One of my favourite films of all time...still works 40 years later. Bloody brilliant.
@michealcurrie82725 жыл бұрын
Mr. McDowell, thank you. We love you.
@arserobinson71185 жыл бұрын
Fabulous actor
@Glamagal2009113 жыл бұрын
A great actor was Peter Jeffrey (the headmaster).
@wolfpackleaderalpha10 жыл бұрын
"You're too intelligent to be rebels, that's too easy." He has no idea what he's talking about; the smartest people in history are the rebels, and they never had it easy
@arserobinson71185 жыл бұрын
The whole film was an allegory, that particular part - the boys were against the old boarding school system (establishment) and the Reverent (& religion) were shown merely as a tool (thus he's kept in draw) that helps perpetuate the instilling of tradition, control and oppression upon the boarding school pupils (the masses) as well as causing eccentricity. The boys rejected this and were rebelling, in the end to the point of bloodshed.
@alanhesketh92653 жыл бұрын
Actor David Wood has published an inexpensive book about the making of the film, highly recommended
@bs4e14 жыл бұрын
holy cow, malcolm mcdowell looks so good. gosh
@hreader4 жыл бұрын
'It's a quite blameless form of existentialism' - priceless!
@benkenobi6153 жыл бұрын
The bad machine doesn't know he's a bad machine.
@stingray4real2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant acting from Peter Jeffrey a character actor. The film If... is totally surreal including the vicar in the drawer.
@hreader3 жыл бұрын
'It's a quite blameless form of existentialism!' Love it!
@tinaholman9565 жыл бұрын
Malcolm McDowell is the best actor in world and is wife sure is luckey
@TamiJoeris-ge5dgАй бұрын
Happy birthday to him. ❤❤❤❤
@adricta1111 жыл бұрын
Love this man!!!
@mistofoles16 жыл бұрын
Yes,this film is very surreal in parts. Students have debated for years the significance of the film changing from colour to b+w and back again. The simple fact is that halfway through production, the film company began to run low on budget, so they reverted to b+w film which was much cheaper than colour (especially in 1968). Movies are very rarely shot in sequence, and this is why the film switches back and forth between colour and b+w.
@mwhite65223 жыл бұрын
Not true - that's the old story. The truth, according to most recent info from Criterion, is that it was initially a lighting issue. Light in the church was too low to shoot color with the film stock they had - so the director OK'd black and white for that shot, then spent the rest of the movie arbitrarily choosing to shoot some scenes in black and white if he thought it would work better that way.
@XXLSSBBW2 жыл бұрын
0:00 That hair cut makes him look like Adolf Hitler
@Transparente643 ай бұрын
I thought he had the mustache at first.
@artemiszeus97353 ай бұрын
I love how the reverend is kept in the drawer. I recall that in A Clockwork Orange, Malcolm McDowell's Alex DeLarge keeps a pet snake in a drawer, the serpent being the common manifestation of the devil within Christian discourse.
@gescinj16 жыл бұрын
fantastic...very veru fantestic
@PaganWarrior1008 жыл бұрын
With an Austrian accent, this guy could have played Hitler.
@dkpriori16 жыл бұрын
Actually, the director later admitted he wanted to shoot the whole thing in colour, but couldnt afford to, so he chose scenes to be black & white and attached the whole "dream world" meaning to it to make it seem like it was done on purpose.
@Krzyszczynski16 жыл бұрын
Re the changes from colour to b/w ... I've heard it was because they couldn't afford the sophisticated lighting rigs necessary in those days to get good interior shots in colour (all the b/w scenes are interiors).
@hreader4 жыл бұрын
Surreal indeed! I never did understand how, or why, the Rev. 'Chippy' Wood ended up in that drawer! Can anyone shed any light on this?
@mrtyrant16803 жыл бұрын
It's to symbolize that he's (Religion) merely a tool for oppression, which is basically what the whole movie is about. Those three were trying to rebel against the boarding school's oppressive system.
@mikesey13 жыл бұрын
The Church is under the control of the ruling establishment. It's clear.
@grahammaguire4043 жыл бұрын
On the right hand side of the headmaster on the wall is a switch!!!!!!
