I heard some years ago that a camping supplies shop had a sale and had a banner "Now is the winter of our discount tents". Now that was wit.
@marylousherman54714 жыл бұрын
😎👍
@stevekaczynski37934 жыл бұрын
I wonder how many customers got the joke?
@3John-Bishop4 жыл бұрын
Very good.
@flaneurable4 жыл бұрын
@@stevekaczynski3793 Can you explain it?
@TomBombadil8514 жыл бұрын
puns are the lowest form of wit
@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy4 жыл бұрын
I lived in England from 1963-66 as the son of a US Air Force serviceman. I went to a small American school on the base and my teacher for two years was Ms. Gloria Magnuson. She was a Shakespeare "freak" as we called her and she took us on field trips to Stratford Upon Avon and to plays at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre numerous times. I saw Ian Holm play Richard III and I was hooked for life. I saw David Warner play Hamlet and was hooked into eternity. I saw Mr. Holm play Henry V and that was the icing on the cosmic cake. I was 12 and 13 years old. Ms. Magnuson passed on many years back but I thank her to this day for taking a bunch of Yank kids out of their comfort zone and turning them on to the genius of Mr. Shakespeare. Rest in Peace, learned teacher. I miss you...
@juliaconnell4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing - the mark of a true teacher - one that changes our lives
@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy4 жыл бұрын
@@juliaconnell Thank you. She was a delightful personality too. Went to the University of Chicago and graduated Magna but chose to be a teacher when she had the chance to make "the big bucks". She must be resting peacefully knowing all the lives she changed. Peace and Love...
@merxeddie64744 жыл бұрын
Methinks your post has somewhat the swagger of the Bard!
@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy4 жыл бұрын
@@merxeddie6474 Until further notice, I will take that as a huge compliment. I'm not sure the Bard would use "freak" in his work but what the heck!! I loved living in England. Were it not for my wife, I would be there now. I love history and Britain is the proverbial goldmine. Cheers !!
@mosespray45104 жыл бұрын
David Warner was incredible. It seems no one remembers him anymore.
@discoveryman594 жыл бұрын
I can't remember my own phone number and then there's this guy.
@michaelmelen90624 жыл бұрын
The big show-off.
@tombrunila26954 жыл бұрын
Neither do I remember my own phone number, mainly because I call myself so seldom and I have no need to remember it.
@story19514 жыл бұрын
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice; practice; practice.
@gilliebrand4 жыл бұрын
To be fair...he forgot to limp right at the end, he limped all the way through then stormed off at the end quite briskly. I can forgive him, I hope you can. I too can't remember my phone number, I can't understand how actors can remember their lines, it's a dark art.
@marylousherman54714 жыл бұрын
Nobody better than Olivier....
@AbrahamLincoln44 жыл бұрын
Imagine walking into the wrong room and this guy just starts talking to you like this.
@hungrypromethean4 жыл бұрын
Was this not similar in any way to your father's daily breakfast soliloquy? "Now, is the time when you shall inform to me who ate the rest of my WORK-LUNCH baloney! I pray to hold thee nearest to my breast, and wring thy neck with the force of mighty stallions if I find the true culprit! Now dine on your Cheerios that which has issued from my loins for it may be the last earthly nourishment that you shall receive, courtesy of this gentleman's brow sweat, back, and anguish!" My dad worked at the GM plant in Kalamazoo, MI, and it was a whole thing he did every morning.
@BearWa11ace4 жыл бұрын
We used to practice our monologues on 17th street, in Denver, while attending the NTC. We we do them for the public. I remember doing Mobray, "Let not my cold words" From Rich II. It's a smoldering piece, that builds and builds, where he challenges a relative of the sitting King to a duel. This was a good way to work the piece up. Raising your rehearsal stakes by presenting and force you into the moment. Some fun reaction stories associated with this practice. Reactions varied but for the most part, people got it and seemed to dig it. With out a room but.. pretty much the approach you are musing at.
@kamuelalee4 жыл бұрын
@@hungrypromethean Genius...bravo, bravo!
@RobToggles404 жыл бұрын
Hungry Promethean your dad sounds legit
@EK-yp8ip4 жыл бұрын
🤣😜😂😬😳
@tahiragibson64074 жыл бұрын
It’s wonderful how he goes further away from the camera when he wants to be theatrical and rhetorical, then moves closer when he wants to be intimate and insinuating. It’s a clever blend of acting in two different mediums in one speech.
@simongleaden28644 жыл бұрын
Media, not mediums.
@MrStringybark4 жыл бұрын
Here I was thinking it would be the reverse. The more intimate he wants to become the further away he should get until his words become so indecipherable the "audience" has to get on stage to hear what he says. Then when he wants to throw his arms around he would natuarally go in for a close up of his face. Now that makes sense to me. But I have to bow to Olivier's wonderful genius.
@pentuplove65424 жыл бұрын
@@simongleaden2864 The Actor's Medium: On Stage and in Film. Marc Silberman. Modern Drama, Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 1996, pp. 558-565 (Article). To clarify your ignorance.
@pentuplove65424 жыл бұрын
He is speaking to someone. The door is pushed open slightly then one can hear the door close and the latch shut. Great work in both medium of stage and film. Media is incorrect. The Actor's Medium: On Stage and in Film. Marc Silberman. Modern Drama, Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 1996, pp. 558-565 (Article).
@malcolmharris52774 жыл бұрын
Ahem - the quoted sentence from the book is differently constructed to this comment. "Great work in both medium of stage and film." The second use of 'medium' is implied here, i.e. Great work in both medium of stage and (medium) of film. The plural of medium is media, so 'two different media' would be correct. I'm afraid using the quote from the book therefore does not support the argument.
@johnbrittingham44717 ай бұрын
Sir Laurence Olivier must have done this scene a thousand times. He perfected it with every fiber of his body.
@davidbrattain1446 Жыл бұрын
One of the greatest soliloquies of Shakespeare's works. Envy is timeless.
