Discovering Film: Laurence Olivier

[@mvlsilva]

Although I am young, I am fascinated by Laurence Olivier, how much talent, voice, physical presence, charm ... unforgettable.

[@Jabberstax]

What I love about Olivier's acting is his range. Tom Cruise, for example, plays himself in every film but watching Laurence Olivier is like seeing a different actor in every part he plays.

[@anthonylewis2080]

Khartoum and Marathon Man are clear examples of this : truly one a kind!.

[@wakeupuk3860]

Oh yes, so true and is what we see with most actors on our films today. I strongly believe that any actor that can produce, direct, write and star in a film like Henry V, that I once as a very disruptive, fidgety and rarely could sit still for more than 5 mins (I suspect I had ADHD as a child) that my father took me to see aged at only 7 years old. I sat through all of it, memorize to the complete surprise of my father - I certainly would say is 'great'. He left me with a love of Shakespeare for the rest of my life and later in life becoming a teacher for a while, on retiring (2014) became a private tutor, where I often to have a break, played excerpts from Henry V and Richard III on a PC, to my students, which they always enjoyed and showed interest. Regarding the difference to him and people like Tom Cruise, the incident with him and Dustin Hoffman asking for help in playing the dentist torture scene, is saying, "Dear boy, have you ever thought to try acting it" perfectly sums up what it means to e a true actor.

[@christinecallahan5512]

For me, WUTHERING HEIGHTS and REBECCA was THE BEST movies he EVER MADE.......he was sooo great and l felt BADLY in love with him.......

[@christinecallahan5512]

I ALWAYS loved his voice, his great looks and again his VOICE, he's got straight in my heart......

[@christinecallahan5512]

He really was the BEST HEATHCLIFF E V E R.......

[@RT-far-T]

The greatest actor of all time...

[@anthonycosta6461]

What an actor 👏God bless 🙌

[@patcronenberg2334]

Olivier was probably the greatest classical theatrical actor with Scofield, Richardson and Gielgud. I do think Laughton and Guinness proved better as film actors but this group is a world class team, amen!

[@user-bx5zm4cj9w]

Какая же Вивьен Ли красотка💯💯💯 Лучшая из лучших👍👍👍

[@Jabberstax]

Agreed. 👍

[@58christiansful]

Mesmerizing performances! Each and every one of them.

[@katyalacrua6793]

Very good looking actor, charming and talented.👏👏

[@deb-1558]

Thanks for this! Love Laurence Olivier 😊

[@dawnlowenstein7277]

I have to admit that this British actor was really talented! While I only saw Sir Olivier in "The Jazz Singer", I feel he did a great job in playing the cantor father of Jess Robin (Jesse Rabinovitch)!

[@robinghosh8891]

The Greatest Actor in the World

[@christinecallahan5512]

Wuthering heights REALLY was his FINEST ROLE, UNDOUBTEDLY.......

[@carolynjones6524]

The GREATEST EVER

[@January.]

Wish he had made more Hollywood movies.

[@carrietezeno6327]

One OF THE GREATEST Actor Ever Sir Laurence Olivier Their Will Never Be Another RIH Beautiful Angel 😇 ❤ You Are Love And Miss 💘 ❤

[@marialuizasaboiasaddi2160]

Excelente ator. Raro !

[@ernestitoe]

Holden Caulfield's critique of Olivier's Hamlet: “You take Sir Laurence Olivier, for example. I saw him in Hamlet. D.B. took Phoebe and I to see it last year. He treated us to lunch first, and then he took us. He'd already seen it, and the way he talked about it at lunch, I was anxious as hell to see it, too. But I didn't enjoy it much. I just don't see what's so marvelous about Sir Laurence Olivier, that's all. He has a terrific voice, and he's a helluva handsome guy, and he's very nice to watch when he's walking or dueling or something, but he wasn't at all the way D.B. said Hamlet was. He was too much like a goddam general, instead of a sad, screwed-up type guy.” Excerpt From The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger This material may be protected by copyright.

[@rich8880]

LOL, Holden wrote about masturbation. I didn't know he was a theatric critic.

[@ernestitoe]

@@rich8880 I don't know what you're talking about. That was a direct quote from the book. Holden never mentions masturbation.

[@christopherthorkon3997]

It would have been nice had they included one of his finest performances, as Nicodemus in "Jesus of Nazareth" (1977)

[@boondocks8002]

Amen

[@josephdiluzio6719]

Great comment I can think of No Greater cinematic Abyss than Tom Cruise versus Laurence Olivier

[@giovanna722]

​@@josephdiluzio6719Yes. Ridiculous to the sublime, lol.

