
Lord Farquaad was made to look like him
omg exactly what I was thinking xD
Literally read that when I though about it!
Took the words from my mouth!
What's that sound? Oh it's OK, just Shakespeare turning in his grave.
Looks like Sir Laurence Olivier performing Richard III. ^^
I'm enthralled by this performance. The meter and the rhyme, in crescendo to an explosive and brutal climax. Amazing.
Reminds me of Merrie Melodies/original Looney Tunes
My favourite Shakespeare speech, performed by my favourite actor.
Imperious performance. Exorbitant talent. Ruthless delivery of his intentions.
now that's how you do a Career Day presentation
Watching this is like witnessing magic!!!
I think this is Olivier's best Shakespeare performance on film.
I read this play innumerable times in high school, and I found it so difficult to understand.
I heard Olivier in this scene, and the whole play just exploded into reality!
Olivier remains the epitome for me of all Shakesperian actors ... and any other role by any other author he performed. Such a genius!!
Shakespeare did a hatchet job on him, a brave warrior & the last in line of the noble Plantagenets
I never could follow, much less appreciate Shakespeare, until I heard Olivier.
Scathing! Talk about the art of the insult. Hilarious infact!
Probably my favourite piece of prose of all time.
Stating the obvious here, but pur Genius.
Oliver is a God with this delivery. No one could ever do it better.
The greatest Actor of all time
Now is the discount of our winter tents.
Aye, sea, what ewe did their...
Now is the winter of our disco tents.
Lol
Epic !!!!
If you're familiar with "The Red Green Show" in its early years, you might remember a regular segment where Red reads a poem about winter, and that segment was called, "The Winter of our Discount Tent."
Olivier is breathtaking as Richard
I've watched this over and over again. Such wonderful writing and great acting. He did such a good job!
I know people in the modern day would like to ridicule and parody Olivier and his pattern of speech...but I did not need to read to script while he spoke to see EVERY IMAGE and FEEL IT when he transformed into Richard III.
Do people ridicule this though? I am stunned by this performance
@@Synochra most actors I met spoke how his cadence is mechanical. I completely disagree, but some modern actors who are in the Shakespeare world that I’ve met have said this. But it’s their opinion.
I hear, feel, and see every word, every image he speaks. Olivier's performance is magical-- how have I never seen this before?
Try this. Recite the words with his pauses, his emphases, his phrasing. Use the same motions he does with his eyelids, his eyebrows, his withered shrub of an arm, his halting gait that makes dogs bark. Then turn toward the camera and away from the camera in his own choreography. While casting your voice out and returning it like a veteran fly fisherman. Do all these artful things.
Then tell me he is less than God Incarnate upon the stage. I won't believe you.
@@milesfolley6840 Time to be slain by fanboys in the coments: Ironicaly many of out morden actors are worse than mechanical. They have no emotions, their faces are always the same in every situation and moment, and those who master some.emotion dont know how to change it to another. They rarely make transitions, its the same problem of our musical taste totday- no variations, no complexity, always the same tune and notes. Its all like a symphony that never leaves a crescendo. Tom Cruise, Ben Afleck, Di Caprio, Keanu R and so on. Thry only appease the girls and some adults that behace like teens.
The monologue is taken from two different ones of Gloucester's & skillfully interlaced & combined into one.
Starts with Richard III then back to Henry VI (Part 3) then back again to Richard III then back to Henry to the end of the main speech then climbs the steps, looks out the window & descants about his desire for The Lady Ann, who is then pursued despite her hatred of him
I notice when looking for the text this is different. Interesting, the director must have made that choice. Didn’t know that was allowed haha
That is exactly what I thought... I know opening by heart and it wasn't that.
I think it loses a lot of impact by mixing the two up.
Sometimes actors forget few lines and they must furnish the with their words or with what they remember. Might be the case in here
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Absolutely first-class. Both the delivery, photography and direction was spellbindingly good.
