A revolutionary's political proposal (Fiddler on the roof)

[@sarcasticsugar4466]

Perchik's always been my favorite. He's got the brains and snark; but he's also hopelessly awkward and rather shy. That's cute lol :D

[@TheSeekerBabe]

I'm more partial to Motel and Fyedka, but Perchik definitely has his charms. I like how nobody in this story is perfect.

[@honeypeaches7736]

God same 😂❤️️

[@dovbarleib3256]

Sorry, I find nothing redeeming about Bolsheviks and Communists. Sadly, only Tseitel chose a fitting and decent husband in Fiddler amongst the daughters. To be honest as far as the bad choices are concerned, at least Chavah chose a decent human being who was not a Communist. I prefer the righteous gentile to the Communist.

[@josephcassidy1116]

@@dovbarleib3256 who cares. It's a musical. Weird ass

[@MademoiselleLottchen]

@@dovbarleib3256 well what we assume with communism or bolshevism is not what it was in 1905

[@joshuacarter239]

"Don't you understand? This is the greatest work a man can do!" "I understand." *totally doesn't understand this crazy man*

[@TheSeekerBabe]

Doesn't totally understand, but loves him anyways :P Good enough!

[@btrelles404]

He was about to start the revolution in Russia. Actually he eventualy was imprisioned in Syveria...

[@dovbarleib3256]

I despise Perchik. He proposes to steal other people's wealth, no matter how honestly that wealth was obtained. Cannot stand Communists.

[@Shalalalala_666]

@@dovbarleib3256 Oof welp ur about to debate with one now. Communism doesn't advocate for "stealing someone's wealth" this isn't Robinhood. This is about ensuring that the BOURGEOISIE isn't exploiting (and stealing) resources and basic necessities to live from the proletariat in the pursuit of profit. Need over greed. But if we switch those around and uphold the current system, you'll see how it'll just fall apart in the end. Play Rummy-O by yourself. I've done an experiment where all the players are against eachother to win but if we'd reveal our tiles to each other in an effort to succeed and advance and innovate for the common good, that's communism and it works but only if we eliminate dictatorships and the state altogether.

[@NuXta]

@@dovbarleib3256 "Honestly" 😂 Nice one, bootlicker.

[@dragongirl7978]

The handshake always kills me. 😂😂

[@bricktam]

In my opinion, Perchik was Tevye's favorite out of all his sons-in-law. His only complaint about his proposal was that he was going away, not even the fact that he has more progressive ideas or that he is penniless.

[@mmmm-lg2mj]

Yeah true. Fyedka was his least favorite (obviously) and the tailor was just "meh he's alright"

[@bricktam]

@@mmmm-lg2mj I think if he only gave Fyedka a chance, he would like him. Fyedka was educated and respected Chava's religion enough to leave their town even though they would've been allowed to stay.

[@auderotter]

My boyfriend and I recently played Perchik and Hodel in our school musical and this was my favorite scene to perform with him :)

[@Filiomena]

I am so happy for both of you, and I truly am. Jealous too.

[@generalpurpose772]

I think this is such a cute scene, he as a character doesn't find it difficult to speak his mind and stand up for his beliefs but even he found it difficult to be honest about his love for Hodel!

[@Sackofbooks]

I just googled the term 'adorkable' and it brought me to this video.

[@TheSeekerBabe]

Fantastic example. I'm glad it linked you here.

[@CaliAli14]

She said yes! I'm so happy! *shakes her hand* smh 😂

[@ToqTheWise]

"In a theoretical sense, yes I am." 😂

[@Setebos]

It's theories like that which have made us a world of several billion people.

[@Shalalalala_666]

I need a partner like this

[@littlemarmoset]

Ah, the intellectual, staying cocooned in his brain. . . . (Not that there's anything wrong with that!)

[@agenttheater5]

well that's ONE way to propose!!

[@TheSeekerBabe]

If you haven't watched it yet, check out the proposal scene in High Fidelity. ;)

[@quietstorm7684]

@@TheSeekerBabe Just watched it. Very straightforward

[@Shalalalala_666]

This is probably along the lines of how I'd propose to my future wife

[@brumbybailey6599]

Those first frames are how proposals ought to be happening nowadays, six feet apart 😂

[@jonathandoelander6130]

All love in Russia is formal and awkward like this.

[@brumbybailey6599]

Really? That sounds kinda cute 😂

[@petermgruhn]

Why not seven or five?

[@ianmcdonald8648]

@@petermgruhn perhaps because 6 is the number representing man, and is a common measurement for the ideal man.

[@safara1011]

All of these people commenting are like 'I'm playing Hodel/Perchik!!!11!!1!1" Excuse me whilst I continue to be in the orchestra..

[@seankim1592]

Late comment, but I thank you and your efforts. When you played orchestra for Fiddler on the Roof by the way? Sounds fun

[@serst35]

These two are my favourite couple, followed closely by Tzeitel and Mottel.

