Angels in America - Belize describes Heaven

[@stellatocca]

He was hands down the best part of this miniseries. This scene is so hauntingly good it's seared into my memory...Jeffery Wright's voice & line delivery is absolutely hypnotic.

[@stacywebb427]

“windows missing in every edifice like broken teeth” or “Brown as the mouths of rivers”…what incredible language. i love this writing.

[@michaeljesparza]

It's so beautiful and poetic to an extent I can't describe

[@tellmehowyouremighty]

Tony Kushner (the playwright) is a genius.

[@mrbroseph28]

“And you ain’t there…” Delivered perfectly. Like the cut of a knife.

[@amandamoore2868]

Jeffrey Wright's voice gives me goosebumps in this scene, in the best way. He is amazing.

[@scottrousseau496]

Such an amazing scene. The sound of the city, wind, the night and two actors who are at the top of this script. The distant thunder. Such.... feels.

[@DustyPearl-13]

Holy crap...what an amazing performance from both actors...!

[@TezQuetz]

OMG, Jeffrey Wright is KILLING. IT. in this scene!

[@Mia7189]

Won a well-deserved Best Supporting Emmy.

[@williammcalpin8339]

He always does.

[@sophien8577]

Little did the creators know that this scene has kept me going. Also, during those fatal hours, whenever they shall roll by... this scene is sure to be my last vivid memory. And it's an honour and a comfort.

[@FilonisHat]

That’s kinda sad ma’am.

[@pommelhorsepommelhorse8731]

one of the great theater monologues. thanks. now I can watch it over and over

[@kevinmansell8746]

Al would have never taken this role if it was not Good it is was Darn Excellent! 5 stars

[@gabrielmaroto18]

“That was heaven Roy” gets me every time!

[@TigerGreene]

Roy: the fuck it was! Who are you? Belize: your negation. Roy: Oh, I know you! You're nothing. Stom... stomach grumble, wakes you in the night.

[@DustyPearl-13]

Holy molly...This gotta be the BEST scene ever put on TV: AL & Jeffrey were just from another planet & another dimension!

[@redt7935]

Flawless scene. Absolutely flawless. Everything down to the way Jeffery Wright pulls on the cigarette. Loaded with tension and emotion and relief at the realization that such a terrible little man as Roy is mortal like the rest of us.

[@DHU11]

Best miniseries of all time. Mike Nichols, what a guy

[@tetsuan25]

Just that last sentence to finally destroy him....." That was Heaven Roy!"

[@yellowraccoon786]

Chilling, beautiful, and depressing all at the same time. One of the (many) scenes from Angels in America that really stuck with me....amazing performances from Pacino and esp Wright here!

[@bwctubes]

Oh this scene. Chills every time.

[@MrHernandez1994]

Give Jeffery Wright all the awards available

[@m3rrys0ngstr3ss]

He won the Tony *and* the Emmy for this role!

[@angc1456]

Guys, dont forget the beautiful Score by Thomas Newman ❤😊

[@Assisi4]

The monologue for this always has me transfixed. So brilliant

[@angc1456]

i bought it on DVD When it came out !! so good !! life before streaming = masterpiece series

[@astroemerald3175]

100 % agree Emmy ward winning performance .

[@Mystrohan]

I never realized it before, but that half-laugh at 0:28 was Roy Cohn trying and failing to say the word “Hell” because he was so afraid of it. That’s part of why he thinks Belize is talking about Hell.

[@samosullivan1744]

His voice is like the soothing crackling of a log fire.

[@Cristobels-Green-Boots]

“…& you ain’t there”

[@frankenspuddkatmoe9683]

most amazing scene in cinema, a boy w a magic crowns on 💜

[@Mikegees]

Wow never seen this series or knew about it….. and I have seen a lot of films….

[@applemask]

Prophet birds, Roy.

[@KaritKtana]

Perfection.

[@carltonrandom]

Jeffrey Wright is irreplaceable in this. It's the writing, though.

[@ninibibiful]

I agree almost all cast of this masterpiece is irreplaceable. But they made such a crappy version of it anyways a couple of years ago...

[@mrt445]

@@ninibibiful you mean someone else made that version.