The combination of Shakespeare's speech, Olivier's delivery, and the motion picture camera fixating full on--Richard speaks to each of us face to face; we are each his confidant; he unfolds to us his emotion, his greed, his lust for power. Absolutely fascinating.
Disturbing Hair = John Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon..
Opening Co-conspirator monologue = Ray Liotta seducing you into the GoodFellas life.
All in one take.
one of the best speeches i've ever seen
Now that, my friends is genius.
The Bard rules! Sir Lawrence at his right hand!
For a guy who's left winter of discontent for a glorious summer, he sounds pretty pissed. Must be all those dogs barking at him what done it.
It’s not glorious summer for Richard, he’s being sarcastic because he hates his brother Edward (the son/sun of York) who has just ascended the throne.
No, he got back ache a lot
Must be a cat person
Lmao
He’s being ironic because even though England has passed into a glorious summer, he is in his own personal winter of discontent because he resents his lot in life and really wants to be the King
I find this hypnotizing. MAGNIFICENT!!!
My god! Such fire! Such passion! Truly gods once walked the earth in the guise of minstrels. Shakespeare be praised!
My 18th great Uncle King Richard the 3rd of England, Wonderful!. :)
Simply breathtaking. Cunning and evil the acting beyond all other artists and the writing......well what can you say!
Sir Laurence Olivier is still the best. I believe he will never be surpassed. I do enjoy other actors but they are not Olivier.
its been 2 and a half years since i first watch this....
Sir Laurence Olivier is the one and only LORD OF THE STAGE.
It is very difficult for an actor to bring Shakespeare's words to such life that common ordinary, uneducated folk such as me are enchanted by it and actually *understand* it. :) And yet Olivier could do it. It's like music. It's amazing.
his eyes subconsciously guide your mind to the meaning of what he's saying. it's a brilliant performance
Your comment tells me your heart and soul have the finest education.
I felt this way too. If I was reading this off the page, I don't think I'd have any idea what the fuck I'm reading, but his delivery, the inflections and tone and eyes really convey the meaning excellently.
Without doubt the greatest performance of Shakespeare's Richard III by any actor.
Superb....this play helped my love of history blossom......and Olivier was marvellous as Richard....so over the top brilliant!....
Fascinante..graxiee !!!!!
“This guy,” is Lord Laurence Olivier!
Bravo, it s a real pleasure to hear a performance at this level of perfection.....
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. 5
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; 10
And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, 15
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, 20
Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, 25
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days, 30
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence and the king 35
In deadly hate the one against the other:
And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mewed up over a prophesy which says that "G of Edwards heirs shall the murder be." Dive thoughts down to my soul, here Clarence comes."
@@gordonbartlett1921 delightful..
Laurence Olivier is so excellent here.
Larry I love youuuuuuuuu....thanks for everything ......
Still brilliant - BTW the Lady Ann was his childhood sweet heart - she had been forced to marry York dynastically - Richard and Ann loved each other very much and their marriage was a true love match
Robert Paterson I don’t think that’s true, she was manipulated into marrying him
justyouraveragetwitterstan I think it’s true. Anne was manipulated into marrying Edward of Lancaster but I think Richard he did love her. He most likely also wanted her inheritance as well but he gave up most of it to marry her so that masked me think that Richard iii loves his queen
Why this way is so impressive? First of all because it remains so difficult to me to find another Richard as TERRIFIC as Olivier. His pronounciation of English is so eye-catching. Seriously I have boosebumps and feel scared... Fucking brillant...!
Shakespeare, the moon landings, early Kraftwerk.....these are the things humanity can be proud of.
All in one take. Couldn't do that now. Our limited attention spans would have us checking our phones after 20 seconds !
I’m actually slowly memorizing it! I have 8 lines memorized and it’s only been two weeks!
5:12; "A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman this spacious world
cannot again afford." he, he 🤭
Now watch Olivier as Henry V: "St. Crispin's Day" . No doubt Olivier was 20th century’s most brilliant classical actor and Old Bills best !!!
Just watched it. Thank you.