@cameradanblack Жыл бұрын
It is actually two stitched together.
@ryanpeplinski1884 Жыл бұрын
For everything else, there’s MasterCard…
@fearlessfosdick16011 ай бұрын
@@cameradanblack Olivier was always doing that. It is one of the things about his performances that I really detest.
@DrKaii10 ай бұрын
I don't know how to see what you see
@curtisdaniel929410 ай бұрын
How about this same Actor in Henry V ? Another of Olivier's Tour de Force! ❤
@matthewstoneback911 ай бұрын
All done in one glorious sustained take. This man had no equal.❤
@user-wz2qe2pv6r4 ай бұрын
Judi Dench
@realSirDextrose3 ай бұрын
@@user-wz2qe2pv6rno
@DudeSilad2 ай бұрын
@@user-wz2qe2pv6r To be fair, there a many amazing actors but they probably all used Lord Larry as the template. Tom Hiddlestone is fantastic in Shakespeare plays as is Ralph Fiennes.
@bartonbank2531Ай бұрын
@@user-wz2qe2pv6rdon’t be stupid . You wouldn’t see old Larry doing a money supermarket advert
@Andrew-q8k22 күн бұрын
Not really... close but no cigar... Vivien Leigh better on stage than JD@@user-wz2qe2pv6r
@andreraymond6860 Жыл бұрын
Perfection. Olivier veaves two soliloquies together. The opening one from Richard III and one from Henry VI part 3. They compliment each other brilliantly. His delivery is awesome. Cutting each vowel and consonant, underlining the meaning of each phrase to clarify the poetry for modern audiences unfamiliar with Elizabethean prose. Genius.
@DieFlabbergast Жыл бұрын
*complement each other
@fearlessfosdick16011 ай бұрын
It is what I dislike most about Olivier's performances.
@bloodgrss11 ай бұрын
As did Alec Guinness; to each his own...@@fearlessfosdick160
@edwardcoward500311 ай бұрын
I don't like It. I didn't age well at all
@bloodgrss11 ай бұрын
No, it is still good. Interesting to know what is more 'modern' and effective. Please do not say Ian McKellan...@@edwardcoward5003
@xectilus55304 жыл бұрын
The direction here is just superb. When he says "but yet I know not how to get the crown" and pulls the camera along with him, you feel totally immersed.
@pvonberg4 жыл бұрын
And guess who the director was.
@charlieleonard7610 Жыл бұрын
So true, the interaction with the viewer is sublimely done
@christianzafiroglu670511 ай бұрын
Olivier’s best work, I think. Mesmeric, hitting every beat of language with precision, revealing the disdain for his brother, the self-loathing and pity. Insulting himself to beat everyone else to the punch, he does so to justify his evil deeds to come. He could be speaking plain English and it would be as clear. Notice also this is all one tracking shot. A master at work at the peak of his confidence and skills.
@GoGoTwice5 жыл бұрын
The use of lighting and shadow is just amazing
@MantisCFS4 жыл бұрын
The way its set up, just a couple of empty, echoey rooms but by moving to certain places, with long shadows or the dark, green lighting from the stained glass windows it changes the tone without need for music or editing. Its a case of knowing Olivier can bring the goods and keeping everything else subdued, but not bland.
@stephaniestanley80414 жыл бұрын
Exquisite
@PG-lw5bg8 ай бұрын
Garbo understood that..She used her own lighting man whenever filming.
@TyrSkyFatherOfTheGods6 ай бұрын
The way the shadows darken on his face at the end!
@shannononefield Жыл бұрын
I've seen this many, many times and am still left grinning ear to ear and shaking my head with delight each time....hugely funny and marvelously devilish, he proclaims himself a villain and gets us on his side. Supernaturally masterful.
@petermorris9818 Жыл бұрын
I wore a vhs cassette of my dad's out watching this. Blue ray now. Sublime.
@willsingourd2523 Жыл бұрын
Some of it's the writing...
@hmq9052 Жыл бұрын
That's a very goofy reaction.
@talastra11 ай бұрын
I'm definitely not on his side. Iago, though.
@willsingourd252311 ай бұрын
@@hmq9052 I regret that you fail to stand under understatement...
@spockboy4 жыл бұрын
Genius writer, genius actor. Doesn't get better than this.
@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy4 жыл бұрын
Amen. I saw Ian Holm play him at The Royal Shakespeare Theater many moons ago when I was 12. Hooked me for life on Shakespeare.
@spockboy4 жыл бұрын
@@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy You're lucky! : )
@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy4 жыл бұрын
@@spockboy Thanks. Also saw him play Henry V and David Warner as Hamlet. I was an Air Force brat and my teacher was a card-carrying Shakespeare nut, as we called her. Opened my eyes to a part of the world I'll always appreciate. I mean, how many kids can say they have seen what I saw? Not many. Cheers !!
@Hernal03 Жыл бұрын
Yes it does! Add genius _director_ to that resume!
@ianbauer4703 Жыл бұрын
Genius director too.
@hisvorpalsword4 жыл бұрын
When it's done right Shakespeare is completely modern.
@joeessig35504 жыл бұрын
*eternal
@maggiesmith8564 жыл бұрын
He was not of an age, but for all time.
@jb39474 жыл бұрын
Completely agree
@hisvorpalsword4 жыл бұрын
@Hell Bro Away, you three-inch fool.
@winternow22423 жыл бұрын
Timeless
@SophieLovesSunsets Жыл бұрын
When I was a kid this scene scared the living daylights out of me. Now as an adult it's one of the most exquisite things I've ever seen. Olivier was cut from a very different cloth ❤
@michaelmelen90624 жыл бұрын
I saw Laurence Olivier at the Old Vic in 1973, late January. He was joined by Constance Cummings and Dennis Quilley (and I forget the name of the younger son) for "A Long Day's Journey Into Night". In retrospect, I was expecting a big ham, and was underimpressed by Olivier at first. By the play's end, I had learned a lot about acting from his performance, and from the performance of the ensemble. He never 'stole' a scene, and never overplayed a line. Every action was believable. His face reddened when required, he wept on demand, and at the end his despair and grief during Ms Cummings' lines were devastating, and in character. I had the opportunity to see Eric Clapton at the Rainbow Theatre, but instead stood on line in the snow to get tickets to "A Long Day's Journey Into Night". I made the right decision. Thank you, Sir Laurence and cast. I have spent these many years applauding that performance.
