It is noted that hyper-sexual behavior is linked with sexual abuse and is looked for when identifying children who have been through said abuse...what happened to him at nine clearly effected him
He says that "Whoring and drinking" was the staple vice in his home country. What really surprised me is that he is fearless in the face of all those terrible uncurable STI's. He sounds like a manic depressive to me.
...at the same time..Byron..was going through traumatic surgical and other treatments for his..club-foot.No bloody wonder his adult life was what it was.It is a tribute to the great courage of his Soul...that he was able to find and express truth and beauty in his art.He saved his..Spirit..for eternity despite his fill of hell on earth.
@@davidallen346It seems like you might be projecting something on the original commenter. Byron was hypersexual, he engaged in a high amount of sexual activity with men, women and occasionally young boys. Seems like a childhood problem.
Please don't refer to an experience where a child is taken advantage of by an adult as "loosing virginity" it wasn't a consensual sexual experience it was raped, sexual abuse. I hear that kind of thing too often and it's upsetting. He was raped.
Yeah, that was disturbing. Kinda off topic here, but it's one of the reasons why I'm not a huge fan of the books of Gabriel García Márquez. I've only read a few, but they contain quite a few scenarios of adult women having sex with young boys and adult men "falling in love with" young girls, and it's all presented in a such a casual, nonchalent, "normalising" way. It makes me very uncomfortable that people are able to gloss over such things as if they're this natural, romantic- even mutually joyful- aspect of life. It's a shame that such a dismissive attitude was taken in this video, as it was quite interesting otherwise. I'd love to find out more about Lord Byron, but one that doesn't romanticise all the sordid details.
In no way am I excusing the the hideous and troubling commentary, however it’s important to note that this was filmed circa 2008. I’d say that times are changing, at least I hope they are. It’s appalling rhetoric.
So, he was a survivor of sexual abuse as a child? And then he expressed his trauma through hypersexuality? Like...that's not super uncommon and maybe it's not a romantic ideal?
Lord Byron and Lady Byron's daughter Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (Née Byron; December 10th 1815 - November 27th 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognize that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation, and to have published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such a machine. As a result, she is often regarded as one of the first computer programmers.
Thank you for reminding us of that! In a time when women especially had little chance to be known for anything more than sewing or hostess skills, hearing about Augusta Ada King’s accomplishments is a breath of fresh sir.
I was super excited when I saw this channel post something on Lord Byron, but was super disappointed to find it was actually this documentary. I watched this quite a while ago, since this is actually a few years old. I'll watch anything about Lord Byron so I was entertained, but I was pretty much hate-watching it. I would appreciate Rupert Everett's campy presentation of this documentary had it not been so poorly researched, rude, arrogant, mysogynistic, xenophobic, and just overall really cringe. It's hard to watch at times. I understand they wanted to make it light-hearted, but it doesn't have to be, for lack of a better word, stupid. Aside from Rupert's ridiculous behaviour, just at the start of this documetary there were already several things that pissed me off. First, he goes to Portugal because Lord Byron liked "hispanic women" and then has dinner with a Spanish lady to talk about how Spanish women are supposedly more adventurous in bed...? And then we're back to Lisbon? Wtf? Absolutely everything is wrong about this, from the poor notions of geography to the implied mysoginy! Also, he didn't just "lose his virginity" to his nanny at 9 years old, he was raped. That wasn't his first "sexcapade", it's not just another sexy little detail of Lord Byron's life to gloss over and make light of. I get that in the 18th century he would probably be considered a "real man" for being with an older woman but this documentary was written today. He was just a child, call it what it is! Why not go deeper into his dramatic backstory? This was actually an important factor in explaining his future behaviour. Which instead they chose to romanticise, turning Byron yet again into some kind of sexy anti-hero, and basically making his life into what sounds like pervy fanfiction. After that it doesn't get much better, I could complain about this documentary for hours. There was one moment of Rupert Everett's performance in this that I thought was pretty funny though: when he said the first thing he ever heard about Lord Byon was that his corpse had a humongous erection when it was dug up centuries after his death! But then we're back to Rupert Everett being annoying, rude and misinformed. You'll get a lot of Rupert Everett showing off his muscles and enjoying himself travelling the world, if it's what you're into. It's really more about him being into himself and going on and on about his own cheap Lord Byron fantasy lol We can't change history but we can definitely change how we talk about it, and it's talked about in the worst of ways in this documentary. I get this is a few years old already but it's not much of an excuse, and it's being posted now anyway. I wish there was a good documentary on Lord Byron with a more profound and critical perspective on the events of his life. He was such an interesting, charismatic, miserable and problematic figure. This unfortunately isn't it.
Thank you! You could not have said it better. I'd like to add that the scene with the call girl was super cringe. She tried to keep the conversation professional and he was just so ... weird, trying to bring her to say what he wanted.
@@happytofu5 Yess! So uncomfortable. He's totally out of line, and it's not some special kind of British humour we're too sensitive to understand like some of the comments to this video imply, he's just obnoxious and pretentious. There are so many moments in this documentary that are just as cringy, but I didn't want to write a whole essay about all the ways in which this sucks lol
This is the first documentary I've ever seen about Lord Byron. I was really offended by the comment about Japanese pubic hair. I know that this is old but mean and racist, is mean and racist. I wanted to be interested in L.Byron but this made me dislike him a little, like I would dislike any vain, snobby, narcissist. I feel sorta the same about Rupert Everett. It was a little overwhelming. Reading the comments made me rethink my initial squeamishness. I will give Byron and Rupert another chance, because I love my fellow gays. But I don't love all of them.
