For ten years, I’ve watched this video before every major test, interview, or life changing challenge.
@seronymus2 жыл бұрын
Very blessed tip
@eggymayo32712 жыл бұрын
Haha same my friend. Along with the Clip of once more unto the breach
@PurpleIrishSweater2 жыл бұрын
This was the inspiration for every pep talk I gave my team of healthcare workers during COVID.
@DoroteoVilla2 жыл бұрын
Yep, same here. In fact, I have one just a few days away. I will dispose the day.
@thedigitalscribe96212 жыл бұрын
I watch it every time I’m pissed but same outcome 😁
@WillyShakes11 жыл бұрын
You're all welcome.
@clarkkent60356 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@willbaker25936 жыл бұрын
Thanks Will..btw, you're much appreciated these days.
@mitchellneu6 жыл бұрын
I thankst thee from the deepest fathoms of my soul, good sir. Why the common man in this day and age is left tragically ignorant of thy almighty greatness, I myself know not. Regardless, I thank thee, good William Shakespeare!
@flamebird22186 жыл бұрын
@@mitchellneu "Ay, but ȝe muste þenke Kynge Henrye and hys men wiþ-alle, for ne hadde þey deliveren us fro deþe and ffrensch swerdes and given us vyctorie, þe Englysshe woulde be dede at Agincourt feld." - Signed, an anonymous soldier who served at Agincourt
@questionreality60036 жыл бұрын
yo thanks bill
@brianMcGranahan03119 ай бұрын
This speech is the greatest motivational speech ever and I find it amazing that in a Hollywood that remakes the same movie over and over, there is no better version of this speech out there
@alanparsonsfan7 ай бұрын
@brianMcGranahan0311 Few actors that breathe this day can handle Shakespeare full rightly as can Branagh.
@brianMcGranahan03117 ай бұрын
@@alanparsonsfan fair point. It’s better it be done right than done often.
@christophergolas99304 ай бұрын
I'm not saying this is a better version. Just sayin' I like this version also. From 'Renaissance Man' (1994): kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6usqniuoaqWr80
@jamesclarkmaxwell-v2n3 ай бұрын
btw does the three lions come from Richard the lionheart? Because it's on the england football and cricket uniform today
@ColinMearing2 ай бұрын
I think you may have forgotten Laurence Olivier?
@iangrimshaw1 Жыл бұрын
There's a pub in Ashover, Derbyshire that is said to have been built on or from a house that was built be a man who returned from the battle of Agincourt. Unsurprisingly, it is called, 'The Crispin'. A glass is still raised on St Crispin's Day.
@davidfernandez85159 ай бұрын
But there isn't a St. Crispin's day. In fact, there already wasn't in the time of Shakespeare. It's one of the many ironies of the speech that give layers to Harry's character. What a mind Shakespeare had
@trajanfidelis8 ай бұрын
@@davidfernandez8515 Yes there is. It's celebrated every October 25th
@Acridblue9997 ай бұрын
Lots of Longbowmen came from Derbyshire.
@paulworgan65997 ай бұрын
Amazing
@robertgray64597 ай бұрын
Where is this pub? I surely would have a jug of ale to celebrate the glorious 25th and honor the few. The happy few 🏴🇬🇧🏴
@quickhistory54863 жыл бұрын
technicalmark, the poster of this video, literally made his account on May 3rd, 2009, posted this video, and hasn’t commented or posted since. what an absolute hero
@pottersmiles72383 жыл бұрын
He probably went away to hold his manhood cheap
@aandjay3 жыл бұрын
I forgot my MySpace password am I a hero too? XD
@kevincassidy19833 жыл бұрын
His name will be familiar in our mouths, and be remembered on St. Crispin's day 🍺
@Paisly_2 жыл бұрын
Man really said “watch this cinematic classic” and then dipped
@twirajuda2 жыл бұрын
He’s definitely a warrior for the working day, and his hearts in the trim
@genki2genki8 жыл бұрын
Not only one of Shakespeare's greatest speeches, but one of the greatest speakers of Shakespeare!
@waratah085 жыл бұрын
@Jeffrey Gibson Avt IV, scene iii
@ASSISTUS5 жыл бұрын
Branagh towers over all other and previous Shakespearean actors.
@chrisdavis99284 жыл бұрын
Oh so true, when I need to make my stand I motivate myself with this rendition of this speech. I love the actors performance, & dialogue presentation.
@iknowexactlywhoyouare87014 жыл бұрын
Dude Shakespeare plagiarized
@daphnecrosby56674 жыл бұрын
Thou hast spoken the truth
@tommyjordan19884 жыл бұрын
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers" that part put tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat. Absolutely incredible.
@Demetri4503 жыл бұрын
🤔
@alestorcrowley2 жыл бұрын
same, every time
@lilafeldman86302 жыл бұрын
"bid them achieve me, and then sell my bones!" I like that verse.
@tommyjordan19882 жыл бұрын
@@lilafeldman8630 mine, too! Unbelievable!
@tomben61802 жыл бұрын
England in 8 words
@foothilldave7 ай бұрын
In the early 1980's (1984 ?) my wife and I had a short layover in the UK during a business trip to France. We visited Stratford on Avon and the Royal Shakespeare Company Avon theater. We had no tickets and said we would see whatever matinee we could get in. They had a cancelation for what ended up being front row seats for Henry V with Kenneth Branagh and Brian Blessed (both here seen). Besides the amazing performances, the sets were amazing with rain machines (we got wet) and a horse on stage (for this speech). Neither of us, nor most people outside England at the time, knew who those actors were but their names were embossed in our memories from then on. What a lucky accident.
@athrack6 ай бұрын
Brian Blessed 🙃
@gobshite996 ай бұрын
@@athrackGordon's Alive?!
@maguffintop25966 ай бұрын
My Lord- you landed quite the lotto ticket!! Front row cancelation for a production like that!!!??? Lucky day for sure 👍Thanks for sharing ❤
@JohahnDiechter6 ай бұрын
Brian Blessed was known in the States at that time. I Claudius was fairly popular in the early 80s on Public Broadcasting
@maguffintop25966 ай бұрын
@@JohahnDiechter yes- I was 10 when it aired in 76- own it now. Excellent production!!
@janeyrevanescence123 жыл бұрын
"Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?" "No. I served in a company of heroes."
@rlbs3 жыл бұрын
oh the last lines from Stephen E. Ambrose’s Band of Brothers!
@proudhon1003 жыл бұрын
"No, I hid at home for fear of a flu like illness."
@simul8rduude3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Nipton saying the quote from this just hits different. RIP Major Winters.
@Bazookatone13 жыл бұрын
That was EXACTLY the ting I thought of too.
@darksideofthemoon4883 жыл бұрын
Damn you. You're comment made me cry with joy.
@annedonovan90058 жыл бұрын
Anyone want to bet the herald went back and told them "he said no'.
@ulujain7 жыл бұрын
"Il a dit non, Constable"
@shorelockhomes9436 жыл бұрын
I bet the harld said no.
