Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller is considered one of the greatest examples of 20th century American dramas. See why in this gripping father and son scene brilliantly played by Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich
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@weemikey7011 жыл бұрын
Just incredible. How they managed to do this 185 times on Broadway the year before without having a collective nervous breakdown is testament to their acting capabilities. I couldn't have done it once. Truly, one of the greatest plays of the modern era.
@jamiemueller1881 Жыл бұрын
One of the world's great plays performed flawlessly. This is the highwater mark for what great acting looks like. Tour de force.
@Eden_Rubin_Music9 жыл бұрын
damn malkovich such a good actor!
@darthbarbie90048 жыл бұрын
Everyone should ask themselves: "Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?" If it's not phony- Then it will stay through the flames. If it is phony- then you will see it for what it is. And you can move on. Without quiet desperation.
@pR1MeYwL9910 жыл бұрын
Trying hard to graduate from high school on time, this movie remains one of my favorites of all time.
@Jcolinsol9 жыл бұрын
Just walk the fuck away. Just walk the fuck away now. It won't have mattered. Don't waste a moment of your life performing for them. Just leave. Find something that you love and just do it. Don't wait for it. Don't earn it. Just do it.
@hug54804 жыл бұрын
What happened? College?
@AB-dm1wz3 жыл бұрын
How are things now?
@pR1MeYwL993 жыл бұрын
@@Jcolinsol I actually received my diploma. I just had to.
@pR1MeYwL993 жыл бұрын
@@hug5480 I took a few courses, but nothing major. Last class I took was Chinese. My wife is from China.
@TheVineyarder11 жыл бұрын
I was fortunate enough to see this on broadway..it was a matinee and I sat next to Maureen Stapleton,which was another thrill! the performance was so powerful it made me shake..this is what theater is all about
@mackay107 жыл бұрын
One of the best scenes I've ever seen. The emotions are so raw, and the actors are phenomenal. Thank you for posting this!
@Rob7748 жыл бұрын
Dustin Hoffman... dropping acting bars!Such a great actor!
@Sawedoffsamurai9 жыл бұрын
"I am not a dime! I am Willy Loman and you are Biff Loman!" Best line ever....
@DustanMoore9 жыл бұрын
Such art, such amazing performances!
@michaelmancini8780 Жыл бұрын
I saw this on Broadway a couple months back. The “I’m not a dime a dozen I’m Willy Loman,” made me ugly cry. God, I love this play.
@ryleighrivera803811 ай бұрын
i have to watch this clip for school, and i also though it was really funny.
@OVI-Wan-Kenobi-87 жыл бұрын
This play/movie has one of the most depressing endings in play write / movie history.
@danielb3372 жыл бұрын
I love Dustin Hoffman he is an amazing actor and he and John malcovitch did an amazing job in this movie
@robertbroatch42635 жыл бұрын
Why am I trying to be something I don't want to be? The tragic plight of the everyday working stiff.
@jamesdrynan Жыл бұрын
This is the supreme difference between stage and screen acting. In film, there's the ability to do a scene over if it's not what the director wants. On stage, it is do or die. No do-overs, no CUT!, nothing but the purity of performance. Miller pulled the flag back on the American Dream and revealed the shadowy reality of failed dreams. Excellent acting from Malkovich and Hoffman.
@lyounta10 жыл бұрын
I love John Malkovich. He is so great. Love this scene.
@AnnaRossatron12 жыл бұрын
I just watched this film last night and this is such a powerful scene! I love that they did the setting like a stage production too, it worked superbly
@teejay32724 жыл бұрын
Doesn't get much better than this. This production was off the hook. The shot where the camera pans up, shows the stage lighting, and pans down is freaking brilliant. This is a play. And these are serious stage actors.
@teejay327210 жыл бұрын
If you haven't watched this entire production you should. The brilliance is that very early on the camera pans up and you can see they're performing in a theater setting. From then on it takes on an entirely different perspective. BRILLIANT acting, writing and directing. As good as it gets.
@robertdubs9466 Жыл бұрын
Two years after this movie, John Malkovich played Tom Wingfield in a movie version of Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie". But when you analyze it carefully, Biff and Tom are basically the same character. Both are a browbeaten and disillusioned son of a loving but overbearing parent, and in the end, they both have to leave the family, on less-than-good terms, to save themselves.