Making light of a child being raped, sexist jokes, the Spanish (Hispanic? I apologize and someone correct me if I'm using the wrong term.) lady in the first interview was clearly uncomfortable, and then he starts making fun of Albanese culture.. I can't even watch any more because this is just gross... How was this released in 2021? No thank you.
That poor lady was appalled about the quote. She kept looking over at the person standing to her right like, OMG, get me away from him. After she said, this was something he said and that look on her face said it all. I stopped watching it after that. After repeating that horrendous quote twice that Margaret Thatcher had supposedly repeated, the looks on the people's faces should of given Rupert a sign he needed to shut up. I had no clue who Rupert Everett was. I googled him and now I know why he chose such a hideous person to do a documentary on.
@@justacutie. no. They shouldn’t have then, and they shouldn’t now. Children, especially that young, shouldn’t have access to that and we shouldn’t pretend it’s normal
SAME i was like why is this guy trying to be funny? To everyone he told the joke to no one really found it funny but him and everyone else was being polite
Confusing Portuguese with the Spanish is like not seeing the difference between the Irish and the English. Or confusing Turks with Arabs. Or Austria with Australia. Portuguese are Iberian if anything, but not Hispanic. Try telling a Portuguese person they are anything related to Spanish, you're gonna have a hard time... You've been warned. Also, somehow the fact of Byron being assaulted by a woman when he was 9 doesn't justify in my view being perfectly OK - as this show's makers and its host seems to be - with him assaulting 13-year old girls and boys of similar age later in his life. Lastly, though perhaps most importantly: A material including relativization and making light of [redacted] assaults on children presented by a prominent LGBTQ community member: you're literally doing homophobes' work for them.
It’s important to understand the man, his passions and agonies, so that we better understand his literary works. He adored Turkey, Greece, Albania because these countries were much more accepting of his true self than England could ever be.
I would have thought that Franz Liszt, born 22 October 1811 - died 31 July 1886 and was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, and organist of the Romantic era, would have been the 1st "Sex Symbol" as there are drawings of women "throwing panties" at him as he played his piano.
Yes, nearly every piece of media about Byron (that I've seen at least) focuses only on the more scandalous parts of his life but offer little insight into his writing.
I read your comment before watching more than ten seconds and I was honestly like "she's being dramatic...it's just a history documentary." But about five minutes in I realize how right you are. I completely get it and agree. I can't watch it.
They're oversexualizing the tone of the documentary, focusing on the more trivial parts of Lord Byrons life (I.e prioritizing his sexuality over his intellect) and they're brushing over his history of being sexually abused by calling it anything other than what it was.
I can't stand this guy... His narration is good but he is so arrogant and overly sexual and rude and oblivious to how disrespectful he really is (or maybe not) but I really want to know the story... I'm half way through... I think I'll make it.
There are so many moments, which I find rather disturbing, discriminating and racist. Mostly they concern the presenter's behaviour. -The presenter treats the traditional Albanian costume very disrespectfully -He chuckles about Byrons misogyny towards Albanian women -He is complaining disrespectfully about having to sit for two hours in this ALBANIAN show (come on, your task is talking about Byron and you definitely had an interpreter. Just do your job dude) - He seems to enjoy how uncomfortable the Turkish rector feels about the rather questionable quote of Byron on the similarities between the Turks and the Brits. In the scene before we see the British ambassador who finds the quote "soo amusing". Afterwards we see the Turkish woman who does not understand the "good joke". Sooooo funny! - "Pubic hair is coarser, not if you are Japanese" (No commentary on this bulls*t!!!) + extra facepalm abot the question "Who has the biggest penises?" (SERIOUSLY???? HOW CHEAP IS THAT???) My general impression was that the presenter was very self-indulgent and often very arrogant towards the people he met. I kept wondering the whole time why so many close-ups of Everetts hot body were necessary to talk about BYRON. In the end the image of Byron and the image of Everett seem to merge into one. Does Everett really deserve the title of a modern Byron? Overall, I have a strong feeling of disgust towards the presenter and the ones who allowed the mentioned things appear in a documentary
I watched this whole thing a while ago, this is actually a few years old, and it's terrible because of everything you described. I love this channel and was super excited to see they put up something on Lord Byron, but was disappointed to find out it was actually this documentary. I don't remember all that is covered in this episode but it only keeps getting worse. He's arrogant and disrespectful, often xenophobic and mysogynistic, and he's extremely judgemental of all the wrong things. He glamourises a lot of Lord Byron's problematic behaviour, laughs at what seem like pretty horrific situations, yet is extremely disdainful of things like his looks or, like you said, his traditional albanian costume. I don't remember with a lot of detail so take this with a grain of salt, but I think at some point he says something like lord Byron was probably gay because he hated women, and makes light of things like when he sodomized his wife on their first night together and how it must've been so much fun for her! When it's usually always described as something that was actually quite traumatic for her. At the end of this he goes to Italy, and what he chooses to do to learn more about lord Byron is to have dinner with Donatella Versace, which I also find ridiculous - when did Donatella Versace become an expert on Lord Byron? They discuss how he was actually not good looking and how back then anyone with semi good skin and a couple of teeth was considered attractive and then they have some fancy dinner together with friends and it just seems like this whole thing is about how funny, attractive and fit Ruper Everett is and how much fun he has with his fancy friends and his baths and his wine and his muscular butt.
It was a bit shocking in parts, but overall I found it rather refreshing and quite funny. His humor is very tongue in cheek, dry British. People either find it hilarious or offensive.