Please don’t forget Boguslaw Linda in eternal classic movie Psy of 1992. Both actors seat on the same throne
I strive to be the Richard of our age, but alas, I have no more brothers to slay!
It's a joy to be among so many who appreciate this masterpiece. Here's where it comes from:
1. Richard lll, speaking as Gloucester (Richard):
Now is the winter of our discontent...
2. Henry Vl, Part lll, Act lll, Scene ll (Henry):
Why, love foreswore me in my mother's womb...
3. Richard:
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace...
4. Henry:
Then, since this earth affords no joy to me...
5. Unknown. I can't find it.
Meantime, I'll marry with the Lady Anne...
6. Henry:
That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring....end.
Yes indeed. Except that even in Henry VI (part III), it's still Richard Gloucester who speaks (and not Henry, as you seem to have written ...)
For the part you can't find ("Meantime, I'll marry with the Lady Anne. And here she comes, lamenting her lost love
Edward, Prince of Wales", this is a line written by Olivier for the movie, followed by "whom I some small time since
Stabbed in my angry mood at Tewkesbury-
A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman
This spacious world cannot again afford-
And made her widow to a woeful bed" (this if from Act I, Scene 2 of Richard III, in the "Was ever woman in this humour wooed ?" monologue),
"That from his loins no hopeful branch might spring
To cross me from the golden time I look for." (and this from Henry VI as you rightly said)
Great performance by lord farquad
My all-time favorite villain. I find it impossible to root against him.
I pictured him walking down a cobbled street when I read this opening speech.
+Daxkalak Btw, I love looking at the Technicolor that this movie was shot in back then. Apparently, Shakespeare had one foot in the historical world and one foot in the mythical, where everything and everyone is amplified and charged with a supernormal energy. If you look at such stories/plays with just your modern historical/empirical eye, then you miss the whole point.
He actually delivers one of the creepiest turns in film history. Oliver’s performance in this movie is so frightening at times that it could easily stand against any horror film.
Agree - so subtle yet soooo jarring.
@@mjp152 Excellent taste!👍
Shut up you uncultured Bruins Dog.
@@ciaronsmith4995 😢
He was the very best. ;)
Perfect amount of rambling character development / exposition.
hits hard.
Greatest Shakespearian by far . who ye said to another ..at an audition
"Come back when one is better"
Magnificent
And it's spoken effortlessly.
Pure
“Run run run as fast as you can! You can’t catch me, IM THE GINGERBREAD MAN!!!”
I’m literally studying this at the moment, brilliant, it just happens to appear in my recommendations, haunting me
Imagine being this guy's therapist :)
I am about to rewind Gielgud in "Prospero's Books" as written and directed by Greenaway. I recognize the touches given by the Royal Shakespearean Society
Wow. This man was a virtuoso of the stage. He was larger than life.
The part of Richard's soliloquy that begins, "Love forswore me in my mother's womb" is actually from "Henry VI, Part III." It confused me when I heard him the first time. Olivier also used this version of Richard's speech on what I think was a radio production.
BTW, Richard's nose also appears to be rather large.
Sometimes parts of the Henry VI Part III is incorporated into this so the audience can understand Richard’s motive better. In fact, most of this was not from the actual Richard III. How do I know? I read it.
To recognise that the second scene from act 3 could be added to the first scene shows genius. It really works but it should have been rounded with "inductions have I laid etc"
I prefer hearing this missing portion as it further delivers the groundwork already enacted by this arch villain to demonstrate to the audience his soliloquy is not just angry outburst and nothing more. He indeed means all he says.
It occured to me this charming monster can turn on anyone.... including You!
Peter Seller's Hard Days Night brought me here!
It has been a hard day's night and I have been working like a dog!!!
Splendid.
Greatest Shakespeare portrayals I've ever seen of characters I'd play if I were a decent actor.