@ThePonderer6 жыл бұрын
anne Donovan nah. He respects him too much.
@Luanna8016 жыл бұрын
@John West Sr, You seem to be the one who doesn't understand? The herald wanted to know if Henry would negotiate the ransom, and Henry's response was that no, he wouldn't. That's the "No" the original commenter was referring to.
@brettknoss4866 жыл бұрын
Nuts
@turnip9367 Жыл бұрын
One of the best speeches ever delivered in fiction. Every line oozes in comradery, passion and patriotism. It's difficult to listen to this and not get chills, regardless of whether your English or not.
@aljosap8445 Жыл бұрын
Im not English but still it gives me chills. I also like how he humbly recognizes that they are very few and there is realy chance ob defeat but "the fewer we are the greater the share od honour"
@glennabate1708 Жыл бұрын
Who said it’s fiction
@JoshuaWhitie Жыл бұрын
Oozes in comrodary however he’s legit lying them and tricking them into an early grave. This is why war poetry is a thing.
@glennabate1708 Жыл бұрын
@@JoshuaWhitie went over your head obviously
@p.morgan4084 Жыл бұрын
I'm French and it is one of my favourite speeches!
@JOSECANUCCJ Жыл бұрын
This displays The Bard’s gift of using the English language. Best motivational speech ever!
@thecappy50637 ай бұрын
And also the best performance of it ever.
@jamezkpal23615 ай бұрын
English is a battle tongue. In the right order and with the right inflection, it can hoot and thump like trumpets and drums. Churchill knew this.
@benlewis24754 ай бұрын
The delivery is also pretty key!
@wayneantoniazzi27064 ай бұрын
@@jamezkpal2361 It's the reason he could "Mobilize the English language and send it into battle."
@kippchapin77504 жыл бұрын
If the English can beat back the French outnumbered 5-1, then I can handle all the nonsense from Janice in accounting.
@jimzimmer20484 жыл бұрын
@Nigel Kent he had a bow lol
@corykelley1874 жыл бұрын
hahah
@andrewthompson57284 жыл бұрын
Unlike the French, she will still be angry years later.
@mckinneyhunts3 жыл бұрын
I just blew coffee through my nose reading this!!
@andrewthompson57283 жыл бұрын
After consideration, no. The French can hold a grudge for generations, long after Janice in Accounting has passed away.
@mig25pd8 жыл бұрын
The finest speech in the English language. I am 60 years of age and I have never ceased to be stirred by these words.
@eifionjones5593 жыл бұрын
only problem , he won the battle and lost the war
@chroma69473 жыл бұрын
@@eifionjones559 Its easy to lose when your men are all shitting blood and your away from home.
@eifionjones5593 жыл бұрын
@@chroma6947 yep but anyone with any regard for his men or his country would have foreseen that before starting
@concars12343 жыл бұрын
@@eifionjones559 Only because he died prematurely at 35, and of disease. Henry V would have most likely won the crown of France had he managed to stay alive.
@mickdisco12 жыл бұрын
65
@tyrssen18 жыл бұрын
Kenneth Branagh is such a great actor -- he can make Shakespeare understandable, no easy task. I had the honor to be in a scene with him in "The Gingerbread Man."
@annedonovan90058 жыл бұрын
Congratulations. That must have been great experience.
@annedonovan90058 жыл бұрын
Probably not...lol.
@tyrssen18 жыл бұрын
No, not "the gay porn movie," you would seem to know more about that than I would ... Hey, just teasin'. ...This picture was a flop, but Ken, as always, was great.
@tyrssen18 жыл бұрын
No, I had a brief scene in a small bit -- I was the leather-jacketed thug sitting in the police station as Ken ran out the door, screaming at whoever he was arguing with.
@annieleonhart59187 жыл бұрын
Vril
@BenRollinsActor2 жыл бұрын
Especially impressive when you realize that he adapted the play for the screen, produced, directed, and starred in that film - all before the age of 30. Interesting fact: at 2:26, the kid in the lower left corner is a VERY young Christian Bale. He was 12 or 13 at the time of filming.
@johnosullivan67782 жыл бұрын
Christian Bale starred in Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun" before "Henry V"
@zeravam2 жыл бұрын
Another interesting fact: Both, Brannagh and Bale, would star movies of Christopher Nolan
@bruvvamoff Жыл бұрын
Another fun fact, sardines are super gross.
@mrswinkyuk Жыл бұрын
@@bruvvamoff That's not a fact. Sardines are delicious _that's_ a fact. Twinky's, now _they_ are gross!
@GeorgeMonet Жыл бұрын
@@mrswinkyuk That's not a fact. Twinkies are delicious that's a fact. Sardines, now they are gross!
@TheSnowballEarth10 жыл бұрын
"Blows away the Braveheart battle speech." Uh... yeah... Kenneth Branagh had a better screenwriter than Mel Gibson did.
@DavidbarZeus19 жыл бұрын
TheSnowballEarth Can ANY speech writer beat Shakespeare? I think not, unless it be Winston Churchill.
@themasterfrq9 жыл бұрын
Wesley Molt Charlie Chaplin's final speech in "The Great Dictator" would give him a run for his money
@glorfindel20125 жыл бұрын
👏👏👏👏👏
@nicknewman78485 жыл бұрын
Mel Gibson did a great comedy turn as Hamlet though. Truly one of the funniest performances I've ever seen.
@backchat80865 жыл бұрын
To be fair J. F. Kennedy had some great speech writers too.
@tommyjordan19884 жыл бұрын
The even more impressive thing is that the speech is written in iambic pentameter. How Shakespeare manage to pour so much profound substance and feeling into his sentences, within a rigid 10 syllable per line structure is simply mind boggling. Nabokov said about Shakespeare: "His verbal poetic texture is the greatest the world has ever known. It is the metaphor that is the thing. A genius." I couldn't agree more. Shakespeare's writings haunt me. Utterly phenomenal.
@piercebrosnan9528 Жыл бұрын
Shakespeare was more blessed a writer than any man of this world. Who's words echo from the greats of antiquity yet enhanced by his outrageous talent and inner power.
@wasp3959 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this.
@mrdarren1045 Жыл бұрын
It isn't the syllable count but getting the iambic pentameter right. And knowing when to go a syllable long or short for effect.
@PackLeader-199010 ай бұрын
"She was Lo, plain Lo in the morning"
@RamonLopez-kw1sl4 күн бұрын
"Now soldiers, march away. And how thou pleaseth God, dispose the day."
@firiel236610 жыл бұрын
It's kinda funny, I know, but sometimes, on really rough days, this speech just... helps. Like, "If Henry V can stand in the face of 5-1 odds against and tell his soldiers to get out there and be heroes, I can make it through this day."
@63Baggies9 жыл бұрын
like?
@63Baggies9 жыл бұрын
Nathan Resillas Steady on Nathaniel ;-)
@NonApplicable19839 жыл бұрын
Firiel Three-to-one, but still.
@Mazter1veteran6 жыл бұрын
Same here
@gabrielletrenbath9456 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@wkylegreen Жыл бұрын
Every year I watch this video on Saint Crispin’s Day… never fails to give me chills.