The only really equalising feature is that he is just as disrespectful towards his own Queen - describing her as "well-hung" 😳 He comes across as someone who says things for shock value. I know plenty of people like him, and know it is usually not done with serious intent.
You must be a wonderful person to be around with such a good sense of humor. I get so sick of privileged white people seeing racism everywhere and getting offended in the name of other people. Who has so much time on their hands as to write an entire paper in a comment on a video they dislike. Get a life and get some friends, oh yeah you don’t have any because YOU HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR.
I relate and understand the rage over the 'consent' thing, but this was way back when a" female is menstruating, she is doable (super cringe)" was a thing, it's history, and while it's cringe, be thankful that it's different today.
@@abbycross90210actually, it was. One of the less spoken about aspects of Victorian nannies is that it was commonplace for them to "relieve their young masters of pent up energies with a helping hand" to help them sleep at night. It's obviously not something we find at all appropriate today, but it was totally acceptable and even expected back then.
I thoroughly enjoyed Rupert's irreverent sense of humor and find it quite refreshing in a day and age when everyone is "offended" by everything. Much like Lord Byron he doesn't give a damn and I love it lol!
When you're the most famous writer in the world, but you're wife and daughter are more important to history! Wife had a more famous book: Frankenstein, and his daughter was the first computer programmer!
This is the first time I've seen Rupert Everett host a documentary, and I now understand why he really was the perfect choice to voice Prince Charming.
"Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear. Their leaves, the earliest of the year. " This was quoted by by Rupert (as Sherlock Holmes) in the video. "The Case of the Silk Stocking''. An excellent Holmes and story in general.
@@samuelcareen5563, I think he was referring to the old school phrase: "Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmatic". 😊 FYI; The phrase “Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic,” which came to be known as the three “Rs,” supposedly originated from a toast given by Sir William Curtis at a dinner that was being held for the Board of Education in 1795. There are conflicting stories as to exactly where the phrase came from. Other claims suggest that at least the skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic came from St. Augustine’s Confessions.
I like the way he narrated this episode on Lord Byron. It was done with an air that many see Byron as having, mingled with curiosity and education. And I enjoyed that those interviewed weren’t the typical set of academics.
@@rajneeshifollower811 again, in his case yes but generally speaking no. You seem to realise that the both aren't necessary. When I'm interested in a particular artist like Monet for example, his art made more sense to me after I read a bio on his life but his life experiences did not make his art better or deeper in meaning. Depends on the artist. I thought you asked a good question and I think people should consider such aspects to any artist
@@sabbyd1832 yes but I am saying that they may talk about literature of great artist and philosophers but they are more interested in a artist's sexual interaction. Why?
@@rajneeshifollower811 I think you misunderstand. It's that they actually lived, experienced what they write about. Does that make sense. If not, try to ask someone more qualified than me. I wish you well on your literary journey
He starts by referring to Portuguese women as Hispanic and then proceed to show video footage from Portugal to depict Albania. What a mess. Makes me wonder what else is wrong here..
i remember when my high school class (i'm italian) studied him in english, we were 13 females and by the first lesson everyone was madly in love with him....even if he died 2 century ago or so
Byron just sounds like a trust fund kid trying to play off his lack of work ethic and submission to vices as deep and philosophical. Trying to make meaning out of a life of meaninglessness. At least he wrote poems.
...as well as childhood sexual abuse...at age 8-9 ..Byron had one of many childhood surgeries to correct his club foot.In this particular surgery bones in BOTH feet were sawed into.Makes you realise why such a sensitive Soul had issues with...authority and being “done over” and with his outlook on sex,intimacy,marriage....that’s the truth that the Byron sensationalists are blind to.
How convenient that you failed to mention that Byron fought alongside with Greeks against the oppressive Ottoman Empire. He also defended Armenians against them and learned their language, quoting, "Armenian is the language to speak with God," and "On the globe, there is no other country that would be so full of miracles as the land of Armenians…” This "documentary" just glorifies that twisted British taste for the "exotic", and their endless love affair with Turkey. You just want to present whatever you need to to fit a "sexy" presentation of Byron. He was a complex man. Sexually ASSAULTED as a child, abandoned (and cheated on) his wife and daughter, yet had a good heart that yearned to learn and free himself out of the mold of his society. Even with all his faults, he still deserves a much better biography on this channel than this..
@@lilymarinovic1644 I TOTALLY agree with you. Cowell has the personality of a wet paper bag that has vanilla extract spilled in the bottom of it...while it may smell good, it's still a total waste!!!
37:48 did they not have the clearance to homosexual? Isn’t saying the word poof in reference to a homosexual or such sexual acts kind of tilting a homophobic hand? What kind of history documentary is this? Edit: oh and of course everything is said with such drama, having hired an actor to deliver the information. 🤷♀️
3:39 = He is innocent... A rape victim... Probably became a Wakashuku of some sorts thanks to that... 3:45 =The Shido practitioners of the Edo period might have saluted him with that aspect...
It is so awkward to hear him telling that joke that was funny about the differences between the English and the Turks but these people are not into jokes like I don’t even know what these people laugh at like death? Like it’s kind of like what is your deal? Like do they not know how to have a good time when you have more money and more important in that part of the world are you not allowed to laugh at S jokes
Caroline Lamb never said that “mad, bad, and dangerous to know” line. The first time that’s known to have been claimed at all was well after her death. Sounds like someone later on paraphrased something she may have said, or made it up altogether like “let them eat cake.”
This was according to the memoir of her friend Sydney, Lady Morgan. Although there’s no source written by Caroline herself, I don’t see much reason to doubt Sydney’s authenticity.