@edmonddantes36404 жыл бұрын
I envy you, what a wonderful experience, what a priceless memory.
@marytomlin384 жыл бұрын
Ronald Pickup played the younger son and Maureen Lipmann played the maid.
@jrblunt4 жыл бұрын
And that, folks, is what we call compelling and sublime acting! Laurence Olivier set the gold standard for interpreting William Shakespeare's works. Actors either meet, exceed, or fail to meet this standard.
@Zikanovich5 жыл бұрын
4:20 he says "frame my face" while his face is being framed You can tell every second of this was carefully crafted, this is the sort of work almost no one puts in anymore
@Herodollus4 жыл бұрын
Ben Dover I love the way his cheekbones sink at that moment and says ”i’ll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall”, its so good!!!
@johnr97634 жыл бұрын
Some actors do put in "a lot of work" nowadays, but sadly, it is often the kind of work that Hugh Jackman did to gain muscle for Wolverine.
@arturzathas4993 жыл бұрын
@@Herodollus so menacing and in no time at all
@DarellDavie13 жыл бұрын
Yep
@kevinwaters5872 Жыл бұрын
You can spend a life time unpacking just five minutes of Shakespearean dialogue. Absolute genius.
@user-cr3ti1vj6f9 ай бұрын
dialogue? where?
@LoveOneAnotherHeSaid8 ай бұрын
"Unpacking"... yeah, you go unpack, genius.
@kevinwaters58728 ай бұрын
@@LoveOneAnotherHeSaid feeling a bit salty darling ?
@aaronstark50603 ай бұрын
@@LoveOneAnotherHeSaid What’s your problem?
@brummagemjoe61113 жыл бұрын
No one has ever equaled Olivier's performance of this role. And indeed many other Shakespearean roles. I saw him do Othello and the Shylock on stage back in the 60's and it was gripping.
@peterknight2860 Жыл бұрын
Hello Joe - this is brummagem Peter. I also saw him in Othello in the 60´s and it will stay with me all my life.
@nagoranerides3150 Жыл бұрын
@@peterknight2860Strange to think it would be banned/cancelled now. Probably his Shylock too.
@maubunky111 ай бұрын
@@nagoranerides3150 They already cancelled the long running annual summer Shakespeare outdoor festival here in our midwestern US city on the grounds that it isn't diverse enough. Harold Bloom is probably rolling in his grave.
@neilmiller32209 ай бұрын
VINCENT PRICE AS WELL
@Honken4 жыл бұрын
I now understand everything that Rowan Atkinson has ever done.
@nostromo79283 жыл бұрын
For sure.
@sirjanska95753 жыл бұрын
The first season of Blackadder is basically a parody of this, the first episode especially
@therealmr.incredible31793 жыл бұрын
What is the message of the video?
@osman010033 жыл бұрын
How is so?
@Honken3 жыл бұрын
@@osman01003 His earlier material, especially his standups, draw inspiration from this (or Olivier in general). I've never seen Olivier before, but I _immediately_ thought of Atkinson.
@sandykemp75624 жыл бұрын
Watching this it’s not hard to see why many consider Olivier to be one of the greatest actors of all time. Not only having to remember that entire soliloquy but also having to deliver it in a single take all whilst hitting his marks and putting the proper passion and nuance into every line and movement. Truly impressive.
@ruly81532 жыл бұрын
Well he was a stage actor and he would have the whole play learnt off by heart I suppose
@nagantm4412 жыл бұрын
yeah too bad they abridged it.
@martinmalcolm2747 Жыл бұрын
Interesting fact, he suffered from stage fright. He would always vomit just before going on stage it was that terrible
@deadbydayinblack Жыл бұрын
better than that its two sollilogauirs merged into one. The start is from richard the third but it then moves into King Henry VI, Part 3. Oliver understood the audiance needed to see just how much richard wanted the crown. ( true history be dammed as always history was written by the victor+
@brettjohnson536 Жыл бұрын
Yh I really don't get it. I'm sure this was considered great back then, but there's a reason you don't see this kind of acting in Shakespeare plays anymore.
@ergbudster33334 жыл бұрын
I've never heard anyone do it better. Brilliant. And it just now occurred to me this is where Rowan Atkinson derived his Blackadder (the first one).
@potatoegirl314 жыл бұрын
They do have a similiar bangin' fashion sense! 😂
@jamesmckean32214 жыл бұрын
Now is the summer of our sweet content...
@marcellogenesi63902 жыл бұрын
Als
@csb7376Ай бұрын
Blackadder actually kills Richard III (Peter Cook).
@jeremytarling5164 Жыл бұрын
Probably sounds a bit sad but I set this to memory by playing it over and over again in the car for a couple of weeks - I can still repeat it word for word 10; years later. It's amazing how you can remember things you enjoy so clearly yet day to day stuff slips away like sand through your fingers!
@thespamdance3119 ай бұрын
Sounds like an admirable use of your time. No one has used our language so well as Shakespeare; it almost seems like it was designed for his pen.
@LoveOneAnotherHeSaid8 ай бұрын
Ever give that speech in a post office, buying stamps? Or in a bar?
@rerite24 жыл бұрын
"Love doth forswore me in my mother's womb..." Damn, that's cold.
@slappy89414 жыл бұрын
It's just "love foreswore"; past tense, which can't be preceded by "doth", which is the present active/infinitive form of "do".
@rerite24 жыл бұрын
@@slappy8941 -- Source, please.
