Waiting for Godot (ending)

Last two scenes from the play

[@tombruges1557]

The realisation that he’s stuck in this loop is so subtly terrifying

[@tobs001]

love this play. Whole things feels like a metaphor for life as a human

[@user-vl9lo8yn4f]

Please can help me

[@galileogriffin7333]

My heart always broke for Didi in this scene....of the two he seems the more aware....

[@bonkoloid]

cuz hes wearing lucky’s hat

[@jimcazador6057]

One of the best plays I have ever had the pleasure to watch and the best version ever. Brilliants actors.

[@Operafreak9]

Agreed. Numbingly great. Acting painfully overwhelming.

[@glenntimmermans8277]

Without doubt the very finest production. Utterly brilliant.

[@alexandropoulosalex]

"If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot." S. Beckett

[@iadorenewyork1]

I think he was messing with his audience (... a Beckett admirer)! Godot most certainly, or uncertainly, can be thought of as God.

[@bitoffbalance4021]

Free to interpret in any possible way. I think godot means the pizza delivery guy who's stuck in traffic

[@dimkilago2958]

@@iadorenewyork1 the boy mentions who he is .A landowner that these two have some connection with. In their minds (old men with memory problems) "Godot" works. by association, with "God", to the one they prayed to, the one who will save them, etc. as they say. A false hope that on the one hand keeps them alive and on the other keeps them stuck. In their case, of course, "keeps them alive" is more intense. From there the work is a critique of barbarism and class societies. Lucky's monologue essentially emphasizes Marx's contradiction of production relations and productive forces.

[@gggnumber1]

Every production I see of this play ...... the actors treat it like it is a death march.

[@dariusthurman8835]

Why the hell doesn't the Old man just follow the boy to Godot's farm.

[@Darshu1018]

☺👍

[@hqatran23]

"It would be fatuous of me to pretend that I am not aware of the meanings attached to the word 'Godot', and the opinion of many that it means 'God'. But you must remember - I wrote the play in French, and if I did have that meaning in my mind, it was somewhere in my unconscious and I was not overtly aware of it." Samuel .B Godillot is a french word for boot, and feet were somewhat a 'prominent role' in the play.

[@Domino009]

Barry McGovern plays Vladimir in this filmed version, and the boy messenger is played by Sam McGovern, his son. It's quite interesting to see the interaction between them in this version, keeping that relationship in mind. Kinda meta. It adds a new dimension to Vladimir's line 'Approach, my child' towards the end of Act 1, I thought.

[@vergiliotorres]

A speck in the void. Absolute! Thanks for sharing it. Big hug

[@Viperplayer187]

I read this play in my literature class and loved it!

[@chewymatty1]

"I am a purchased slave, my name is Lucky. I have sold myself in the shop for God's word; where He placed me, there am I placed. What cleverness hath Thy slave? He cannot obey the Lord's order, My mother was a slave, my father a slave, I was born a slave." Thats a quote from a sikh text. hmm

[@harmendarsingh4429]

Mool kharidi Lala golla Mera naam subhaga.... You are right...

[@Bahaaeldeenmoh]

This is a masterpiece

[@mastertml]

i think Godot is a pretty cool guy. eh never shows up and doesnt afraid of anything

[@alet80]

è difficile trovare altro che possa essere espresso dopo questo....

[@TheKunal2989]

They do not move

[@Dirtzoo]

how alone we are, forget politeness in the face of wonder without joy. How is your brother. ?

[@dadvoc666]

theater of absurd ---- absurd indeed!

[@Sintalk]

Possibly the greatest comment on human condition of the previous century.

[@BigGayMike]

@NyashaMe The lines for 'the boy' don't leave much room for dramatic interpretation.

[@tkhushrenada]

to me the tale is one of the futility of life. The endless horror and inescapable pointlessness of it all. In seeing the horror of it I see the comedy. Just my take

[@Dirtzoo]

@michaeijd i am not always a fan of dramatic interpretation. When the words say enough.

[@francescalettieri]

che meraviglia

[@Dirtzoo]

@tkhushrenada the burden of Humanity can be a stale tale. Still i enjoy hearing it as this.

[@666or999]

@SomethingReal1119 Samual Beckett said expicitly that Godot isn't God. He isn't saying that you can't interpret it or try to figure it out just that your interpretation is wrong.

[@countinglampposts]

@alexandropoulosalex well there goes all my theories on this play

[@andalperumal1136]

This was not much important but when I read the play I enjoy more and I think why author wrote this drama

[@googleaccountchangestoyour8890]

this whole thing really is as complicated the fancy papers say it is.

[@Skellington383]

When was this movie made and who plays the characters? We watched this in class but I never got to see the credits:(

[@CIoudbby]

i've the entire filmed version uploaded, if anyone wants to see it. :]

[@senseisukha]

nawhdee pls i want to watch the whole film

[@tombruges1557]

I can’t go on like this- that’s what you think

[@Dirtzoo]

@DrClay999 we are all that way, are we not? at the worse of it any way.

