Al Pacino is a beast as Shylock. He manages to make you empathize with him. But then again, Shylock is one of the greatest Shakespeare characters, both a victim and a villain.
I think it's Shakespeare that makes you empathize with him. Let's not forget that about the time it was written England hated Jews because one of them tried to hurt the Queen, yet Shakespeare wrote for Shylock this amazing monologue
i feel so bad for shylock, he was treated so badly , his daughter betrayed him , he lost all his wealth, he had to change religion i feel so bad for him
@@KIsaac-wp5dq I think what he line means is he will do the same as them but harder meaning without mercy. But better the instructions. Probably meaning show a better example of how to do it. His way being better understand but harsh and with the same fire the Christian use
@@KIsaac-wp5dq "The bad things you taught my by your example, I will now do [I will take a pound of flesh from Antonio's body, with a knife] and it will be very painful but I will teach you better than you taught me." It's a chilling threat.
Even today in the 21st century, the overall messege of this speech is still as relevant and important as ever. I loved this scene in the movie, and I performed the monologue at college.
Don't forget that Shylock has no problem with offering loans with high interest to poor people and turning them into slaves. Deuteronomy 23:20, "You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it."
I had a difficult time understanding the language in Shakespeare. But this exact scene, I understood every word out of Al's mouth. Hats off, such a brilliant preformance.
I first encountered this during my highschool english class. We memorized and recited this one by one. Im now 30 and until now out of all the poems, sonnets, psalms and verses ive read and performed, i still memorize this by heart. I dont know why but this one stucked with me forever i guess..
Why should he not yell? He has been wronged so severely, through out his life as well, that his response should be submissive? Ridiculous, he should be angry and his yelling is well warranted.
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He was a jew, and jews were in history, for centuries wronged. They were forbidden to do most trades and crafts, yet allowed to lend out money, by the same societies that then turned around and blamed them for lending out money, whol barely left them any other way to make a living.
Jeff N He was definitely wronged. All his life, he was treated badly because he is a Jew. Notice the red hat? He is forced to wear it at all times because he is a Jew. He was not allowed to leave his house after certain times. He was forced to live in the slums even though he is not poor. He is treated at the lowest rung in society even though he has done nothing wrong. His “friend” Antonio who is a Christian took him out to dinner so that his friend could kidnap his daughter and elope with her. She ends up converting to being a Christian. He loses his daughter, and is continually treated badly over his faith. He makes the deal with Antonio that he will give him a pound of flesh if he doesn’t pay up as a joke. But after all he’s done to Shylock, Shylock changes his mind and takes it seriously. This entire monologue is his finally saying that he’s had enough of being treated inhumanly, and that if he is like Christians in every other way except his faith then he will do the same thing they would do and take his revenge. He’s a product of his surroundings.
Sir Edward Drake Some people would say so, others would not, but everyone has their own set of morals. Psychologically? The revenge isn’t worth it. Yes, it causes the reward sensors to go off inside ones brain but it also causes the initial hatred to become sooo much worse. In the long run it won’t help him at all, but he finally feels as though justice has been served even if he’s taking out all his anger on one person. It’s almost crazy to think about, but morally? It really depends on Shylocks morals over everyone else’s. For instance he feels that any Christian would do the same simply by how he’s treated so that it’s now morally acceptable in his head because that’s how it’s always been, no one cares who gets hurt as long as they’re the one who benefits in his head so now he’s finally changes from trying to do good to doing what’s “morally acceptable” even if he didn’t always agree with it!
@@yossielevitsky9757 Well he tries to murder Antonio through a legal loophole because Antonio makes it harder for him to make money, which he makes through usury- which is immoral.
@@yossielevitsky9757 More as to say because of what he was he was subjected to the social antagonism. In the end he became a villain which the society treated him to be, thereby in his tragedy. The society here is also to blame. The Judeo Christian conflict too is important.
@@truthseeker327 Antonio treated Shylock despicably, and his own daughter betrayed and stole from him. I think that Shylock is well within his rights to be angry at what has befallen him!
Alienation is such a persistent theme in Shakespeare. I think Shylock has the most moral force of all Shakespeare's alienated characters. One almost takes his part after this speech. I think Shakespeare is making a comment on all moral systems, not just Christianity, in this play. There is a universality to Shylock's utterances.
