I get a pang in my heart when I see Kline wistfully puzzling over his dream, and then Tucci’s look at the camera. Thank you, whoever had the idea.

@cynthiaennis3107

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a sweet gift of a moment for Bottom! I loved that, too!

Stanley Tucci's version makes me cry for some reason.

@jinty.and.pug.studios

Жыл бұрын

Bro same and I was watching this at school

Why is Stanley Tucci the ONLY one not rushing through the monologue? Is he the ONLY one who knows how the character should be portrayed?

@BabsChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Lol, I'm pretty sure you can't always blame the actor. The director is the one, you know, directing.

@danilogondim9300

4 жыл бұрын

Because it's motherfucking Stanley Tucci

@brandonburrell8517

4 жыл бұрын

The last version was powerful. There's no right way to play Puck.

@SteveSmartPoetryandMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Ian Holm did seem to be a bit... Puck on amphetamines. I thought Mickey Rooney did a surprisingly good job, and I say this as someone who has Never forgiven Mickey Rooney for what he did in Breakfast at Tiffany's. I love Stanley Tucci, but I didn't get why he seemed so mournful (assuming this was a director choice). Kathryn Hunter is the closest to the way I've always imagined Puck, I thought she was delightful and really a great balance between the thoughtfulness of Tucci and some of the more playful versions.

@aidankeane8971

3 жыл бұрын

Tucci also didn't say the entire speech and broke Shakespeares pentameter, a purest would despise it, the last one, in my opinion came the closet to my heart.

I could listen to Tucci for hours.

Loved Stanley Tucci! His calm and gentle tone gave me goosebumps!

Stanley Tucci...most honest & convincing performance! 😉👏🏼👏🏼. Mickey Rooney...awesome child star! 😃👏🏼👏🏼. Enjoyed Katheryn Hunter as well. Kept driving that point home...Life is but a fleeting dream. Really enjoyed seeing these different endings. Thank you so very much!

I watched the 1999 movie today in class and for some reason the ending kinda made me cry for some reason

Every Time I see the scene with Stanley Tucci as the Puck, I get goose bumps all over. These warm quiet Voice in this slow monologue...wow.

No one out does the Tucci....hes got puck!

Am I the only one who thinks Bottom is the cutest and most heartwarming character in the play? (Especially as portrayed by Kevin Klein)

@arleenfackina9675

5 жыл бұрын

Nope, I think Kevin did a great job with the Shakespearian dialogue and he's hot too. :)

@PhilRounds

5 жыл бұрын

I think Nick Bottom is every man, on one day or the other......Who partakes of paradise and then must return to reality.......and with a sigh, carries on with life. :)

@citizen1163

4 жыл бұрын

James Cagney's version for me!

@Umbra_Magna777

4 жыл бұрын

I agree! He’s one of my favorite characters, and Kevin Kline’s portrayal is wonderful and always makes me smile. :)

@katiez.7622

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed! I loved both Kline’s and Cagney’s performances in the role!

Stanley Tucci ♥️

Neil Perry in "Dead Poet's Society" is by far the best performance of Puck. Ever. Hands down!

@saunteringvaguelydownwards6308

Жыл бұрын

I wish I could somehow see a full cut of the play from that film- even though it’s impossible 😢

@newsing33

Жыл бұрын

@@saunteringvaguelydownwards6308 oh I wish! I would love to see that so much!

@saunteringvaguelydownwards6308

Жыл бұрын

@@newsing33 I’d love to hear that actor do a reading of the full play as an audio book, or similar.

@newsing33

Жыл бұрын

@@saunteringvaguelydownwards6308 me too. He did the role of Puck so perfectly I wish we could see him do the whole play! Or hear the audio version of the play yes.

I love Puck because he’s played by Stanley Tucci

The ending when Bottom sees the fairy's is beautiful. (Michael Hoffman's 1999 film version)

My vote is for Mickey Rooney and Stanley Tucci. Some of the others are terrible, with no depth and rushing. Stanley Tucci has a beautiful, gentle touch. I loved the long pause just before the end. Brilliant Mickey Rooney brings surprise, energy and a wicked edge.

THE FUCKING NAKED GREEN MAN IM GONNA CRY

Tucci won that. No questions.

@aidankeane8971

3 жыл бұрын

Hard disagree, he cut out most of the speech. Not his fault it was a directorial choice

i sorta wanted to see the rendition of Puck from Dead Poets Society in here because that's a personal favourite but i loved these too

@newsing33

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that is by far the best performance of Puck that "Neal" played. Just perfect!

Tucci gang

The last one is the best. Definitely

Stanley Tucci 😍😍

There's no "right" way to play Puck. For some people he's a fool but a good guy, for others a spiteful child and for others a malicious demon (no reference to the Cartesian philosophy). I'd say "the more the merrier", especially when some of them are so different that the character can completely surprise you.