I wish more history docs started with handsome topless lads speaking from a bath top. Absolute history please consider making a side show that always starts this way "lewd history", I'd watch. At the same time a bit tired of hearing "first this" or "first that" from European context, ya'll thought you were the centre of the world but now it is 2022 and we acknowledge that other places had history long before us so......maybe check up on that
I subscribed after a few moments, thought the production looked nice and we weren't going to try and project modern values into history. Then we started talking to the call girl about dick sizes and I unsub'd. Go watch Kings and Generals or Armchair Historian instead; this belongs on A&E or History tv channels.
Well....the joke's on him, I've never read his work, and we don't know what he REALLY looked like (cause these portaits, c'mon). I bet that would enrage him if he knew.
This host is terrible! Just plain awful he kept making misogynistic remarks and would enjoy it so much! Why put a guy like this to explore a the sexuality of a non heterosexual icon. Plus he should be banned from England based on his “well hung” comment
Didn't expect this documentary to open with Rupert Everett taking a sensual bath, but here we are I suppose
I'm sure Lord B did worse
Somehow, I'm not surprised at the bath.
Sensual? Nein... All i had in my mind was, "Why TF are you in a bath?"
😂
Frankly I'm upset that every documentary doesn't start with RP in a bath.
It is noted that hyper-sexual behavior is linked with sexual abuse and is looked for when identifying children who have been through said abuse...what happened to him at nine clearly effected him
This is very true.
He says that "Whoring and drinking" was the staple vice in his home country. What really surprised me is that he is fearless in the face of all those terrible uncurable STI's. He sounds like a manic depressive to me.
...at the same time..Byron..was going through traumatic surgical and other treatments for his..club-foot.No bloody wonder his adult life was what it was.It is a tribute to the great courage of his Soul...that he was able to find and express truth and beauty in his art.He saved his..Spirit..for eternity despite his fill of hell on earth.
Calling someone hyper sexual whilst oneself continuously looking for new partners with new relationships and marriage is highly hypocritical
@@davidallen346It seems like you might be projecting something on the original commenter. Byron was hypersexual, he engaged in a high amount of sexual activity with men, women and occasionally young boys. Seems like a childhood problem.
Please don't refer to an experience where a child is taken advantage of by an adult as "loosing virginity" it wasn't a consensual sexual experience it was raped, sexual abuse. I hear that kind of thing too often and it's upsetting. He was raped.
Yeah, that was disturbing.
Kinda off topic here, but it's one of the reasons why I'm not a huge fan of the books of Gabriel García Márquez. I've only read a few, but they contain quite a few scenarios of adult women having sex with young boys and adult men "falling in love with" young girls, and it's all presented in a such a casual, nonchalent, "normalising" way. It makes me very uncomfortable that people are able to gloss over such things as if they're this natural, romantic- even mutually joyful- aspect of life.
It's a shame that such a dismissive attitude was taken in this video, as it was quite interesting otherwise. I'd love to find out more about Lord Byron, but one that doesn't romanticise all the sordid details.
Everett was deeply inappropriate, especially toward women, throughout this entire thing, so I'm not surprised that was his take.
I had to stop watching the video at that point. As a survivor myself, its just, WHY would they refer to it like that?? Its sickening.
@@WoodlandGloom I'm sorry. :( I hope they learn from this.
In no way am I excusing the the hideous and troubling commentary, however it’s important to note that this was filmed circa 2008. I’d say that times are changing, at least I hope they are. It’s appalling rhetoric.
So, he was a survivor of sexual abuse as a child? And then he expressed his trauma through hypersexuality? Like...that's not super uncommon and maybe it's not a romantic ideal?
Exactly!👏👏👏
Exactly!
Not at all by today's understanding of mental health.
Yes! So cringy!
Literally my life story..
Lord Byron and Lady Byron's daughter Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace
(Née Byron; December 10th 1815 - November 27th 1852)
was an English mathematician and writer,
chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer,
the Analytical Engine.
She was the first to recognize that the machine
had applications beyond pure calculation, and to have published the first algorithm
intended to be carried out by such a machine.
As a result, she is often regarded as one of the first computer programmers.
Thank you for reminding us of that! In a time when women especially had little chance to be known for anything more than sewing or hostess skills, hearing about Augusta Ada King’s accomplishments is a breath of fresh sir.
I was super excited when I saw this channel post something on Lord Byron, but was super disappointed to find it was actually this documentary. I watched this quite a while ago, since this is actually a few years old. I'll watch anything about Lord Byron so I was entertained, but I was pretty much hate-watching it.
I would appreciate Rupert Everett's campy presentation of this documentary had it not been so poorly researched, rude, arrogant, mysogynistic, xenophobic, and just overall really cringe. It's hard to watch at times. I understand they wanted to make it light-hearted, but it doesn't have to be, for lack of a better word, stupid.
Aside from Rupert's ridiculous behaviour, just at the start of this documetary there were already several things that pissed me off.
First, he goes to Portugal because Lord Byron liked "hispanic women" and then has dinner with a Spanish lady to talk about how Spanish women are supposedly more adventurous in bed...? And then we're back to Lisbon? Wtf? Absolutely everything is wrong about this, from the poor notions of geography to the implied mysoginy!
Also, he didn't just "lose his virginity" to his nanny at 9 years old, he was raped. That wasn't his first "sexcapade", it's not just another sexy little detail of Lord Byron's life to gloss over and make light of. I get that in the 18th century he would probably be considered a "real man" for being with an older woman but this documentary was written today. He was just a child, call it what it is! Why not go deeper into his dramatic backstory? This was actually an important factor in explaining his future behaviour. Which instead they chose to romanticise, turning Byron yet again into some kind of sexy anti-hero, and basically making his life into what sounds like pervy fanfiction.