I disagree, only in that I think Richard II is the most moral force of Shakespeare's alienated characters. "I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live, unto the world. But seeing as the world is populous, and here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it." Alienation, check. His dialogue with Henry Bolingbroke, arguing the nature of leadership, its cares, and the loss of responsibility... speaks deeply to me. Perhaps I am biased as a leader, watching a falling leader fall, but to me it is more profoundly moral than this.
Yes the guy goes im a persecuted jew. There was a reason jewish people are persecuted and have been kicked out of multiple nations throughout history. But yes, the guy whom instead of accepting payment defaults on a pound of flesh in hopes to kill the indebtor is the moral force. I hope i dont go to the moral heaven you beleive in.
Best Shylock performance I have seen. I know this dialogue by heart, yet Pacino's performance has captivated me. His dialogue delivery has elevated this scene to a masterpiece similar to what Marlon Brando did for a similar monologue of Antony in Julius Cesar.
You served that dish cold my friend!! There is a shylock in all of us..there can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator..
Here's what's awesome about Pacino The inflection I've heard many a rabbi and jewish elders scream in dispair with that same exact dialect, inflection and accent. That takes observation, study, training.
@Athanasius Contra Marxism What type would that be? And I understand there are a few: Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardi Jews being the two examples I would think of off the top of my head.
THIS IS The Definitive Performance! Like Hestons Eulogy of Caesar, Branagh's Band Of Brothers, McKellens Richard 3rd, Mirrens Tilbury Speech....God, I love it so...
It was 2005, When I was 16 years old, i watched this film for the first time in my life, that time i was hooked with the Play of Shakespeare.. it was also the first movie i watched where Al Pacino played a role.. This specific scene of Al Pacino create a huge impression on me, nd slowly i started to familiar with him.. After that i started to watch other fims by Al slowly like Dog Day Afternoon, Seprico, The Godfather etc.. For me Al Pacino is the actor who made me fall in love with watching fims, before that i used to be a bookworm only.. For me He is the greatest actor of our generation.. No one can come close to him when its about creating a role
Wow, this is the most powerful delivery of these lines I've EVER heard. My eyes are welling up with tears for him. I know Shakespeare's treatment of antisemitism was in its day a real step forward, but I still wish this play ended better for Shylock.
Read Shylock's first two speeches again, @@St.DemetriostheMyrrhGusher. Then compare Shylock's character to the Jew of Malta. I'm not claiming the play is more progressive than it is. Of course Shakespeare gave his wholly Christian audience what they wanted because he knew which side his bread was buttered on. But Shylock absolutely DOES address antisemitism in his speeches. To claim otherwise is to be willfully obtuse.
@@EyeLean5280 Shylocke may address anti-semitism but that doesn't make Shakespeare against anti-semitism. Also, this play is obviously about the disgust of usury.
I was lucky enough to see this in person at the Delacorte theater in Central Park. Rain delayed the performance and half the audience didn't come back once it resumed so we grabbed a pair of abandoned front-row seats. Will never forget it.
Brilliant speech on how racism and persecution inspire vengeful extremism in the persecuted... written in the 16th century but as poignant today as ever
Tommy Two-shoes Actually it isn't meant to be a speech against racism and persecution: it's the exact contrary. What Shylock is saying is that even though he is a Jew he resembles in all aspects a Christian, and so that he can get his revenge as a Christian would normally do.
Yeah you are right. He's fitting it into a modern context of civil rights. But if you listen to the words and the context of the story in it's own right, you realize that he's justifying severe revenge. "An eye for an eye"
This play was quoted in the Pianist, where Szpilman's brother reads out the 'If you prick us, do we not bleed?' line. His brother then hands him the book, and Szpilman reads the scene, before handing back to his brother, commenting: "Very appropriate,". His brother responds: "Yeah, that's why I brought it".
Great speech and applying to so much even now. Ethical axiom -we are *all* people, prick us, we bleed, warmed & cooled by the same seasons, equally human. Truth. Sometimes we are or could be all Shylocks "Jew" , whoever we are.