@wessew6185 Жыл бұрын
Excellent! So we are part of the "band of brothers."
@andyk9146 ай бұрын
Every year I watch this on July 4!!
@RUSH2112RUSH2 ай бұрын
Happy viewing today 😊
@wkylegreen2 ай бұрын
Happy St Crispin’s!
@gutsfinky2 ай бұрын
I'm here in 2024😊
@proco2008 Жыл бұрын
In 2012 I was in a very dark place. This clip got me through. I'd play it when feeling low. I was drinking more than I should but have not touched a drop since 2021. Thank you technnicalmark. Thank you.
@LondonPride253 жыл бұрын
The power of Shakespeare's words and Branagh's delivery has tears in my eyes at- "For he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile this day shall gentle his condition;" To immediately roaring with English pride at - "And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day." That's power.
@davidbroadley1262 жыл бұрын
Henry the fifth the butcher king
@davidbroadley1262 жыл бұрын
@@willc1294 shithouse
@abdihassan7208 Жыл бұрын
was this speech really uttered by henry V?
@abdihassan7208 Жыл бұрын
@@hungrycrab3297 thank you!
@censorduck Жыл бұрын
"not fighting at agincort is smol pee pee energy" - Shakespear.
@johnciummo32996 ай бұрын
As a Marine combat veteran, Vietnam 68-69, this speech ring so true. As I try to explain to those that never served in mortal combat. For one small sliver of time you served with fellow Marines, who without hesitation, would clearly give up their lives and futures to save mine. As I would do the same to save their lives! And yes, almost 60 years, I am proud to call them my brothers. I have been very fortunate in my life. After Vietnam,college a great career in the corporate world with numerous accolades but nothing can ever top knowing I never let my fellow Marines down. Semper Fi.
@piercebrosnan95285 ай бұрын
God loves you, brother.
@justa.american83035 ай бұрын
God love the MARINE CORPS.
@alineharam4 ай бұрын
And I ask all of you (I am a schoolteacher and have not served in war) to remember our brothers who did not return home. That debt can never be repaid.
@johnciummo32994 ай бұрын
Well said!
@salamanca19544 ай бұрын
Well said, brother.
@benjaminharris70917 ай бұрын
May 2024 - still one of the greatest moments in Ken Branagh’s storied career and Shakespeare on film. I first watched this version of Henry V when I was 20 years old; I a, now 53! . This speech absolutely fueled my desire to read and understand Shakespeare and to study English history. Patrick Doyle’s amazing soundtrack is so amazing and a big reason this scene is so good! Today, the bard, Branagh and Doyle are all “freshly remembered!”
@SimonKing-z4u6 ай бұрын
Snap dude, though I've got a couple of years more on you, everything else spot on.
@missmabel4 ай бұрын
Me too! Saw it in the theatre at 16 and still rewatching at 51. Doyle's sountrack is definitely part of this movie's magic. (Ditto for his Sense and Sensibility)
@Jimdixon19534 жыл бұрын
The dislikes are from the soldiers who listened to the speech then decided to make a claim for travel expenses and asked for their passports back from HR.
@henryvkingofenglandandfran72204 жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@janewhite23314 жыл бұрын
Those soldiers who survived in fact had to find their own way back to England under their own steam and never received backpay for the time they had been fighting. Exactly the same thing happened after Bonaparte was defeated when Wellington came home to be the hero of the land and most of the returning common soldiers came back to live lives of destitution on the streets again with no pay.
@antoniusbritannia82174 жыл бұрын
They hold their manhood's cheap. . .
@jonathanwilliams10653 жыл бұрын
@@janewhite2331 they would have at least marched to Calais
@ChrisCaaa8 ай бұрын
And one from the constable of France
@gillan59 күн бұрын
As a German this reminds me of Churchills speach WWII- this performance is divine- This Island breeds very valiant creatures- I always liked the British. Their music, their actors, their politeness, their language. rgds from Germany.
@deriter6410 жыл бұрын
Gee, I love the internet. I'm old and I'll never get to the West End again but I can sit here and compare Olivier, Burton and Branagh doing the St.Crispin speech and loving every minute of it. I have no idea who you tech wizards are or why you do it but thank you so much, you sort of band of brothers.
@Quonzer10 жыл бұрын
Our generations wouldn't have anything to study or to find inspirational if the previous generations hadn't written them all down for us to read and learn about. So, even though you didn't write this, in a way...thank you.
@stephengreen775810 жыл бұрын
I'm old as well and share your sentiments, dereiter64. And thank you, Altrunchen, for your kind remarks. One tends these days to think of the present generation twittering away or entering on Facebook all the nothing they know, preening to the applause of their vacuous co-adulators. To have all the best in culture at one's fingertips is more gratifying than you will ever know.
@susanesquer15206 жыл бұрын
@@stephengreen7758 Very well said Brother Stephen Green ! (19 November 2018 1550 hours)
@STPickrell3 жыл бұрын
I am 45 now, and I can view these things at will, as opposed to merely carrying them in the fondness of memory.
@joes3692 жыл бұрын
I'm old also and i agree with you 100%
@RUSH2112RUSH2 ай бұрын
Who is here 609 years to the day since this battle took place? 🏴✌️🇫🇷
@jackthorton10Ай бұрын
We Few… We Happy Few.. We Band of Brothers
@MikeGrant-q7bАй бұрын
He who sheds his blood with me ...@@jackthorton10
@KingALBoy25 күн бұрын
There's an army muster database that has my family name 'Pollard' with archers and men at arms of this time. They were there I guess
@jackthorton1024 күн бұрын
@@KingALBoy Cool
@robertqualls84987 күн бұрын
We are all here, we few. we band of brothers.
@TheTrohl9 жыл бұрын
3:33 - I love how Brian Blessed is just waiting for it.
@Bonk4Me8 жыл бұрын
+TheTrohl Loved him in Blackadder
@Amethyst_Friend7 жыл бұрын
'YEE-ah, ha-ha-hAA!
@admiralackbar19947 жыл бұрын
SQUADRON 40 DIIIIIVE!!!!
@thehuggroupemail50296 жыл бұрын
Chiswick! Fresh Horses!
@U2QuoZepplin6 жыл бұрын
TheTrohl Brian Blessed’s rendition of this speech must be something to behold too!? Just imagine his booming voice! 😉
@giacomopandiani62906 жыл бұрын
This speech has kept me alive for years. Every time I have to do something really difficult I watch this.
@olwens13683 жыл бұрын
Yes- I have a difficult day ahead, after not much sleep last night. Hot strong coffee and Henry's speech before Agincourt and look out world, here I come.
@DylanWilby3 жыл бұрын
@@olwens1368 godspeed, hope it went well
@evelynbaron662 жыл бұрын
yes only defensible interpretation of urging to war and death
@sunitabansal16392 жыл бұрын
Very good speech for doing something big in life
@olwens1368 Жыл бұрын
@@DylanWilby A very late reply which probably you'll never see- but it DID go very well, thank you.