@gregorylightcatcher105810 жыл бұрын
One of the great American plays, or any. Hoffman tries very hard and does get an intensity, but often too shrill. It is John Malkovich who electrifies this with his performance, he lives the part and we are caught up in his voice, behavior and performance.
@SuperMan-yw8gm8 жыл бұрын
+Gregory Lightcatcher i agree about the malkovich part. my godd, what a performance. felt everything
@lucindaarmour46855 жыл бұрын
Agree agree. Hoffman is delivering a brilliant observed piece, very technical but very effective (I imagine when this production was on stage it was even more effective) but Malkovich IS THE ROLE, in this scene in particular - a living and breathing representation of everything that destroys people and the fear of failure that leads them to live desperate lives. Such astonishing writing.
@patriceaqa2883 жыл бұрын
Hoffman was NO Jack Lemmon from glengarry glenross that's for sure
@charlesfosterkane19667 жыл бұрын
Jesus Christ, Hoffman is freaking brilliant in this
@veneratlazulum2033 Жыл бұрын
This scene is more disturbing than many horror movies. I would feel more comforted watching the shining than this scene.
@TheVineyarder12 жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough to see it on broadway also with Dustin,John Malkovitch ,Kate Reid..this post was such a treat to see that scene again ..thanks...and we sat next to Maureen Stapleton to boot!
@bibibipapipa Жыл бұрын
This scene left me speechless… absolutely beyond words…
@Splooie12812 жыл бұрын
The point is that that in America you are lead to believe that through hard work you can reach the top, and set yourself apart. That's drilled in to you from the moment you enter the school system. The flip-side of the individual spirit (which I'm totally for) is that when/if you fall short, who do you blame? Is Willy the victim of society, or his own worst enemy? I don't think either Biff or Willy is right, how could you know? In the end, I think this is a play about futility.
@priyac70544 жыл бұрын
This scene was enacted in real life in my house this year. Damn life really imitates art and unknowingly so.. BUT IT IS life that imitates art :')
@priyac70543 жыл бұрын
@Michael Ryan trying to make it better everyday
@yyzx_66684 жыл бұрын
that’s fr some incredible acting
@seanhawthorne654 жыл бұрын
I'm having such a surreal moment right now. I was brought to this video because I was watching Synecdoche, New York, written and directed by Charlie Kaufman. I searched "death of a salesman philip seymour hoffman" on the KZbin search bar, and this is the first video that came up. It just so happens that it accidentally brought me to this same play, but the play includes John Malkovich. Both of these two actors played manifestations of Charlie Kaufman's mind, and are connected profoundly. So weird that I am experiencing this connection in other ways in my own life. Thank you Charlie...
@setpunks139 жыл бұрын
Great play. Miller was big on poking holes in the American dream. Crucible, All My Sons. This seemed like his take on the post-new deal feeling of "we got through the depression and ww2, but now we're just a bunch of cogs"
@SuperMan-yw8gm8 жыл бұрын
+Gazzara5 no, but the tragedy is greater when there is an empty dream to poke a hole in
@SuperMan-yw8gm8 жыл бұрын
i'm saying that the existence of the idea of an 'american dream' is helpful for people who write tragedies. expectations and hopes are great for tragedy. shattered hopes and dreams = quality tragedy. its hard to make a tragedy where there was no hope to begin with.
@collettewoodbourne66710 жыл бұрын
I remember studying this at A level. Hoffman, an amazing actor....
@yahyakhalid61603 жыл бұрын
Hoffman truly is.
@yahyakhalid61603 жыл бұрын
And do they really teach this in A levels???
@aroveranalysis99785 жыл бұрын
This is all but still applicable to american society, the father who thought he came from the bottom and could see his son do the same. The son making him realize him and the family were always at the bottom.
@Schoolgirl3252 жыл бұрын
Biff struggled a bit, but ultimately, none of them are really at the bottom of the totem pole in American society either. They’re just average middle class citizens who worked hard and made just enough to live in moderate comfort. Willie can’t accept that he and his family are just like everyone else.
@flaneur84692 жыл бұрын
4:00. The most devastating kiss in American art.
@jalensera5 жыл бұрын
Beautifully acted and beautifully written.