[@pinkcowjl]

AND AFFECTION!

[@jibsjensen2587]

YES. That is an important element!

[@RobertWBates-hw5ej]

i am asking you to marry in a theoretical sense. Good line.

[@ThatFandubGirl]

the cuteness is to much!!!💞💞

[@cheesychickens2831]

Lmao he's so cute in a bizarre way...

[@sciencenotreligion5607]

He was always my favorite of the daughter's boyfriends

[@imjustoutforastroll5091]

Science not religion Why? You can tell she's going to have to bear her burdens alone.

[@lindseysquire8417]

If this ain't how my man proposing I don't want him

[@jsChelimo]

One of the best scenes

[@honeypeaches7736]

I'm very happy! *shakes hand* Omg that's adorably awkward 😂

[@mariathomson4552]

Paul is a great actor 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@dragongirl7978]

I love Perchik. This is like the best proposal ever. :D

[@Otter-gq3fw]

No one: Absolutely no one: Not even Yente: Hodel: *AND AFFECTION!!!*

[@jibsjensen2587]

YES. That is an important element.

[@EuphrasieF]

Glad this is back on youtube. Someone else posted it but it got taken down. Love this scene...

[@red---paulvanravenswaay2247]

It's the best

[@tangobango9653]

Hodel is such a sweet, pretty girl. I fell for her (sigh).

[@lemurlover7975]

cutest proposal ever :) lol

[@pinkcowjl]

Perchik is so awkward 😂😂😂

[@GenGrahamDjinn]

Auditioning for Hodel in a school musical, and I've been given this scene to audition with. It helped a lot, thanks for posting!

[@feliksnodelman3198]

I feel like because I watched this movie so many times as a child, it's partially the reason I am the way I am today because honestly this is how I'd propose.

[@lemurlover7975]

Feliks Nodelman I'm now in a political science class and finding I want to re watch me some political proposals like this one about socioeconomic relationships.

[@vinista256]

The actor who played Perchick went on to play Detective Starsky. He lost his first wife (who gave a memorable speech at the 1992 DNC) and daughter to HIV.

[@TwoIdiotsJourneys]

Have played Perchik in a performance, this was amazing to inspire off of

[@atlerthedark3639]

Everything's political!

[@Fredthe99th]

i'm playing Perchik! It cool because the girl who is Hodel is a good friend.

[@jibsjensen2587]

I plan on memorizing this to propose with when I do. Im really bad with emotions and I like philosophies and hypotheticals, so it makes a lot of sense. It’s just a way I can express myself.

[@mitchellbrecht2240]

This is the greatest marriage proposal I've ever seen

[@Reshme77]

So thats how bernie proposed to jane

[@Dave-qj1vx]

I think that's Paul Glaser, who played Starsky on Starsky and Hutch.

[@mgfoster9197]

It is!

[@jessicasherwood4943]

As much as I have seen this movie I can't help but find myself wondering how world history played always wished they did a Part 2 to this movie.

[@reginabillotti]

A sequel would inevitably be depressing. You know that things aren't going to end well for a great deal of the characters.

[@davidchou1675]

I love how this guy sounds like Bernie Sanders!! XD

[@γιουργια]

David Chou perchik=Socialist & jew bernie= Socialist & jew COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT😂😂😂😂

[@hollyodell4012]

This is actual footage of when Bernie proposed to Jane🙂

[@Reshme77]

@@hollyodell4012 omg!😁

[@NuXta]

No.

[@brndnwilks]

Of the three relationships, this one almost assuredly ended in tragedy.

[@fiornza]

I dunno about that, her younger sister is about to be in Poland during ww2 (if they didn’t manage to move back farther east before that)

[@brndnwilks]

@fiornza Indeed, though they have almost 35 years before Hitler's invasion, a fairly open-ended amount of time in which they could've relocated. Whereas Perchik, assuming that he'd survive his initial sentence in Siberia, still has WW1, the Red Revolution in 1917, the following Civil War, the Great Terror, and Stalin's mass purges amd executions in the 30s, where most OG marxists like Perchik were sent to Siberia or simply killed. And all of that before Hitler's invasion. Not a hopeful century for those two.

[@מיכלמילר-ו6ז]

I want to believe that, like most of the Jewish Bolsheviks at that time, he will be disappointed by the revolution and move to Palestine in 1912 and be part of the first Zionists with Hodel and they will probably establish a kibbutz

[@lukasmiller486]

Will anyone upload the scene in Moscow with the peaceful protest being broken up by the army? It reminds me of what Rebel News reports in Canada and Australia.

[@paulthomson8824]

REMINDS ME OF A SONG..."TALKIN ABOUT A REVOLUTION"

[@paulthomson8824]

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[@mmrocks99]

I'm playing Hodel in my school play and I'm in 7th. The Perchik is in 6th and he is an awkward person, but he is a good friend. ;D

[@drtruth8]

Wait. Did I grow up into Perchik?