[@ninibibiful]

@@mrt445 sure whatever... Like as enticing as someone remaking titanic with a different theme...

[@ninibibiful]

@@mrt445 once in a while an ensemble proves to be damn near perfection, this group of cast and that director(RIP) and of course TK's writing came alive they way they did because of the synergy they managed to create.

[@m3rrys0ngstr3ss]

It's so magical when the cast and the work are united that way!

[@pam0626]

Belize’s description of heaven is what every white, male, GOP politician fears most.

[@lydialilybellevalley2297]

What is gop ??

[@Aussiedezza12]

@@lydialilybellevalley2297 grand old party

[@theoracle7148]

This version of heaven has been achieved, enjoy stepping over human excrement and enjoy the broken windows

[@FilonisHat]

Luckily, the true, biblical heaven is nothing man’s version of heaven. If you’re interested about gaining eternal life, not having to worry about death, hmu on this thread!

[@sacredstarlight9446]

The poetry in Belizes description of heaven

[@julianr602]

I knew he was going to be a great Commissioner Gordon.

[@joannehines7806]

OMG!! Totally forgot that Al Pacino starred in this!!!

[@petersmithyy4556]

He's above this crap. No queer as folk shit

[@Mystrohan]

That’s not where Roy Cohn went.

[@veronikahk1826]

WTF happened to jeffrey wright????he should be all over not mark whalberg...JUST SAYING

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

He's been doing the character actor thing, he's never stopped working his whole career.

[@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep]

He's been doing amazing work ever since. Hunger Games, Westworld, Bond films, O.G., Rick and Morty, Marvel's What If...?, and the upcoming Batman film as James Gordon.

[@ytuser_3122]

@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep he was in Hunger Games?!

[@blacksuede]

He played MLK in a movie I thought it was the best portrayal of Dr.King I ever scene.

[@MrIrklazu]

Gantz - Baby Face

[@sicmundus5081]

Better Call Saul

[@antohp6512]

- Can I ask you something sir? - “Sir”? - What’s it like after? - After…? - …this misery ends? Hmm? - Hell or heaven? - … - Like San Francisco. - A city! Good… I was worried it’d be a garden, I hate that shit. - Mm, big city. Overgrown with weeds, but flowering weeds. On every corner a wrecking crew and something new and crooked going up cattycorner to that. Windows missing in every edifice like broken teeth. Gritty wind, and a gray high sky full of ravens. - Isaiah. - Prophet birds, Roy. Piles of trash, but lapidary like rubies and obsidian. And diamond-colored cowspit streamers in the wind, and voting booths. And everyone in Balenciaga gowns with red corsages, and big dance palaces full of music and lights and racial impurity and gender confusion. And all the deities... Are creole, mulatto, brown as the mouths of rivers. Race, taste and history finally overcome. And you ain’t there. - And heaven? - That was heaven, Roy.

[@TheThing2011]

THIS is what Hollywood should be making in 2022. Not Interview with A Vampire and She Hulk

[@mikelima7269]

San Francisco? No thanks

[@RIP_Greedo]

in Roy's defense, Heaven sounds like a dump.

[@theoracle7148]

San Francisco looks like this description these days. Just a sprinkling of human excrement needed

[@petersmithyy4556]

That's the point he's making I think

[@RIP_Greedo]

@@petersmithyy4556 perhaps. I think the real meaning is that he’s describing heaven as something Roy would hate - full of minorities who vote, etc - to underscore just how far from salvation Roy is

[@michaeljesparza]

Or perfection is an ugly chore

[@TheIgdrasil1]

It is incredible that from San Francisco you made this exact "heaven". Streets full of fentanyl zombies, afroamericans ruling for the sake of quotas and political corectness. Enjoy your heaven, cause it is hell for other people.

[@petersmithyy4556]

I don't know what all that mumbo Babel was but pretty sure he's describing hell not heaven. Sounds like a woke nightmare

[@kandinski_]

Prophet birds, Roy.

[@gregariuss]

Someone is scared of some melanin

[@doctorfate6414]

This is Bullsh*t.

[@petersmithyy4556]

Agreed. Lol. It's funny though from a gay man's view I guess