@varana4 жыл бұрын
@@rerite2 2:10 Also, that's how grammar works. "doth" is the old form of "does"; you wouldn't say "love does forswore me".
@cufflink444 жыл бұрын
Russell G It's: "Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb." But you're right: cold.
@Farweasel4 жыл бұрын
@@varana You overlook three things: In modern English we could correctly say 'Love *did foreswear* me ...' (&) Grammatical rules shift significantly overtime - Doth could well have equally meant does & did (but see below) Part of the foundation of the impact of Shakespear's writing stems from his ability and willingness to bend the usual rules of Grammar to carry extra potency. And then again maybe not because in Julius Ceasar there is a very, very clever piece of underhanded character assasination Cassius says to Brutus in essence 'Yeah mate? You thing Ceasar's well hard, more or less a God. Pha! When we were in Sapin he had a fit and fell sick and - yeah get this innit: His coward lips did from their colour fly'. So Shakespear did (or possibly doth) use 'did' as well as 'doth'. But on the other hand he spelled Shakespear at last half a dozen different ways. Ironically to make sure I had the quote spot on (of course I had, as but modesty (which I obviously do flawlessly) obliged it) I checked it. And I was slightly sad to read next to the original a modern English version. My first thought was 'great, its being make accessible'. Sadly, the muppets writing the conversion evidently had no real concept of nuance & connotation. It became 'His lips turned white' Evidently oblivious to the deeper meaning of someone 'flying from their colour(s)'. Its like saying "The Mona Lisa's this young old time chick, quite pretty, eyes are done nicely. And because the gaze is horizontal it gives the impression she follows you with her eyes. It a well used technique. Done in paint. Not much going on in the background".
@zimatar4894 жыл бұрын
Sir Laurence Olivier - The Lord of the Stage. Legendary, iconic and immortal performer of the English Plays.
@punictunic4 жыл бұрын
The genius of Olivier was taking the language of Shakespeare and playing it pitch perfect. Not sure any actor has made it as readily accessible as he did.
@paulaneary78772 жыл бұрын
Incredible man. I couldn't really catch all he was saying, but I was still mesmerized. Mark of a true actor.
@xqqqme11 ай бұрын
You're ahead of me, then. I couldn't catch MOST of what he was saying.
@nordfreiheit4 жыл бұрын
This is the perfect blending of film and theater. What magnificent acting and directing.
@Steviej1483 жыл бұрын
Without a doubt the greatest Shakespearean actor who ever drew breath . RIP Sir Laurence Olivier. Now is the winter of our discontent very appropriate quote for current bleak time we all going through.
@adolforodolfo692910 ай бұрын
Seen lots of them have you? Seriously, this may be your opinion, and is as valid as mine or anyone else's, but "without a doubt"? I think there might just be some doubters dotted here and there.
@Pure_B9 ай бұрын
He's not THE greatest. Many others including Gielgud, Rylance, Hopkins, Fiennes, Schofield and others have been equally great. @@adolforodolfo6929
@janel3429 ай бұрын
Try Ralph Fiennes now Also In Stratford upon Avon where the RSC is based Outside a sports shop appeared this sign ‘Now is the discount of our winter tent’
@Horndogthehorneddog10 ай бұрын
Some of the best facial expressions from an actor ever. Such an amazing talent with the virtuosity like that of very few throughout time. The natural talent and hard work displayed here are hard to take in.
@stuka197729 күн бұрын
The beats...
@annamariafacchiano16884 жыл бұрын
What an actor.! He is one of the greatest actors of all times.
@jackflash7432 жыл бұрын
not one of, the best one
@Torahboy1 Жыл бұрын
Did someone say, “frightful ham!” ?? Well then, pass the mustard and I’ll gobble this up all day long….. Watch how Larry hits every mark without seeming to look for them The lighting is strikingly good for this period of cinema. The camera movements so smooth and subtle, perfectly framed, that they only exist if you look for them.
@johnnyhock Жыл бұрын
Peter Sellers’ rendition of the Beatles “hard day’s night” as Richard III in the style of Lawrence Olivier is wonderful
@MrDaiseymay11 ай бұрын
yes it is, I'd forgotten that. It used to be played frequently on the radio---a lot of things did, once upon a time. Now it's junk.
@LoveOneAnotherHeSaid8 ай бұрын
Now, we are on the money!
@goodlookinouthomie175712 күн бұрын
I have never seen that but I'm imagining it in an Olivian style "It has been... a hard day's night".
@howardgoy9568 Жыл бұрын
A truly great Shakespearian actor at his best.
@scottloar4 жыл бұрын
Yes, the legend that is Laurence Olivier, but to see and hear this without knowing who he was yet his talent and, yes, understanding of the character and every word does he convince us - this is extraordinary.
@robertwheeler4068 Жыл бұрын
Sir Lawrence...The true master of the theater! BRAVO!👏 May these video performances last on forever to educate and show the world of his amazing talents!
@elizabethroberts621511 ай бұрын
……his first name is spelled the Latin way, ‘Laurence’……
@robertwheeler406811 ай бұрын
@@elizabethroberts6215 Thank you so very much for your kind correction.👌⚘
@conrad152 Жыл бұрын
A bravura performance by Olivier an artist at the height of his powers making the part his own. He is relaxed and totally confident in the role because he knows how great he is.
@BOTG_Adventures2 жыл бұрын
I can't explain why this brings me to tears. Is it a memory of a forgotten past? Why do I feel such emotion when wandering York and Bosworth and Towton, these things I cannot put into words, for I know deep down England and Richard are in my heart and very being.
@rosemaryallen2128 Жыл бұрын
The then Richard of Gloucester was too young to fight at Towton, of course. And your comment being where it is, is very misleading to those who do not know that there is very little substance to connect Shakespeare's diabolical Richard with the real man.