I understand him....i cry when i hear it or read it because at times i want that same pound of flesh from everyone who has wronged me...but at times i reflect and see it's just the justification of eye for a eye nothing else
I remember watching this in high school. I read it but for some reason, Pacino’s portrayal really made it shine. The most memorable part of this movie for me
Yes, this is an over-the-top performance, but I think it fits with the movie's general interpretation. This _Merchant of Venice_ casts it in the vein of a of modern fantasy, filled with the luscious excess of a Peter Jackson film. It's deliberately more a sensual than a nuanced, cerebral reading of the play. I think it works. There have been, and will continue to be, plenty of great performances of deep emotional complexity: I see no harm in doing a more modern interpretation that's painted with broad, gilded strokes.
Not sure what's "over-the-top" about a man displaying anger when he feels he's been wronged and is being purposely denied recompentence because of his ethnicity. Why should his response to this be reserved, submissive, and cerebral? If anything, Pacino's Shylock displayed a tempered response to the abuses he's claimed to experience all his life. I think the term over-the-top gets thrown around way too often when people talk about acting, as if actors aren't allowed to display any kind of emotion above even-keeled. In real life, people lose their tempers frequently, yell, throw tantrums, raise their voices in anger, etc. That's not over-the-top. That's just human emotion.
He’s a really good character. But the sad twist at the court was a pound of flesh being smart arse attacked, so Shylock couldn’t do it. And then losing everything, and can only be reminded of the offers he was given to show mercy. Because he didn’t show mercy he got none to little back. Goes to show that it doesn’t matter if you’re in the right or wrong. It can always end bad for you. If you show mercy or not. Or showing mercy might make it less bad. Depends on the situation
William Shakespeare's genius is that this piece can be attributed to every oppressed minority on earth, Native American, African, Native Australian, the list is exhaustive... The Bard over 400 years later is so relevant today! ❤️🏴⚒️
When I hear of voices wanting to cancel Shakespeare based on this play and on Othello, I feel like smacking their ignorant faces. Shakespeare was capable of conveying so much emotion, his characters are so strong, fascinating and relatable that his plays are still open to many interpretations hundreds of years after they were written. His characters are never good/ evil. They are always in the grey area, they are real people like us, with qualities, defects, passions, fears. He's studied human nature so well... And, I'm sorry to say that we haven't changed at all in the past 500 years: we still hate and seek revenge, we still point at people and lable them, our justice is still prone to corruption and trickery, and alas, everything still revolves around money.
Bloody hell are people actually trying to cancel culture Shakespeare? Aren't Othello and Shylock both interesting characters *because* they are discriminated against, yet still have their own flaws and motivations? I suppose it is too nuanced to have a character these days who is part of a discriminated minority and also have some negative qualities about them
@@U_C_G and they completely ignore that the tempist was shakespeare expressing anticolonial sentiment, coreolanus and aufidius were homo-erotic, antonio was straight up gay, othello, despite being a moor was, at a high ranking position in the vinezian navy, beatrice, a woman, was savage at roasting benedick, and aaron said the very first yo mama joke. Despite pandering to an antisemitic crowd, he was the most progressive author in the entire world at the time, and he wasn't in your face about it. It was subtle and witty to the point that there was no socio-economic disparity in his fanbase and he played a large role in the exponential literacy increase during the elizabethan era.
The Merchant of Venice: Shylock Monologue To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies, and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge? The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Talking about sweet in your mouth and bitter to your stomach… hats of maestro Pacino. All who were privy to hear this are captured by the subterfuge of his indignation.
To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies-and what’s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute-and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
This is the reason why I chose shylock as my role for our voice act on the school I went, I can feel the emotions of being discriminated just because of different releigon.
I like his rage and indignation compared to the typical mopey shylock. It really shows a man pushed to the edge and now seeking what is his revenge. Well played
Al Pacino is a beast as Shylock. He manages to make you empathize with him. But then again, Shylock is one of the greatest Shakespeare characters, both a victim and a villain.