@seandineen9992 жыл бұрын
Whenever someone does something cockeyed in my house, we say, "You had to go and flunk math."
@TheMoonunit9612 жыл бұрын
this is one of the most beautiful, moving scenes I have ever witnessed in a movie.
@ManweArcadio12 жыл бұрын
This is so powerful..... I sometimes get hesitant watching it because it is so good.
@maridepp538 жыл бұрын
I have never seen this version but after watching this powerful scene definitely plan to.
@gokberkkaya7 жыл бұрын
maridepp53 this is by far the best adaptation of the screenplay
@ajajaahah52866 жыл бұрын
Thank you timothee chalamet for introducing me to this scene
@marcioventura31355 жыл бұрын
Why him?
@jasminexc7834 жыл бұрын
Márcio Ventura he played a role in a movie where he did part of this as a monologue in a drama competition.. its really good
@richardharrow19463 жыл бұрын
That kid is a hack
@ribenariver7 жыл бұрын
I love this adaptation, and I love this play.
@jananaana80395 жыл бұрын
When your parents have too high of an expectation of you. This scene hit me harder now than it did when I was in high school.
@Frank66047 Жыл бұрын
Such a powerful scene and so well acted!
@lucasrackley2507 ай бұрын
Movies and plays with dialogue like this only make sense when you get older.
@SuperMan-yw8gm8 жыл бұрын
i watched this and cried like a bitch in front of my girlfriend
@madam-mint8 жыл бұрын
I don't blame you! I think we all cried a bit.
@mackay107 жыл бұрын
Super Man Me too...it's an extremely emotional scene.
@LogansGeeTar11 жыл бұрын
I was forced to watch this in school but god damn do I love it. Such good acting.
@BigManPigMan62812 жыл бұрын
Such great acting, you'd think the actors were really living it.
@alexandervue94644 жыл бұрын
John Malkovich was stellar in this film
@Chrissanthumum6 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! This makes me want to reread the play and watch the movie.
@FormerlyNYVulgarian10 ай бұрын
Dynamite acting from such screen legends!
@fabulous212064 ай бұрын
John malkavich is a great actor from this movie to 2023
@wingchun214511 жыл бұрын
Have to say, reading the play was soooo much better than watching it. What an amazing, touching play.
@riou422 жыл бұрын
I’m here because of AP English when I was a senior in high school.
@vasilijevukmirovic194410 жыл бұрын
best scene...
@robroberts147311 жыл бұрын
If you see that scene and it doesnt get to you emotionally your not human. How can actors on stage do that kind of scene night after night it is an amazing talent if they can.
@joewalsh47694 жыл бұрын
it's okay Lennie
@johnreincodilla76058 ай бұрын
I'm looking for a monologue to perform for a contest I joined in on school, then I came across this... Guess what I'm going to present then?
@mariabugeja356210 жыл бұрын
John Malkovitch
@langelodidio-goaldo1105 Жыл бұрын
Stupenda pellicola per la televisione, non è chissà che cosa ma comunque è gradevole da seguire, quindi stupenda e stupenda per me come valutazione è 8.
@theflyingluxman56539 жыл бұрын
WOW! JUST WOW!
@KrisMavericko10 жыл бұрын
POWERFUL
@hellenicsunshine703211 жыл бұрын
I love this RAWNESS
@janjablonsky4 ай бұрын
Hoffman is probably still evacuating the scenary.
@longlost247 Жыл бұрын
i think if someone wrote a sequel to the book it would be interesting
@bmyrab12 жыл бұрын
Exactly. It's such a personal play.
@HamstersInBlenders12 жыл бұрын
This really is the great American tragedy.
@KSfan4ever3 жыл бұрын
And.....this is how it's done.
@jessedan212 жыл бұрын
this is the best version of this play
@joel803812 жыл бұрын
Willy," What is he crying for?"
@mychillbase7 жыл бұрын
thats what i have to tell my dad.
@doreinpaulemmanuel36147 жыл бұрын
wow !!!!!! is that John Malkovich!!!!! somebody !!! kill me ! DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HE LOOKS NOW?
@MrRazorblade9997 жыл бұрын
I think most people know how he looks like now. Your point being?
@tiffanyjoiner62876 жыл бұрын
Dorein Paul Emmanuel Check him out in The Glass Menagerie as well. His final monologue is brilliant
@robertbroatch42635 жыл бұрын
This was 1985, been some rough years for John for sure.
