At 1:11 when Bergman looks up at Finney, he raises his eyebrows and she seems on the cusp of breaking, but she folds that smile into her performance so deftly it becomes a microbit in the persona-within-persona game of this role. One of my favorite takes ever.
She talked about this scene in her book. She really intended it to be “seriously hilarious”. She was offered the role of the queen, longer & bigger part but she chose this one. I just love Ingrid Bergman. ❤️
@unowen-nh9ov and later she said that she specifically called out Valentina Cortese because she had seen her film; but that was not in any way to single her out and diminish the other nominations. It was just that she had not seen the other 3 yet, although eventually did and also found them as deserving if not more so than her own !
Ingrid Bergman was originally offered role of Princess Dragomiroff, which is of course larger role in movie and producers thought she would have great chances of winning Academy Award. However, Bergman insisted on playing role of Gretha Olsson, since Olsson was Swedish just like Bergman was. Only problem was that Bergman completely lost her Swedish accent aftert 40+ years career in USA so she needed help from accent and dialogue trainer for the role. Trick worked as she won Academy Award
Her eyes are not acting. I mean... of course, she is acting, but the way she moves and darts her eyes as a another level of communicating her words and feelings and thoughts is a masterclass. The way she uses her eyes to convey that she is thinking (as she is acting, she know her lines) is wonderful.
She said' if the director had moved the camera around on to other actors as well' during the conversation' she would not have won the award! He knew what he was doing' focusing on her.
I thought Finney was superb in this film. From his mustache maintenance to his brilliant mind for deduction Finney delivered a tour de force performance that entertained the hell out of me. He also delivered one of my fav' screen lines: "do not touch nothing"...
Suchet corresponds the most to the Poirot I imagined from the books but Finney has grown on me too. As for Bergman, wow! I start laughing whenever I play this scene in my head.
@kaejae24 she did this in one long take...its difficult to show such a range of emotions all in one take...and to top it all...Sidney lumet himself was blown away by this scene...she totally deserved it!...sometimes subtlety prevails over being loud to win an oscar!
Well, no disrespect to our studious Scandinavian brothers and sisters, but the combined population of Scandinavia (F, N, S and D) is 25 million, each country with its different language. 25 million is approximately the same as metro New York. Those good people need to learn other languages because no one else speaks theirs (excepting maybe in Minneapolis).
I love how gentle Poirot was with Miss Ohlsson. His behaviour towards her is a stark contrast to how he treated Miss Ohlsson's bunk mate, Miss Debenham.
His treatment of Miss Debenham was deliberate. It was meant to provoke Colonel Arbuthnot, in order to get to the hidden point of what both of them knew
Very lovely that she did in all in one take, proving her skills as a stage actress and bringing an authenticity to the scene. Perhaps it wasn't quite Academy Award-worthy but they loved the comic send up of her own Swedish accent!!
I think she won the supporting actress Oscar for managing to keep a straight face throughout this single 4-minute take. She looks like she'd burst out laughing at any moment due to the sheer silliness of it all!
Guess you've never seen Inn of the Sixth Happiness? Bergman is lampooning her 🌟 performance in that movie. She was hired to play Princess Dragomiroff, refused, she knew what she was doing.
She (Bergman) seems to be parodying her missionary character in Inn of the Sixth Happiness (where she was supposed to be British--!). Oscar-worthy? Maybe not, but both she and Finney as Poirot are quite funny together.
@kaejae24 She's Ingrid Bergman. She worked hard and acted superbly even in sub par films. She always brought the thunder. Thus, she always deserved any and all awards and accolades that she got. But then, I'm biased. I love Ingrid.
I never noticed before, but Poirot is invading her personal space the entire time. I don’t remember him doing that with the other suspects. It says something about her dedication that she doesn’t back away.
I rewatched the movie recently and this particular scene reminded me of Betty White's Rose Nylund in The Golden Girls, possibly because both characters are kind-hearted and muddle-headed.
So true. I think even Hepburn said during an interview that she never won for the right films. And Davis not winning for All About Eve or Of Human Bondage is shamefull. Of course it still goes on today; Kate Winslet winning for The Reader, Judi Dench and Gwenyth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love, and Nicole Kidman in The Hours.
