one of the most beautifully written novel i've ever read
@scathatch3 жыл бұрын
Certainly a great novel.
@SammieMousie3 жыл бұрын
Currently reading it now. Almost done with it and I do agree it really is beautifully written.
@TheReluctantCoder3 ай бұрын
Same ❤
@user-iz5vm7ve8j3 ай бұрын
The film was also brilliant.
@Dextroyfuller3 жыл бұрын
I loved hearing his thought process on including that "my heart was breaking" line. It absolutely would have been out of place if he had put it anywhere else, but the actual placement - at the point where being locked out of love finally overtakes Stevens' self-denial - hit me as powerfully as Sir Ishiguro had intended. That kind of boldness and precision is something every writer should aspire to.
@hanijarjeess2385 жыл бұрын
I can't determine which I love much more the novel or the film of the remains... both of them sounded to me by the great words for "Khalil Gibran": "Between what is said and not meant, and what it meant & not said, most of love is lost” Thank you, Kazuo Ishiguro
@jayeevee16934 жыл бұрын
me and my wife during the film... "just tell her for gods sake"! At the end in the rain! wow what a film...
@bernicerogers23834 жыл бұрын
He probably wanted to but considered it honourable not to as she had found happiness and was finally settled as a married woman.
@martymascarin4863 жыл бұрын
The final scene in the film: Mr Stevens closes the window, & there's a brief close-up of the frames of the window panes super-imposed on a mirrored image of Darlington Hall, suggesting a prison Mr Stevens is content and doomed to occupy; as the camera pulls gently away, composer Richard Robbins brings in flutes principally, slowly building to a muted crescendo, conjuring an image of something fleeting, like autumn leaves blowing in the wind, and Mr Stevens has allowed love to pass through his fingers, much like the blowing leaves. The tragedy of the film, so repressed are his emotions. The POV pulls back further, revealing the hugeness of Darlington Hall, surrounded by beautiful verdant grounds, the manison having seen better days, as if time is passing it by, much like Mr Stevens. The heart of the film. Very affecting.
@thewealthofnations48273 жыл бұрын
Letting the pigeon out was a scene where after all is said and done his life is probably full of domestic moments like that that are in some ways fun and exciting in their own way. Yes, he missed out on opportunities for love but he would have broken the rules he set out multiple times in the film about not getting involved with colleagues. It's the same thing today when your average joe goes to work, it's not always pretty mixing work and pleasure. He enjoyed a professional relationship with a woman and they both maintained their dignity at work, perhaps there could have been a love match there but that can be said of many relationships. She chose a different life with the free spirit that didn't live up to the dreams he sold to her. She has regrets. He has regrets. We all have regrets. I don't know which is the greater tragedy, not taking Miss Kenton, or not speaking when he could answer those three questions he was asked, or not speaking up for the two Jewish girls. It's all tragic but if it wasn't so tragic perhaps none of us watching the film would truly understand how dangerous it is to not allow ourselves to feel. to not feel love, pain, grief. All I wanted was for Mr Stevens to drop just one tear from his eye as those lights came on and everyone cheered. I wanted it to fall at least on his right eye that was turned from her and she wouldn't be able to see it fall from his face. But all I got was tears that welled in his eyes when he realised his second chance was truly gone. I got the same feelings at the end of this film that I had with the ending of the film LA LA Land. It was the pain of what might of been for both people, and the harsh reality that is having many choices in life, but in the end, there is only one path we can take. We can't go back in time, we can't have a second chance, we have only one. Those were the tears on her face as she left in the bus, the reality that she can't live two lives, that she had to let go again of something good, for something better, a life with her new granddaughter and a renewed love for her husband.
@celestialfix7 жыл бұрын
A great novel, and a beautifully filmed movie where every scene is like a Rembrandt painting. Congrats to the author on his well-deserved Nobel.
@CitizenSeries6 жыл бұрын
Rembrandt might be stretching it, just a tad.
@donstor15 жыл бұрын
That would be subjective, so perhaps not so much of a stretch.
@jubalcalif91005 ай бұрын
I heartily concur !
@earthumbrella Жыл бұрын
I saw this as a samurai movie.
