I love that song it’s great song it’s remind me of Oliver twist movie thanks guys u have great both of you ❤❤❤

😂😂😂 I laughed so much 😂😂😂

the play that goes wrong~

Don't waste your time it isn't the movie

Young Kenneth Robinson Amy Anderson Thomas

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mark, I love your channel ❤

Bald Steve

Hello Guess where I am from?

Old English?

But it's just for iPhone, right? 😭

Very well done! Thanks for so much fun!!

Thank You😊 I didn't know there was a TV version... and Boris Karloff too?! So awesome.

Thank you Mark. Just the video I was looking for before signing up to ColdRead. A bit clunky but a good basic tool that overcomes the timing issues in the absence of a live reader.

Seeing Boris Karloff play a character that despises being told he looks like Boris Karloff is great. It reminds me of when Cary Grant spoke of Archie Leach in the movie His Girl Friday. Of course, he was speaking of himself.

i would have gotten 100 lol

lol

the part when you're ready to record wasn't very clearly shown and how you get to it. do you have a different version? looks like it just freezes

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I understand scene 1:54:05

Still love the Ray Massey reaction to the first time delivery of the classic line. He appeared Scalded. Karloff’s first reaction, disgust, bitter disappointment. BK might’ve displayed his true feelings in that moment.

I sang this in my elementary/junior high school production

Super drama I inspired

Hello Mark! Hope you are doing well this evening!

For better effect, turn the lights off next time

Wha a great idea! More!

It's been years since I've seen this (Cary Grant version) Still hilarious.

Thanks for the reminder, Mark. Happy new Year! 🙂

I'm using it but here's the deal: If I plug in an external microphone into my iPhone then I can't hear the reader lines.

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Doing awesome!

I've loved the Cary Grant film since I was a kid. My mom had to explain why the Karloff line was so funny. It's just a shame Boris Karloff was unable to be in the film because of a scheduling issue. I saw Arsenic & Old Lace live in London in 1999 with Michael Richards playing Jonathan. He was very good, but of course, he wasn't Boris Karloff, any more than Raymond Masset was. Massey was also very good in the film. I don't recall any of the other actors in the London production. I am really looking forward to finally getting to see Boris Karloff in the role that was written for him. Thanks for uploading this.

Greetings to you

Hey! This isn’t even the story! A whole bunch of words were changed! Thanks for butchering the story! The mailbox wasn’t too small to hold a letter! Gee wiz! No one ever wrote to this poor couple. They were all alone in the big city! And Della fell down on a couch to cry, not a bed. I’m only two minutes into this story and I feel sick. Also, O. Henry lived at the Hotel Chelsea.

This is awesome!

That gave me chills haha

Hmm Not sure about, "would have sounded different to the ones ANY English speakers use today." I do understand that accents change over time, (and have done especially since the advent of broadcast media.) However, given the multiplicity of dialects in the British Isles, the actual sound of English might not have changed that much in certain areas. And, because folk from the UK are used to meeting people from different areas with different sounding English pronunciation, Shakespeare's English isn't totally inaccessible. In addition, there are going to be certain words which were understood at the time and might be incomprehensible now. An example from a different genre is W.S Gilbert's verse in 'The Gondoliers' (which opened in 1889). The Duke of Plaza Toro remarks in act one, "Jimp isn't she?" Nobody uses the word jimp any more but it must have been accessible to Gilbert's intended audience.

The last word of the second line is "though", not "through". Not only does "through" make no sense, it would break the rhyme with "know" and "snow".

The RP itself used in UK productions of Shakespeare's plays is an invention and sounds nothing like the original plays would have sounded. In addition, Shakespeare wrote for the common people so much of what you call high language was simply the language in use at the time. We are all needlessly scared of Shakespeare and I'm sure he would'nt have given a flying f*ck who acted or in what accent as long as they did it with conviction and understanding.

My longstanding joke: Why does Hollywood think that Jesus spoke with an English accent and Robin Hood didn't?