After that it doesn't get much better, I could complain about this documentary for hours.
There was one moment of Rupert Everett's performance in this that I thought was pretty funny though: when he said the first thing he ever heard about Lord Byon was that his corpse had a humongous erection when it was dug up centuries after his death! But then we're back to Rupert Everett being annoying, rude and misinformed.
You'll get a lot of Rupert Everett showing off his muscles and enjoying himself travelling the world, if it's what you're into. It's really more about him being into himself and going on and on about his own cheap Lord Byron fantasy lol
We can't change history but we can definitely change how we talk about it, and it's talked about in the worst of ways in this documentary. I get this is a few years old already but it's not much of an excuse, and it's being posted now anyway. I wish there was a good documentary on Lord Byron with a more profound and critical perspective on the events of his life. He was such an interesting, charismatic, miserable and problematic figure. This unfortunately isn't it.
Thank you! You could not have said it better. I'd like to add that the scene with the call girl was super cringe. She tried to keep the conversation professional and he was just so ... weird, trying to bring her to say what he wanted.
@@happytofu5 Yess! So uncomfortable. He's totally out of line, and it's not some special kind of British humour we're too sensitive to understand like some of the comments to this video imply, he's just obnoxious and pretentious. There are so many moments in this documentary that are just as cringy, but I didn't want to write a whole essay about all the ways in which this sucks lol
This is the first documentary I've ever seen about Lord Byron. I was really offended by the comment about Japanese pubic hair. I know that this is old but mean and racist, is mean and racist. I wanted to be interested in L.Byron but this made me dislike him a little, like I would dislike any vain, snobby, narcissist. I feel sorta the same about Rupert Everett. It was a little overwhelming. Reading the comments made me rethink my initial squeamishness. I will give Byron and Rupert another chance, because I love my fellow gays. But I don't love all of them.
Yeah I was shocked he just breezed past the fact he was raped, and actually frame it as consentual affair
@@dapperfish koo
Making light of a child being raped, sexist jokes, the Spanish (Hispanic? I apologize and someone correct me if I'm using the wrong term.) lady in the first interview was clearly uncomfortable, and then he starts making fun of Albanese culture.. I can't even watch any more because this is just gross... How was this released in 2021? No thank you.
yes...absolutely. This got awkward fast. And Everett is himself way too egocentric and ignorant.
That poor lady was appalled about the quote. She kept looking over at the person standing to her right like, OMG, get me away from him. After she said, this was something he said and that look on her face said it all. I stopped watching it after that. After repeating that horrendous quote twice that Margaret Thatcher had supposedly repeated, the looks on the people's faces should of given Rupert a sign he needed to shut up. I had no clue who Rupert Everett was. I googled him and now I know why he chose such a hideous person to do a documentary on.
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Umm what is this garbage?? Who the hell says a 9 year old 'loses their virginity'!? It was rape... Extremely uncomfortable host.
But unfortunately (some) kids of that age nowadays watch porn, so unfortunately I believe that happened in the past like it was "normal"
@@justacutie. no. They shouldn’t have then, and they shouldn’t now. Children, especially that young, shouldn’t have access to that and we shouldn’t pretend it’s normal
i love how he said, in the intro, “portuguese hookers”, and then informed that was talking to a spanish woman. 🧍🏻♀️
@Abi Brown some people really do!
@@OstblockLatina i didn’t get to finish the documentary but describing assault like that is just sick
When I heard that phrase I was like, did I hear well?! (I'm portuguese and was not expecting that 😂😂)
@@justacutie. im portuguese too! and i was confused as well lmao
28:10 The uncomfortable tension made me LOL
She didn't look very amused, did she. ... :O
SAME i was like why is this guy trying to be funny? To everyone he told the joke to no one really found it funny but him and everyone else was being polite
This was more about Rupert Everett getting the goods in Albania and Turkey than it was about Lord Byron. Good for him.
Yeah! Second that here.
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There something wrong with that? :D
But bad for the subject at hand. 🤷♀️
Isn't he fabulous!?
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I just realized that the guy narrated also voiced Prince Charming on Shrek 2!
I can't unhear it now thaaaAAAaaanks.
Ruined the whole video for me 🥴
Umm, Rupert Everett? He is the voice of Prince Charming (Shrek)
It seems like Byrons journey to Albania was like reverse Borat
Anyone else get a bit creeped out with the peen size “jokes?”
Yes, I agree. The host said a lot of things that were inappropriate for a history/biography channel. I'll never go back there again.
Rupert's a perv like his hero Byron. Got sickened halfway through.
I came here looking for this comment. This part with the Lisbon lady was so creepy and she was dressed highly inappropriate for a restaurant. Ugh
Confusing Portuguese with the Spanish is like not seeing the difference between the Irish and the English. Or confusing Turks with Arabs. Or Austria with Australia. Portuguese are Iberian if anything, but not Hispanic. Try telling a Portuguese person they are anything related to Spanish, you're gonna have a hard time... You've been warned.
Also, somehow the fact of Byron being assaulted by a woman when he was 9 doesn't justify in my view being perfectly OK - as this show's makers and its host seems to be - with him assaulting 13-year old girls and boys of similar age later in his life.
Lastly, though perhaps most importantly: A material including relativization and making light of [redacted] assaults on children presented by a prominent LGBTQ community member: you're literally doing homophobes' work for them.