@myimorata76785 жыл бұрын
To place the interior drama of the butler and the house staff of a wealthy family within the rise of Nazism was so simple, yet a stroke of genius. It was the "little job" set in the context of worldwide, cataclysmic events. Just amazing. And an enjoyable love story too. A well-nigh perfect novel.
@Flyingtart6 жыл бұрын
I cried like a little bitch by the time I finished reading.
@russianbear543 жыл бұрын
I didn't read the book, but watched the movie yesterday, and though I didn't weep, I felt somewhat upset because Stevens' pride and shyness(which I can relate to) granted him decades of celibacy...
@paulchen3553 жыл бұрын
I was reading it out loud, but when getting to the end I couldn't proceed. 🤣😂 too poignant
@thewealthofnations48273 жыл бұрын
I think the whole point of the book is that it's ok to cry like a little bitch.
@melissaholman24662 жыл бұрын
I just watched the movie and I felt so heartbroken at the end. Now I can’t get the characters out of my head so I started reading the book.
@Flyingtart2 жыл бұрын
@@melissaholman2466 Oh the movie has nothing on the book feelsy-wise, good luck surviving it.
@marryhouse19836 жыл бұрын
This book is about the inner discourse of one’s value of life, one’s redemption and contemplation of life. Sadly the questions were about Anthony Hopkins ect... who is no doubt a great actor still... Ishiguro Kazuo is one of the novelist who I feel most amiable, whose philosophy I can associate with.
@simonkindell5 ай бұрын
I was in Japan for 25 years and they never showed emotion. I like to ask him what he thinks about it not just about a butler but how about your zombie country?!
@kawyachandrasekara39594 жыл бұрын
It is more than a story, couldn't stop reading even for a second until the end. I couldn't just imagine how the writer imagine the story so excessively and emotionally. It is just amazing. I felt as if Mr. Stevens himself narrated the story by himself and that the characters were not at all fictional, but nonetheless, perfectly real. The story line of the novel perfectly goes on par with the contemporary society and incidents.
@mizfrenchtwist6 жыл бұрын
to me , the film was about mr. stevens's mistaken nobility of self denial / self sacrifice , for some greater cause . he thought himself to be above the human condition . everything he believed in and held dear , in the end , he found to be untrue..............even his parentage..............his , was a life wasted.....
@SpiredRapidity3 жыл бұрын
An entirely brilliant writer, and an entirely brilliant mind. Always fascinated when he talks
@drmilimiliy93432 жыл бұрын
Hopkins is great actor. But IMHO he is not the right choice for this role, not because of his hunchback etc but because the look in his eyes. That look is too sharp, too knowing and too shrewd to play Mr Stevens. Having read the book, I pictured in my mind Mr Stevens as some who is tragically earnest, eager to serve and possess none of the shrewdness which Hopkins cannot help showing. I mean, if only he was nearly as worldly! Then we wouldn't have a story.
@davidcopson58009 ай бұрын
What hunchback? Who do you think he is, Quasimodo or Richard III?
@عصامعيسىرجب7 жыл бұрын
A brilliant writer; certainly deserves 2015 Nobel prize for literature.
@benrezenarosa36797 жыл бұрын
2017
@chatty5xg4 жыл бұрын
So he said it! He's right and I agree with him. There's a thin line between watching a film and reading a book. Novels should not be compared to its film adaptation. A book ahould be enjoyed for its prose and films should be enjoyed as what they are.
@diegobarreto86626 ай бұрын
I like the simplicity of this man
@jubalcalif91005 ай бұрын
I certainly have a notion to second THAT emotion !
@argentbeard55835 жыл бұрын
The Remains of the Day contains a much darker secret about Mr. Stevens which is hinted at in the book. His being an unreliable narrator helps to mask the mystery, but not quite.
@kelman7275 жыл бұрын
Argent Beard Not unreliable in the traditional sense. He tells you what he saw, what he did not, and he never lies. What he takes from it is where he veers off - so starkly it’s easy for the reader to follow. All they have to do is draw the opposite conclusion to Stevens.
@oliverfarahmand2224 жыл бұрын
What is this darker secret?