[@btruj2507]

He is intellectually brilliant and motivated but sexually naive. They will balance each other well!

[@adriannaladner3515]

Russian Enjolras much?

[@yaya-mk3nn]

Thank you for this comment.

[@TheSeekerBabe]

+Nat S Not Enjolras, really. Somewhere between Marius and Enjolras. Enjolras wasn't really interested in a relationship; he was too preoccupied with his cause.

[@susannahlui7362]

+TheSeekerBabe Enjolras was in a committed relationship with patria.

[@reginabillotti]

@@susannahlui7362 "Patria", means "homeland" or "fatherland" in Latin (and Spanish). Hugo was explicitly saying he didn't have any interest in having a relationship with a woman.

[@shaminnkrane4987]

Its a joke because he says everything is political. its his mindset.

[@starshinedragonsong3045]

And, he's right. Literally everything.

[@petermgruhn]

"puddle puddle I'm Wayne"

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Bruce Wayne

[@petermgruhn]

[great things] How'd that work out?

[@maureenoneill2847]

Proposals are if they do not revealed location of deposit when needed to be picked up they broke our trust with that new Eva

[@sciencenotreligion5607]

Dang that looks like a looong walk.

[@FunFilmFare]

Funny how this scene predicts the same historical events (Russian Revolution) that occur in "Anastasia: The Musical" ;) !

[@karen8624]

It makes me wonder what Perchik would think of what Russia had become by 1927… Would he be disillusioned, or would he be like Gleb Vaganov?

[@ironicweeb4111]

@@karen8624probably disillusioned

[@brumbybailey6599]

That is a political question...? 🤣

[@dragongirl7978]

Well, yes. Yes, everything's political!

[@jibsjensen2587]

I mean the Union between a man and a women has socio economic ties.

[@shaminnkrane4987]

Oh yeah. I'm Perchik in my play. Hodel is one of the only girls in my grade who don't hate my guts...so it's not all bad...

[@maureenoneill2847]

Juan Perrone by Patagonia. My coded familial name is Reina O'Neil the us government didn't know nerfertiti excused us by it's my party + I'll cry if I want to

[@XxnarodeixelxX]

mee too! hes about a foot smaller than me!

[@luvdmusicc]

@mmrocks99 wish u best :-))

[@andrenewcomb3708]

Steve Jobs' probability explanation?

[@izabelazielak8963]

On wybiera sie na wojne,ona chetnie go poslubi,bo wojne mozna wygrac oo:-()

[@mmmm-lg2mj]

Aww

[@abby6215]

Perchik invented critical race theory in 1 scene 😂

[@GlockenWhale]

your brain doesn't work

[@GlockenWhale]

man shut up

[@shaminnkrane4987]

*Doesn't

[@shaminnkrane4987]

correction. hates my guts.

[@maureenoneill2847]

I understand rabbis son. Maureen gives their hustlers booed her for our huddle's. Her 33 kiss off by her purple and scarlet lipstick

[@gansci]

aaak

[@Sister7Fire]

"Made about you" Paul

[@paulthomson8824]

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[@imjustoutforastroll5091]

This is a hard to watch scene. I just want to jump between them and MAKE HER STOP. Girl, he is consumed by his passion! there is no way he can truly love you! ! Oh, well. Poor thing.

[@jibsjensen2587]

A man willing to, even while focused on his passion, struggle to find the words to admit his feelings is a worthy man. He knows how to set aside his passion because she is also a part of it. I truly pity the person who marries a man with no to little passion.

[@NuXta]

You're a clueless idiot.

[@rhettgedies7467]

Worst proposal ever. This man has no emotion beyond being a heated passionate progressive. Hodel deserved better.

[@mariaremberg]

I actually think he is very much in love with her, he just doesn’t know how to express himself when it comes to love. He is used to talk about his political opinions and therefore chooses to propose like that because he doesn’t know any other way. There is no way he would marry her and bring her with him if he wasn’t in love, his work would be the only thing on his mind and bringing a girl would only cause trouble.

[@jibsjensen2587]

As someone who can’t express emotions well... sometimes the cold logical answer is the best way. He does love her, he’s just not used to love. You can tell he loves her because he fights the battle to admit his feelings (something he’s not good at) and is willing to fight her fathers will for her. He loves her, just in a different way. I think they’re a good balance of one who only knows love, and one who is a „stranger in a strange land.“ This is all new for him and he did his best.

[@NuXta]

Rubbish. You're just another bitter reactionary yuppie Musk fanboy twat.

[@stephensczurek6286]

He talks too much. He thinks too much. He needs to feel more, and deal with his feelings.

[@onlybelieve6812]

He is so annoying

[@jibsjensen2587]

*adorable I think you meant. (No ill will. Just intended for light humor)

[@onlybelieve6812]

@@jibsjensen2587 😉

[@MrJuvefrank]

@@jibsjensen2587 They forgot to include David Soul in this film.