Thank you very much for posting this. Brilliant performances all around. Those were the days, when you could witness such works of art on public television. What has gone wrong?
@@tophatproductions3031 From the man with lots of Hitler content on his page...not surprising...I assume the use of liberal in this context is erroneous as is per usual from people that bandy the word around and think Hitler is funny...
Ironically, Charles Dickens explores the same theme of maturity in Bleak House. There are the differences of age, wanting to hold on by Jarndyce, then letting go for the benefit of the young. Solness is taunted by his own punishment for not letting go of desire for life. Dickens character presents a viable model for balance between desire and duty that comes with maturity. The builder's wife is at the extreme of duty. As all this is centered around the ego, it is also centered around the body. The cracks in our conscience of the good is where the trolls creep in, eventually fulfilling their attending unsatisfying bonds we become loyal to. This really is a Christian message of going beyond duty to bonds that are satisfying. The wife is spinning in the right direction, but has not arrived at love that binds. Love is perverted with loyalty due to the trolls that get in. This is why Solness considers it good to make his wife a little jealous, as if this would bring her to love. He would need to repair his conscience and examine his intent. Perhaps the doctor is trying to gently persuade him. Perhaps the next generation will get it. Ibsen is a master builder of drama.
At the beginning I did not like him but, then I changed my mind. He was a great man! And it was interesting to me how much he needed the attention of those gals. WOW
If I were the master builder, and somebody like Hilda Wangel appeared in my office and talked to me the way she talks here, I would have found the first excuse to get her out of there and then made sure she never got in again. She's as mad as a hatter.
+William S. I'd pull a hidden lever just as she stepped on the secret trapdoor in the floor. When she reached the bottom of the 50 foot pit, I'd dump a ton of coal in on top of her. And an iron girder. And I wouldn't let her out for a month. That might soften her cough.
Actually, you are right. This play is about two people with sick minds, according to an essay I read last night in one of the Ibsen collections. They are mutually infatuated.
I am frankly astonished that the piece can be so misunderstood. The whole point is that he has a proclivity for involvement with her. She represents an aspect of his fantasies and his desires. She is compulsive. He is unable to resist. On a more mundane level, it is clear that she invokes his guilt, that he, at some point in the past, has been culpable in her corruption. The commentary is right. There is a mutual infatuation. Hers based on violation, his based on guilt. And it's clear that she has been as responsible as him in the fact of this aberration. Ibsen always worked with 'tricky' issues. And he never took the 'obvious' path. He doesn't judge. He sees how 'complex' the human being is, and he has the sense and decency not to point the finger.
I agree.... If he were me, throw that crazy b*tch out. And yet, he wasn't exactly Mr. Stability. Everyone can analyse and read between the lines all day, and perhaps they had their sad past events. Nevertheless, watching this movie was not unlike visiting the cookoo farm. 😁🙃😁
It's unfortunate that we think of Ibsen today as a bewhiskered old fuddy duddy - it's too easy to forget just how shattering the impact of his plays were at the time. Why him.....and why Norway just at that time ? One would imagine Paris , Berlin or London as the birthplace of this " new " drama .? Not staid , boring old Oslo . Very odd. But , perhaps , more proof that genius cannot be predicted . It may appear in any place or time and manifest itself through an apparently random individual . There's the Mystery...! !
Ibsen's sex fantasy pretty obvious..just masked in Theatrical Form..pretty obvious.." I don't quite know what to make of you..." yeah right.....his last love affair was definitely along these lines....." i was terribly afraid of you......"...lots of subtextual sex innuendos...
Thank you so much for this. This is what RUclips should be for.
Thank you very much for posting this. Brilliant performances all around. Those were the days, when you could witness such works of art on public television.
What has gone wrong?
In a word - liberalism.
@@tophatproductions3031 in a word, conservatism, draining funds from the arts.
@@tophatproductions3031 From the man with lots of Hitler content on his page...not surprising...I assume the use of liberal in this context is erroneous as is per usual from people that bandy the word around and think Hitler is funny...
In a word greed (some might prefer capitalism). Now you must pay for it.
Wow, this is absolutely superb acting.
Engrossing. Superb!
Brilliant as always leo done it again. Many thanks for posting this.
This is one of my favorites by Ibsen. The idea of a 'robust conscience' is fantastic!