@Jelk243i10 ай бұрын
Spy?
@TheBkebede3 жыл бұрын
A great gift , both the movie (thanks to the brilliant A Hopkins and E Thompson acting skills ) and the novel are true products of love, love for creativity, keeping us all at the center of the inquiry. the movie can be enjoyed more when complemented with the movie Amadeus, a great story yet antithesis of The Remains of the Day , in particular, Steven vs. W G A Mozart. What is in the title ? why the Remains of the Day?
@timcoleman37842 жыл бұрын
"hi i don't have a question, i just want to talk for a few minutes and waste everyone's time showing how clever i am?"
@mizfrenchtwist6 жыл бұрын
a wonderful piece of work , the nobel ....well deserved . i can't wait to attend a lecture .................
@bethelshiloh4 жыл бұрын
The fact that you were the one who wrote the insight of this stoic English characteristic fascinates me. Having that heritage myself, I’ve had to learn to learn how to open up emotionally without letting my emotions rule me. I try to be led by Spirit and Truth without totally oppressing myself emotionally. It’s tricky. At 70, I am still working on learning how to walk the tight rope. Thank you for the book . Thank you for this interview.
@levison79353 жыл бұрын
I think Ishiguro being brought up with East Asian parents (as l was) probably identified with the British sense of keeping the stiff upper lip. In many Asian cultures emotions are not demonstrated as they are in Latin or Western culture and is often suppressed. Revealing too much can be seen as being weak and undignified. I feel with globalisation and the internet, this is something that is gradually changing though.
@jonharrison922211 ай бұрын
Spirit and Truth are religious concepts and therefore nebulous at best.
@j.p.kempkes51034 жыл бұрын
when informed that he won the Nobel, KI's first response was to feel honored that he succeeded Dylan. KI was a long hair as a youth and totally into Dylan and pop music...
@mayus9875 Жыл бұрын
Outstanding literary works and dramatic performances move people's hearts because they find an appropriate name or definition for the unspeakable embraced of the human heart.
@hanishrahane2519 Жыл бұрын
It's always great to hear him speak. But everything is there in the book.. a masterpiece 🤘🙌
@greg1mcintosh8446 жыл бұрын
He's still very young. He must have been very young when he wrote Remains of the Day. Amazing prodigy!
@kelman7275 жыл бұрын
Greg1 McIntosh He’s nearly at the state pension age.
@cybersphere4 жыл бұрын
He's 65, but could pass for 45
@Catherine_Kate4 жыл бұрын
No one has a prodigious grasp on human emotion... it gets better with age though
@hasselett4 жыл бұрын
Lol, very young? The guy's at a retirement age! He's old if anything.
@karthikmunishamaiah26894 жыл бұрын
Greg1 McIntosh He says in the video that he was in his 30’s
@bethelshiloh4 жыл бұрын
The story is absolutely relevant. People can pretend they are no longer under this oppression, but they so are.
@Manima1082 жыл бұрын
I’m in university, and I feel I’m under this oppression. I couldn’t have read this novel at a better time.
@TheOverlordOfProcrastination3 жыл бұрын
I must read the book, the film is a personal favourite.
@salvadorealiberto3 жыл бұрын
The novel reminds me of some of James Hilton's brilliant work, namely Random Harvest. I am very grateful to Mr. Ishiguro for his brilliant offering.
@julie80146 жыл бұрын
a great novel n i luv it so much
@jackmace65313 жыл бұрын
God this woman constantly interrupts Kazuo it’s so frustrating
@frankperdue65852 жыл бұрын
When that movie came out... I was with my girlfriend at the time and I cried like a baby. I have since got a masters degree in computer science.... BUT I am now a Houseman, under a Butler. We all know our calling.
@nc3music9204 ай бұрын
The movie is a masterpiece obviously but I found myself laughing during the book on a few occasions at just how utterly ridiculous Stevens was. Obviously its tragic and heartbreaking but I cant help but laugh at what a goof he is too, tying himself up in knots with all his mental gymnastics over the most trivial things
@megatreinapictures27175 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the wonderful discourse, it was just what I wanted to see after reading the book. Now to watching the film!
