King Lear (Sir Anthony Hopkins)
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- Опубликовано: 22 апр 2020
- Act 1 Scene 1: www.nosweatshakespeare.com/ki...
Available to stream on Prime Video.
Cast:
Anthony Hopkins ... Lear
Emily Watson ... Regan
John Macmillan ... Edmund
Florence Pugh ... Cordelia
Emma Thompson ... Goneril
Jim Broadbent ... Earl of Gloucester
Jim Carter ... Earl of Kent
Tobias Menzies ... Duke of Cornwall
Anthony Calf ... Duke of Albany
Simon Manyonda ... Duke of Burgundy
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@8:55 It made me tear 😢 up. Earlier in this scene we see a statue of King Lear in his prime. Lear, himself, speaks of his competence on the battle field throughout this play, so this was a great subtle decision by the director! Back to the moment that made me tear… we watch Lear embody the strength of his statue now, as an audience knowing better what makes him up. Not just an old fool, but a strong warrior turned into a soft loving king in his late years. A king who never had sons, mind you well! And I teared up when I saw Lear’s dearest Cordelia show this same strength back to him. A characteristic the talented Florence Pough is known for displaying. As my mother told me: “We argue because we are most alike.” At this moment Lear is blind to this.
i made pancakes at Dover Castle for all the cast during the filming of this!
*Anthony had: banana, almond and cinnamon
david's great really!? Wow
@AMT yeah. I only did one day though. Anthony's partner had hired us. It was a free, fresh to order service making crepes and galettes. I served all of the crew and from the cast, Emily Watson, Emma Thompson and Anthony. They were all friendly, hospitable and talkative. I was walking to the toilets and bumped into Emily walking around the wall of the castle by herself, in full military uniform (maybe running through her lines?). She looked both beautiful and formidable. As I walked past and we exchanged hellos she said "I like your hat!" ,to which I said, "Thank you! My aunty knitted it for me!" . I remember looking at myself in the mirror washing my hands thinking, "you're one smooth talking guy...my aunty knitted it for me!!!!" 😳
Aha oh well!
@AMT He was quietly spoken and didn't say too much to me, apart from saying hello and shaking my hand when he first came up to the hot plates/crepe table. He read the menu quietly and deliberated with his wife before ordering a banana, cinnamon and almond.
@AMT they were all very nice people
This is the type of trivia I want to hear more of
Anthony Hopkins is the BEST Actor. and a kind person who cares about people especially children, and animals especially cats.
Sir Anthony Hopkins is magnificent in every movie he stars in. He is the BEST !
Anthony Hopkins has a beautiful soul and he is covered with kindness.
I would like to thank the person who likes my comments i write about Sir Anthony Hopkins. They are from my heart. I would love to know him like a friend, or my neighbor with all my respect for him and his family.
He is completely estranged from his daughter.
He’s no saint.
@@pippipster6767 If you can't differentiate the actor from the character then you are either very young, or very damaged.
See better, hahaha
@@byrne8509
It looks like you are the one who is unable to differentiate. I was addressing the first comment. Learn to read better. Ha ha.
@@pippipster6767 Yes, the first comment that addresses Anthony Hopkins, the actor. You then reply to said comment saying he is estranged from his daughter which makes no sense.
Actor Anthony Hopkins, in Shakespeare’s King Lear, must be the inspiration for Logan Roy in the tv series, “Succession.”
My God I never knew this existed. Anthony Hopkins as King Lear, oh yes please indeed!
How? Do you live under a rock 😂🤦🏻♂️
8:55 Cordelia is the only real daughter Lear will ever have. She stood up to his childish pride, a pride that is ugly on both an elder and a king. And when he hit her as hard as he could by disowning her, she still maintained her dignity and composure to make this one reasonable request, even though she is probably fighting to hold back from bursting into tears at such a cruel rejection from her father. Any man would be a fool not to wish to have her as a daughter, or a sister, or a wife. Lear is the one who should be disowned.