@glitterdrip193 жыл бұрын
malcolm wud've been my teacher's assistant ;-) i'll take him sir, he'll earn extra credit with me
@davidbaxter49106 ай бұрын
PUBIC SCHOOLS. TAUNTON SCHOOL. 1954 - 1962.
@davidbaxter49106 ай бұрын
DICKENSIAN IN 1954. ON MY 10TH., BIRTHDAY, JOHNSON ASSISTENT HEADMASTER AND PARR, MUSIC TEACHER TRIED TO "GET ME", I FOUGHT LIKE HELL. I GOT AWAY. HEADWORTH -WITTY, BY CONPARISON WAS OK. HE WAS JUST MASOSOGINISTIC, HE ESPECIALLY LIKED TO GIVE B.B. BARE BOTTOM WITH THE CANE. YES, A DICKENSIAN SCHOOL IN 1954, THE BEST THING ABOUT IT, WAS IT WAS MULTI CULTURAL AND INCREASINGLY SO, AS I WAS THERE. WORST THING ABOUT IT THEN, NO GIRLS THERE. SUCH IS LIFE. David Baxter.
@davidbaxter49106 ай бұрын
All true.
@xoEleanorxRigbyxo12 жыл бұрын
@kawaiitoboe He's probably the best looking older actor now.
@bensimps12311 жыл бұрын
thats taking it abit far
@DeafFret14 жыл бұрын
vewy sewiously indeed. Is that cleyah?
@clawdylawdy16 жыл бұрын
yeah, and like this scene is shot in rolling countryside!
@CD7695216 жыл бұрын
lol. did that man just pop out of the box?
@bensimps12311 жыл бұрын
please be civil
@BeastoftheBeasts16 жыл бұрын
lol
@wjfox200616 жыл бұрын
I think this part is meant to be surreal, or imaginary. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
@stingray4real2 жыл бұрын
It is surreal as well as satirical.
@stupidintellect9014 жыл бұрын
why is there a lot of mentioning of the hair throughout the film?
@mikesey13 жыл бұрын
Because it was made in the 1960s.
@zinnycat159716 жыл бұрын
could someone please explain the guy in the drawer?
@arserobinson71185 жыл бұрын
The whole film was an allegory, that particular part - the boys were against the old boarding school system (establishment) and the Reverent (& religion) were shown merely as a tool (thus he's kept in draw) that helps perpetuate the instilling of tradition, control and oppression upon the boarding school pupils (the masses) as well as causing eccentricity. The boys rejected this and were rebelling, in the end to the point of bloodshed.
@uncletony62103 жыл бұрын
gotta be somewhere...
@hollywoodwerewolf16 жыл бұрын
Is one of McDowell's classmates in the above scene played by Bill Nighy?
@Krzyszczynski11 ай бұрын
Nope, the blond one is David Wood, the other Richard Warwick (RIP).
@drinkNjewz15 жыл бұрын
That wasn't its intent... like there were a few scenes, like when the boys were fencing that started in black and white, then they went through a door and then it was in color. It was slightly irrelevant.
@tylergordonfilm16 жыл бұрын
Why is the reverend in a drawer?
@arserobinson71185 жыл бұрын
The whole film was an allegory, that particular part - the boys were against the old boarding school system (establishment) and the Reverent (& religion) were shown merely as a tool (thus he's kept in draw) that helps perpetuate the instilling of tradition, control and oppression upon the boarding school pupils (the masses) as well as causing eccentricity. The boys rejected this and were rebelling, in the end to the point of bloodshed.
@TungstenKid11 жыл бұрын
That scene ruined the whole film for me, what the hell was he in that drawer for?
@charliedellmedia39233 жыл бұрын
I know it’s seven years later but seriously what the fuck
@mikesey13 жыл бұрын
It symbolises the church being under the control of the ruling state.
@TallPaul01115 жыл бұрын
yeah why was he in the drawer?
@johnharpdalton40925 жыл бұрын
Sheer surrealism, humour.
@christopherjames3755 жыл бұрын
In 1 of these films . 1 kix was canned . Reason . 4 a jolly poor show all rohnd . Load abollocks .
@artemiszeus97353 ай бұрын
It is criminal that Malcolm is so narcotically fanciable and is nude at some point in just about every 60s/70s film he is in (not in this clip). He should be banned.