@branphillips9546

5 жыл бұрын

Some combination. He is all of these descriptions: spiteful, childish, kindly, foolish, malicious, and mischievous. Also charming, sly, innocent, and wicked. All of them, but rarely all at once. Puck swings from childish sweetness to a child's merciless cruelty with equal enthusiasm and passion, yet beneath those emotions which do so motivate and inspire him is an ancient mind; unforgiving, scheming, and countless tricks to confound, manipulate, and surprise others with. All in good fun, of course.....until it isn't.

@robertdeweese9161

4 жыл бұрын

20 years ago, the kid who played Puck for me was amazing. She had beautiful green vines and ivy for makeup. As she spoke the epilogue deliberately and powerfully, and using a small vial of water she had hidden in one hand, she slowly removed her makeup, turning back into an "ordinary" young woman as we watched. It was extremely effective and moving.

@crabbieappleton

3 жыл бұрын

There may not be a 'right' way, but there are wrong ones.

Mickey Rooney was the best and most memorable Puck. Cheeky, wicked, humorous, defiant...a great performance by a child actor. The black and white, 1935 movie is by far, the best of the Midsummer Night's movies... beautifully magical... and extremely funny, as it's meant to be. Shakespeare would have enjoyed the 1935 version, I'm sure 💛

Mickey Rooney IS Puck!

@newsing33

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed! ❤️

@kiraalialeeonfairythegreenone

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely yes!!!

Okay, who gave Bilbo Baggins cocaine? You can't give a hobbit cocaine; their little hearts can't take it.

@jamesrogers8527

2 жыл бұрын

If we Hobbits over-snorted, Lend us more, and all is sorted.

@michaelwinchester5003

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesrogers8527 🤣 This made my night

@scottanderson2458

9 ай бұрын

​@@jamesrogers8527😂

@scottanderson2458

9 ай бұрын

In the same way as you can't give a baby booze

@jamespina6416

2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

Stanley Tucci .... legend

Crazy that puck is mimir in gow ragnorok

I had a film class in high school where they showed us the 99 version and it was the movie that got me interested in this play and to this day it might be my favorite piece of all of Billy's works. I especially love Tucci as puck

mimir was a lad back then...

Tucci is so damn good...

I thought they were all rather good, however I couldn't take much away from Ian Holme since he pretty much rushed through it. I've never seen Puck played by a woman, and I think Kathryn Hunter gave a unique interpretation to the role.

@suzybearheart530

3 жыл бұрын

I played Puck in 9th grade, in my school play. (I'm female) I really like Mickey Rooney's Puck, and Tucci as well.

Fabulous, thanks so much for the upload

Love you Shakespeare 💗💗📖📖

@jamesrogers8527

2 жыл бұрын

Good friend, Shakespeare has not uploaded for many a year.

I love this movie

If we shadows have offended...

When you think about it, this soliloquy is the ultimate response to anyone who gets unreasonably offended by a fictional story.

I like Gucci's the best, though the rest were interesting, I must admit when I woke today I wasn't expecting a nearly naked Ian Holm painted green, but it was good, I wish he had played it more like his Alice "A sitting on the gate" monologue.

Puck was looking like hulk😂🤣

1. A tiny child with a bowl cut 2. Shrek with 80s graphics 3. Ginger standing on furniture 4. Janitor with.... horns?? 5. I can’t even comprehend what the heck that is

@tizcoloko

4 жыл бұрын

Paige Victoria aghhh picky girl, no amends for you.

@humanbean1964

4 жыл бұрын

Paige Victoria we would love to see you perform this. Obviously you are the world’s most knowledgable on the works of the great bard!

This is why, if I were anything resembling an actor and I were cast in this play, I would ALWAYS choose to play Puck.

#4 the best by far

The last one gives me a really creepy feeling. Wish I wasn't watching this at bedtime!

Sounds like the warmest heartfelt apology for any type of trouble or discomfort the puck had caused but “Robin will restore amends” sounds like a lil threat, if I be honest.

The second one has the exact same vibe as the berries and cream song. Please tell me I'm not the only one seeing this?

Max Reinhard version is unbeatable. Even I love Tucci

The first one isnt perfect but classic.The second sounds like he is on the run. The third was something. Number four was my personal favorite closely followed by number 5.

It is great to be able to compare five very different versions of the same text, though would probably need to see each in the context of the complete performance to make a proper judgment. Based on these clips alone, I must say that I find the last one, Kathryn Hunter, to be the most convincing and this did inspire me to track down more clips from this unusual production.

Mickey Rooney kills it. Best version

@cynthiaennis3107

6 жыл бұрын

WIPPLER LABORATORIES He really did a amazing job for a child actor! He looked much younger than he was! (I read that he broke a leg before filming was done & they had to do certain scenes around that one leg...changing the scene up, so they could get the job done!) What a career he had!

@newsing33

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree! ❤️

Katherine Hunter’s performance was on point

Ian Holm had the perfect voice for his one

Thích những người bên đạo dậy đàn hay như vậy:)).

Ian Holm's version was a bit schizophrenic

I once did this speech at a reading while chewing on an onion and laughing like a maniac somewhere in the middle.