This is beautiful, it captures the spirit of Shakespeare, even if it changes the time and the scene. Lear is a sad man, not a true king, for he alienates and banishes those who love him most, and leaves in charge those who will be the first to betray him.
The tragedy is that he's senile.
one of the most amazing actors alive.
Didn't realize Pugh was in there, awesome.
Hypocrisy and greed win. That's how it always goes .
King Lear is an old Shakespearean great play.Why should you change the setting, the characters,..and every thing.For example, the king of France is an African here!
@@teacheraisha7995 who gives a fuck? As if Shakespeare didn't change things, setting the story of King Lear in a high medeival setting rather than an early medeival one
This is me, every single day at supper with my three daughters, I swear.
😂😂😂
So you're Lear to them? Oof.
Interesting. Hopkins himself was a estranged from his own daughter. Perhaps that informed his interpretation of this role somewhat.
Wonderful. You can just imagine - and see in their performances - what childhood would be like with this father.
"The bow is bent and drawn, make from the shaft"🤣🤣
The best British actor alive today ....
The best actor alive today
Him and Gary Oldman, are tied. It's hard to pick one over the other.
@@Crichjo32 Both great, of course. But don't forget McKellen!
9:08 To slightly paraphrase a quote from Shakespeare’s King Lear: “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is, To have a thankless parent.”
Wonderful, our greatest living actor and what a cast, this is magical
This was absolutely riveting! The best cast and a brilliant production.
Please keep this on so I can watch it many times.
This is a great movie. I love it.
This so beautiful and different
This movie is so poetic.
One of the best performances of the first act I have seen!!! They also removed some lines from it, maybe because they thought they were superfluous and tbh IMO, this scene is more powerful without them.
Anthony Hopkins is great.
Exquisite map! Thanks, cousin!
THY HART A DRUM BEAT TIS A SCENE MAKES ME UTTER MAD WITH GLEE!
This is like my workplace.
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.
Tu eres unico y grandioso te amo, you are the best😘🙌💕💖💘
Let priiiiiiide, which she calls plaiiiiiiinness, marry her
Anthony Hopkins King Lear: Hello Cordeila.
Because English is my second language, this is remarkably hard to follow without subtitles😅
Hard to follow too for native speakers but the investment in getting the hang of Shakespeare is absolutely worth it. Over 400 years after they were written, the power of the play has stood the test of time. As has the beauty of the language.
"See better, Lear"
Hear me you recreant, ON THY ALLEGIANCE, HEAR ME!
A friend tried to order this movie for me but was unable to get it for me, so I want to keep it in You Tube on my list.
Oh gosh, didn't know Jack Randall was hanging out here)
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Fuck me. Amazing.
Always knew Anthony would triumph as King Lear, such a tragety of a play.
It's a shame that the directors didn't include the fantastic love speech from the King of France that was originally in the Shakespearean script ._.)
i was thinking that too...the speech was in both Quarto and Folio?
there were a lot of lines cut that I was disappointed by! lots of fools lines cut I think
The stage performance is 3 hours long, they had to cut a fair bit.
IS there any way to watch this movie without having prime video? I don't want to renew my subscription but I so wish to rewatch this...
Hi @stelios, maybe you can try uwatchfree or movies2watch 😃
@@p-isforpoetry thank you !! 😊
Always found it hilarious that the whole thing began because Regan didn't say ILY hard enough
Regan?
Cordelia, friend
Sorry yes, Cordelia. Been too many years since my last read, and my name remembering skills have always been poor lol.
King Lear is an Evil Bastard at the start and as the play progresses he, through the loss of everything, becomes more humane and dies of a broken heart.
So is Gloucester. Edmund too dies a reformed man. Lear as well as these two admit their follies at the end of the play and all three die .
It's a great mistake to give your possessions to your child while you are still living
oh old man :( why must he be like this
Tragic madness…
he is not mad. Just unfit to a new world, a new generation."here i stand, your slave, a poor enferm, weak and despised old man" - he tought he had the power, he has notjing. He is old news. LIke a rich old man everyone is waiting to die, while he scraps for a little bit more of life as a king.