Winslet and Kidman won for the right roles and masterful performances… Davis not winning for All About Eve and Of Human Bondage is understandable, because the actual winners were deserving too…
كانت أمي تحب الممتلة انكريد بركمان كل الحب والتقدير والاحترام على الأدوار التي كانت تقوم بها بكل إتقان وكانت أمي امرأة متقفة في دالك العصر (1945-2013) رحمها الله برحمته الواسعة وجعلها من أهل الجنة هي وأبي إنشاء الله مع قوته
I read somewhere that she said she prepared this scene by revisiting a similar moment in Alfred Hitchcock's "Under Capricorn" (1949) where she had a long monologue...
She conveys wordlessly that she is lying or covering something up. When Poirot says "your mother and father will forgive you" she looks absolutely panicked for like a millisecond. I wonder if "most Scandinavians of my acquaintance are well educated in foreign languages" was a joke because Ingrid knew so many languages.
No, it is in the novel. This performance is a wonderful piece of acting art. Ingrid Bergman (who was very smart), playing a dim but good natured children's nurse, who is play acting the part of an even dimmer missionary zealot. The look that she gives when Poirot reveals that he has reached limit of his Swedish is very funny (how can a look say. "well, it seemed too good to be true"?), as is her deranged stare at one of Poirot's companions as she moves to sit down. She breaks down at the vision as she remembers the murder of Daisy, but suggests that she is being punished for her parent's irreligion (which is why Poirot says he hopers her parents will forgive her; he knows, or suspects, the real reason she has broken down, a moment's genuine emotion among all the shadow play). You would have to go a long way to find similar mastery of look, gesture, expression and body language. It transcends analysis; it is so perfect, and so funny.
Good morning, thanks for the video 🤝👏👍👌 I have a curiosity, which I couldn't find online: in the film, Albert Finney seems "stuck" with his back and neck; why that rigidity? Is it due to some accident, or is it a cinematic fiction? If the latter, why? I thank in advance anyone who can answer me 💖
I never read her book. Not sure she mentions that although a native of Sweden, she'd done so many American films, she had to have a tutor for this to get a heavy accent back!
I might be biased, but Finney, no matter how good he was as an actor, is definitely *not* what Christie imagined as Poirot. Bergman, on the other hand... she's just amazing, generally speaking
The only reason Poirot still lives on screen is Oscar nominated Finney & Sidney Lumet, they had to recover from Tony Randall. Without Finney Suchet wouldn't have a career.
When Poirot goes through his solution to the crime, he comments that Miss Oleson knew what the word "emoluments" meant. But that's not necessarily true. She could have just assumed that he was speaking of some kind of donation.
Good scene, but that Oscar was far too easy. Even Ingrid herself admitted Valentina Cortese deserved it. It's a shame Ingrid won her Oscars for all the wrong roles, as did Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis. And the academy just won't do something about their embarrassingly flawed voting system.
lm wondering something. I always thought she was able to hide her accent and thus ensuring her the succes she had, but l see now how blatant her swedish accent was, does this mean she played a swede in each movie?
I love Ms Bergman,Love her , but she did NOT , deserve the Oscar or even a nomination. I know that she only won because she is Ingrid Bergman. I still feel this is one of the worst Oscar Winners in the Supporting Race, right up there with Ms Helen Hayes winning for Airport in 1970
Bergman requested this smaller role, director Lumet wanted her to play Princess Dragomiroff. When it came time to film her scene, he shot her in an unbroken close-up, when he called Cut she kissed him & took home the Oscar. Deservedly so.
Albert Finney as Poirot?? Sooo bad!! He plays the role of Poirot so unconvincingly. His french accent is very bad....he sounds more like a russian or something. David Suchet is THE HERCULE POIROT
Maybe because Poirot is Belgian? Finney was my 1st Poirot, his wit & over the top theatricality have always made fussy uptight Suchet unwatchable to me.
Finney is brilliant! Whole point of his performance is the theatricality, he made Poirot on screen, no one has measured up since (not even Ustinov in a unitard!).