It’s important to understand the man, his passions and agonies, so that we better understand his literary works. He adored Turkey, Greece, Albania because these countries were much more accepting of his true self than England could ever be.
While being true to himself we're also abhorrent to women. Like most of not all cultures them
I would have thought that Franz Liszt, born 22 October 1811 - died 31 July 1886 and was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, and organist of the Romantic era, would have been the 1st "Sex Symbol" as there are drawings of women "throwing panties" at him as he played his piano.
Thought I recognized his voice...I watched Shrek too much. XD
it's not camino reel but Ray-Ahl (means royal). Also, why the t-shirts, you don't have the arms for it!
LORD BYRON
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Okay, the "lost virginity" at 9 statement is enough for me to stop watching this video.
We've heard that story a thousand times before. How about something about Byron's poetry, letters, journals?
Yes, nearly every piece of media about Byron (that I've seen at least) focuses only on the more scandalous parts of his life but offer little insight into his writing.
Lord Byron's Childe Harold, a masterpiece❤!
i already know this ep is going to make me so uncomfortable. So ill sit it out but i still gave u a view lol
I read your comment before watching more than ten seconds and I was honestly like "she's being dramatic...it's just a history documentary." But about five minutes in I realize how right you are. I completely get it and agree. I can't watch it.
They're oversexualizing the tone of the documentary, focusing on the more trivial parts of Lord Byrons life (I.e prioritizing his sexuality over his intellect) and they're brushing over his history of being sexually abused by calling it anything other than what it was.
I can't stand this guy... His narration is good but he is so arrogant and overly sexual and rude and oblivious to how disrespectful he really is (or maybe not) but I really want to know the story... I'm half way through... I think I'll make it.
15:22 He should be portrayed in the movie by Aaron Taylor Johnson
There are so many moments, which I find rather disturbing, discriminating and racist. Mostly they concern the presenter's behaviour.
-The presenter treats the traditional Albanian costume very disrespectfully
-He chuckles about Byrons misogyny towards Albanian women
-He is complaining disrespectfully about having to sit for two hours in this ALBANIAN show (come on, your task is talking about Byron and you definitely had an interpreter. Just do your job dude)
- He seems to enjoy how uncomfortable the Turkish rector feels about the rather questionable quote of Byron on the similarities between the Turks and the Brits. In the scene before we see the British ambassador who finds the quote "soo amusing". Afterwards we see the Turkish woman who does not understand the "good joke". Sooooo funny!
- "Pubic hair is coarser, not if you are Japanese" (No commentary on this bulls*t!!!)
+ extra facepalm abot the question "Who has the biggest penises?" (SERIOUSLY???? HOW CHEAP IS THAT???)
My general impression was that the presenter was very self-indulgent and often very arrogant towards the people he met. I kept wondering the whole time why so many close-ups of Everetts hot body were necessary to talk about BYRON. In the end the image of Byron and the image of Everett seem to merge into one. Does Everett really deserve the title of a modern Byron?
Overall, I have a strong feeling of disgust towards the presenter and the ones who allowed the mentioned things appear in a documentary
I only made it 12 minutes before turning it off due to this behavior.
I watched this whole thing a while ago, this is actually a few years old, and it's terrible because of everything you described.
I love this channel and was super excited to see they put up something on Lord Byron, but was disappointed to find out it was actually this documentary. I don't remember all that is covered in this episode but it only keeps getting worse. He's arrogant and disrespectful, often xenophobic and mysogynistic, and he's extremely judgemental of all the wrong things. He glamourises a lot of Lord Byron's problematic behaviour, laughs at what seem like pretty horrific situations, yet is extremely disdainful of things like his looks or, like you said, his traditional albanian costume. I don't remember with a lot of detail so take this with a grain of salt, but I think at some point he says something like lord Byron was probably gay because he hated women, and makes light of things like when he sodomized his wife on their first night together and how it must've been so much fun for her! When it's usually always described as something that was actually quite traumatic for her.
At the end of this he goes to Italy, and what he chooses to do to learn more about lord Byron is to have dinner with Donatella Versace, which I also find ridiculous - when did Donatella Versace become an expert on Lord Byron? They discuss how he was actually not good looking and how back then anyone with semi good skin and a couple of teeth was considered attractive and then they have some fancy dinner together with friends and it just seems like this whole thing is about how funny, attractive and fit Ruper Everett is and how much fun he has with his fancy friends and his baths and his wine and his muscular butt.
It was a bit shocking in parts, but overall I found it rather refreshing and quite funny. His humor is very tongue in cheek, dry British. People either find it hilarious or offensive.
The only really equalising feature is that he is just as disrespectful towards his own Queen - describing her as "well-hung" 😳
He comes across as someone who says things for shock value. I know plenty of people like him, and know it is usually not done with serious intent.
You must be a wonderful person to be around with such a good sense of humor. I get so sick of privileged white people seeing racism everywhere and getting offended in the name of other people. Who has so much time on their hands as to write an entire paper in a comment on a video they dislike. Get a life and get some friends, oh yeah you don’t have any because YOU HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR.
I relate and understand the rage over the 'consent' thing, but this was way back when a" female is menstruating, she is doable (super cringe)" was a thing, it's history, and while it's cringe, be thankful
that it's different today.
That assumes the male is not a child, which he was. That was not acceptable even back then.
@@abbycross90210actually, it was. One of the less spoken about aspects of Victorian nannies is that it was commonplace for them to "relieve their young masters of pent up energies with a helping hand" to help them sleep at night. It's obviously not something we find at all appropriate today, but it was totally acceptable and even expected back then.