You know, the same people who are complaining about a modern dress King Lear as well as casting a black American as Macbeth don't bat an eye whenever they see an Arthurian movie (like "The Green Knight") taking place in a castle. They don't realize that ALL those stories about King Arthur do EXACTLY the same thing as this production---set King Arthur in the modern era which at THAT time was the 1200's. Modern castles the way we imagine them were not built in England until the Normans invaded in 1066. I could go further and point out all the Renaissance paintings of bible stories which depict Biblical characters dressed in modern clothing. I highly doubt that when "King Lear" was first acted on the Globe Theatre that Shakespeare tried to dress everybody in the era of Alfred the Great.
If you have so little imagination that you cannot appreciate Shakespeare unless everything is historically correct, then maybe you should lay off Shakespeare.
Also, Shakespeare himself plays fast and loose with history. In "Henry IV, Part I", Henry "Hotspur" Percy is traditionally depicted as a young man, about the same age as Prince Hal. In reality, he was the same age as the king, Hal's father. Also, in "Henry V" Charles VI of France is depicted as a sane, albeit elderly king while the real Charles battled mental illness.
Even Shakespeare hangs a lampshade on it in the play by having a character reference Merlin and then acknowledging that it's 300 years to early to make such a reference.
exactly
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a stubborn old man
This is only the first scene
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When the hell did this come out? How come I never saw this? Is this like Branagh's "Macbeth" which was never released in the United States??
this was a tv movie made for the bbc. maybe it was broadcast on pbs in the usa or something but it certainly was never released theatrically.
It is better in the original Klingon.
you need better vocabulary. but yes, the rythm makes hard to understand for a not-english viewer like me.
@@mauriciokrebs2913 It is better in the original Klingon.
Not just Hamlet!
i literally can't imagine being like this... a king so prideful?
It hasn't been THAT long since Trump was president.
Then perhaps you need to study history in more depth, particularly the histories of monarchs outside of Europe. There were more than a few monarchs who would have executed rather than merely disowned any children whom they considered to be less than grateful or loyal. Just as one example, it was said of King Herod The Great -- and by the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus, no less -- that it would be better to be Herod's pig than Herod's son because Herod's insecurity and paranoia motivated him to kill three of his own sons (also one of his wives, his own uncle, and his mother-in-law). Throughout most of human history, kings held absolute power and were thought to rule by the will of the gods -- some were considered gods in their own right -- and so they could do whatever they wanted.
I always imagined Goneril as brunette with black hair, Regan as a red head, and Cordelia as blond. With Goneril being the smart one, Regan being the cruel one and Cordelia being innocent .
LITERALLY this is such a refreshing interpretation!!
So do I!
that's not your imagination, more like your copy of cosmopolitan..
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Have to watch this for English gcses 🤦♂️
Haha at least you can research it.. I was in school in the 90's 😊
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Hmm... King Lear with Odin and a Black Widow.
Tony: "Doth mother know you wear-eth her drapes?"
But seriously, how have I missed this version of the King Lear?
Coated, suited, booted modern Lear and his shampooed, lacquered-hair smart daughters and millitary court; and all this in a play that dates back to an England 800 to 1000 years before the birth of Christ! Shakespeare's best work is marred by the glaring lack of the flavour of the ancient times. It appeared to be the scene of a corporate business house with a board of directors, owned by a family .
Or it benefits from any period setting as have commented many many scholars.
@@orangebetsy
Then, why not change the archaic Shakespearean English to modern English too for the 'benefit' of those who find it difficult to follow Shakespearean dialect?
Changing the time period and setting can do two things: 1) show the timelessness of Shakespearean narratives/themes, 2) have the audience quickly identify with the setting and perhaps be a commentary on contemporary issues. It removes the barrier of time, makes us closer to the story. On a simpler note, there are a hundred performances of King Lear in period "accurate" settings. This is different and interesting.