@CosmicContrarian8 жыл бұрын
Greatest speech of all time, beautiful use of language!
@shirleymental41896 жыл бұрын
jeff walther. Are you mental? Just asking.
@orangejoe2046 жыл бұрын
It's a Shakespearean re-imagining of what Henry V actually said to his (exhausted, hungry and disease-ridden) troops the night before the battle. The actual text of the speech is not historically recorded, but the broad strokes were much nastier and tougher: Henry reinforced that he was gravely serious about this battle and addressed each of his two main contingents separately. First, he told the noble knights (some 1,500) that chivalry was dead, that he'd sooner die in battle than be ransomed by the French, and that he'd personally kill any man (no matter his rank) who tried to flee or surrender. Nobody was going home unless they won, and the only thing that would produce victory against a larger French force was ironclad will to win that he believed (correctly) the French lacked. Then he addressed his main force (7,000 peasant longbowmen), telling them the French had boasted they would amputate the fingers of any bowman they captured alive; this piece of creative fiction was intended to fire THEM up, since it was difficult to inspire men who were normally not taken alive at all (as they had no ransom value). Evidently the thought of being ritually robbed of the fingers they'd spent literally their entire lives winning their bread on and then left alive as a burden was MORE insulting to them than simply being killed out of hand. He ended it by ordering every man to spend the night in silent prayer and mental preparation, with the punishment being amputation. Evidently it all worked, as the Knights (with Henry and his bodyguards fighting in the thickest part) held the line against 4x their number of equals until the archers could shoot their quivers empty. These totally unarmored peasants, not at all intended for hand-to-hand combat, then screamed bloody murder and descended (full Barbarian style) into the fray with their heavy lead mallets and misericorde daggers, finishing off any of the heavily-armored French nobility who'd been battered into the mud. Even after they'd narrowly dispatched the French vanguard, their reserve forces could have then attacked and annihilated the English. So Henry stood all the captives up and executed them brutally in cold blood in front of the reserves. The reserves went home. So did the English. Victory. The whole thing from soup to nuts was an exercise in effective brutality by a master of battlefield leadership. I'd have followed a Warrior King like that into the bowels of Hell.
@eifionjones5596 жыл бұрын
only one thing wrong , he never made that speech and whilst he won the battle he lost the war
@SiLatics566 жыл бұрын
@@eifionjones559 He didn't lose the war. He died of dysentery and sadly his son was a relatively weak king in war terms. With no leader in the same mould as Henry V it allowed the French to regain their lost territories and eventually win the war. So it wasn't Henry who lost the war, it was the English army who carried on after he had died who lost the war, minus true leadership.
@flamebird22186 жыл бұрын
Henry V spoke Middle English; he would have sounded nothing like this if he did give the speech at all. As @@UCsiZ57y7PpcZqQVii_hNjagpointed out, this is a Shakespearean re-imagining of what he really said. If the speech were actually recorded, it would sound nothing like Modern English or Early-Modern English.
@exit30736 ай бұрын
God I love this speech. Kenneth Branagh does it total justice.
@merriotChard3 ай бұрын
Sir Lawrence Olivier had an edge to this in his 1944 debut .😊
@stevouk2 ай бұрын
This is so unfair, I know, but Branagh, physically, is just too ordinary for me to believe in him as Henry. To be sure, the delivery is firing on all cylinders, but he looks... like a bloke in the outdoor section of a garden centre.
@merriotChard2 ай бұрын
He certainly did...a hint of cautious overacting at times but did that speech with a passion .
@billfish88439 жыл бұрын
Great bit of acting in this scene by Christopher Ravenscroft as Montjoy. His face changes subtly from arrogance to respect, and the way he takes his hat off is like an exclamation point to the change. And he does it with minimal camera time while sitting on a restless horse.
@JimSmithInChiapas9 жыл бұрын
+Bill Fish Thank you for pointing out so brilliantly, and succinctly, the small things Ravenscroft did that made his appearance in this scene so impactful.
@billfish88439 жыл бұрын
+JimSmithInChiapas Thanks for being nice on the Internet, and you're most welcome.
@rogerhwerner69975 жыл бұрын
Great observation.
@mitchyoung87914 жыл бұрын
These British people can act!
@ekscalybur4 жыл бұрын
The removal of the hat was a supremely heartfelt salute to King Henry and his host. The herald was letting Henry and everyone in his host, who at that time he was sure were about to be wiped out, but remained courageous and disciplined, had earned his deepest respect.
@signpo8907 жыл бұрын
"We would not die in that mans company" Now that's a line I will never forget.
@jamesjacobson3966 Жыл бұрын
Perhaps the most rousing speech in the English language, fictional or not. It’s not surprising that Churchill who arguably gave the finest actual speech’s e.g. Blood, toil, tears and sweat and We shall fight them on the beach’s knew many of Shakespeare plays word for word.
@EmmanuelleHen2 ай бұрын
I am French and stop my studies too early but England English language and especially as Shakespeare use it is so perfect for me..I cannot express my joy listening to these lines even if I have so many efforts to do ..LOVE WILLIAM S FOR EVERV
@EmmanuelleHen2 ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 this is one tbe most important part of my life
@georgebrooke44928 жыл бұрын
The combination of the speech and the music is just outstanding. I can watch this repeatedly without getting bored and always noticing something new. Totally excellent
@dzauthor5 жыл бұрын
George Brooke It gives me chills as the music swells with the speech
@tommyjordan19884 жыл бұрын
The music accompaniment is fantastic! I can't get over how incredible the acting and the music are, absolutely staggering.
@georgebrooke44924 жыл бұрын
@@tommyjordan1988 Hi, It still makes the hairs stand up on my neck. And then I think of Boris.........
@1foams4 жыл бұрын
On a darker moment, when courage is needed, I remind myself of what lies within by watching this.
@Warrior_of_Sparta7 жыл бұрын
For me this is the greatest speech in literature, absolutely staggering!
@beckerqueiroz7 жыл бұрын
Agreed! And Branagh's is the best interpretation, in the humble opinion of one who hasn't seen any other and doesn't care for them. Nothing could top this.
@markgrice80886 жыл бұрын
harry's speech at harfleur is second ofcourse...once more into the breech,dear friends, once more
@s51curtis6 жыл бұрын
There was one performance that comes close. Years ago the BBC ran a series call "The Shakespeare Plays" with David Gwillim playing the lead in "Henry V." His performance was excellent.
@jeffwalther39356 жыл бұрын
BUT only if ya can relate. thats why the noncombatant sleepers are FAR AWAY in london and not calais, i.e., ya gotta run the guantlent at least once of killing AND dieing for such a noble cause to even know what the b of b are talking about. that explains that captivating, totally out of place smirk and delight on henrys beaming face. hes telling an inside joke, while unwrapping sudden surprise st crispin day gifts for each and every one. and thats true and real and profound and important; timely and timeless. i guess.
@jeffwalther39356 жыл бұрын
if one had to choose, especially for blessed brevity and lack of bs, henry v or gettysburg address are outta the park #1 homers.