@kendallevans4079 Жыл бұрын
Shows you what a talent Malkovich was before he went down the "Hollywood" path to drivel like ConAir.
@nyy190343 Жыл бұрын
Well I'm practically- No you are practically full of it 😄
@zackgomez691010 жыл бұрын
Can anybody believe I have never seen this play before?
@youngbased19528 жыл бұрын
you little shit, yes i do
@Keckv5 ай бұрын
Holy shit this was intense. Came here to get some inspiration and watch this with a profesional eye but ended up crying 😅
@ronanthemfchosen3 жыл бұрын
My right ear really enjoyed this
@Nantchev12 жыл бұрын
I did this for GCSE English back in 2007 - 8.
@itwontcomeout56782 жыл бұрын
Junior Year (age 17) English class in Glenview , IL, USA back in 2011-2012 :P
@dennisparkson1245 жыл бұрын
John Malkovich's performance here was UN BELIE VA BLE. Jesus
@bmyrab12 жыл бұрын
Totally the greatest playwright.
@smoothcriminal2812 жыл бұрын
there are few that can equal dustin hoffman in intensity when hes on it... and malkovich is one of them.
@anserhasan12 жыл бұрын
Made me wanna cry
@hootiepaladin12 жыл бұрын
Intense.
@wslee68 ай бұрын
Oh~~ Biff
@madwor1d8 жыл бұрын
I just finished reading the book and I don't understand what was wrong with there being a hose? Can someone please explain
@ribenariver7 жыл бұрын
Willy was trying to commit suicide with it. His wife pretended not to notice it, she'd just readjust it or something, showing her denial. Biff, in this scene, confronts him about it.
@0racle.sunrise3570Ай бұрын
Willy was getting suicidal. Linda felt too ashamed to confront or reach out to him but Biff decided to do it himself.
@LoveBexxxxx11 жыл бұрын
JOHN MALKOVICH.
@Eldorito9926 күн бұрын
Sorry but i don't think there has been more than 10 scenes in all of cinema that have reached that level of greatness through drama since it was produced. They don't make drama like this anymore.
@Iwillneverwin12 жыл бұрын
Personally I prefer Philip Seymour Hoffman's portrayal as it was the first time I had ever seen the production, but Dustin Hoffman is also brilliant in a different, more subtle way. PSH's version was played much bigger.
@LuisPBE12 жыл бұрын
@lullachild Do you know how close is this film to Miller's original script?
@portrait191611 жыл бұрын
that kiss lol
@joemostler27028 жыл бұрын
SPITE BIFF SPITE
@TelescopeTwin9 жыл бұрын
Gosh this is sobering
@WilliamSlaght12 жыл бұрын
true!
@dwetick112 жыл бұрын
I still don't understand this play...even though I' ve seen it on stage twice. So you are a dime a dozen...so what, all glory is fleeting for everyone. You make your mark, and then you are passed up...that's the way it is for everybody, from janitors to presidents.
@thewolf21533 жыл бұрын
Maybe, you understood it perfectly.
@weatherkop10 жыл бұрын
I WAS ACTING!
@samfilmkid2 жыл бұрын
"SPIIIITE!!!"
@dgreen12335 ай бұрын
biff makes me look like willy loman
@Walkingshadow111 жыл бұрын
What a tour de force. How do they do it? Got a bit of an edge on crap like Sharknado and the Lone Ranger, eh?
@marcioventura31355 жыл бұрын
Nice, but I really prefer the classic original scene from Death Of A Salesman. Both Malkovich and Hoffman are great actor, but it seems a lack of direction. Malkovich screams in parts which words doesn't mean anything and the behavior is not getting anywhere, the tension goes up and down and so
@greekfire10110 жыл бұрын
These actors really went ham like cray cray ham. Like more than ham ham and I don't even know what that means but its not kosher.
@scalabrineplayoff3pt46curr78 жыл бұрын
Is it his sons fault he died? The final scene made it seem like they didn't even care but only the mom
@gokberkkaya7 жыл бұрын
Metalic Groin Its the systems and american "dream"s fault
@theautomator83722 жыл бұрын
Had to do this for a class a few years ago. Wasn't anywhere near as good as this. I got a B though so there's that