In Shakespeare's day ,English accent was more American. The English decided to go posh in the 17th century to sound pretentious and separate themselves from the working class as immigrants were headed to the colonies. In fact ,the English language has undergone more changes in the UK in the last 300 years than in America. So American actors who perform Shakespeare are true to original English language. Many fine American actors of theatre performed Shakespeare. Howard Keel ,John Lithgow ,E.G. Marshall ,Nathan Lane , Stacy Keach to name a few

American accents can sound great with heightened language and historical dramas. The Hollywood version of Titus Andronicus was sensational, and other historical non-Shakespearean plays, eg Amadeus, sounded fabulous.

I think the kid was right to put the emphasis on "bear" rather than "me" in that line. Three reasons: 1. It's the natural place for the stress to go in that sentence. If you stressed "me," it would change the meaning to "he thinks that you should bear *me* (rather than somebody else)," which is not what he's saying: nobody else is under consideration for a piggyback ride from Richard. 2. Putting the stress on "bear" makes a perfect iambic pentameter line: "He THINKS that YOU should BEAR me ON your SHOULder" Whereas stressing "me" mucks it up: "He THINKS that YOU should bear ME on your SHOULder" 3. Most importantly, "bear" should be stressed because it's the whole point of the line: he's punning on the sense "carry" and the animal. A popular amusement at that time was to strap an ape onto the back of a bear, so York is joking that, because he's small like an ape, his brother wants Richard to "bear" him (carry him on his shoulders, thus acting like the circus bear does to the ape). York is a playful lad; practically every line he has in this scene is a play on words like this.

Al Pacino can perform Shakespeare with an Italian-American accent and sound authentic. Google 'Looking For Richard'.

Wild that not a single person in the comments has pointed out the incredible history of Shakespeare on the American stage?? We've never been "bad at Shakespeare"; we just (sometimes) do it differently and Shakespeare purists don't like that.

Good direction is important. I miss the "speaking with diction " transatlantic accent. I have auditory processing difficulties and the manner of acting which employed this style of speaking was easy to understand whether on radio, film or stage. The modern mummbling and attempts to be overly authentic makes much of what I see incomprehensible qithout adding subtitles. thwre are other factors such as sound levels set for theaters that do not translate to home theaters. Even so, rejecting the poetic in fabor of "realism" is a disservice to the art and to us as observers. Thank you

When you perform Shakespeare outside of the original pronunciation, you miss a lot of significant figures of speech that rely on phonetic harmonization to function. For instance, when Falstaff says "If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion" in Henry IV, it makes absolutely no sense as a pun unless you pronounce "reasons" as "raisins," the way an Elizabethan would have. And that's just one example of how English in its current form causes Shakespeare to backfire.

Shakespeare works better in Original Pronunciation which is much closer to American English

There's quite a few misconceptions about Shakespeare that ALL involved in drama get wrong. Firstly, we have absolutely NO IDEA what accent Shakespeare himself spoke or wrote in. Not only was he not a Londoner, regional accents throughout the UK can still differ widely. Further, as many Shakespeare scholars point out, he was writing for lower class Londoners, who, not only might have difficulty understanding regional accents, but they might have considered them "comic" in themselves... There's another thing we should consider. The accent the great British "Actors" use is DEFINITELY Not the accent that Shakespeare wrote for or in. That accent (known as R.P. or Received Pronunciation) was only developed in the 1920s and originated in late 19th Century English Public Schools (ie among the ultra Aristocratic elites). Acting was never considered an "Elite" profession, so Elizabethan actors were NEVER using RP, or anything close to it. The bigger issue is whether one considers Shakespearean plays as artifacts from a time long gone, or as having relevance to all ages and cultures. If it''s the former, then you can get as "purist" as you like. Alternatively, if the message of Shakespeare's plays is more universal, then neither the accents, NOR THE WORDS should ever be treated as "sacred"...

Motivation for Steven Toast burning down the Globe theatre.