I can't not think of Prince Charming from Shrek when I hear the narrator
36:55 ENFP getting off track and forgetting that he was going to explain a term 😂🤦♀️
In this episode Rupert explores the saying "go hard or go home"
I thoroughly enjoyed Rupert's irreverent sense of humor and find it quite refreshing in a day and age when everyone is "offended" by everything. Much like Lord Byron he doesn't give a damn and I love it lol!
Yes!
When you're the most famous writer in the world, but you're wife and daughter are more important to history! Wife had a more famous book: Frankenstein, and his daughter was the first computer programmer!
I was never impressed with Lord Byron's personal life, I found it to be too messed up and I felt sorry for him that he was too messed up.
Same🙄 idolizing a life of sin is ridiculous.
OMG, these ads!!!! 8 ads by the time this program was half over! I understand that ads pay for this video, but every 2 minutes is ridiculous!
That university head did not find Byron's Turkish reference funny!
damn this man really swam between continents for a Lord Byron documentary... mans need a raise
This is the first time I've seen Rupert Everett host a documentary, and I now understand why he really was the perfect choice to voice Prince Charming.
i hate how in the start, there is so many creepy comments about brazilian folk...
Holy heck!! Rupert Everett teaching me history?! I'll take 10 more please.
Right behind you !
So disappointed to see a brilliant literary figure trivialized in this sexumentary. Mr. Everett is showing his creepy side. 🥺
"Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear. Their leaves, the earliest of the year. "
This was quoted by by Rupert (as Sherlock Holmes) in the video. "The Case of the Silk Stocking''. An excellent Holmes and story in general.
So......I'll be going to Timeline's channel to watch the full documentary. Why wouldn't you release the full documentary? 🤷🏼♀️✌
I haven't watched it yet, but I did notice a part 2 listed in my feed.
@@karans3307 Then it was from another channel, because Absolute History hasn't uploaded anything since this video.
@@0hMyLife Yes, you are correct. It was Timeline.
Might as well just stick with Timeline. It's obvious that Absolute History rips these off from them.
ah yes the two p's: passion and pansexuality
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😂😂. Is that anything like the 3 R’s?
@@CastielLovesIt oh lord what are the 3 R's??
@@samuelcareen5563, I think he was referring to the old school phrase:
"Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmatic". 😊
FYI;
The phrase “Reading, ‘Riting, and ‘Rithmetic,” which came to be known as the three “Rs,” supposedly originated from a toast given by Sir William Curtis at a dinner that was being held for the Board of Education in 1795. There are conflicting stories as to exactly where the phrase came from. Other claims suggest that at least the skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic came from St. Augustine’s Confessions.
@@billgreen1861 ooo thanks for the history!!!
I like the way he narrated this episode on Lord Byron. It was done with an air that many see Byron as having, mingled with curiosity and education. And I enjoyed that those interviewed weren’t the typical set of academics.
Rupert is perfect to narrate this doc on the first famous pouf. Loved it. Love him. He was so handsome then.
Why does this start out with the Narrator naked in a bathtub? Byron definitely isn't someone to admire in his personal life
I will never change a thing !!! Philadelphia USA ❤️
Seems like "' the customer is always right"'. ( In that profession) whatever no judgement.
Is this a documentary or a mockumentary?
Albania - weren't those men too heavy for the two mules? poor things looked to be struggling w/ the weight.
When did we become more interested in an artist's sexual life rather than his art?
Good question. In Byron's case it was because both were very connected. He lived it whereas other writers just wrote about it
@@sabbyd1832 so does it made his art more reliable?
@@rajneeshifollower811 again, in his case yes but generally speaking no. You seem to realise that the both aren't necessary. When I'm interested in a particular artist like Monet for example, his art made more sense to me after I read a bio on his life but his life experiences did not make his art better or deeper in meaning. Depends on the artist. I thought you asked a good question and I think people should consider such aspects to any artist
@@sabbyd1832 yes but I am saying that they may talk about literature of great artist and philosophers but they are more interested in a artist's sexual interaction. Why?
@@rajneeshifollower811 I think you misunderstand. It's that they actually lived, experienced what they write about. Does that make sense. If not, try to ask someone more qualified than me. I wish you well on your literary journey
28:45 bookmark
I’m ok with it by why Rupert in the tub straight out the gate? 😂
I have no doubt that was Rupert's decision. So that's why.
He starts by referring to Portuguese women as Hispanic and then proceed to show video footage from Portugal to depict Albania. What a mess. Makes me wonder what else is wrong here..
i remember when my high school class (i'm italian) studied him in english, we were 13 females and by the first lesson everyone was madly in love with him....even if he died 2 century ago or so
Love this video! Rupert you dropped that book fast. Tee hee. I don't blame you - dream men for me. You included.
I’m sick of the sensational way famous people are portrait in RUclips trying to grab subscription rather than informé the public
Is it me or is the host extremely obnoxious??????
Idk about this ep.
Here I thought I was taking a break from r/lgbt and r/SuddenlyGay, but the gay followed me.
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They do that. I hate the thought of having them behind me.😅
Its not the gay. Im fine with that its the weird host kinda made it about him. When I was trying to watch about Lord Byron
Honestly, after getting further, I agree. Holy carp this guy is a creep.
@@hashtag415 You'll be pleased to hear I can't get behind that sentiment.
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Lane, I'm going Bunburying ... again!! Thx for more bunburying XD
Rupert Everett looks great considering his past mishap with cosmetic surgery.