If you get down to it, a lot of these divisions of fiefdoms and kingdoms among kin were a corporate affair, where petty family issues affected political discourse and in turn the fates of the people living under these systems. In this version of King Lear, the UK is a heavy militarized absolute monarchy. I believe they took inspiration from North Korea (notice King Lear's relatively austere tunic), Iraq, and Syria.
hard to capture the meaning of some of it and the poetry. I see what Hopkins is doing as an actor. He throws away lines in favor of the tempo of his emotion and action. Its fine and its interesting but its also expedient and in its own way its provincial and showy. IMO only and I am no expert.
Learage leerage peerage poirage (pear-age) porage, might I have Moore.
This is not Cordelia. At all. Not shure if Florence Pugh just didn't get the role her innocence and sincerity should play --- her name, for crying out loud, means she is a symbol for Lear's heart -- or if it was just the director's insistence on her portraying a rebel young lady who "does things her own way". smh
Cordelia's virtues aren't "innocence" and "purity" but honesty and courage.
@@Mokkari77 That too. But that's not what Florence Pugh is portraying
I think Cordelia can be portrayed either way. I think to a certain extent she is supposed to be rebellious- for whatever reason she chooses not to speak and it’s down to interpretation as to why. Is it actually her stubbornness that leads to her downfall? Is it just her not being able to? I think a rebellious Cordelia does work, because later she is Gonna come back as a badass soldier
That is a very good Cordelia. She is not a "rebel young lady", she is honest and loyal but is scorned by her father and cast aside. A depiction which doesn't show a degree of resentment and sadness is not a good depiction of Cordelia. You are mixing innocence with subservience.
One nitpick---Anthony Hopkins became an American citizen in the 90's after winning his first Oscar and not long after being knighted. One of the requirements of American citizenship is that foreign titles must be renounced. In other words, he hasn't been Sir Anthony Hopkins for a long time.
Actually, no. He has dual American-Welsh citizenship.
Has anyone ever tested what percent of Shakespeare is understood by an average viewer?
Lear is probably as easy as it gets.
@@goodlookinouthomie1757
Saw a contemporary English translation of the Shakespeare play (pretty sure it was “Troilus and Cressida”) and in the playbill notes (THINK by director or translator) it gave a shockingly low percentage estimate of how much of a Shakespeare play is understood by an average person and/or by an average graduate student of literature. So low that I don’t trust my memory (pretty sure quite a bit under 50%). The notes writer also said people who are non-English language users have an advantage since their translation of Shakespeare will be in contemporary usage of their language. I kinda agree, but will duly march off to see Shakespeare and do my best to understand … maybe with repetition will finally get it. I agree with what you said about Lear and would add Hamlet and Merchant of Venice though the reason for all is partly because have read in multiple courses.
[edit] did a quick google to answer my own question. Didn’t find any percentage estimates of understanding, but read this:
“The research suggests it is experience of Shakespeare at school which plays the biggest part - studying the original text can put people off for life.
Hilhorst said most Britons were taught Shakespeare in his original English while abroad there were often translations which used a more contemporary, accessible language.”
www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/19/shakespeare-popular-china-mexico-turkey-than-uk-british-council-survey
martin luther king should be portrayed by james woods next that would be amazing :)
This is a treasure of English literature, and I believe anyone should have the chance to honour the text regardless of race (or gender ftm). Anyone should have the chance to embody any character, after all that's what acting is for. In fact in many plays there are non-human characters and we don't police who plays them. But with that said, you raise a valid question. I can't help wondering if say, an August Wilson play, would be as equality well and tolerantly received as we have have come to accept in the name of fairness. I would like to think others would be just as fair and compromising as we are, if we switched things up like this, because I might want to play Othello and I would therefore have just as much right to do so.
@@stupor_mundi Then there would be an enormous disconnect between one the main themes of the play people are watching and seeing you as Othello. It would make no sense.
@@cmcg3738 That which is common literary legacy should not be treated as an exclusive privilege for a certain group to enjoy fully, just because some people are not willing to shift their mindset. There are many things we did not tolerate in the past and had to evolve and accommodate and now it's no big deal at all. If we can suspend our disbelief for the absurdities we see in say, animation films or fantasy, just like centuries ago people suspended their disbelief when males cross-dressed and played female roles, there is no difficulty in seeing someone enact text and focus on their performance. Because the text is key, the text is sovereign.