It is a very extreme performance, but I must say he corresponds to the Poirot that exists in my head. I love the scenes where he is putting on his hairnet, moustache protector and gloves to read the paper. He is brilliant, but neurotic and a monster of ego. All screen Poirots take their point of origin from here even if they go in different, and equally valid, directions (Ustinov: more genial, less neurotic, Branagh: more virile, more absolutist in morals, Suchet: smoother, more worldly, to name just a few)
@@simonjones7727 Dame Agatha approved of 1st quality Poirot production & sole Oscar nominated performance. Finney's performance got more of the details right than anyone.
I do find her performance a bit too deliberate.. you sense the acting machinery and turning cogwheels behind the emotions she's trying to portray.. a bit too self aware, maybe.. oh well, I've seen a lot worse.
Your comment is worse. How many Oscars you got? Typist. Sorry. That was rude. I meant troll. Get back to me next time you star in Casablanca. Or anything. Ever.
She won her third Academy Award because she did this scene in ONE TAKE--NO CUTS.
At 1:11 when Bergman looks up at Finney, he raises his eyebrows and she seems on the cusp of breaking, but she folds that smile into her performance so deftly it becomes a microbit in the persona-within-persona game of this role. One of my favorite takes ever.
Ingrid Bergman´s swenglish is absolutely perfect and hilarious.
She talked about this scene in her book. She really intended it to be “seriously hilarious”. She was offered the role of the queen, longer & bigger part but she chose this one. I just love Ingrid Bergman. ❤️
Me too' love her to death.
I loved her book! Only book that made me laugh and cry! I’m happy she fought for the roles she wanted
Not the queen, but the Princess Dragomirov which Wendy Hiller played
Notice the changes of expressions in Ingrid's eyes. Her delivery to the role was impeccable.
Because her director let her perform the scene in 1 uninterrupted closeup, when they were done she gave him a kiss, apparently an Oscar winning kiss!
. . .and to think it was she who insisted to Lumet on being assigned a smaller role than originally intended.
This is a very nuanced performance - very touching. She deserved the Oscar for this.
yes here expressions priceless.
She said she didn't deserve it' but that is just self-effacing' hardly any sign of acting' well deserved.
She didn't agree & gave a most gracious shout out to fellow nominee Valentina Cortese during her acceptance speech.
@unowen-nh9ov and later she said that she specifically called out Valentina Cortese because she had seen her film; but that was not in any way to single her out and diminish the other nominations. It was just that she had not seen the other 3 yet, although eventually did and also found them as deserving if not more so than her own !
She was about 59 years old and still more beautiful than any younger woman, then and now.
One of the best moments in the film. "I saw Yeesus in the sky!". And the "little brown babies...more backwards then myself".
"And 27 cents." And a sheepish little grin, like "are you buying this BS, please?" What genius acting.
Most likely once of the most iconic scene in the movie histories. What a legend!
Ingrid Bergman was originally offered role of Princess Dragomiroff, which is of course larger role in movie and producers thought she would have great chances of winning Academy Award. However, Bergman insisted on playing role of Gretha Olsson, since Olsson was Swedish just like Bergman was. Only problem was that Bergman completely lost her Swedish accent aftert 40+ years career in USA so she needed help from accent and dialogue trainer for the role. Trick worked as she won Academy Award
Who was her dialogue coach for her final Emmy winning starring role as Golda Meir?
Ruth Hoberts was her teacher. The same teacher who teaches her english
Beautifully done 😊😊😊
Her eyes are not acting. I mean... of course, she is acting, but the way she moves and darts her eyes as a another level of communicating her words and feelings and thoughts is a masterclass. The way she uses her eyes to convey that she is thinking (as she is acting, she know her lines) is wonderful.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE tthis movie and the book!!!! Albert did such a good job as Poirot.
I love Bergman in this film. Every time I hear a large crash or other big sound I say "I hear snake hiss!".
She said' if the director had moved the camera around on to other actors as well' during the conversation' she would not have won the award! He knew what he was doing' focusing on her.
I thought Finney was superb in this film. From his mustache maintenance to his brilliant mind for deduction Finney delivered a tour de force performance that entertained the hell out of me. He also delivered one of my fav' screen lines: "do not touch nothing"...