@JohnKlimakos Жыл бұрын
The greatest speech on film
@purefoldnz30707 ай бұрын
its a bit camp innit?
@SarcyseTiranin6 жыл бұрын
This speech literally brings tears to my eyes. How can a speech written hundreds of years ago be so profound?
@Consume_Crash Жыл бұрын
Because this story is more connected to the real.
@johndoe5432 Жыл бұрын
Because there are some truths that are universal and timeless.
@janel3427 ай бұрын
Because they, unlike us now, did deep.
@philipitaliano13293 жыл бұрын
Watching this on October 25th - Saint Crispian's Day and the 606 year anniverary of Agincourt. It is currently cold, went, and rainy outside, just like another Saint Crispian's Day. When I was seven years old my dad showed me this scene and played the epic battle scene for me. This story did a good man teach his son.
@francoisdaureville3233 жыл бұрын
606 anniversary you mean
@philipitaliano13293 жыл бұрын
@@francoisdaureville323 thank you
@chrismacdonald90919 жыл бұрын
Best version of this speech ever. I even got 8th graders who didn't know Shakespeare to totally get it by watching this. This is just amazing.
@johndoe5432 Жыл бұрын
Any man who says this speech does not stir something within him is either a liar or a fool.
@alineharam4 ай бұрын
or dead
@andrewelliott44364 ай бұрын
@@alineharam Well ... The thing is that a dead person wouldn't be able to hear anything, now would he?
@bigm66493 ай бұрын
...or French 😉
@josepheveson61874 жыл бұрын
Literally one of the best speeches of all time. Never swung a sword in my life and would charge in after hearing this ⚔️
@MsKathleenb Жыл бұрын
Swung several swords in my day and ditto.
@Dudemon-1 Жыл бұрын
@@MsKathleenb-- Same here. I'm almost as old as Sir Thomas Erpingham was at Agincourt (58), but my sword-swinging days are nearly past, but many a time I listened to this to fire myself up!
@ReonMagnum8 жыл бұрын
I'm currently stringing my 140 lb English Longbow while watching this.
@thegatekeeper7156 жыл бұрын
Twas not the bow that heralded nigh the death of Frenchmen on that day, It was indeed the water sopped ground upon which they charged that did the deed. The stalwart bowmen nair did move against the charge, but stood their ground convinced they won the day.
@JAG30036 жыл бұрын
Welsh longbow
@Agent1W6 жыл бұрын
+ReonMagnum I'm currently calibrating my 1,000 Italian siege crossbow, because if you want to penetrate French plate, you gotta do it right.
@justanobadi66556 жыл бұрын
the great part of this scene is that the bowmen haven't strung their bows yet, considering it rained the night prior and they didn't want wet drawstrings, it's great attention to detail. it's a shame we didn't see anyone warming up their bows by stretching it.
@JAG30036 жыл бұрын
@Mark Weaver the oldest bow is found in Somerset (more Celts than English) and dates back to over 2 and a half thousand years ago, over a thousand years before "England" existed as a name and in every battle from Crecy to agincourt they were used by the Welsh archers (the time at their highest use) so call it what you want but it's the Welsh who used them while fighting for the English armies, oh and I hope you realise Henry and all his family is Welsh too, the (arguably) greatest English monarchy so not so much a dream as historical fact.
@dreadfulsam3 жыл бұрын
I've seen this adaptation a dozen times and Henry's battle speech still gives me chills. Every. Single. Time.
@craigwilliams67342 жыл бұрын
I am sitting here in bloody tears watching this magnificent piece of Shakespeare acted out by a masterclass by Branagh - Phenomenal
@davidbroadley126 Жыл бұрын
💩
@craigwilliams6734 Жыл бұрын
@@davidbroadley126 is that in your underpants?
@roryokane59078 жыл бұрын
Note the young Christian Bale at 2:26!
@U2QuoZepplin8 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I noticed a few other notable British actors faces there too. Brian Blessed - no less. I mean how can you loose when you've got him on your team! hahhah After all, he's only wrestled with The Dalai Lama for goodness sake, among other great deeds.
@nano47787 жыл бұрын
No wonder he became the dark knight after hearing that speech
@twirajuda7 жыл бұрын
Bale will make a great Henry V, especially if the character is reinterpreted away from Shakespeare nano4778 . He has that mix of toughness and class, ruthlessness and vulnerability that can make the king more relatable to modern audiences and is close to the historical personage
@redneckzen5 жыл бұрын
Don't forget Bilbo Baggins, too!
@connorveach59865 жыл бұрын
Wow he’s a babyyy. I would have guessed him and Kenneth Branagh would be around the same age, or at least the same generation...
@Hablagrabla7 жыл бұрын
I could not have wished to be of english descent more than after watching this. Alas I'm swedish, but I behold, read and admire, still. O' Land of Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Britons. History has shown you are a great people. For good and for worse. You are a people to be admired.
@Hablagrabla7 жыл бұрын
Of that I already know. Scandinavian history is kind of my thing.
@mrkitcatt21196 жыл бұрын
@@Hablagrabla and that Briton blood is on average 28 %in all of Britain whereas around 60 is germanic
@leedobson4 жыл бұрын
You're a brother to us in every way
@mattmale71834 жыл бұрын
You have your heroes, Gustavus Adolphus for one.
@jenn-kh3 жыл бұрын
Everyone likes the Swedes. We all just wish you'd act more like Vikings and less like socialists. Good grief, you never even had an empire, let alone the, you know, German unpleasantness. What are you people apologizing for all the time?
@alexyoon-sungcucina78956 жыл бұрын
Mountjoy really shines in this. You see his expression change and he realizes Henry is in deadly earnest and this will be a gruesome fight to the death, yet at the end he remains confident of French victory and Harry's death/capture with "Thou shalt never hear herald anymore." The subtle mix of both respect and boast is splendid.
@CasuallyObservant3 жыл бұрын
I took a different meaning. Mountjoy would have been a neutral with no allegiance to either side. He was a protected courier to deliver messages between the two warring sides. He had arrived to allow one more option of mercy as decently offered by France who was certain of a quick and bloody victory. France's offer was to allow England to declare a loss right then, allow France to declare victory, arrest all the soldiers, keep the King and his high ranking leaders safe to be returned (for ransom of course) while the remaining soldiers' fates would be death or imprisonment. To some that was an act of mercy. Truly, to stop England from suffering such a terribly bloody loss, including perhaps the death of the young King. But, the King proclaimed he was not afraid to go forth in battle and was offended by the offer. He directed the courier to tell the King of France his previous offer still stood and to make no more such offensive offers to him. The courier seemed impressed by the King's bravery and even took his cap off and placed it on his chest as a sign of respect and admiration and said in effect, "you will have no more such offensive offers tendered by me'. And he nodded and rode off to tell France that the battle would indeed go forward!