[@Xhaosz]

Oh! Ahaha, wow.

[@tobs001]

@Hutch41 What exactly was ironic? That I posted something I thought? I never claimed I was smarter than anyone or that I was making incredible revelations. Whats with all this unwarranted hostility?!?

[@grungyto]

where i can watch the full play?

[@aburninglandfillofbadmovie2930]

What if Vladimir and Estragon were both white bearded and stoop backed, Vladimir with 2 canes and Estragon with 1, and the rubble field was a destroyed city block with a sidewalk tree?

[@Bazpierce]

I hate all the people who think Godot is God! Beckett himself said that if he meant God he would of said God! Godot is not God!

[@scapegoat762]

So, since they have a different interpretation than yours, you hate them. Hmmm. I'm sure that's what Beckett was going for- pretention. Extreme, condescending, pretention.

[@SimonCaillouCrew]

Some one mentioned in a comment before that Beckett could have very well just said that to mess with his audience. Whether Godot is technically God or not according to Beckett doesn’t matter that much, he’s playing God’s part. Our glimpse of humanity in the play spends their time waiting for his arrival, only to be sent his “messengers” day after day who insist on them to keep waiting. It makes sense when you look at the play as a whole. Lucky’s speech begins: “Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaquaqua with white beard...” and during this final scene Vladimir asks the boy about Godot’s beard. Vladimir gives a list of colors that the beard could possibly be (fair meaning blond not white), and the boy specifies that it isn’t any of the colors on the list, but is actually white. That’s a pretty obvious callback to Lucky’s speech and basically cements the fact that Godot is in the place of God in my opinion.

[@user-vl9lo8yn4f]

Please how can help me in this play

[@tobs001]

@Hutch41 No the heavens cracked open and a magnificent ray of light descended upon me. When i looked up in awe a booming voice said "REMEMBER THESE WORDS!! For the are the TRUTH of the world!! WFG is a metaphor for LIFE!!!! And mayonnaise tastes terrible on everything!!!! Go forth and spread my word for I am a spokesperson of PETA!!!" Thanks for the sarcasm jack.... And a large # of people did think it was a daft tale about 4 hobos originally. But youre so smart you probably already knew that.

[@lyndafall8818]

I came across this play (still haven't seen it) do to a song called "waiting for godo"! It's a marching band latin salsa song. Great song with great woodwind parts! Written by Larry Kertchner a great marching band composer!

[@cccspwn]

The play is about confidence in one's choices ,freedom, and relationships.

[@isakferm7674]

Nope. It's an absurdist play about the lack of meaning in life.

[@robertfalkon9886]

Nope, it's about ghosts. Magic ghosts. From space.

[@insainiac33]

@chewymatty1 Well researched!

[@HayshishTV]

"VLADIMIR: I got a bear fur coat from my old man... ESTRAGON: No shit... VLADIMIR: But it's falling apart a bit. So I sneeze from it. I always sneeze from fur coats. ESTRAGON: You sneeze!? VLADIMIR: You see, it has these little tiny hairs. See? Those are bear hair. ESTRAGON: So... bristly." kzbin.info/www/bejne/aV65m5SIhb56oNE

[@edwardprice140]

full play kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6u7Zpd_r65liKc

[@waketheoblivious]

@SomethingReal1119 I concur completely with your interpretation that Godot is God. The Hobos who are waiting for Him with expectations of how Godot will change their lives parallels the 12 Step program when an alcoholic "came to believe a power greater then myself, could restore me to sanity".

[@BradBrassman]

Nonsense. Beckett himself said Godot wasnt God.

[@waketheoblivious]

@@BradBrassman No he didn't

[@SomethingReal1119]

I know Beckett hated when ppl tried 2 interpret this work, but isn't that why playwrights CREATE these works?? So they can be internalized -- what is the point of watching them if you cannot analyze them also? There is CLEARLY a purpose and identity to this Godot character, and Beckett didn't like for anyone to try to figure it out? In my mind, Godot represents God. For me, it's a perfect interpretation, and since SB has never said WHO he is, I am happy w/ my personal interpretation. It fits

[@isakferm7674]

Samuel Becket himself have said that it is't god. "If Godot was god, I would've just said god". Waiting for Godot is about absurdism, waiting for meaning that never comes. Read some Albert Camus.

[@nonamesam]

@@isakferm7674 Gee I wonder what religion and "waiting for meaning that never comes" could possibly have in common?

[@isakferm7674]

travelingbard :)

[@isakferm7674]

John Collins True

[@Demon6lima]

Godot is not God , there is a theory i studied in college , Godot = go do it . and there is another one that says Godo is a symbole for the savior notion for all the deffierent cultuers ....

[@BenjaminLopez9]

demon6lima I think godot is symbolizing the purpose of life

[@doriss49]

so, there is no goddot?

[@billyworkmna]

Maybe not.