@markmeade2937 Жыл бұрын
The words of Shakespeare and the delivery of Olivier make a deep emotional tide in one’s soul. Moving and uplifting with a mesmerising performance……
@thomasgoodisson8877 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely spot on my friend
@EzraAldiWibisono3 жыл бұрын
It's very daring and creative to combine two soliloquies from separate acts and tailor it so seamlessly. And that hair dude... So menacing 😧
@tomnorton4277 Жыл бұрын
I didn't even realise this was two separate soliloquies combined into one. I can't even pinpoint where one soliloquy ended and the other began. Olivier flowed from one to the other so effortlessly that I could easily buy that it was always written as one scene.
@Spankbucket4 жыл бұрын
To me Laurence Olivier IS Richard III. Having seen this film when it first came out the impression it made on me has never been superseded.
@robinghosh88916 жыл бұрын
Great acting to the very heights by the world's greatest actor. I Salute
@gurukirupa98404 жыл бұрын
Correction. Marlon Brando is the greatest. Olivier doesn't come close.
@MilesDavis20124 жыл бұрын
Amazing that he also played Henry the Fifth so well--enormously different characters!
@winstonmarx7634 жыл бұрын
@@johnmulligan455 who is greater than him?
@winstonmarx7634 жыл бұрын
@@johnmulligan455 :D HIM
@jamesmckean32214 жыл бұрын
Is he, sirs? I fear there will a worse come in his place.
@robroberts14734 жыл бұрын
There's actors and then there is this guy, that was impressive, in the fact that you kinda forget he is acting.
@wilfwilfman4 жыл бұрын
I agree that it’s impressive, but... He’s looking directly at the camera and saying things like “he capers nimbly in the lady’s chamber”. It’s not exactly slice of life lol
@robroberts14734 жыл бұрын
@@wilfwilfman dude come on I say that kind of stuff at least twice a week lol 😋
@wilfwilfman4 жыл бұрын
You are most fair, kind Sir Robert. May the trumpets of St. Peter always sing thy melody, and the beasts of Lucipher be ever at thy beck and call.
@robroberts14734 жыл бұрын
@@wilfwilfman dude if I had a dollar for every time I heard that id be a rich man. 😏
@theGhoulman4 жыл бұрын
@@wilfwilfman FYI, he looks directly at the audience because he's speaking to the audience. It's a MONOLOG. It's a theatre thing. Ancient tradition, etc. And btw, when he says '“he capers nimbly in the lady’s chamber”, he's saying the King is a puff. It's an insult.
@ivanjulian25324 жыл бұрын
I've always wondered by Laurence Olivier was so highly regarded when it came to Shakespeare. I can see now why he was known as the actor's actor.
@stevekaczynski37934 жыл бұрын
He wasn't always good at it - in Nicholas and Alexandra, he overacts quite a bit.
@clivegower-collins90124 ай бұрын
I have watched this over and over (I'm not a player or student of theatre) and it still chills me 'I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall" What an amazing talent
@jimcrosby82892 ай бұрын
Yes a truly wonderful piece
@michaelgibson47057 ай бұрын
This performance committed to film will last as long as people are interested in the works of Shakespeare.His reading of it though of its time is Masterful, a foundation for others to build on
@welshpete125 жыл бұрын
Being some one who is interested in the history of words , ( etymology) . There is so much in this speech that covers so much ground . It is wonderful writing !
@MariaMartinez-researcher4 жыл бұрын
The author was a guy of some renown in the playwriting business...
@wholeNwon4 жыл бұрын
It was unnecessary to define "etymology".
@Louis.R4 жыл бұрын
Read "A Theatre of Envy"
@iriscollins75832 жыл бұрын
@@wholeNwon In this day and age, I don't think so.
@teletubetodd4 жыл бұрын
Magnificent! I love the nuances Olivier brought to Richard III: softer when closer, louder when further away, knowing when to change his mood, placing himself under the hanging giant crown to express his ambition, and de-emphasizing his limp at the end in his determination "to get a crown." Bravo! Thanks for posting. Rest in peace, Laurence.
@Mediumal4 жыл бұрын
Never before or since has the English language be so eloquently written and spoken. Shakespeare and Larry Olivier a perfect combination.
@AlisonProctor-fq4kt Жыл бұрын
Few were, or ever will be, the caliber actor Olivier was. The voice, face, passion and talent……he was incredible.
@pvonberg5 жыл бұрын
Greatness. Nothing will ever surpass this.
@MahmoudIsmail1988.4 жыл бұрын
Oh it is impossible to surpass that.. this is the edge of the horizon
@timsalazar12534 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest actors who ever lived.
@thomasblim28944 жыл бұрын
Tera Reid is better...
@suffern634 жыл бұрын
I never saw him in the theatre so I'll take the word of other actors who said he was great,but could you really imagine him playing the role of Arthur Seaton, or Mr Sugden in Kes?
@robertleo73944 жыл бұрын
@@DJKinney You are unaquinted with the craft.
@bearhustler4 жыл бұрын
@@DJKinney I found that more gripping to watch than any number of current method-bores, it's a different style for sure but still brilliant. There's a lot of subtlety under the bluster.
@jongcook82884 жыл бұрын
@@DJKinney are serious?i really feel his emotion and im not even an english speaker,most of the word he said i dont understand but the emotion and feeling is certainly there.he is like speaking to you personally telling all his evil plan and man he is scary,,im actually shocked that he is great,i find theatrical acting boring, but not this one, he knows what he's doing and is very good at it...the only thing a non english speaker understand someone is through his action while speaking,its not about what he say it is how he say it
@fernandoestebanzunigaandra80884 жыл бұрын
Just...wow. What an actor, this man encarnates every Sheakespeare´s word on this play...There let be known, that will never be another one, like Sir Lawrence Olivier. ;) .
@michaelhanrahanmoore16222 жыл бұрын
A masterpiece and the greatest olivier ever did.
@sixty2jeff4 жыл бұрын
“Is it safe?”...... chills
@chrisholland73674 жыл бұрын
That reminds me I have to make a dental appointment 🤣👍
@mauricioduron31934 жыл бұрын
Worlds apart...galaxies...