Byron just sounds like a trust fund kid trying to play off his lack of work ethic and submission to vices as deep and philosophical.
Trying to make meaning out of a life of meaninglessness. At least he wrote poems.
Nobody better to narrate this than Rupert, I thoroughly enjoyed the journey.
...as well as childhood sexual abuse...at age 8-9 ..Byron had one of many childhood surgeries to correct his club foot.In this particular surgery bones in BOTH feet were sawed into.Makes you realise why such a sensitive Soul had issues with...authority and being “done over” and with his outlook on sex,intimacy,marriage....that’s the truth that the Byron sensationalists are blind to.
Rupert was being a Byronic troll.... the women didn't appreciate his jokes it seems.
How convenient that you failed to mention that Byron fought alongside with Greeks against the oppressive Ottoman Empire. He also defended Armenians against them and learned their language, quoting, "Armenian is the language to speak with God," and "On the globe, there is no other country that would be so full of miracles as the land of Armenians…” This "documentary" just glorifies that twisted British taste for the "exotic", and their endless love affair with Turkey. You just want to present whatever you need to to fit a "sexy" presentation of Byron. He was a complex man. Sexually ASSAULTED as a child, abandoned (and cheated on) his wife and daughter, yet had a good heart that yearned to learn and free himself out of the mold of his society. Even with all his faults, he still deserves a much better biography on this channel than this..
There was a movie were gabriel byrnes played byron it was called gothica it was made in the 80s.
That was fascinating! Looking forward to the next installation!
Turkish men are something else 😍
Well, when ya really get down to it, most are.
I love how authentic you are.
Whoever this guy is. his face, his attitude and his sandpaper-ish facial hair reminding me a lot of Simon Cowel
He's Rupert Everett. Personally I think he's better than Simon Cowel XD
@@ElvenAngel no comparison! Rupert is gorgeous!
@@lilymarinovic1644 I TOTALLY agree with you. Cowell has the personality of a wet paper bag that has vanilla extract spilled in the bottom of it...while it may smell good, it's still a total waste!!!
37:48 did they not have the clearance to homosexual? Isn’t saying the word poof in reference to a homosexual or such sexual acts kind of tilting a homophobic hand? What kind of history documentary is this?
Edit: oh and of course everything is said with such drama, having hired an actor to deliver the information. 🤷♀️
Rupert is gay himself so no it’s not homophobic especially as he is using the terminology that would have been used in Byron’s time
This is well done, but Rupert Everett's desire to invoke Byron is pretty forced at times.
On an unrelated note but is the host the guy who voices charming in sherk? Bc I can unhear it lmao
Haha that bathtub intro cracked me up.
Hello Rupert.... was not expecting to see him when I clicked.
There was no lie when the Brasilians were mentioned
3:39 = He is innocent... A rape victim... Probably became a Wakashuku of some sorts thanks to that...
3:45 =The Shido practitioners of the Edo period might have saluted him with that aspect...
Can I just add.. I would like to hire you as my history partner to seeing these places.
They call that a hot guy?
Hahaha
A son writes such to his mom.
Hello, Alabama house wife.... I needed this. thankyou....
He was a total pervert.
It is so awkward to hear him telling that joke that was funny about the differences between the English and the Turks but these people are not into jokes like I don’t even know what these people laugh at like death? Like it’s kind of like what is your deal? Like do they not know how to have a good time when you have more money and more important in that part of the world are you not allowed to laugh at S jokes
I think they didn’t understand the jokes!!!! And the humors are different!!!!
Caroline Lamb never said that “mad, bad, and dangerous to know” line. The first time that’s known to have been claimed at all was well after her death. Sounds like someone later on paraphrased something she may have said, or made it up altogether like “let them eat cake.”
This was according to the memoir of her friend Sydney, Lady Morgan. Although there’s no source written by Caroline herself, I don’t see much reason to doubt Sydney’s authenticity.
Oh Byron! Oh Rupert! A match made in . . . a Turkish bathhouse.
I wish more history docs started with handsome topless lads speaking from a bath top. Absolute history please consider making a side show that always starts this way "lewd history", I'd watch. At the same time a bit tired of hearing "first this" or "first that" from European context, ya'll thought you were the centre of the world but now it is 2022 and we acknowledge that other places had history long before us so......maybe check up on that
Rupert wears tightie whities. I rikey!
I subscribed after a few moments, thought the production looked nice and we weren't going to try and project modern values into history. Then we started talking to the call girl about dick sizes and I unsub'd. Go watch Kings and Generals or Armchair Historian instead; this belongs on A&E or History tv channels.
Were they eating a “dog” at the just after the beginning?? When the head had been split in two. There were in the mouth “sharp incisors and fangs.”😳
Looks like a goat to me.
He ate it with no complaints. Very proper guest.
He seems to never age. I enjoyed this!
Women in Lisbon are not "Spanish" women, they are PORTUGUESE women!! This was more about Rupert Everett than Lord Byron!! Thumbs down!!!!!
I'm in my clawfoot watching this 😅🖤
Well....the joke's on him, I've never read his work, and we don't know what he REALLY looked like (cause these portaits, c'mon). I bet that would enrage him if he knew.
that weird date vibe w/ the host???
*this is very...Intresting.....*
This host is terrible! Just plain awful he kept making misogynistic remarks and would enjoy it so much! Why put a guy like this to explore a the sexuality of a non heterosexual icon. Plus he should be banned from England based on his “well hung” comment
He is playing a part. He is an actor , a well known actor who shares some traits of Byron’s.
That poor horse with chain on it's face, what's wrong with people?.
The lady at the event looks very uncomfortable