Recently I saw a clip of Julius Caesar where an actress played Cassius, and let me tell you she was outstanding. The only unnecessary mistake they made is that they changed the gender of the character to accommodate the actress' real gender, and that was wrong. That is the only thing that created confusion. There is no need to change the text because it is the actor's task to embody the character. But otherwise it was in every regard a sublime performance and it honoured the play.
@@stupor_mundi Calling an african dictator the king of Burgundy is a slap in the face of European culture. I enjoyed most of James earl Jone's rendition better than this, but even that version refused to say "black faced." if you are offended by Shakespeare enough to edit it, you have no business acting it. And casting africans as european monarchs and aristocrats is just silly. That social class despised people of different class let alone race. Do you even know the time this is to take place? Are white actors not worthy of employment in roles pertinent to their culture? Another solution would be for Africa to produce any work so good as King Lear and tribute their own culture.
@@stupor_mundi So are you suggesting that a black person cannot enjoy fully the wonder of shakespeare unless he or she sees it acted with black actors? You think quite low of blacks it seems. I know I do not need to see a white Shaka Zulu before appreciating the piece. I do not need Oprah recast in The Color Purple or John Amos in Roots to enjoy those works. And claiming that one can suspend the disbelief that Burgundy is actually an african dictator because you watch cartoons is just as absurd as your first argument. Men crossed dress to play women as they were represented in the play, they didn't dress like people who would never have existed in the setting. Women existed in the setting, African dictators didn't exist in dark age britain. Besides, acting as awhole has evolved to let women play women and men play men, why is that an evolution? Because it mimics life. The more realistic the drama, the higher form of art it is. Peter Pan used to be played by a woman because kids weren't seen to be good actors and a they felt a woman is closer to a prepubscent boy than a grown man. But again the art evolved and kids were developed into great actors in their own right. The evolution of the craft of acting, is not related to the contradicting of the drama's setting itself. They are not the same thing.
And then casting females in male roles? This is believable for you in a play about Julius Ceasar? I'm afraid you lack a real concept of history then. No woman was allowed to set foot in the senate, nor to hold any office, nor to even vote. So casting a woman as a senator is patently absurd. Just as it is to cast her as a warrior who beats up men. It would have been more absurd if she was pretending to be a man. you wish to step backwards rather than forwards.
The director seems to have got France confused with Ghana.
and king lear 'confused' with sir Anthony Hopkins...
@@odysseusprodromou3260 I thought it was a good performance from Hopkins. The film was pretty good overall actually. What I don't like is this kind of interpretation for a "mOdErN aUdIeNcE".
anthony hopkins plays lear much too calm and collected, he's supposed to be having a raving temper tantrum in this scene
says you
@@iR3vil4te you are correct, says I.
Oh, he is. This is how most intelligent people I know rage.
They are aware of their appearances and so they pose as calm and collected while making irrational decisions. It's less dramatic and more kniving.
@@EgoEroTergum Ya but Lear is anything but intelligent
@@simonrooney2272 Hopkins is. He's not playing Lear as a fool of little intellect, but rather a fool of little understanding.
In DnD terms: high INT, low WIS, low CHA.
This is what makes Lear satisfying. He is able to learn and in the end fully comprehend his folly.
And his folly is not inherently in the plan of leaving his kingdom to his daughters, it's in mis-judging their character, and mistreating those around him.
An intellect-deficient, yet charismatic king might leave his kingdom to his fool, because he knows the fool is a man of good character and sound advice.
He’s far from the best Lear. Good at the madness but too overall incomprehensible. Shakespeare needs better diction.
or a better 'audience'
Atrocious
My God, they ruined it with their forced pandering. Everything turned hilarious, in a bad way. I don't want to watch the whole thing. God knows who many absurds more are there.
Indeed 🧐
1> my brother in christ this movie was released over half a decade ago
2> it's pandering to... what, have people in the cast that aren't white?😂