@alexyoon-sungcucina78953 жыл бұрын
@@CasuallyObservant Definitely agree on the doft of the cap as a sign of respect. Whether he was doing his perfunctory duty or not, and whether he was confident of French victory or not, he was clearly impressed by Henry's resolve. How many other kings and nobles had he delivered terms to and found them to be little more than connivers and cowards?
@CasuallyObservant3 жыл бұрын
@@alexyoon-sungcucina7895 - I imagine most of them!
@DwarfyDoodad3 жыл бұрын
@@alexyoon-sungcucina7895 Agincort was such a *resounding* defeat for the French that the ransom of the French nobility repaid the cost of the failed invasion and then some, and the French Infantry still suffered servitude or death. But make no mistake, Henry's invasion of France was absolutely a failure, Agincort wasn't a battle Henry wanted to fight, especially outnumbered and with many of his men so *literally* sick with Dysentery they went without pants (actual accounts of this, dysentary is conveyed via diarhea) Keep in mind Henry knew (at the time of the Battle) he was a disgraced king and if ransomed back (if it was paid at all) he would have been deposed. His options were death in battle or death in disgrace he didn't think he had a chance of actually winning the battle.
@DwarfyDoodad3 жыл бұрын
@@alexyoon-sungcucina7895 To clarify further: "Ransom" actually was standard practice, land owners were rarely if ever put to death even on the battlefield in any conflict. But in terms of this speech King Henry is willing to pay from the crown's treasury for any man who doesn't want to die ("His passport shall be made") Even if Henry himself is not willing to admit such a disgrace.
@GlobalShutterNY3 күн бұрын
Simply THE best version of this speech I have ever seen...
@nbenefiel9 жыл бұрын
No one in the thousands of years of human culture wrote like Shakespeare, no one.
@NBarker19939 жыл бұрын
Nancy Benefiel Its amazing how he just blows everything else out of the water. Very, very little matches him and nothing surpasses him. It'd be interesting to see what Shakespeare's thought process was like, I wonder if there's any notebooks of his that exist that showed us what he was thinking?
@30secondstomarsMBH9 жыл бұрын
+Nancy Benefiel And thank god. At least I can understand everyone else. I really don't get people's fascination with Old English. Yay, it happened, it made us speak a certain way, it introduced certain things, but now it's old and we don't speak it really that much any more and it doesn't make much sense, and it's not modern english and oh, by the way I speak in slang more than I do QUEEN's english, so, it's not exactly that relevant any more. Like, that's how I see it anyway. Great stories, annoying as hell language.
@nbenefiel9 жыл бұрын
+30secondstomarsMBH Old English is Anglo Saxon, the language of Beowulf. You can't read it just from knowing modern English. Middle English is much more accessible as in Chaucer or the lovely poem Sumer is icumen in, thought to be the oldest in the English language. The English of the 16th and 17th centuries, Shakespeare and Marlowe are readily accessible with a good glossary. I can't imagine wanting to miss the beauty of it. When you lose a language, which we are doing rapidly right now, you lose the heart of the people who think in it. Each loss takes something away from mankind, in my humble opinion.
@nedpike21869 жыл бұрын
+Anon San It's really quite simple. Shakespeare wrote his plays not to entertain the gentry & royalty, but for the common folk in the pit at the Globe. Since they, in that day, were mostly illiterate, he had to write easy "hooks" that the common man would remember and spread as cheap advertising. He invented the movie trailer, but had the genius to keep it up for a 2 hour play.
@nbenefiel9 жыл бұрын
+brony428 It's not just the stories, It's what he did with them.
@ChannelUmptyThree5 жыл бұрын
That has to be the most cultured way to say "Let's go kick some ass!"
@marvinc99943 жыл бұрын
""Let's go kick some ass!"" Well, _arse_ , at any rate: the English don't care much for animal-kicking ;-)
@VVeltanschauung1873 жыл бұрын
Isn't that the irony of it?
@MonicaActis3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha. Love it!!!
@ObsoleteOddity7 жыл бұрын
I've watched this scene many times, I had the video cassette (now vintage!) ...back in the day. I think Mr Branagh did a damn fine job of bringing Shakespeare to the younger generation. My poor old landlord at the time....full volume - lol
@brettbaxter78823 жыл бұрын
When I hear King Harry, so does my neighbor.
@persesrathert83243 жыл бұрын
Blessed old landlord to have such a tenant.
@Lorenzo-cp7qs3 жыл бұрын
@@persesrathert8324 For thine men are honoured
@dinoperedetout74643 жыл бұрын
Thankfully, you did not call him “host”!
@63Baggies3 жыл бұрын
If it's too loud; you're too old :-)
@mikeoglen68487 ай бұрын
Never, in the field of human conflict, was so much owed by so many to so few....
@edwardfrostickblois41916 ай бұрын
Utter rubbish
@mikeoglen68486 ай бұрын
@@edwardfrostickblois4191 OK, you tell that ti Winston, then...
@wayneantoniazzi27064 ай бұрын
No doubt many of those RAF boys in the Spitfires and Hurricanes had this speech in the backs of their minds, even if they didn't realize it at the time.
@ajurado8006 жыл бұрын
"I pray thee bear my former answer back: Bid them achieve me, and then sell my bones." (Henry V, 4.3.91-2)
@concars12343 жыл бұрын
badass line
@nickdarr73283 жыл бұрын
I love that since time immemorial the glory of combat has never been in the fighting or even personal bravery. But the simple love and absolute willingness to die for your fellows. That term band of brothers captures the feeling perfectly
@pateris2 жыл бұрын
I think it underlines the fact that when you wee the actual fight (as far as I remember it), it's not Exacalibur or Ran-style grandiose, but an abject brawl in mud and blood. Brannagh might have been standing on the shoulder of a giant, but he knew what he was doing…
@bigbadseed76658 жыл бұрын
"Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones!" God, I love it!
@Ianjeffery2500Ай бұрын
For every day I walk this earth, I thank providence that I was born British. All my life I have stood on the shoulders for giants who gave me this birthright and privilege.
@ghill6284 жыл бұрын
Another Veterans Day comes and again I come back to the St. Crispin's Day speech. To all my shipmates, past and present, it was my honor to belong to your band of brothers.
@wireguided95725 жыл бұрын
Without doubt, the best rendition of this speech, ever. I have this film at home and every now and then watch it. I never tire of it. Makes me proud to be British. For good or bad the British have certainly made an impact on this planet out of all proportion to their numbers.
@francais1973 жыл бұрын
proud to be English
@Bruce-19562 жыл бұрын
Britain didn't exist. I take it your English! Maybe you should learn some history.
@georgeiii29982 жыл бұрын
@Bruce1956 What do you mean, Britain didn't exist? Great Britain is an island, of course it existed. And the original commenter lives in the present, not in the past, which makes them citizens of the present-day United Kingdom, which is probably what you meant. I'm capable of being pedantic too.
@kellydg4712 жыл бұрын
@@Bruce-1956 If you actually watched the play, you will see that Shakespeare included a Scotsman, an Irishman and a Welshman to show this was a "British" victory
@RCAvhstape9 жыл бұрын
100 viewers hold their manhoods cheap.