@luciabraithwaite34463 жыл бұрын
This novel and A many splendid thing are the most beautifully written novels I have ever read.
@nekozombie2 жыл бұрын
49:39 what the hell are you saying? :o it's perfectly possible even in his circumstances
@scathatch3 жыл бұрын
Such an interesting man and a wonderful novelist. However, his comment re his memory operating in static 'tableau' images is interesting. My memory doesn't work in 'tableaus'. My memory is definitely in moving pictures sometimes static, but far more frequently moving scenes. but heh! we're all different.
@charleboismike5364 жыл бұрын
About this film. There is something I can’t get it! In the trailer, some things will changes his life. But I don’t! I can understand about the emotions, love, I know Anthony keep his feelings but...?
@Cotictimmy3 жыл бұрын
Great interview! I like the comment about making a film from a novel and seeing the novel as 'raw material for a new work of art'. If the conference in the film had been the original 1923 one, I might have cast Pat Hingle (of The Grifters) as Mr. Lewis. PS.
@Jikaninja Жыл бұрын
English Butler……Traditional Japanese Samurai to their lords……English custom……Bushido……The remains of the day of the British empire…..Imperial Japanese empire or traditional Japanese culture which fading to the sunset….a English born Japanese writer…..probably struggled between 2 very dominant culture within himself all his life…..just saying…….Lord Darlington:” we call it honor!” Umm…..honor, you says eh! Bushido like to talk about what again?
@borismoof62827 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. Learned a fair bit about writing novels and also screen plays.
@cagey3006 жыл бұрын
boris moof i
@abcxyz8787 Жыл бұрын
A brilliant book and movie! One of my favorites.
@lakshmir84876 жыл бұрын
Happy birthday
@bencyber85953 жыл бұрын
brighter slightly , thank you. 😊
@nicolesong61994 жыл бұрын
Christo. This man's pent up. He just needs to bone. Edit: 4 weeks after the comment was made........ I still watched this interview on 1.5x. But it was a really good interview
@SearchIndex4 жыл бұрын
the age old issue of military bearing
@howwwwwyyyyy11 ай бұрын
As soon as I saw this film I immediately looked to finding the book,I can't help but think that with a different title the film might have caught a bigger audience.
@felicitytoad4 ай бұрын
👽👾
@johnturnbull33613 жыл бұрын
I can never understand why they never used the actual mansion where this based on a true storey took place,in the 1930s the german ambassador VON RIBBENTROP visited england and he was the guest of lord londonderry of wynyard hall which is part of the wynyard estate a few miles to the north of darlington in county durham in the north east of england. The hall was and still is a hotel at the time this film was made so they would not have had a problem using it for the purpose of the production and because in the film the house they used was badminton hall and was called Darlington hall in the film and also as wynyard hall is very near to the town of darlington! it cant be a coincidence that they just dreamed up the name. I wonder if anthony hopkins new this??? regards J.T. at 73!
@laureen1436 Жыл бұрын
The best scene of the novel gets cut in this film and the remains of the day is lost. Read the novel. Don't bother with the movie. OR the movie could be a stand alone as long as it uses a different title since the film does not relate to the novel's title.
@harrytd3 жыл бұрын
And now so many of us live like Stevens in these last two years. We have abdicated responsibility for our morality and conscience to global corporate employers that insist we believe in clear untruths about ourselves.
@niallkennedy232 жыл бұрын
well said. my conscience was pricked but my skin was not. it troubled me deeply how cheaply some were sold. However, we do now seem to be leaving the trees in the distance and more people are beginning to see the forest.
@jonharrison922211 ай бұрын
@@niallkennedy23 Anti vaxxers. So proud, so deluded.
@jonspengler58912 жыл бұрын
The guy interviewing is so annoying
@harlhequim4 жыл бұрын
Love film and novel. About the interviewer, I was wondering, why in an intellectual topic like this, the interviewer goes into the realm of the intangible on things that can go either way and expect a definite answer. Usually with smart sounding answers, the subject goes along so not to be disagreable, instead of asking "what the hell are you talking about"
@jonharrison922211 ай бұрын
Because asking questions is what interviewers do.