Finney's Oscar nominated performance is why I can't watch Suchet, nor comedic Ustinov (except when he's wearing a unitard).
It's all in one take! :o Great performance! Makes me proud to be swedish!
I love when she sticks in some swedish words: "nej" "ja just det!" :D
Suchet corresponds the most to the Poirot I imagined from the books but Finney has grown on me too.
As for Bergman, wow! I start laughing whenever I play this scene in my head.
I can't watch Suchet because of Finney, among other reasons.
I loved that part of the film. She deserved more than one oscar
She won 3
@kaejae24 she did this in one long take...its difficult to show such a range of emotions all in one take...and to top it all...Sidney lumet himself was blown away by this scene...she totally deserved it!...sometimes subtlety prevails over being loud to win an oscar!
"Most Scandinavians of my acquaintance are well educated in foreign languages". My experience too.
"in OTHER languages"
Well, no disrespect to our studious Scandinavian brothers and sisters, but the combined population of Scandinavia (F, N, S and D) is 25 million, each country with its different language. 25 million is approximately the same as metro New York. Those good people need to learn other languages because no one else speaks theirs (excepting maybe in Minneapolis).
I'll never forget how, despite being made to look as plain as possible for her character, she's still utterly luminous.
I love how gentle Poirot was with Miss Ohlsson. His behaviour towards her is a stark contrast to how he treated Miss Ohlsson's bunk mate, Miss Debenham.
His treatment of Miss Debenham was deliberate. It was meant to provoke Colonel Arbuthnot, in order to get to the hidden point of what both of them knew
A Brilliant Performance...filmed in one long take ...
Very lovely that she did in all in one take, proving her skills as a stage actress and bringing an authenticity to the scene. Perhaps it wasn't quite Academy Award-worthy but they loved the comic send up of her own Swedish accent!!
Actors in today's movies can't hold a candle to the likes of Finney, Bergman, and the others in this movie!
Absolutely
David Suchet's portrayal of Poirot was very good
@@adamwalkervfx I can't watch him or Ustinov after Finney.
One hell of a cast in this one
little brown babies more backwards than myself....ingrid rocks...what a superb actress...like meryl and both hepburns...true class
Totally
She is hilarious, so funny...!
Gawd she's perfect
One of the best oscar winning performances.
I think she deserved it. She deserved more screen time too, but I am amazed that she chose something more challenging.
Perfection...I can watch again and again
I think she won the supporting actress Oscar for managing to keep a straight face throughout this single 4-minute take. She looks like she'd burst out laughing at any moment due to the sheer silliness of it all!
She actually gave her director a kiss when he called cut because he not only didn't interrupt, he gave her a close-up for the entire scene.
I agree. There was some funny lines in there.
Guess you've never seen Inn of the Sixth Happiness? Bergman is lampooning her 🌟 performance in that movie. She was hired to play Princess Dragomiroff, refused, she knew what she was doing.
Im surprised she was able to get thru this scene without cracking up.
Why it's called "acting".
1 reason.
yes having Finney's face that close and not laughing took a lot of. ontrol
@@brain8484 Lol!
she is the best!!!
She (Bergman) seems to be parodying her missionary character in Inn of the Sixth Happiness (where she was supposed to be British--!). Oscar-worthy? Maybe not, but both she and Finney as Poirot are quite funny together.
Love how he moves around like he was trying to block her single take close-up.
Great actress!
なんて素晴らしい演技❤
@BossMonstaSupport
I think I have to disagree. She remains very beautiful despite the years... And she still has that warmth in her eyes.
@kaejae24 She's Ingrid Bergman. She worked hard and acted superbly even in sub par films. She always brought the thunder. Thus, she always deserved any and all awards and accolades that she got. But then, I'm biased. I love Ingrid.
When was Ingrid Bergman in a "sub par" film?!
@@unowen-nh9ov That is the right question!
I never noticed before, but Poirot is invading her personal space the entire time. I don’t remember him doing that with the other suspects. It says something about her dedication that she doesn’t back away.