@princepis9 жыл бұрын
Lol
@cascinamelognis90279 жыл бұрын
+Helium Road 2% of stupid people means a very good average. Be faithful in human progress despite the mice.
@davidmckown35908 жыл бұрын
the number of cheap manhoods has increased to 115
@carlosdanger57418 жыл бұрын
+Helium Road I've been holding my manhood cheap for years. I have pictures...
@johnogrady70668 жыл бұрын
+Carlos Danger very witty :-)
@jimhall167 Жыл бұрын
I saw this movie when it debuted in 1989 as most of my friends were dying of AIDS. Several of us, all gone now but me, saw it together. We had a foe and we were few and despised by society. Nothing could have been more encouraging than this scene, the St. Crispin's day speech by the dear King. I miss them all and hope that in the hereafter we will meet again and remember St. Crispin's day.
@deniseeulert2503 Жыл бұрын
You will see them again. Maybe in Heaven/the hereafter, we can all act in plays forever.
@longshot76017 ай бұрын
I saw this in a video store and for a dollar,. what the heck. I have never seen or read anything by Shakespere before. I watched it mesmerized. I went to get Hamlet with Mel Gibson next and was sorely disappointed. I play Branagh's spech when I'm feeling depressed for some reason and it helps get me out of that funk.
@WhiteIkiryo-yt2it7 ай бұрын
May the memories of your friends, you happy few live forever.
@powfoot49467 ай бұрын
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
@MaryCree-p3r6 ай бұрын
We would not die in that man's company who fears his fellowship to die with us. --I thought about that line often during the deepest days of the AIDS crisis.
@normvw40536 ай бұрын
Once, and only once was I able to recite this, from memory, and complete, with a friend. We were at Arlington National Cemetary, at the base of a tree was a plaque, with the quote, "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...", I've not been able to do it since, but if any place I was able to do this, there, among that Hallowed Garden of Stone, that was the place...that was the time.
@mustafajackson94304 жыл бұрын
Brilliant work by Mr. Branagh and his Happy few.
@therevolvingmonk4 жыл бұрын
Braveheart, Gladiator, and 300 pre-battles speeches are amateur hour compared to Sir Kenneth nailing Shakespeare.
@concars12343 жыл бұрын
it's all about the language, man
@johnnysokko46483 жыл бұрын
Truth
@therevolvingmonk3 жыл бұрын
@@concars1234 So true. The way Shakespeare sounds as you hear it and how it feels as you speak or read it tickles a part of the brain in a way that few other things can.
@daybeau78193 жыл бұрын
Three elements put this clip at the top of motivational speeches: the text, the delivery, and that sneaky--but really effective--music track. Contrast this version with Olivier's take on the material or even Bill Pullman's almost pep rally worthy speech near the end of Independence Day and you will wonder why did the others waste the celluloid.
@63Baggies3 жыл бұрын
Shakespeare is the GOLD standard. There's a reason why we're still watching and reading his work 500 plus years later. There are fewer and fewer reason to feel pride in being English; especially nowadays - William Shakespeare is one of them.
@user-pm5jh8vj2x4 ай бұрын
No wonder the Brits ruled the world for 300 years. Every schoolboy with any imagination who read this, and that was schoolboy for generations, was highly motivated to serve the crown to the maximum extent possible. The Bard was a linguist genius who will never be equaled.
@johncarroll7724 ай бұрын
Read Flashman
@davidtuer58254 ай бұрын
@@johncarroll772 Don't be stupid! Flashman is the very antithesis of Henry's spirit. Remember, it may be Shakespeare but it's not fiction, the battle was real, the odds against but we prevailed, in real life. Shakespeare preserved it for us.
@rongravelle6038 жыл бұрын
If his voice booms any louder, it would cause the clouds to move. What s voice!
@WolfStrife9 жыл бұрын
600 years ago today...
@Mermaid22614 жыл бұрын
I can hear this speech over and over and it affects me the same way each time. As inspirational as it gets!
@stubblington2 жыл бұрын
Whenever I need a pick me up, I can always come here and it never fails. This rendition was what introduced me to the play when I was bored flicking through the channels one day when I was a teen. From then on I was obsessed with it and have even been lucky enough to both direct it and star in the lead role (in separate amateur productions). Thanks Kenneth Branagh, you gave me an appreciation for Shakespeare that helped shape my life.
@seanjoyce70393 жыл бұрын
Does anybody else love the cool little connection made between Henry and Herald? Henry refers to him as "gentle", knowing he's just an emissary and likely wants no part of the conflict, while Herald doffs his hat to him, clearly a showing of respect toward Henry's abject bravery.
@kegginstructure Жыл бұрын
It is a central tenet of chivalry that when not in combat, you hold your enemy/adversary in highest regard.
@MarySanchez-qk3hp10 ай бұрын
Wish it was still that way, America has fallen so low of late.
@HordrissTheConfuser7 ай бұрын
'Gentle' in this context has a similar meaning to 'noble', as in 'gentleman'. The same meaning is used in "... gentle his condition". Knowing Shakespeare, though, this was probably a deliberate double-meaning.
@fnulnu65079 жыл бұрын
I had to learn and recite this speech in college in1995. Had never heard of it, but was greatly inspired. I have searched for it many times since, but just happened across it today. Greatest speech ever!
@corkmans88469 жыл бұрын
+fnu lnu It's a lot harder to memorize in high school tonight...
@fnulnu65079 жыл бұрын
+Corrigan “ayy” lmao You will never forget it.
@fnulnu65077 жыл бұрын
fight for your own destiny. dont be told what to do.
@robertthomas3777 Жыл бұрын
Branagh always gets the good lines. Underrated actor. Timeless words for all soldiers, past present and future.
@Sammyli997 ай бұрын
but not IDF, oh please.
@voivod68715 ай бұрын
not sure what you are on about Branagh is an extremly highly rated actor and rightly so.
@zakurquhart2253 жыл бұрын
He inspired courage and showed no fear. A king in name and sword.
@davidrodgersNJ10 жыл бұрын
I'm hardly Shakespeare, but this is what I call BALLS. It makes me proud of my British blood.
@susanesquer15206 жыл бұрын
I take it that you don't hold your manhood cheap . (16 November 2045 hours)
@razahasnain93265 жыл бұрын
Dont be proud of your british world. In a few years, south asians will ve running britain, ruling over all of u with an iron hand, just like the east india company did with us. Almost 30 percent now. In a few years indians will take over. Shakespeare will be translated in hindi and english will be forgotten.
@stevecooper78835 жыл бұрын
@@razahasnain9326 "Achieve me, and then sell my bones!"
@razahasnain93265 жыл бұрын
Bradley Owusu all human beings were asians once upon a time.
@raymondturner14785 жыл бұрын
@@razahasnain9326 lol
@robbo-jn71694 жыл бұрын
This will hang on my conscience for years to come, the music,the language and the tone come together to inspire millions. Future generations will never see a better speech.
@octaviancaesarhibernicus44476 жыл бұрын
I'm Irish and even this stirs my blood.