A fantastic actor, though honestly it is a little bit weird hearing a Venician with a Brooklyn accent
I think it's Shakespeare that makes you empathize with him. Let's not forget that about the time it was written England hated Jews because one of them tried to hurt the Queen, yet Shakespeare wrote for Shylock this amazing monologue
@@FerretJohn Both rooted in Italia...
Im gonna watch this for a test. Is the movie accurate to the play?
george bsuh antisemetic nonsense shut the fuck up lol
This is the best scene in the entire movie and in the play.
+Soham Banerjee (Seraph) I have to agree ith you on this.
I'd argue it's one of the best pieces of writing Shakespeare ever did, it's quite beautiful and very powerful.
i feel so bad for shylock, he was treated so badly , his daughter betrayed him , he lost all his wealth, he had to change religion i feel so bad for him
and probably the best speech in the entirety of Shakespeare's plays
you can't change my mind
@@tasneemmogal1427 his daughter didn't betray him, she chosed her own road not the one he wanted for her. That's not betrayal, that's free will.
I get major shivers everytime i watch this
true
I mean same😂😂😂
Al pacino is a legend
"The villainy you teach me, I will execute and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction."
I live for this line!!!
Could you elaborate it for me ? I didn't get that line ?
@@KIsaac-wp5dq I think what he line means is he will do the same as them but harder meaning without mercy. But better the instructions. Probably meaning show a better example of how to do it. His way being better understand but harsh and with the same fire the Christian use
@@KIsaac-wp5dq "The bad things you taught my by your example, I will now do [I will take a pound of flesh from Antonio's body, with a knife] and it will be very painful but I will teach you better than you taught me." It's a chilling threat.
Truth.
@@standroid64 em j78 UK lol l lo
Even today in the 21st century, the overall messege of this speech is still as relevant and important as ever. I loved this scene in the movie, and I performed the monologue at college.
Hello, I am also going to perform this as a declamation speech. Can I ask what dress you used for this character?
@@ashisgurung5308 I used a yellow cape, gold hat with a blue feather, and black clothes underneath.
If you kill a jew, they die. Sad :(
Don't forget that Shylock has no problem with offering loans with high interest to poor people and turning them into slaves.
Deuteronomy 23:20, "You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it."
@@aesop1451 eat orbanus naziman
Just hats off to Pacino's reading of this play - the immense emotion projecting from every word is amazing.
I had a difficult time understanding the language in Shakespeare. But this exact scene, I understood every word out of Al's mouth. Hats off, such a brilliant preformance.
I first encountered this during my highschool english class. We memorized and recited this one by one. Im now 30 and until now out of all the poems, sonnets, psalms and verses ive read and performed, i still memorize this by heart. I dont know why but this one stucked with me forever i guess..
We remember what touches us, the more powerful the touch, the stronger the memory.
This is one of the greatest portrayals of Shylock's speech,
Agreed.
Don't know, the Italian version is good too.
very beautiful speech by that multitalented actor Al Pacino. Well done.
multitalented ?? he is one dimensional as fuck....Shylock Montana
@@thet-x2853 His portrayal of Michael Corleone has about fifteen dimensions.
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Al Pacino one dimensional as fuck.... 😆
I needed a laugh!
@@thet-x2853
Talk about his over the top Scarface all you want but don’t say it doesn’t have dimensions.
Why should he not yell? He has been wronged so severely, through out his life as well, that his response should be submissive? Ridiculous, he should be angry and his yelling is well warranted.
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He was a jew, and jews were in history, for centuries wronged. They were forbidden to do most trades and crafts, yet allowed to lend out money, by the same societies that then turned around and blamed them for lending out money, whol barely left them any other way to make a living.
Jeff N He was definitely wronged. All his life, he was treated badly because he is a Jew. Notice the red hat? He is forced to wear it at all times because he is a Jew. He was not allowed to leave his house after certain times. He was forced to live in the slums even though he is not poor. He is treated at the lowest rung in society even though he has done nothing wrong. His “friend” Antonio who is a Christian took him out to dinner so that his friend could kidnap his daughter and elope with her. She ends up converting to being a Christian. He loses his daughter, and is continually treated badly over his faith. He makes the deal with Antonio that he will give him a pound of flesh if he doesn’t pay up as a joke. But after all he’s done to Shylock, Shylock changes his mind and takes it seriously. This entire monologue is his finally saying that he’s had enough of being treated inhumanly, and that if he is like Christians in every other way except his faith then he will do the same thing they would do and take his revenge. He’s a product of his surroundings.