Wonderful
visto il film domenica su rete 4, bellissimo!!!
I rewatched the movie recently and this particular scene reminded me of Betty White's Rose Nylund in The Golden Girls, possibly because both characters are kind-hearted and muddle-headed.
So true. I think even Hepburn said during an interview that she never won for the right films. And Davis not winning for All About Eve or Of Human Bondage is shamefull. Of course it still goes on today; Kate Winslet winning for The Reader, Judi Dench and Gwenyth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love, and Nicole Kidman in The Hours.
I feel the Oscar’s wanted Ingrid and not the other way around. My~ how those awards just chased her
Winslet and Kidman won for the right roles and masterful performances… Davis not winning for All About Eve and Of Human Bondage is understandable, because the actual winners were deserving too…
@@gauravw6947 sure Jan
@@musicjunkie274 Keep hallucinating, troll…
@@gauravw6947 watch more movies so you sound less ignorant, swamp creature
Holy shit I didn't recognize her throughout the entire film.
Magnífica película
كانت أمي تحب الممتلة انكريد بركمان كل الحب والتقدير والاحترام على الأدوار التي كانت تقوم بها بكل إتقان وكانت أمي امرأة متقفة في دالك العصر (1945-2013) رحمها الله برحمته الواسعة وجعلها من أهل الجنة هي وأبي إنشاء الله مع قوته
I read somewhere that she said she prepared this scene by revisiting a similar moment in Alfred Hitchcock's "Under Capricorn" (1949) where she had a long monologue...
Grandiosa
She conveys wordlessly that she is lying or covering something up. When Poirot says "your mother and father will forgive you" she looks absolutely panicked for like a millisecond. I wonder if "most Scandinavians of my acquaintance are well educated in foreign languages" was a joke because Ingrid knew so many languages.
No, it is in the novel. This performance is a wonderful piece of acting art. Ingrid Bergman (who was very smart), playing a dim but good natured children's nurse, who is play acting the part of an even dimmer missionary zealot. The look that she gives when Poirot reveals that he has reached limit of his Swedish is very funny (how can a look say. "well, it seemed too good to be true"?), as is her deranged stare at one of Poirot's companions as she moves to sit down. She breaks down at the vision as she remembers the murder of Daisy, but suggests that she is being punished for her parent's irreligion (which is why Poirot says he hopers her parents will forgive her; he knows, or suspects, the real reason she has broken down, a moment's genuine emotion among all the shadow play). You would have to go a long way to find similar mastery of look, gesture, expression and body language. It transcends analysis; it is so perfect, and so funny.
I Loved the two comments above❤ so interesting
Good morning, thanks for the video 🤝👏👍👌
I have a curiosity, which I couldn't find online: in the film, Albert Finney seems "stuck" with his back and neck; why that rigidity? Is it due to some accident, or is it a cinematic fiction? If the latter, why? I thank in advance anyone who can answer me 💖
Soooo much better than Branaugh's version, which is sad as Branaugh is my favorite Shakespearean actor
Why? Can you spell Olivier? Gielgud?
@kaejae24 She totally deserved this ocsar!
She had not spoken Swedish for so long, that in order to prepare for this role, she had to engage a Swedish voice coach to get the accent right.
Yes, Garbo came out of retirement to coach Ingrid in Swedish. And then Yiddish, for her final Emmy winning role as Golda Meir. Good spotting!
@BossMonstaSupport Beauty always goes, it's talent what remains.
I know it's mostly the clothes and make-up that make her look plain, but she does a good job of acting like a plain, mousy woman.
I never read her book. Not sure she mentions that although a native of Sweden, she'd done so many American films, she had to have a tutor for this to get a heavy accent back!
I might be biased, but Finney, no matter how good he was as an actor, is definitely *not* what Christie imagined as Poirot. Bergman, on the other hand... she's just amazing, generally speaking
Agatha Christie loved Finney's portrayal of Poirot the most of all her movie adaptations.
The only reason Poirot still lives on screen is Oscar nominated Finney & Sidney Lumet, they had to recover from Tony Randall. Without Finney Suchet wouldn't have a career.
yes but lm referring to all her movies.
