"Now is the winter of our discontent" - Richard III by William Shakespeare

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"Now is the winter of our discontent" - Richard III by William Shakespeare
With Laurence Olivier as King Richard

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  • @jeskvell3254
    @jeskvell32546 жыл бұрын

    imagine walking into the wrong door and this guy starts talking to you like this

  • @tinamoorthy2880

    @tinamoorthy2880

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @franjay5585

    @franjay5585

    5 жыл бұрын

    Jes Kvell id take notes, sounds like it would make a decent play

  • @JohnSandwich

    @JohnSandwich

    4 жыл бұрын

    In 'Westworld' that could be a real possibility.

  • @hl9885

    @hl9885

    4 жыл бұрын

    Omg 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @hemidas

    @hemidas

    4 жыл бұрын

    /opens door/ Richard III: "Do you mind!?" Me: /shuts the door/

  • @DoctorWu23
    @DoctorWu235 жыл бұрын

    I love the intro to Richard III because he makes you a co-conspirator in his evil, to the point where you almost root for him

  • @simonefarber9105

    @simonefarber9105

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's the challenge of playing this tole: the audience HAS to like you a little or it doesn't work.

  • @brianfinnegan664

    @brianfinnegan664

    4 жыл бұрын

    Almost

  • @Vpopov81

    @Vpopov81

    3 жыл бұрын

    Probably inspired house of cards

  • @chislehurstbat

    @chislehurstbat

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Vpopov81 Richardson in the original House of Cards (I don't like the US version) clearly based Urquhart on Olivier's Richard III

  • @M1tjakaramazov

    @M1tjakaramazov

    3 жыл бұрын

    The audience pretty much roots automatically for a character who’s ambitious and whose motivation they know intimately. It’s human nature.

  • @AJ-ku7nm
    @AJ-ku7nm8 жыл бұрын

    Possibly the greatest four and a half minuets of English writing and acting. Truly amazing.

  • @jeffn9825

    @jeffn9825

    6 жыл бұрын

    AJ Shakespeare was alright, but he was no Ta Nahesi Coates lol.

  • @ianknealy2843

    @ianknealy2843

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bloody brilliant

  • @Catmeaner

    @Catmeaner

    2 жыл бұрын

    Between him and Ken Branagh

  • @dda40x1

    @dda40x1

    Жыл бұрын

    hear! hear!

  • @JohnSandwich
    @JohnSandwich4 жыл бұрын

    "Whom I, some small time since, stabbed in my angry mood, at Tewkesbury." We've all been there, Richard.

  • @mariaochenas3634

    @mariaochenas3634

    2 жыл бұрын

    Most underrated comment ever

  • @theartfuldodger935
    @theartfuldodger9354 жыл бұрын

    I'm going to memorize this speech for the next time a cop pulls me over and asks me if I know what the speed limit is.

  • @Westyrulz

    @Westyrulz

    3 жыл бұрын

    that will throw him.

  • @voivodvlad1

    @voivodvlad1

    2 жыл бұрын

    So how'd that work out for you?

  • @RonWylie-gk5lc
    @RonWylie-gk5lc4 жыл бұрын

    Imagine being an actor auditioning for Richard and the guy before you does this lol

  • @historicwine1283

    @historicwine1283

    4 жыл бұрын

    As you're looking at the script being like, "wait, I memorised a different speech."

  • @Vpopov81

    @Vpopov81

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @cellinimedusa4679

    @cellinimedusa4679

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’d get my coat

  • @L0n3c0mrade

    @L0n3c0mrade

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thats when you crank it up to 11 lol

  • @scrubsrc4084

    @scrubsrc4084

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Anyone need a tea maid"

  • @alanscott6836
    @alanscott68362 жыл бұрын

    60 odd years on and its still wonderful. Olivier shows his majesty right here.

  • @stoxpictures8315
    @stoxpictures83152 жыл бұрын

    A work of genius. Nay, a masterclass in iambic delivery; its volume, rhythm, beats, syntax -- all superlative. How a person can understand such language and give it such emotional gravitas is an inspiration to all. God bless Olivier.

  • @ChristianBaleBatman
    @ChristianBaleBatman5 жыл бұрын

    What a great actor Laurence Olivier was. Even actors like Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart regarded Olivier as the finest of his peers.

  • @irinareichert2287
    @irinareichert22872 жыл бұрын

    Laurence Olivier was brilliant.

  • @jackflash743

    @jackflash743

    2 жыл бұрын

    can you even imagine most of the so called actors today mumbling that speech

  • @BARLEYSWORLDMANCHESTER
    @BARLEYSWORLDMANCHESTER2 жыл бұрын

    I have always loved Olivier, I'm not an actor or profess to know what's good or bad. All I know is Laurence Olivier is just mesmerizing, brilliant, authentic and captivating to watch. I love all his Shakespearean soliloquy/monologue's, but most importantly I just enjoy watching him. 🙏🏾

  • @c.a.g.3130
    @c.a.g.31304 жыл бұрын

    Breathtaking! Simply breathtaking. Olivier is a master, a virtuoso, Beethoven on the stage. He speaks like Pavarotti sings.

  • @guysaltis1668
    @guysaltis16686 жыл бұрын

    Now is the discount of our winter tents.

  • @metallkopf988

    @metallkopf988

    5 жыл бұрын

    Aye, sea, what ewe did their...

  • @my-lady-greensleeves5831

    @my-lady-greensleeves5831

    4 жыл бұрын

    Now is the winter of our disco tents.