@paritoshoza8033 жыл бұрын
Many of the comments relate to the movie . The last hour of the (audiobook) book would have made a good short story. The other seven hours are boring. The main character is dull and has no psycological appeal. D'ont get the releveance of this book to todays world at all.
@davidcopson58009 ай бұрын
It's relevance is to humanity, which is timeless.
@HkFinn834 ай бұрын
Reread it when you’re older, and have realized that you too are a butler
@royklopfenstein52784 жыл бұрын
Audio?
@whatsthatnoise59553 жыл бұрын
No. But thanks for asking
@yuyaogawa6583 жыл бұрын
12:33
@nicolesong61993 жыл бұрын
my god....
@jadegina37354 жыл бұрын
49:00
@jadegina37354 жыл бұрын
1:00
@listenerab3 жыл бұрын
A hymn to feudalism.
@jonharrison922211 ай бұрын
It’s the opposite.
@jackmace65313 жыл бұрын
Why is everyone always interrupting this dude in interviews?
6 жыл бұрын
Kazuo Ishiguro belies the myth that foreigners cannot become fully English.
@kelman7275 жыл бұрын
JP VOGEL Because he isn’t a ‘foreigner.’
@lulun37245 жыл бұрын
JP Vogel, I disagree, it’s a stereotype, we fit somewhere if we are lucky
@umarr62215 жыл бұрын
His book was more English than English.
@tomspice735 жыл бұрын
@@kelman727 no, hé is your typical British face and character
@kelman7275 жыл бұрын
e d If you’d read what you were replying to you may have seen why your post was pointless.
@alirupendiperudin20734 жыл бұрын
Fendi412
@lawnmower41915 жыл бұрын
I loved Remains of the Day- the book and the movie. I just didn't get the Tree of Life. Emotions in the absence of a gripping plot just don't work for me.
@kelman7275 жыл бұрын
Lawn Mower Ishiguro didn’t write The Tree of Life.
@isaacanwarwatts88443 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@OMAR-vq3yb3 жыл бұрын
I like apples, but tuna fish cans are difficult to open
@OBGynKenobi Жыл бұрын
I wonder, how much is the author trying to interject japanese culture of emotional repression and self denial in the service of others.
@jonharrison922211 ай бұрын
You don’t know very much about either England or Ishiguro, one assumes.
@OBGynKenobi11 ай бұрын
@@jonharrison9222 yes, one does assume old boy.
@arunavadasgupta21472 жыл бұрын
I Also Used Note Book And Write My Childhood Memories Also Memories During My Service Carrier Of 40 Yta In Corporate
@Cotictimmy3 жыл бұрын
Looks like the interview has a bus to catch. 😜
@marriechrissievalley46503 жыл бұрын
Hopkins was the worst actor to pick, with his hunchback, and crude impolite appearance, nobody would have employed him as a butler in reality, neither Stevens father, who had the same rough composition. Hugh Grant should have played it, he would have had the right accent for it as well.
@JRRLewis3 жыл бұрын
I don't care what Anthony Hopkins looked like or how he stood. He put in one of the greatest and most nuanced performances in film history in The Remains of the Day, and he made the part genuine and believable on an emotional level with layers and depth. He said so much with just minor changes in his expression. This was the best performance of his distinguished career, as Miss Kenton was the best of Emma Thompson's career.
@scotthazlewood91233 жыл бұрын
@@JRRLewis Completely agree....very well said. Incredible ensemble/team in front and behind the cameras as well.
@SandWolf_3 жыл бұрын
What the hell even is this take...
@the_famous_reply_guy3 жыл бұрын
Because you fancy Huge Grunt! Lol
@drmilimiliy93432 жыл бұрын
Hopkins is great actor. But he is just not right for this role, not because of his hunchback etc but because the look in his eyes. That look is too sharp, too knowing and too shrewd to play Mr Stevens. Having read the book, I pictured in my mind Mr Stevens as tragically earnest, eager to serve and possess none of the shrewdness which Hopkins cannot help showing. I mean, if only he was nearly as sharp! Then we wouldnt have a story.