When Poirot goes through his solution to the crime, he comments that Miss Oleson knew what the word "emoluments" meant. But that's not necessarily true. She could have just assumed that he was speaking of some kind of donation.
Her facial expression confirmed it!
"Little brown babies more backward than myself"
Sanna ord även 2023.
What does that mean?
nej stick o brinn
he agrees with the racism.@@thetrickster4526
@@theseoldhomes Precis. Det är vad vi borde säga till ALLA illegala ekonomiska islamist-asylanter.
@@SicketMog Ut med p@cket
I agree and disagree at the same time. She deserved to be nominated but I don't think she should have won.
She agrees, why she gave a shout-out to Valentina Cortese in her acceptance speech.
@@unowen-nh9ov She should have just given her the Oscar then!
Good scene, but that Oscar was far too easy. Even Ingrid herself admitted Valentina Cortese deserved it. It's a shame Ingrid won her Oscars for all the wrong roles, as did Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis. And the academy just won't do something about their embarrassingly flawed voting system.
Actresses of that age get Oscars for still getting jobs.
Was Edward G. Robinson ever nominated? Myrna Loy?
lm wondering something. I always thought she was able to hide her accent and thus ensuring her the succes she had, but l see now how blatant her swedish accent was, does this mean she played a swede in each movie?
Since her final Emmy winning role was Golda Meir? No.
In this movie, she played the role of a Swedish woman.
She played a German in Notorious.
But Americans can't tell the difference
Watch Indiscreet, her English is better than co-star Cary Grant's.
I love Ms Bergman,Love her , but she did NOT , deserve the Oscar or even a nomination. I know that she only won because she is Ingrid Bergman. I still feel this is one of the worst Oscar Winners in the Supporting Race, right up there with Ms Helen Hayes winning for Airport in 1970
Bergman requested this smaller role, director Lumet wanted her to play Princess Dragomiroff. When it came time to film her scene, he shot her in an unbroken close-up, when he called Cut she kissed him & took home the Oscar. Deservedly so.
Underbara Ingrid Bergman.
Haha aj spik lajk this ven aj äm drank.
At first i thought she was Ronald Reagan in a drag costume.
Albert Finney as Poirot?? Sooo bad!! He plays the role of Poirot so unconvincingly. His french accent is very bad....he sounds more like a russian or something.
David Suchet is THE HERCULE POIROT
Maybe because Poirot is Belgian? Finney was my 1st Poirot, his wit & over the top theatricality have always made fussy uptight Suchet unwatchable to me.
@@unowen-nh9ov what do you mean by “he’s Belgian”? Poirot is Belgian, yes and his native language is, you know, French.
@@danielapintobaptista Or flemish or walloon.
@@unowen-nh9ov Poirot is a native French speaker, though, he constantly uses French words and phrases
Albert finney is so bad in that movie. His behaviour and french accent are horrible. He got nominated for an oscar and continued to work. Amazing!
Finney is brilliant! Whole point of his performance is the theatricality, he made Poirot on screen, no one has measured up since (not even Ustinov in a unitard!).
Poirot is Belgian, moron.
It is a very extreme performance, but I must say he corresponds to the Poirot that exists in my head. I love the scenes where he is putting on his hairnet, moustache protector and gloves to read the paper. He is brilliant, but neurotic and a monster of ego. All screen Poirots take their point of origin from here even if they go in different, and equally valid, directions (Ustinov: more genial, less neurotic, Branagh: more virile, more absolutist in morals, Suchet: smoother, more worldly, to name just a few)
@@simonjones7727 Dame Agatha approved of 1st quality Poirot production & sole Oscar nominated performance. Finney's performance got more of the details right than anyone.
I do find her performance a bit too deliberate.. you sense the acting machinery and turning cogwheels behind the emotions she's trying to portray.. a bit too self aware, maybe.. oh well, I've seen a lot worse.
Your comment is worse.
How many Oscars you got?
Typist.
Sorry.
That was rude.
I meant troll.
Get back to me next time you star in Casablanca.
Or anything.
Ever.
What a fantastic movie this was....👍🤣🤪😂🤗😊🤙