Sir Edward Drake Some people would say so, others would not, but everyone has their own set of morals. Psychologically? The revenge isn’t worth it. Yes, it causes the reward sensors to go off inside ones brain but it also causes the initial hatred to become sooo much worse. In the long run it won’t help him at all, but he finally feels as though justice has been served even if he’s taking out all his anger on one person. It’s almost crazy to think about, but morally? It really depends on Shylocks morals over everyone else’s. For instance he feels that any Christian would do the same simply by how he’s treated so that it’s now morally acceptable in his head because that’s how it’s always been, no one cares who gets hurt as long as they’re the one who benefits in his head so now he’s finally changes from trying to do good to doing what’s “morally acceptable” even if he didn’t always agree with it!
@@DragonForceWrath do you speak like this in public?
I regret not taking the role of shylock on our school play. Damn as i got older i understand villains
@@yossielevitsky9757 perhaps not a villain, more like an antagonist
@@asylumskp4391 let’s go!
@@yossielevitsky9757 Well he tries to murder Antonio through a legal loophole because Antonio makes it harder for him to make money, which he makes through usury- which is immoral.
@@yossielevitsky9757 More as to say because of what he was he was subjected to the social antagonism. In the end he became a villain which the society treated him to be, thereby in his tragedy. The society here is also to blame. The Judeo Christian conflict too is important.
@@truthseeker327 Antonio treated Shylock despicably, and his own daughter betrayed and stole from him. I think that Shylock is well within his rights to be angry at what has befallen him!
Alienation is such a persistent theme in Shakespeare. I think Shylock has the most moral force of all Shakespeare's alienated characters. One almost takes his part after this speech. I think Shakespeare is making a comment on all moral systems, not just Christianity, in this play. There is a universality to Shylock's utterances.
I disagree, only in that I think Richard II is the most moral force of Shakespeare's alienated characters. "I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live, unto the world. But seeing as the world is populous, and here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it." Alienation, check. His dialogue with Henry Bolingbroke, arguing the nature of leadership, its cares, and the loss of responsibility... speaks deeply to me. Perhaps I am biased as a leader, watching a falling leader fall, but to me it is more profoundly moral than this.
Oh man Othello is similar kinda the main guy who is free man but is ostricized and tricked through out the whole play its stunning
@@DopyWantsAPeanut I haven't read Richard II yet, but I will now! Thank you!
@@DopyWantsAPeanut nah. It's your bias.
Yes the guy goes im a persecuted jew. There was a reason jewish people are persecuted and have been kicked out of multiple nations throughout history.
But yes, the guy whom instead of accepting payment defaults on a pound of flesh in hopes to kill the indebtor is the moral force.
I hope i dont go to the moral heaven you beleive in.
This is surely one of the best performances of any Shakespeare soliloquy
This, and St. Crispins day speech :)
@@lilafeldman8630 We few....
@@lilafeldman8630 Agreed. Branagh is a beast in Henry V. Orson Welles Macbeth soliloquy is pretty powerful too.
@@jpkatz1435 we happy few
@@mikek5958 Olivier, not Branagh.
I think Pacino has a marvolous understanding of the dialogue and most of all the story. Such brilliance! :)
A small loan of 3000 ducats
+Potato Shylock doth be banking
+Sai Sistla its a donald trump joke
Lol look how many likes
Don't you mean a small loan of 1 million ducats
edmund price small 400,000,000 ducat loan.
After he finished his speech in this movie, I actually clapped out loud!
If I had been sitting near you in the cinema I would have told you to STFU.
I actually didn’t see it in the cinema. I watched it at home!
movie name...?
@@funnyconversetions1830 The Merchant of Venice
Best Shylock performance I have seen. I know this dialogue by heart, yet Pacino's performance has captivated me. His dialogue delivery has elevated this scene to a masterpiece similar to what Marlon Brando did for a similar monologue of Antony in Julius Cesar.