THANK YOU!!!
lots of thanks for posting this greatest piece of Ibsen, and such a wonderful production! thanks!!
Great performance from McKern .....very impressive . Makes a change from his
usual Ham. ie . Rumpole etc .
Yes it is Miranda Richardson. Fantastic!
Ironically, Charles Dickens explores the same theme of maturity in Bleak House. There are the differences of age, wanting to hold on by Jarndyce, then letting go for the benefit of the young. Solness is taunted by his own punishment for not letting go of desire for life. Dickens character presents a viable model for balance between desire and duty that comes with maturity. The builder's wife is at the extreme of duty. As all this is centered around the ego, it is also centered around the body. The cracks in our conscience of the good is where the trolls creep in, eventually fulfilling their attending unsatisfying bonds we become loyal to. This really is a Christian message of going beyond duty to bonds that are satisfying. The wife is spinning in the right direction, but has not arrived at love that binds. Love is perverted with loyalty due to the trolls that get in. This is why Solness considers it good to make his wife a little jealous, as if this would bring her to love. He would need to repair his conscience and examine his intent. Perhaps the doctor is trying to gently persuade him. Perhaps the next generation will get it. Ibsen is a master builder of drama.
Rumpole at his greatest. Only his stunning turn as # 2 in The Prisoner comes close.
Also Thomas Cromwell in A man for all seasons
At the beginning I did not like him but, then I changed my mind. He was a great man! And it was interesting to me how much he needed the attention of those gals. WOW
If I were the master builder, and somebody like Hilda Wangel appeared in my office and talked to me the way she talks here, I would have found the first excuse to get her out of there and then made sure she never got in again. She's as mad as a hatter.
+William S. I'd pull a hidden lever just as she stepped on the secret trapdoor in the floor. When she reached the bottom of the 50 foot pit, I'd dump a ton of coal in on top of her. And an iron girder. And I wouldn't let her out for a month. That might soften her cough.
Actually, you are right. This play is about two people with sick minds, according to an essay I read last night in one of the Ibsen collections. They are mutually infatuated.
I am frankly astonished that the piece can be so misunderstood. The whole point is that he has a proclivity for involvement with her. She represents an aspect of his fantasies and his desires. She is compulsive. He is unable to resist. On a more mundane level, it is clear that she invokes his guilt, that he, at some point in the past, has been culpable in her corruption. The commentary is right. There is a mutual infatuation. Hers based on violation, his based on guilt. And it's clear that she has been as responsible as him in the fact of this aberration. Ibsen always worked with 'tricky' issues. And he never took the 'obvious' path. He doesn't judge. He sees how 'complex' the human being is, and he has the sense and decency not to point the finger.
I agree.... If he were me, throw that crazy b*tch out. And yet, he wasn't exactly Mr. Stability. Everyone can analyse and read between the lines all day, and perhaps they had their sad past events. Nevertheless, watching this movie was not unlike visiting the cookoo farm. 😁🙃😁
Only watched the first scene so far and it looks uperb, pity the image is so dim and blurred.
Leo Mckern is of Australian nationality.
TELL me Leo's left eyebrow is not at a 90 degree angle to his right. It's perpendicular to the ground!
He's blind in that eye
He's blind in that eye
It's unfortunate that we think of Ibsen today as a bewhiskered old fuddy duddy - it's too easy to forget just
how shattering the impact of his plays were at the time.
Why him.....and why Norway just at that time ? One would
imagine Paris , Berlin or London as the birthplace of this
" new " drama .? Not staid , boring old Oslo . Very odd.
But , perhaps , more proof that genius cannot be predicted
. It may appear in any place or time and manifest itself
through an apparently random individual . There's the
Mystery...! !
Yes
is that a young Miranda Richardson?
Yes, indeed, and what a performance. Captivating, yet terrifying.
I always think there's something slightly terrifying about Miranda Richardson, even when she's playing comedy parts.
Leo Mckern has a glass eye. Loss of his eye.
38:00
Pretty terrible video quality, unfortunately
Sorry that's how the video file came to me 😃
Ibsen's sex fantasy pretty obvious..just masked in Theatrical Form..pretty obvious.." I don't quite know what to make of you..." yeah right.....his last love affair was definitely along these lines....." i was terribly afraid of you......"...lots of subtextual sex innuendos...