[@kandycarrillo9025]

Muy buen actor...

[@ctb3078]

Robert Donat was offered Rebecca but refused to go back to Hollywood. They then offered the role to Laurence O.

[@ScratchthechalkBoard]

He refused to shorten it but insist on Cavett call me Larry and we ate out his hand LOL 😂😂

[@anaale1306]

He didn't deserve Vivien Leigh. My Support always with her! She shines for herself!

[@runningtap12]

I love Larry so much! Marilyn Munroe does absolutely nothing for me. Could never understand the adoration for her.

[@rosssssangelica]

Thank you for this! I have watched all the videos you uploaded...Please please please, can you upload the one of Daniel Day-Lewis? Thanks again! :)

[@jansandman6983]

although I am not an old person but I really liked Sir Larry as an actor.. he will always be Marcus Licinius Crassus to me.. Since I'm a Roman Empire history buff.

[@christinecallahan5512]

I only loved him in WUTHERING HEIGHTS and in REBECCA....... there l really felt in love with him.....

[@ScratchthechalkBoard]

0:48 ok so that's why they cast Kenneth B. As Laurence in Week with Marilyn movie that starred Michelle Williams.

[@bextie9091]

Excuse me for asking, but do you have the episode on James Cagney (S2, E5)?

[@Cyberpunk1481]

Sorry, I don't have it.

[@aliciadessironaldochavez8202]

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[@prettytse7762]

OMG!!!!

[@TheStockwell]

Uploading at 360p? In 2020? No offense intended, but 360p uploads were outlawed by the Geneva Convention, the League of Nations, the United Nations, and the ghost of George Melies!

[@Cyberpunk1481]

If you have it in better quality, you can send me the file, and I will uploaded just for your viewing pleasure. 😕

[@TheStockwell]

@@Cyberpunk1481 Let me see what I can do. The "discovering" series has been streaming on Amazon and other film channels. Stay tuned!

[@kuziokundera]

Olivier was VERY theatrical, that’s very true. Which made his acting feel very “Performy”. It’s why people see Brando as the greatest actor ever. Because with Brando you felt like you were watching a real person. With Olivier you feel like you are watching a performance.

[@pikenova48]

I love Brando too. But then you must not have seen "Khartoum" with Olivier.

[@tomnorton4277]

Haven't you watched Spartacus? Laurence Olivier was like a real person in that movie. The nuances that hinted at Crassus' bisexuality were always there even though the scene that confirmed it was missing for over 30 years (when it was discovered, it was dubbed by Anthony Hopkins). Olivier's eye contact and body language gave hints about Crassus' sexual preferences without needing to rely on the deleted scene but most people need him to talk about snails and oysters in order to even notice it.

[@patcronenberg2334]

He was good in Spartacus but Ustinov and Laughton were the shining thespians in that one. One the greatest Shakespearian actor of his period.

[@barcaveful]

And that's exactly why so much modern acting has become so predictable and dull. If I want to watch so called reality done by real people I can always stand at a bus stop and for free. I pay to see the extra-ordinary. And that's what Oliver was.

[@giovanna722]

@@barcaveful" Real" doesn't mean dull or ordinary. What Brando did in his best work was in fact extraordinary.

[@karlakor]

Neil Norman, at 32:42, refers to "this enlightened age, when we don't do blackface anymore", as though Olivier were making himself up for a minstrel show. Olivier obviously believed that the role of Othello required him to darken his skin, and he did so. Neil Norman ought to know the difference instead of pretending to be morally superior and enlightened. This is political correctness for its own sake.

[@provideme1000]

and he died his hair blond for hamlet.

[@rich8880]

The way he rolled his "R"s and the clarity of speech was perhaps the most powerful thing, versus the mumble that became popular with Brando. Two different styles though Brando was great as Marc Anthony.

[@pninnabokov3734]

"He caught the attention of______" just about everybody of both sexes and he rolled with it and drove the delicate, magnificent Vivien mad over it.

[@stephaniestanley8041]

🤔 maybe

[@suneethamay3615]

This is another Krishna Murthy

[@prettytse7762]

DORKING!!!!

[@hypolyxa7207]

"Enlightened age" where we don't do blackface. What a load of PC rubbish to let out that we are somehow more enlightened now than then.. Bit of a mediocre documentary, you'd get more out of watching Dick Cavett interview him.

[@yvonnedyer5371]

He was a great actor but at times over dramatic unnecessarily

[@catherinemoore3098]

You know he is acting too stiff!