Audio desynced hard there

Not gonna lie, my favorite recitation of this is in Dead Poets Society. Great video 💯

*Neil Perry 😂

I read a deep and mystical statement in it. Life is but a dream. It resonates with Vedic views about the world. There is great gentleness along with wickedness. The strumpet Fortune. All the world's a stage... Shakespeare says similar things elsewhere.

The last one is best.

did the 2nd one need to rush to the bathroom or something

And if the KZread has offended, Watch but this and all is mended...

Us Sons of Robin thank thee.

Why does every version I've ever seen mis-interpret the penultimate line? "Give me your hands, if we be friends" is always performed with both of Puck's hands outstretched, appearing to ask that they be grasped in friendship, explicitly or figuratively . . . but definitely, grapsed. But that's not my reading. I perform it by demonstrating, as I start to say those words, that I am seeking approval in the form of applause. One of these versions come close but even then, starts the applause gesture after the grapsing gesture, almost as an afterthought.

@goodtimes8229

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting. How do you know that this is the correct interpretation?

@jamesrogers8527

2 жыл бұрын

Applause!

@themermaidstale5008

2 жыл бұрын

I also believe it’s a solicitation for applause. Mickey Rooney claps his hands once to clue the audience. Damien Nash, in fact, does applaud in his version.

@peterstolzer2586

Жыл бұрын

For what it's worth, in scholarly interpretations/footnotes to texts I have seen during my 30+ years as an English teacher, the words are usually interpreted as soliciting applause.

Is is just me or does Ian Holm look like 70s Incredible Hulk? Like Biblo Smash

@jasoncromwell4206

3 жыл бұрын

I obviously meant Bilbo smash

oh the fairy is called Robin not Puck...oops

The Ian Holm version is waaaayyy too fast. Even as a kid, I thought something was wrong when I saw that delivery.

I can see how Mario's voice is based off this character

Mikey Rooney was the best puck

@stevenwiederholt7000

Жыл бұрын

I Really Love the 1935 version.

1:46

Can someone please explain the line... 'And Robin shall restore amend' Who or what is Robin? Thanks.

@DrPlausivel

3 жыл бұрын

Puck and Robin Goodfellow are two different names for the same sprite.

@Blokewood3

3 жыл бұрын

Robin Goodfellow is his personal name, Puck is the type of sprite he is. A puck is a sort of mischievous hobgoblin.

@sandpiperr

2 жыл бұрын

Puck is Robin.

@jamesrogers8527

2 жыл бұрын

In the original: Robin Hood charged unto the fore, ready to amends restore.

1:30 its old man bilbo baggins

Dr Abraham Erskine

Who know the song in the 3:20?

@amypoole2464

5 жыл бұрын

orionfigonachi Cavalleria rusticana - Intermezzo - It's just a small piece of it that's played in the film. If you Google the soundtrack most if not all the songs come up.

2:48

Katherine Hunter FTW

MS CARNEY

🥷🏿🖤

Kathryn ate them up

2:51

1. Hunter 2. Tucci 3. Rooney YMMV

Emmanuel Macron is great in green body paint

@marchfast8291

8 ай бұрын

Sacre vert! 😮

The first one reminds me of Peter pan

Voices out of synch Some sped up

@jamesrogers8527

2 жыл бұрын

If you pardon, he will mend.

The one at 1:19 is crap....far too fast.

2:47 and 5:00

The last one sounds like SpongeBob

@themermaidstale5008

2 жыл бұрын

Robin Williams, I think.

Newest first

lol💩1:49

THE 1999 MOVIE WAS 🍑

I wrote Shakespeare when I was Satan. God then renamed me Azazel because it means scapegoat. He renamed me because of how I wrote satyrs in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, specifically Puck. You're welcome. I'm also the Christ. I'm the second son of God. I wrote Shakespeare into existence. I'll be known as the "great light" in the darkness, "Wonderful Counselor," "Might God," "Everlasting Father," and "Prince of Peace" as prophesied in Isaiah 9:1-7. I plan on rewriting Shakespeare when I get back into Heaven so they'll be more like Midsummer Night's Dream. I plan on writing newer creations as well. Then depending if my mother becomes an Ontologist and gets into Heaven or not, I plan on starving myself and having a third play through. This is my second time doing this timeline. During my third timeline, I'm getting everyone a free pass into Heaven.

@John-kd4ef

Жыл бұрын

You defile God with your blasphemous statements. You live in a fool's paradise.

I hate this

@jamesrogers8527

2 жыл бұрын

Gentle, do not reprehend.

@kiraalialeeonfairythegreenone

Жыл бұрын

Be gone thou usurper of joy... I shall smote thee... thou wickedest of all trolls.

Mickey Rooney’s was the worst performance…….

I don't like English class

@AlwaysIkaika

2 ай бұрын

Real

Let's be honest here. We are only watching this BS because we need to

@anne-lauriejean-louis2071

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I’m glad I needed to, it warmed my heart.

@chandrajambu1751

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent characters.

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