Brassed Off - Danny Boy's speech

I originally didnt want to upload this section of Brassed Off because I didnt think it would survive very long but a lot of people have convinced me that I should. How many of you remember those dark days when we prayed for a Labour government in Britain? Well we got one. And a lot of good it did us.

[@bojangles8074]

Brings a tear to my eye every time I watch this clip...never a truer word spoken and to the miners who suffered in 84 you will never be forgot...True working class men who fought for the right to work and care for their families....

[@user-orenge1982]

right!

[@Sunshine-nq6wv]

What a fantastic speech and what a fine actor Pete Postlethwaite was. Every role I saw him in, he was so convincing and gave a human quality to his performances. Rip Pete. I dont think we will see your like again. The essence of acting encapsulated in this one performance. X

[@jackiemarriott9928]

God I cry everytime I watch This It brings Back Memories of my Dear Husband who Died Two years Ago With Miners Lung Disease I Watched Him Fight To Breath He Fought it For Sixteen Years Until He Had Enough He gave His Life To The Mines From 15 Years old As Did Many More Brave Men Even His Brothers And His Father And Mine Cousins Nephews ALL Suffered The Same Fate They Shold NEVER Be Forgotten The Music They play Rodriguez Concerto Was Made For These Brave Men I Had This Played At My Husband's Funeral It Was His Wish My Darling Husband And Many More RIP FREE FROM ALL PAIN IN OUR MEMORIES FOREVERMORE YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN AND RIP PETE A WONDERFUL ACTOR YOU TELL HE ACTUALLY MEANT THOSE WORDS HE SPOKE HE SPOKE FOR EVERY MINER AND THERE FAMILIES WHO STRUGGLED THROUGH THE MINERS STRIKES AS WELL ONLY WANTING A DECENT WAGE TO FEED THERE FAMILIES GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND BEST WISHES FOR A BETTER 2021XX

[@billobrien2261]

Your story has touched my heart jackie ! I always fill up at the hospital scenes. My own father died from similar circumstances,(a welder). The only difference is that he was self employed 😏…..

[@phil65nottingham]

Short memories that speech is absolutely spot on men worked the coalfields to help make this country great and this was their reward 😢whole communities decimated proud men thrown out and for what ? Makes my blood boil I'm 64 and i know what this country owes it's miner's god be with you and your families

[@Crusader804]

I was a striking miner, Branch President of the NUM in Derbyshire.Proud to say I stuck with my principles from day to the end. It nearly broke me after the strike having to deal with the carnage Thatcher and her goons created. It was a weekly action representing the union at the crematorium. We were delivering coal to pensioners in the Winter, Thatcher set the police onto us and we had to stop. This was the level of cruelty they showed. Coppers in tears enforcing their instructions. I will never forget it, and this statement never fails to bring tears to my eyes. I am proud of my actions to try and preserve livelihoods and communities.👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@joangordon3376]

May Thatcher still be burning in Hell

[@freddieclark]

When it costs more to bring the coal out than you can get on the free market, its not a few lousy bob, its a serious drain on the economy. Its fine to cry about the closure of coal mines, but they were not making money and that was the bottom line. Thatcher did not create any carnage, she brought realism to the debate.

[@cherise2831]

This great man Pete Postlethwaite has reduced me to tears. I loved this man as this countries finest actor and man.

[@steveef2275]

me too, he was great villain in sharpe

[@rotherhamliam]

This speech is so emotive and absolutely spot on. I work in the village where Brassed Off was set (and mostly filmed) and its just now getting back on its feet, 30 years after the strike. All the men going back through my father's family were miners, and I was robbed of the opportunity to follow in their footsteps as all the pits had shut down by the time I left school. I always have, and always will, resent the Tory government for that.

[@litmuscheck]

"robbed of the opportunity to follow in their footsteps" I think, you haven't quite figured out how reality works, mate. There is no right to succession. Everything changes and develops, and sometimes opportunities vanish, others appear, but that's simply the run of time. Now, one can be angry about it and try to work against the change over time, but it probably won't be succesful, or one can try to adap and develop as well. Traditions make us feel safe because we think we know what' coming. My dad was a successful miner, so I can be a successful happy miner one day too. That's how humans think and feel. Our brain creates some kind of destiny, based on our heritage. The problem is: Reality doesn't care about what you think or feel. For example, even if you had become a miner, you could've had a very bad accident, leaving you disabled, bitter, and hating that pit. What I'm trying to say is: Life is bad enough. Don't focus on the things you can't change anyways and let go of the things you wish would have been and try to accept them how they are now.