Richard III - Laurence Olivier
Mark Antony - Marlon Brando
Henry V - Kenneth Branagh
The Ghost - Paul Scofield
Puck - Stanley Tucci
Caliban - Djimon Honsou
Benvolio - Dash Mihok
Cassio - Nathaniel Parker
MacDuff - Sean Harris
Don Pedro - Denzel Washington
Lear's Fool - Sylvester McCoy
Lucentio - Michael York
I would defo add John Geilgud as Cassius and then again, John Geilgud as Caeser to this list as well. But Laurence as Richard the third and Brando as Marc Anthony defo top the list for me as well, with Geilgud's performances a close third and fourth
Defo need to check out some of the others on your lists tho, so thanks for this
Olivia Hussey as Juliet
harry lennix in titus beats everybody!
@BrokenWolf,etc. Had you ever seen the late Bob Hoskins as Iago? Great piece of work in one of the longest roles in Shakespeare.
I think I prefer Heston's Mark Antony
Well done buddy!
God, he was brilliant, Olivier, wasn't he?
3:40“Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile,
And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart,And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,And frame my face for all occasions”
Fun fact. Richard III was the inspiration for Frank Underwood in House of Cards, including his regular breaking of the fourth wall.
Sloth from The Goonies Um, know Frank Underwood is based on Francis Urquhart from the original show, right?
Nope.
House of cards is clearly Macbeth.
TheShinigamiInquisition Urquhart is based on Richard
Fun fact: You are full of shit
@@k0inGamesbro, Ummm, you know Francis Urquhart was based on Richard III? Tit.
I love the line I'll drown more sailors than the mermaids shall. The way he says it is very sinister
I can’t help thinking how proud Vivien Leigh must have been to be married to this genius of a man ; without him in her life, she never
appeared to be the woman or the actress that she had been.She always kept his photo on her dressing-room table.Very sad.
this speech is a great cut of the end of richard of york and the beginning of richard iii
Now that’s how you do it🤩Acting at its finest that will never be matched
My friend Mahad loves his hair and swagger.
A classic opening phrase
They say that history is always written by the victors. In this case, it's definitely true, and that is sad. Anyone who has studied Richard 3 knows that Shakespeare's description of him isn't very accurate. Most recent studies say he was a short guy with thin limbs and BAD scoliosis. I mean... BAAAAAAD scoliosis. I've seen his alleged skeleton, and that poor bastard must have been in intense pain all his life.
BrokenWolf1990 how is it not accurate, then?
@@enzo_eleven Because Shakespeare describes him as being a hunchback with one withered arm, which is not remotely the same thing.
i remember watching this in english class a few months ago we finished the whole play a couple days ago
Why did it take so long so finish the play?
@@lorddaver5729 cuz we watched it every now and again and the teacher always rewinded it back a few mins and we only watched it for like 10/20 mins
Imagine if they decided to walk through the backdoor that day and heard his whole monologue right there and then.
It has been a hard days night!
The last monarch to personally lead the charge into battle - cut down in his early 30's.
God bless the last Plantagenet.
Didn't George II lead his troops into battle?
And God bless the poor nephews he probably had smothered in the featherbed
@@krabbykat9918 and God bless the Tudors for hiding behind their army and smearing his image with Shakespeares propaganda
@@DanielMumby George II was on the field , little more
Long live the king!
This is not the full speech...well it’s a mix of the “winter of our discontent’” speech and bits of others from “Henry VI Part 3” , in which he was also a main character
Thank you. I looked at the text and found discrepancies. Then next Q I had was from where comes the text not found in Richard III.
IskalkaQuest2010 Cheers! Glad I could help.
Thanks
Now is the winter of discontent made fine summer by this sun of Stark
Acting par exellance. Olivier a God amongst actors. And this scene shows that extreme intelligence can so often be linked to incredible evil.
just noticed the massive crown hanging above the throne at 3:40. Contemporary interpretations almost always focus on "realism" or worse, "update" the play and change the historical setting...I much prefer the simpler, though more symbolic, touches of the old school plays like this one.
That's likely because we live in an age influence heavily by realism as opposed to the romanticist influences of the original context.
But the fascist setting for Richard III used by Ian McKellen puts an interesting spin on this story.