@ProfMikeSwope4 жыл бұрын
Damn, beat me to it...
@deevan14154 жыл бұрын
The industrial music group Skinny Puppy introduced me to that movie. They sample that line in their song "Assimilate".
@airdriver14604 жыл бұрын
"So, I'm guessing that's a 'no' on the new, vinyl gutters, then?"
@soldierside3653 жыл бұрын
I laughed disproportionately more than I think any man should
@kavithajaganath7641 Жыл бұрын
This guy was a great actor. I saw him in the Othello play. R.I.P Sir Laurence Olivier 🙏🌺
@rugby8-Philadelphia4 жыл бұрын
"Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sunne of York" The placement of the breath/break in the line can cause significant differences of meaning. 😎😎😎
@cufflink444 жыл бұрын
Rugby8 A lot of people, misunderstanding the syntax, quote the first seven words as if they're a complete sentence on their own: "Now is the winter of our discontent." That's not what Shakespeare meant. In contemporary English prose, it would be: "Now, the winter of our discontent is made glorious summer by this sun of York."
@rugby8-Philadelphia4 жыл бұрын
@@cufflink44 ummmm.....That's exactly the point I am making 😁 The first 7 words by themselves make a "negative" statement. However, the line in its entirety, as written by Mr. Shakespeare, is a Positive - a Glorious one. I am fully aware of its intended meaning, nor does it need to be "contemporary English prose " --- that's Exactly the point I was making 😎😎😎
@cufflink444 жыл бұрын
@@rugby8-Philadelphia You seem to be taking my comment as a slam at you. It wasn't. I was agreeing with you, and trying to extend what you said to make it clearer how the line is often misinterpreted.
@rugby8-Philadelphia4 жыл бұрын
@@cufflink44 Appreciated, and Sorry! But I think I was pretty clear - don't think it needs to be "clearer" 😁😁😁
@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy4 жыл бұрын
@@rugby8-Philadelphia To both gentlemen: I take "now" as "this moment" is the winter......Am I on the wrong track?
@elisabethschwartz160 Жыл бұрын
Richard III was the last King of England who died in battle. After 500 years of his death his remains were found under a parking lot. Lawrence Oliver was a brilliant actor❤
@thethoughtfulpeanut666211 ай бұрын
(And the skeleton revealed that he did in fact have a curvature of the spine.)
@axiomaddict11 ай бұрын
And blonde, a gracile, and likely his dark representation and rancid evil was merely political smearing to appease Shakespear’s sponsors. I think.
@risingphoenix807211 ай бұрын
Curvature of the spine but still a warrior. I think King Richard was misunderstood.
@MrDaiseymay11 ай бұрын
I think Sir Larry, would have been amused by that recent find.
@ericwilliams212210 ай бұрын
did they find his car too?
@airdriver14604 жыл бұрын
I've watched this-who knows how many times, and I never get tired of seeing it. This is how you become a knight. His expression change at 4:24 will make you take two steps backward.
@jackflash7432 жыл бұрын
first a knight and then became a lord
@thespamdance3119 ай бұрын
Such genius in his interpretation! He took text that is barely decipherable to the average reader, and rendered every word intelligible and resonant. I feel like I should watch the whole film now.
@michaelmccall32344 жыл бұрын
Simply...A Classic!! Its been viewed so many times and been placed under so much scrutiny that it's been labeled as great! And then left on a shelf somewhere. But this is Olivier!! The Master Of Acting!! He directed it. To me, Olivier is the greatest actor ever. Surprisingly, this movie is kind of dull...Unless Olivier As Evil Richard The Third Is In The Scene....THEN THE MOVIE IS EAGERLY DARK!!!
@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy4 жыл бұрын
No argument here. I saw Ian Holm play Richard III in about 1964 at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford. I was 12. Was an addict immediately.
@Firebrand554 жыл бұрын
Actors since, grasping this nettle, would hear this matchless, definitive monologue pounding in their ears.
@ivorbiggun7104 жыл бұрын
I prefer Peter Sellers' version.
@thomaslasch5674 жыл бұрын
@James Henderson You are merely jealous. Larry's girl was Vivian Leigh. From 19 years old......
@HAL-vc3of4 жыл бұрын
James Henderson Watch a streetcar named desire. She plays a pathetic whore
@thomaslasch5674 жыл бұрын
@James Henderson What fucking vile people you are. Miss Leigh has won numerous awards as the most beautiful of all Hollywood stars. I myself would put Raquel Welch on top of a list. But Ugly? Ridiculous.
@Line...4 жыл бұрын
@James Henderson You cannot have any sense at all if you think Vivien Leigh ugly. SShe is the most beautiful creature to ever. Also, your eyes are failing you; go see a doctor. Also, you have no heart. I suspect you're just very jealous or perhaps one of those incels. Retreat to your mothers basement, from whence you came
@vincezaaa3 жыл бұрын
I love at 3:35 when he personifies the camera and making it look like he is grabbing our hand to lead us in his direction.
@abigail_yang3 жыл бұрын
Certainly; this embodiment of the audience in the form of the camera-man is also seen at the beginning of the clip, when Richard notices the camera-man entre, and begins his soliloquy then, speaking directly into the lens.
@causticwit Жыл бұрын
I love that part!
@katyalacrua6793 Жыл бұрын
Exactly!)
@PL-rf4hy11 ай бұрын
If the trick to acting is in the eyes then this is a masterpiece.
@MrCantStopTheRobot8 ай бұрын
I've watched this clip many times over several years. This time, I noticed the broken lighting en route to the throne. As Olivier limps back toward the viewer, he flashes in and out of the shadows with a lurch. Perfect.
@diegomoreno59273 жыл бұрын
He was such a great actor. So whimsy, playful and mesmerizing.
@vmcnick4 жыл бұрын
His intonation and dynamics are flawless.