[@eric2553]

@@litmuscheck bro... that was 9 years ago

[@grahamjones7328]

Labour shut down more pits! I’m from a Welsh mining community so don’t give me that shit. Pits close when they run out of coal. Fact!

[@paulwheatley4770]

i think we all knew that the pits would have to go , but i will never agree with the way it was done , it was a bloody disgrace , there should have been employment near the pits before they closed

[@peterjay137]

The relevence of this speech and the sentiments of this wonderful film are more important today than at any other time. Maggie is dead.

[@robertkirk4387]

I come from a mining background on both sides of the family as will many people here. and this chokes me every time I hear it, they can always find money for a theatre refurb in London, but never a children's ward in the north, to hell with London and the snobs of the south, you want to talk about equality, look to the class division in this country.

[@gary73]

The Greatest British Film ever made.👍🏻👏💐💯

[@dogstaraycliffe]

This is the best part of a fantastic film and shows British film making at its best, and I remember these days like they were yesterday and will remember them till the day I die.

[@GutterpressFerret]

Anyone who lived through those years, remembers the hell of it and has any sense of community will be moved by this clip. She's kicked the bucket, finally and her death will bring back very painful memories of what she did to this beautiful country and its people.

[@Sivvussa]

Hehe, "Don't talk so bloody soft!" This speech always makes me tear up, and that line's just the icing on the cake. :P

[@jimboBFC1]

Absolutely mate. You find yourself laughing through the tears. Amazing scene

[@petehall1985]

Fantastic speech. I love this speech and film it's a true portrayal of just how badly thatcher destroyed peoples lives. Best bit is there re opening pits and 20yr rule proves it's ideological change the Tories wanted not progress Thatchers government were c^nts

[@jboomadmill]

spot on

[@philipbadiz6189]

the current fascist-adjacent zombies are even worse... well and truly f*cked right now.

[@eddietunguska]

An amazing way to get an an incredible speech and the humor at the end.Genius.

[@michaelmuldowney8]

My vote for the best screen performance NOT nominated for any sort of award.

[@rangerbadger7304]

One of the best movie speeches ever. The thing is this film came out in 1996 and now 27 years later the government gives even less of a fuck.

[@eamonkiely4458]

So sad we have lost this great actor. One of the very best 🍻

[@alexbayman3017]

Thanks for sharing - a great scene from a great film!

[@jaygatsby3039]

The miners are heroes now, they were heroes then, and they will be heroes for a long as there is time. Solidarity with one and all of you who fought for us.

[@bboorideau5253]

Pete Postlethwaite- superb!

[@SkinnyEMedia]

This scene carries more weight now than unusually it did in the 1980s and 1990s. Tragic! This is the film the FULL MONTY should’ve been.

[@bbadfish]

No better tribute. You were never talking to yourself, Pete. You were talking to us, and we heard you. "Oh, aye. They can knock out a bloody good tune......."

[@JackMRobshaw]

Today, this scene is very important to remember. Now that she's finally kicked it.

[@parasiteunit]

Perfect speech, perfect delivery... the only true issue with this, is that much of it is depressingly curent and valid today. The point about not being seals or whales also has more than a slice of hard truth in it.... we seem to forget that when we don't learn from out mistakes in the past (EG voting f'king tory...thanks for that UK cheers), we are destined to repeat them.

[@urbanmothdog]

Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant

[@notredamedeimmaculeeecoule6565]

1:59 or 2:00. never has a film captured "honest and decent" so crisply as this lady's eyes. and that dear Frodo, is an encouraging thought.

[@HarmonieWevelgem]

Just love the part where he grabs the cup anyway (2:47). Priceless! ;)

[@waltjohnson8324]

The forever plight of the working man, summed up in one evocative speech. A wrongly dismissed film, stupidly marketed at the time as a comic romance, is rather a forlorn plea for understanding from a tragic past. I find Steven Tompkins' brutal breakdown while moonlighting as a clown at a kid's party even more powerful.

[@Jurassic56]

Absolutely Brilliant!