Totally agree, the late great Lord Olivier and Sir John Gielgud were also big fans of Brandon's Mark Antony,high praise indeed!
You served that dish cold my friend!! There is a shylock in all of us..there can be no understanding between the hands and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator..
Here's what's awesome about Pacino
The inflection
I've heard many a rabbi and jewish elders scream in dispair with that same exact dialect, inflection and accent. That takes observation, study, training.
André Crema I was wondering if anyone would be able to explain the inflections to me. Thank you.
@Athanasius Contra Marxism What type would that be? And I understand there are a few: Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardi Jews being the two examples I would think of off the top of my head.
THIS IS The Definitive Performance! Like Hestons Eulogy of Caesar, Branagh's Band Of Brothers, McKellens Richard 3rd, Mirrens Tilbury Speech....God, I love it so...
Well, ya know....Italians and Jews are very similar ;)
@@lilafeldman8630 yes we both humans.
Really love this speech, our late teacher made us recite this one by one in front of the class its so enjoyable..
I would say impressive rather than enjoyable.
My favourite quote! Explains many things during the human history.
Simply brilliant! Never seen such passion in the shyloc monologue, and trust me, I've seen many a performance, but this top it all!
It was 2005, When I was 16 years old, i watched this film for the first time in my life, that time i was hooked with the Play of Shakespeare.. it was also the first movie i watched where Al Pacino played a role..
This specific scene of Al Pacino create a huge impression on me, nd slowly i started to familiar with him..
After that i started to watch other fims by Al slowly like Dog Day Afternoon, Seprico, The Godfather etc..
For me Al Pacino is the actor who made me fall in love with watching fims, before that i used to be a bookworm only..
For me He is the greatest actor of our generation.. No one can come close to him when its about creating a role
In my school we had to memorize the whole speech Lmfao
cv_Heat same
I need to memorize shylock i will portray him and im a girl
@@misheequinan429 yeah i feel you.
Zionist indoctrination of children
Currently doing it in my school this is hard
I am so grateful to have known him. I hope to understand your value better day by day. Thanks for everything!
You know A. P. ? Write more!
El Pacino deserved another Academy Award for his role as Shylock more than any other.
Simply a majestic performance
The king of monologues !
I saw Pacino in the Broadway production of Merchant. It and he were spellbinding.
this is so meaningful and potent. I love it!
SUCH A GREAT ACTOR........
One of the few movies I bought a physical copy of - utterly brilliant.
“Organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions” ugh the word choice is so good
One of the best characters in Shakespearian literature.
My favorite character.
Wow, this is the most powerful delivery of these lines I've EVER heard. My eyes are welling up with tears for him. I know Shakespeare's treatment of antisemitism was in its day a real step forward, but I still wish this play ended better for Shylock.
Bro missed the entire point of the play, Shakespeare was not addressing anti-semitism.
@@St.DemetriostheMyrrhGusherShakespeare was literally antissemitic
Read Shylock's first two speeches again, @@St.DemetriostheMyrrhGusher. Then compare Shylock's character to the Jew of Malta. I'm not claiming the play is more progressive than it is. Of course Shakespeare gave his wholly Christian audience what they wanted because he knew which side his bread was buttered on. But Shylock absolutely DOES address antisemitism in his speeches. To claim otherwise is to be willfully obtuse.
See my comment to St. Demetrios, above, @@colemacgrath2005 .
@@EyeLean5280 Shylocke may address anti-semitism but that doesn't make Shakespeare against anti-semitism. Also, this play is obviously about the disgust of usury.
One of the most powerful speeches in Literature ! Al Pacino's brilliant performance just added to the magic of the words. Magnificent.
Al Pacino always make it a special movie... what a genius!
I was lucky enough to see this in person at the Delacorte theater in Central Park. Rain delayed the performance and half the audience didn't come back once it resumed so we grabbed a pair of abandoned front-row seats. Will never forget it.
Such a great delivery, I've watched this 30 times and only just noticed the woman with her baps out in the background...
Absolutely splendid Al scene
Brilliant speech on how racism and persecution inspire vengeful extremism in the persecuted... written in the 16th century but as poignant today as ever
Tommy Two-shoes Actually it isn't meant to be a speech against racism and persecution: it's the exact contrary. What Shylock is saying is that even though he is a Jew he resembles in all aspects a Christian, and so that he can get his revenge as a Christian would normally do.
isn't it called whataboutism?