@hooper77354 жыл бұрын
It stirs all our blood.... We of these islands have earned the right.... Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English.... These are our islands... We have nowhere else to go
@mojo1994 жыл бұрын
There would have been Irishmen in his army
@johnperry48574 жыл бұрын
Kenneth Branagh IS Irish.
@johnperry48573 жыл бұрын
@Kyle P.V That's as plausible a theory as any.
@GentlemanofEngland3 жыл бұрын
@@mojo199 there wasn’t any Irishmen in Henry the 5ths army as the English only owned a tiny part of Ireland at this point and his army was almost entirely English with 600 Welshman
@wayneantoniazzi27063 жыл бұрын
Amazing. To my knowledge Shakespeare never served a day in the military in his life, but he "got it." What a genius he was! And Kenny Branagh NAILED that speech! He even beat Olivier's version, and that's saying something!
@berserkley7 ай бұрын
As good as Olivier's Henry was, I think Branagh's is the gold standard. (For my money, the best Olivier Shakespeare is Richard III)
@jimtownsend78994 ай бұрын
I found Olivier's to be rather like rote recitation. In honesty, he let Shakespeare's words take center stage and yet, Branagh's version puts the feeling and emotion behind the words.
@francispardeilhan57196 жыл бұрын
What a stunning interpretation of a magnificent speech...
@TheJoshuamooney5 ай бұрын
To my mind, the best cinematic Shakespeare ever. And here, Henry V’s greatest scene. This is Ken Branagh’s true triumph, and will always be remember’ed. Plus: Brian Blessed!
@thraciangrapes Жыл бұрын
Thank you 👏 The most brilliant and stirring speech ever written.
@rhondapetrus71876 ай бұрын
Why does this always give me chills. My ancestor fought at Agincourt.
@KevinMeeds3 ай бұрын
bonjour...
@taylorahern37556 жыл бұрын
Yes, one of the finest and most inspirational speeches ever given in cinematic history. Mesmerizing and beautifully rendered, Kenneth Branaugh delivered it to sublime perfection, with this passionate love and seamless grace, to the point that his deep and wonderful veneration of Shakespeare, and more specifically, of Henry the V, oozed out of him with this natural and poetic flow. Spellbinding, sign me up for battle, such was that speech's impact and effect upon me, its timeless appeal, its endearing and enduring poignancy, and its true power, remaining undiminished through the passage of time. Loved it, that amazing speech, along with that astonishing and incredibly inspirational rendering of it! Shakespeare himself would be proud. Great job Kenneth, from one nostalgically inspired Irishman to another!
@stewartmcmanus3991 Жыл бұрын
To quote Churchill, "the jewel in the crown of English military history."
@perfesser9447 ай бұрын
"We few, we blessed few, we band of brothers!" Countless are the occasions when teams or groups of humans could have uttered those words.
@93stormerАй бұрын
I'm glad this video didn't cut off at the applause line but included Henry's exchange with the Herald. That really underlined his grim determination, and realization that there's now no turning back, bravado aside. Truly incredible acting.
@Modyman Жыл бұрын
Just got cast as Henry. Which is strange for me, cuz I’m typically the comedic side kick. But I’m stoked as hell to deliver this and “once more unto the breach”
@ehsfb20011Ай бұрын
In 1995 our high school football team was coming off a loss and was playing the number 1 team in the nation, Los Alamitos. In the pregame meeting I gave an out line of the scenario and played this clip. We beat them.
@jskn157 жыл бұрын
If English is your language, this is your speech. Great are the English Speaking nations. We are a crazy family, but we are family.
@noneofyourbusiness436 жыл бұрын
Britain's the weird cousin who isn't a bad guy but its sad cuz he lets his wife beat him
@blockmasterscott6 жыл бұрын
Agreed 100!
@prestonlindbeck11976 жыл бұрын
Absolutely God damn right!!!
@Trickroad6 жыл бұрын
jskn15 and islam is taking over the english nations
@NJA10396 жыл бұрын
It’s not perfect but it’s the best damn language we got
@samosullivan17443 жыл бұрын
That moment when the camera shows Robin The Luggage-Boy is truly magical. Not just because you can see the young lad feeling a whole new surge of pride at his place among these older soldiers and the place in history he’ll earn, but you can also see the young Christian Bale’s inspiration! After he had done Empire Of The Sun, he felt like he wanted to quit acting, but working with Branagh encouraged him to continue his career. You can imagine how full of awe he must have been watching this legendary thespian deliver this passion-filled speech!
@lauraschwendinger47595 жыл бұрын
Amazing. Score, actor, text are perfect match. So extraordinary! I wish Kenneth Branagh would do 10 more film adaptations of Shakespeare!
@davidbroadley126 Жыл бұрын
He s not even english is he hes from belfast that wil b a one sided movie as well
@davidbroadley126 Жыл бұрын
Olivier blinds brannagh at Shakespeare
@davidahlstrom75335 жыл бұрын
Brilliant delivery of Shakespeare's great Henry V leadership speech. Branaugh is one of the all-time great actors.
@renatebarbeck8 жыл бұрын
The power of words. Thanks Kenneth Branagh the best Shakespear performer!
@toonu10 ай бұрын
Have watched this video once per day for 5 months. I can recite it all. It’s also my shower timer. In, wash, recite this entire video, out, dry.
@georgeorwell45346 жыл бұрын
His speech to the Herald is equally stirring.
@jrfras9 жыл бұрын
It blows away the Braveheart speech because the writer was Shakespeare. Who wrote the speech for Braveheart? Was it arguably the best writer of all time? Of course it is better.
@McSuperfly1019 жыл бұрын
I'll have you know the writer of Braveheart also wrote Pearl Harbor... Bet you feel silly now.
@AlienDark129 жыл бұрын
McSuperfly101 Pearl Harbor was terrible...
@jrfras9 жыл бұрын
Agreed.
@McSuperfly1019 жыл бұрын
λιεnδαгκ12 Here, let me introduce you to my friend 'sarcasm'.
@jrfras9 жыл бұрын
Poe's Law then?
@joshuacarter67027 жыл бұрын
This speech should rouse the heart of every true English man.
@ianduarte19924 жыл бұрын
Not only the englishman have their hearts racing with this speech my friend
@michaelluckmann97734 жыл бұрын
I'm not English...but I am very aroused...I mean my heart is roused.....
@ianduarte19924 жыл бұрын
@@michaelluckmann9773 its ok to be aroused as long as you say no homo.
@coldcallinguk4 жыл бұрын
It does. I am English and proud of it.
@STPickrell3 жыл бұрын
Americans, South Africans, Anglophone Canadians, Australians, and New Zealanders can claim this as part of their heritage, and those in the Scotland, Ireland, Wales, South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa can claim this in a way that others cannot. Likewise, my counterpart in Quebec is taking pride in the great works of French writers, and can appreciate it in a way I can only begin to ...
@Cheggley452 жыл бұрын
Well, I have watched this scene in excess of fifty times, and will continue until have I have committed it all to memory! So powerful!