[@TheDiggster13]

"Dont talk so bloody soft" pretty much sums up my life

[@dpembo7]

RIP Pete legend

[@jrhawk574]

So many folks have had to endure getting the rug pulled out from under their feet because of the greed of those with the power to do so.

[@jimincairns]

Pete Postlethwaite's finest performance.

[@Londonsburningfan]

Fantastic ending to a fantastic film...."o aye they can knock out a bloody good tune, but what the fuck does that matter?"

[@SpazzyLoLazzy]

RIP You old battyman. I mean that in good way. Batty is good.

[@robertkirk4387]

Pete Postlethwaite his greatest line ever

[@SkinnyEMedia]

I’m shocked this film didn’t get enough Oscars or BAFTAs...or any at all?

[@markieboy1983]

One of the best rallying calls against Thatcherism ever commited to screen.

[@neilday3921]

i have watched on many times and i think that pete posthalwaite does it so must justice of the terrible times suffered under Margret Thatcher

[@johndcorr]

And then they grab the trophy anyway - hilarious and touching...

[@mollytherealdeal]

Rest in peace.

[@mr2del]

@DeadlinX Tubthumper (or Tubthumping) by Chumbawamba

[@dansmith1763]

RIP Pete you will be missed

[@bboorideau5253]

I was there. The North has a long memory

[@snipper1ie]

You didn't get a Labour Government, you got a NEW Labour Government. Not many Skinners' to be had in one of those.

[@Pemberton18]

Warrington's finest.

[@talkingapeman1413]

It's all happening again. But it will be doctors not miners

[@kaneparsons2000]

Its all happing again. But it is the doctors this time instead of the Coal miners and the steel woorkers!!!

[@adamquirke6024]

It’s everyone now apart from jobsworths who kiss arse and brown nose the most

[@adamquirke6024]

Monumental. It’s not left wing or right. It’s just true

[@davidmarman962]

FilmThe greatest

[@beldengi]

I thought he mentioned Maggie in the film but it is absent in this clip.

[@DeadlinX]

Whats the Name of the Song they played before his speach ?? Sry for Bad english ...

[@adamquirke6024]

Think it’s the William Tell Overture

[@DeadlinX]

@ancorage86 Thank you :)

[@mr2del]

@Elfman101 or frankly any generation!!

[@foxazburr6077]

evidently there are 99 names for God. he had like 16 in this speech. "when letting all attachments go, is the only prayer we know, may it be so may it be so may it be so, Oh." for a few yankee dollars. have mercy.

[@christopherfothergil]

Never a truer word was spoken, even today you cannot trust the Tories

[@MCFCSeasonCardHolder]

this.

[@jimincairns]

@vivascargill Something with lumps in it?Mwahahahahah!

[@jpwood9082]

Worst thing - it did not fucking matter, they did it anyway

[@7163andy]

Shame but Labour closed more mines than Maggie

[@seventeen17arts]

kokoomuslaiset ei tykkää tästä

[@jimstewart3239]

Fantastic film . Tory bastards.

[@ktjamlex]

When an industry is no longer commercially viable it shuts. When a commodity has done so much damage to our environment and climate it needs to shut. Just because people have been doing it for generations does not make it viable or good practice. Harsh but true. More should have been done for the communities however.

[@stevenobrien3763]

But yet we buy imported coal from Russia or the USA to power out power stations🤔

[@dermotoc9594]

Elfman, people did pray for one, thought they got one, but hadn't. Bunch of cuckoo's eggs.

[@taffyjones281]

Great speech, referencing a horrendously uncaring Tory government. Sadly it's a case of deja vu.

[@georgedixon9863]

I love how people are trying to make this "political" - it isn't. It's about change - you can try to stop it but eventually everything ends and something new begins. Governments can do a lot of good, and a lot of damage, but they can't stop time.

[@supyoist]

It's nothing but political. I'm not under the impression that coal is forever, but closing pits and throwing thousands of workers on their asses while giving the executives a golden parachute isn't progress. The coal workers were and are men and women who give their all for society to keep carrying on. Acting blasé to the upheaval of their lives and livelihoods is neither progressive nor ethical.

[@adamquirke6024]

So what u saying? That it’s down to progress for progress sake and forget the human? Rewatch this speech please.

[@cheradaninezakalwe2851]

@@supyoist you're a moron