@thomaschacko63204 жыл бұрын
Laurence Olivier directed and starred in "Henry V," "Hamlet" (Best Picture & Best Actor Oscars), and this, "Richard III." Sheer genius and dedication to his craft! How shameful that he still wasn't able to raise financing for his planned "Macbeth"! His rendition of "Othello" was superb, but was a filmed recording of his National Theatre production, rather than a full-fledged film. We are truly blessed that he left us such a noble, versatile legacy. God Bless, Lord Olivier, or as he liked to be called . . . Larry.
@vestibulate4 жыл бұрын
Thomas Chacko His Othello was rendered- and I do mean rendered- in burnt cork blackface makeup. To complete the effect, he would roll his eyes and flash his whitened teeth. It really was something to see.
@rerite24 жыл бұрын
He would've been a great MacBeth, IMHO. Vivian Leigh as Lady MacBeth. Today, he could raise the money through GoFundMe. Alas....
@thomaschacko63204 жыл бұрын
@@vestibulate Hey, Tom! At the time (1964 - 65), Olivier's portrayal of "Othello" did stir some controversy: many raves, some scathing reviews. Others - including Orson Welles - had played the role as a Middle Eastern type. But Olivier made a firm decision to play Othello as an African. I've read how hard he worked to prepare: workouts at the gym, voice lessons to lower the pitch, and even developing a more "athletic" walk. The makeup took a couple of hours to apply, about the same amount of time to remove! (Can you imagine doing this every night for the stage?) The reason they did the filmed recording was, the show was a complete sellout! Plus, it made additional money for the National Theatre. I wish I could have seen Paul Robeson do it!
@cassconner60234 жыл бұрын
Thomas Chacko Larry? Who would dare!
@DHEMGHJS4 жыл бұрын
He'd be strung up if he did Othello today! Yet plenty of black actors take traditionally Caucasian roles
@AndyBHome4 жыл бұрын
I saw this late one night on TV and it grabbed me so effectively that I just dropped everything and watched it through to the end, past midnight.
@margaretgoodheart4167 Жыл бұрын
Back in the ancient days of the 60s Olivier was Othello on film and beautiful, young Maggie Smith, Desdemona. Divine.
@mjremy2605 Жыл бұрын
My only regret has been not to have read ALL of Shakespeare's works yet. I have to catch up. The metaphors are so deep that every bit of prose is poetry. When Olivier does Shakespeare I cling to every word. What greatness in these words. Richard III is one of my favorites. We must not lose this and it should be taught in every school.
@michaelbayer5094 Жыл бұрын
I would hope the UK will always cherish Shakespeare. Maybe they will remain closer to Elizabethan English than Americans. Sadly, too many American students are not literate enough to understand this former and increasingly alien version of the language. Compounding the problem is the push for more current and relevant reading material (I will not call it literature) in all schools and the movement to reduce colleges to trade schools.
@w3ayneo1234 жыл бұрын
As an English man born and bred I have to say.....”That could be possibly the best piece of acting ever”‼️ What say you world❓❓❓
@TheTaxburden4 жыл бұрын
Indeed!
@pentuplove65424 жыл бұрын
Funny as most English are immigrants, even the Queen is an immigrants grandchild, Saxe-Coberg und Gothe is her Surname, from Germany. Windsor isnt her real Surname, only adopted when she was crowned.
@ReinoldFZ4 жыл бұрын
Seeing it from Peru I have to concur, amazing :O
@wendycohen90384 жыл бұрын
Larry was amazing in this. It's such a hard speech because it opens the play and he tells you exactly who and what he is and what he's going to do. Wooooo
@sakuraojibwe66344 жыл бұрын
@Wayne Shortall "What say you world❓❓❓" I say "Troilus and Cressida," 2.3.152-4, Agamemnon to Ajax.
@millypuppydog4 жыл бұрын
The world at war narration was his masterpiece. As a seven year old his voice transfixed me and now I know all about the 2nd world war because of his voice
@tarakihi46584 жыл бұрын
Wasn't Richard Burton the narrator on War of the Worlds?
@randallpmcmurphy75014 жыл бұрын
Although the script was a tissue of lies from start to finish. If all you know of the war was what you, as I too, learned from that television entertainment, then you have been duped.
@Elitist20 Жыл бұрын
@@randallpmcmurphy7501 What, that Nazis were bad?
@adolforodolfo692910 ай бұрын
@@tarakihi4658 Yes he was, but Jeff Wayne's album "The War of the Worlds" and the TV history series "The World at War" were two different things. Realise you were probably just making a joke,
@katehillier102711 ай бұрын
Absolutely stunning and compelling performance by a master of the art.
@johnbrowne39504 жыл бұрын
Once you start watching, you can't stop. Mesmerizing. You want more.
@vantage034 жыл бұрын
The master of acting. All actors should study him.
@DWinegarden24 жыл бұрын
Ham
@vantage034 жыл бұрын
@@DWinegarden2 I like it on rye with swiss cheese.
@gerardk514 жыл бұрын
They all do.
@robertgillespie77384 жыл бұрын
I did...
@garysandiego4 жыл бұрын
I hadn’t recalled this speech being so effective. When I first watched the movie ages ago I was unimpressed. Now I’m impressed. I wonder what happened?
@ercanpeker4 жыл бұрын
you got older, probably.
@lauralaura22934 жыл бұрын
Maturity come with wisdom.
@photo1614 жыл бұрын
Olivier got better, of course...
@Herodollus4 жыл бұрын
Maybe you paid more attention to the words/was in a place where you could appreciate oliviers subtlety (or whatever) more
@christopherhanna57544 жыл бұрын
I did not appreciate this as a teenager but now I am almost 50 and I understand some of it... Shakespeare is still the high measure for writing .
@mencken84 жыл бұрын
One of the masters of that great instrument which is English.
@cufflink444 жыл бұрын
rico567 Olivier or Shakespeare? 😎
@mencken84 жыл бұрын
cufflink44 Either or both, take your pick. Although Shakespeare even had a hand in contributing to modern English.