Yeah you are right. He's fitting it into a modern context of civil rights. But if you listen to the words and the context of the story in it's own right, you realize that he's justifying severe revenge. "An eye for an eye"
Holly Hughes That would Still be a Speech against Bigotry .
Saying a Jew has just as much Pride and Capacity as a Christian.
So Judaism IS about race then?
This is gold.
Amazing portrayal by Al Pacino of Shylock. Captures the lifetime of frustration and wretchedness afflicted on him in this speech.
Im always watching this everytime I go youtube.. Very excellent
This really does sound like a person who's been hurt so many times finally lashing out.
I remember this as my declamation piece back in the 6th grade. Very powerful.
This play was quoted in the Pianist, where Szpilman's brother reads out the 'If you prick us, do we not bleed?' line. His brother then hands him the book, and Szpilman reads the scene, before handing back to his brother, commenting: "Very appropriate,". His brother responds: "Yeah, that's why I brought it".
I love the histrionics of Al Pacino! We seldom find such gifted talents! God bless him!❤❤❤❤
Most inspirational speech ever
It's a play written by Shakespeare you idiot
Great speech and applying to so much even now. Ethical axiom -we are *all* people, prick us, we bleed, warmed & cooled by the same seasons, equally human. Truth. Sometimes we are or could be all Shylocks "Jew" , whoever we are.
I understand him....i cry when i hear it or read it because at times i want that same pound of flesh from everyone who has wronged me...but at times i reflect and see it's just the justification of eye for a eye nothing else
I remember watching this in high school. I read it but for some reason, Pacino’s portrayal really made it shine. The most memorable part of this movie for me
God, I am crying. The best scene and this scene is my project in my campus.
Yes, this is an over-the-top performance, but I think it fits with the movie's general interpretation. This _Merchant of Venice_ casts it in the vein of a of modern fantasy, filled with the luscious excess of a Peter Jackson film. It's deliberately more a sensual than a nuanced, cerebral reading of the play. I think it works. There have been, and will continue to be, plenty of great performances of deep emotional complexity: I see no harm in doing a more modern interpretation that's painted with broad, gilded strokes.
Not sure what's "over-the-top" about a man displaying anger when he feels he's been wronged and is being purposely denied recompentence because of his ethnicity. Why should his response to this be reserved, submissive, and cerebral? If anything, Pacino's Shylock displayed a tempered response to the abuses he's claimed to experience all his life. I think the term over-the-top gets thrown around way too often when people talk about acting, as if actors aren't allowed to display any kind of emotion above even-keeled. In real life, people lose their tempers frequently, yell, throw tantrums, raise their voices in anger, etc. That's not over-the-top. That's just human emotion.
Y'all I'm using this speech as my piece for my declamation, what a great speech!
Best dialogue with best actor, it touches every sense of me
Thanks to the forgotten reaction paper, I got to understand shylock's side.
he's so good and the way he act it is so amazing.
He’s a really good character. But the sad twist at the court was a pound of flesh being smart arse attacked, so Shylock couldn’t do it. And then losing everything, and can only be reminded of the offers he was given to show mercy. Because he didn’t show mercy he got none to little back. Goes to show that it doesn’t matter if you’re in the right or wrong. It can always end bad for you. If you show mercy or not. Or showing mercy might make it less bad. Depends on the situation
William Shakespeare's genius is that this piece can be attributed to every oppressed minority on earth, Native American, African, Native Australian, the list is exhaustive...
The Bard over 400 years later is so relevant today! ❤️🏴⚒️
Needed this for an English project. Thanks so much!!!
When I hear of voices wanting to cancel Shakespeare based on this play and on Othello, I feel like smacking their ignorant faces.
Shakespeare was capable of conveying so much emotion, his characters are so strong, fascinating and relatable that his plays are still open to many interpretations hundreds of years after they were written.