@drbalbon7332 Жыл бұрын
Perfect poise, intonation, volume, and delivery. This is how you chat up a lady.
@busterfriendly6305 Жыл бұрын
Obsessed with this over the last few weeks. At 1:41 that tiny head gesture to say "follow" to the camera man and the smoothness of it. Just wonderful. Wouldn't have spotted it without other commenters saying it's there, it's so seamless.
@lefuedebout4 жыл бұрын
Listening to this I can't help thinking of Peter Sellers recital of " It's A Hard Days Night !!!
@neiltappenden10084 жыл бұрын
Lol a genius
@weatheranddarkness4 жыл бұрын
It was meant to be "in the style of Laurence Olivier" was it not?
@lefuedebout4 жыл бұрын
@@weatheranddarkness if that was the case then without a doubt it succeeded!
@andymassingham4 жыл бұрын
It's been...a...hawd....days night....and I've been working.....like-a-dog.....
I remember a hilarious Monty Python skit: The Old Overactor's Home. In one room is several people dressed up as Long John Silver (Robert Newton ) in 'Treasure Island', completely costumed, with pegleg and shoulder-parrot, hobbling around crying "Aaargh!" In the second room is another bunch of people dressed up as Richard III (as Olivier plays him here)....
@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy4 жыл бұрын
That had escaped my memory. I am laughing hysterically in case you're wondering.
@tenhirankei4 жыл бұрын
Who's in the other rooms? There has to be one for portrayers of Macbeth another for Hamlet and for Julius Caesar.
@1earflapping4 жыл бұрын
@@tenhirankei I forget, so I looked it up. The other rooms were for King Rat(s) & Hamlet(s).
@SuperNevile4 жыл бұрын
I really can't see or hear this without seeing Peter Sellers swimming into view, with the "definitive spoof" of this performance and "A Hard Day's Night".......
@vinnygi4 жыл бұрын
“A horse. A horse. My kingdom for a horse”
@danielstump32044 жыл бұрын
This is one of the best movies ever!
@blackhoundrise843111 ай бұрын
When you watch this and somehow find the need to clap hands but of shock stop yourself, asking why? Don’t be harsh on yourself. This was an excellent performance by an incredible actor.
@chrishayes22078 ай бұрын
The relevance of this to today's world is remarkable. The plotting and subterfuge in the worlds of politics and business are unchanged from Shakespeare's time.
@epicgangnamstyle87834 жыл бұрын
He looks like Lord farquaad
@SunburntHands4 жыл бұрын
Yes! Lord Farquaad is absolutely based on this performance, as a grasping, deformed malcontent.
@LordVader10944 жыл бұрын
I mean, Lord Farquaad was very much based on this kind of medieval look. :P
@AbrahamLincoln44 жыл бұрын
Lord Farquaad was based off Richard III.
@WizardOfHumor19894 жыл бұрын
I was gonna say the exact same thing!
@count73404 жыл бұрын
Lord Fuckwad.
@peterlewis35404 жыл бұрын
My fondest memory was going to see Derek Jacobi, in the Theatre Royal in Bath, back in 1978. It was the early afternoon performance of Richard 2nd, and sublime acting. WORD PERFECT, with all the character movements and mannerisms, as his character lost all control. Heaven forbid, he was doing Henry V later on that evening, and according to relatives, who saw the production, it was one of the best they had seen. Blimey, most of us struggle to learn a few lines of the Bards famous works, but learning two plays, word perfect, with the ability to act them, without thinking of what to say next. That's what separates the great actors from the run of the mill crowd
@davidjohn7510 Жыл бұрын
The brilliance is in the timing and facial expression……wonderful interpretation. Thank you.
@charlieinfinite9434 Жыл бұрын
From now on, I will be reciting this when I answer the door to I find it has been knocked upon by undesirable persons. I will just keep going and respond to nothing they say until they get disturbed and leave.
@mikedudez4 жыл бұрын
I love his voice
@katyalacrua6793 Жыл бұрын
Me too!😊
@misterparadise95423 жыл бұрын
It’s also really cool that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. alludes to the first line within the “ I Have a Dream” speech.
@masterklaw452710 ай бұрын
So many swords decorate that scene, and yet, the sharpest thing in this video is his delivery.
@ThePredatorspredator4 жыл бұрын
BRAVO! The acting is magnificent--look at his eyes, how they sharpen to snake-eyed proportions. The limp. And the director was incredible. We feel we are in the room. At one point Olivier reaches out and we feel as if he is grasping our arm. Remember, its depiction is of the man who robbed Edward DeVere and Queen Elizabeth's son, the Earl of Southampton (the fair youth in the sonnets, would be King Henry IX). A play performed by design at the very time of the Essex revolution, where Southampton was to take the crown. This is a magnificent performance in every aspect.
@susanrichardson30483 жыл бұрын
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@harshlight74 жыл бұрын
"It's been a hard day's nighttt..."
@spockboy4 жыл бұрын
LOL Ahh yes Peter Sellars. : )
@randallpmcmurphy75014 жыл бұрын
It’s...............been
@johnberkley69423 жыл бұрын
She lufffs you! Yah! Yah! Yah!
@raymondkidd23463 жыл бұрын
Peter Sellers was great at it.good call.
@kevinbray26033 жыл бұрын
and iv been working like a dog
@michaeljames49044 жыл бұрын
That’s a remarkable copy of England’s ancient Coronation Chair with replica of the Stone of Destiny seated underneath. The meagre circumstances in which Olivier lived and produced his cinematic Hamlet, Henry V and Richard III are worth looking up. His office little more than a cupboard in a tiny shared administrative cabin on waste ground on London’s South (river) Bank.
@katyalacrua6793 Жыл бұрын
Simply brilliant! He was so loud!!! Beautiful man and actor. Bravo 👏👏👏❤️
@paradoxicalcanons4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for including Sir William Walton's score at the beginning. One of my favorites!