His characters are never good/ evil. They are always in the grey area, they are real people like us, with qualities, defects, passions, fears. He's studied human nature so well... And, I'm sorry to say that we haven't changed at all in the past 500 years: we still hate and seek revenge, we still point at people and lable them, our justice is still prone to corruption and trickery, and alas, everything still revolves around money.
Bloody hell are people actually trying to cancel culture Shakespeare? Aren't Othello and Shylock both interesting characters *because* they are discriminated against, yet still have their own flaws and motivations? I suppose it is too nuanced to have a character these days who is part of a discriminated minority and also have some negative qualities about them
@@U_C_G and they completely ignore that the tempist was shakespeare expressing anticolonial sentiment, coreolanus and aufidius were homo-erotic, antonio was straight up gay, othello, despite being a moor was, at a high ranking position in the vinezian navy, beatrice, a woman, was savage at roasting benedick, and aaron said the very first yo mama joke.
Despite pandering to an antisemitic crowd, he was the most progressive author in the entire world at the time, and he wasn't in your face about it. It was subtle and witty to the point that there was no socio-economic disparity in his fanbase and he played a large role in the exponential literacy increase during the elizabethan era.
Nah, this is good but othello is irredeemable. There are so many others to perform instead, let it die
@@ernesto8738what's wrong with Othello?
What a movie I had studied Merchant of Venice for icse , I just watched the movie and scored great marks
Cry out in pain as they strike you.
My teacher asked me to present this one and this video reli helped me thnx alot
al placino the man of best monologues in cinema history
We are reading "M of V" at school. This helps a lot :)
i love this speech ..
The pinnacle of acting: terrific performance from the greatest actor
Shylock : ( mic drop )
what grate words do come out of someones mind, no dif to an artists painting !
Should've ended on a "Hooh-Hah"
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Major Tomrade 😂😂😂!
Two words
Pus-sy
😂😂im dead
@@jimmy2k4o that is 2 syllables not words
That was a great take on the awesome work 👏
I'm about to perform this in a oration contest sooo good luck to me!
Let us know how it went!
sure
how did it go?
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best of luck
This reminds me years back in my high school, I like it.
Shylock has a point. Anybody is capable of revenge. It doesn’t matter what race or religion.
Quite simply the greatest actor of all time.....
This is the same guy that rapped about coffee in Jack and Jill 7 years later
So Well Performed!
Every time I think I’m out..... they pull me back in again
What do you mean
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Godfather III reference
This is not a classic; it is ultra-classic!
The best speech by Shylock...
Ohhhhhh so dito pala yun galing. Ang ganda pala hehe. Spoken poetry namin ito as second performance task in Oral Communication 🙏
The Merchant of Venice: Shylock Monologue
To bait fish withal.
If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million;
laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies, and what's his reason?
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility?
Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?
Why, revenge?
The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Talking about sweet in your mouth and bitter to your stomach… hats of maestro Pacino. All who were privy to hear this are captured by the subterfuge of his indignation.
great .......thanks.......
This is as relevant in 2024 as it was when it was written
amazing and thanks.......
This is goated 😊2024 am here for the love of literature ❤❤ Ugandans saying hi
To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies-and what’s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute-and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
This movie was such a good adaption of the play
My teacher showed this video in Literature class and no one noticed the half nude ladies at the back 😂
+Noor Rifat That's how great of an actor Al Pacino is
I know right great speech. Totally not immature like you
Only shows how strong the speech is
Somebody did, I am sure.
This is the reason why I chose shylock as my role for our voice act on the school I went, I can feel the emotions of being discriminated just because of different releigon.
Shylock: Don't ever ask me about my business. Dont do that
Shylock - Best character of The MOV
This is so memorable. Al Pacino did a great job.
It rly helped me with my speech at school ty
This speech reminds me of Pacino’s speech at the end of devils advocate. 1:10 especially reminds of the “look but don’t touch” part.
I’m a humanist.....maybe the last humanist.
I didn't think I'd get hyped over reading Shakespeare but then I read Shylock's speech and was proven wrong.
I like his rage and indignation compared to the typical mopey shylock. It really shows a man pushed to the edge and now seeking what is his revenge. Well played
He presented Shylock to the best of his abilities.
If only i saw this scene before my 7th grade declamation recital..