  • @TheHorsebox2

    @TheHorsebox2

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @someshheble1204

    @someshheble1204

    4 жыл бұрын

    Epic !!!!

  • @bernhardwall6876

    @bernhardwall6876

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you're familiar with "The Red Green Show" in its early years, you might remember a regular segment where Red reads a poem about winter, and that segment was called, "The Winter of our Discount Tent."

  • @enquiriesgraphology755
    @enquiriesgraphology7555 жыл бұрын

    Shakespeare would have been amazed by this performance. No-one will ever claim to be the equal of Laurence Olivier.

  • @robinghosh8891

    @robinghosh8891

    5 жыл бұрын

    Great Acting by the World's Greatest Actor Laurence Olivier

  • @frazzleface753

    @frazzleface753

    4 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful ain't it. And yet, here was an actor who longed to appear opposite Bernard Youens on Coronation Street.

  • @martind349

    @martind349

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hm.

  • @davidstevens3934

    @davidstevens3934

    4 жыл бұрын

    Plenty will claim it. But they'll be wrong.

  • @IAmThankfulToday

    @IAmThankfulToday

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think Sir Ian McKellen nailed this performance in his movie.

  • @AAlmunia
    @AAlmunia5 жыл бұрын

    I'm enthralled by this performance. The meter and the rhyme, in crescendo to an explosive and brutal climax. Amazing.

  • @M123Xoxo

    @M123Xoxo

    2 жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of Merrie Melodies/original Looney Tunes

  • @timetraveltvniles7650
    @timetraveltvniles76503 жыл бұрын

    My favourite Shakespeare speech, performed by my favourite actor.

  • @rickprol-pc8ds
    @rickprol-pc8ds4 жыл бұрын

    Stunning beyond all measure! The words and the delivery UNEQUALED! Unequaled. One can listen to this over and over again and always be awed. Bravo Sir Laurence Olivier !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @deepolo
    @deepolo3 жыл бұрын

    Watching this is like witnessing magic!!!

  • @ryanpatrick6434
    @ryanpatrick64347 жыл бұрын

    He looks like Lord Farquaad

  • @brunoc.3347

    @brunoc.3347

    7 жыл бұрын

    Lord Farquaad was made to look like him

  • @SoniaLawliet

    @SoniaLawliet

    6 жыл бұрын

    omg exactly what I was thinking xD

  • @AWlpsSHOW36

    @AWlpsSHOW36

    5 жыл бұрын

    Literally read that when I though about it! Took the words from my mouth!

  • @ct6198

    @ct6198

    5 жыл бұрын

    What's that sound? Oh it's OK, just Shakespeare turning in his grave.

  • @Hardside65

    @Hardside65

    5 жыл бұрын

    Looks like Sir Laurence Olivier performing Richard III. ^^

  • @garrison6863
    @garrison68634 жыл бұрын

    I think this is Olivier's best Shakespeare performance on film.

  • @pvonberg
    @pvonberg10 жыл бұрын

    Now that, my friends is genius.

  • @azoutlaw7
    @azoutlaw72 жыл бұрын

    The magnificence of Sir Laurence Olivier.

  • @sentfrom4477
    @sentfrom44777 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely first-class. Both the delivery, photography and direction was spellbindingly good.

  • @jamesholbert8127

    @jamesholbert8127

    3 жыл бұрын

    The combination of Shakespeare's speech, Olivier's delivery, and the motion picture camera fixating full on--Richard speaks to each of us face to face; we are each his confidant; he unfolds to us his emotion, his greed, his lust for power. Absolutely fascinating.

  • @carmelaalbanese124

    @carmelaalbanese124

    3 жыл бұрын

    Disturbing Hair = John Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon.. Opening Co-conspirator monologue = Ray Liotta seducing you into the GoodFellas life.

  • @bernhardwall6876

    @bernhardwall6876

    3 жыл бұрын

    All in one take.

  • @ajaypalaparty2217
    @ajaypalaparty22174 жыл бұрын

    now that's how you do a Career Day presentation

  • @roadking.118
    @roadking.1183 жыл бұрын

    I've watched this over and over again. Such wonderful writing and great acting. He did such a good job!

  • @christopherdenniston9798
    @christopherdenniston97982 жыл бұрын

    Shakespeare did a hatchet job on him, a brave warrior & the last in line of the noble Plantagenets

  • @Happyheart146
    @Happyheart1463 жыл бұрын

    Scathing! Talk about the art of the insult. Hilarious infact! Probably my favourite piece of prose of all time. Stating the obvious here, but pur Genius. Oliver is a God with this delivery. No one could ever do it better.

  • @lordshinigami7313
    @lordshinigami73139 жыл бұрын

    My god! Such fire! Such passion! Truly gods once walked the earth in the guise of minstrels. Shakespeare be praised!

  • @adrianhdz25
    @adrianhdz254 жыл бұрын

    Imperious performance. Exorbitant talent. Ruthless delivery of his intentions.

  • @ivanmisra5238
    @ivanmisra52385 жыл бұрын

    one of the best speeches i've ever seen

  • @joannilson2900
    @joannilson2900 Жыл бұрын

    I read this play innumerable times in high school, and I found it so difficult to understand. I heard Olivier in this scene, and the whole play just exploded into reality! Olivier remains the epitome for me of all Shakesperian actors ... and any other role by any other author he performed. Such a genius!!

  • @James18925
    @James189252 жыл бұрын

    The greatest Actor of all time

  • @cellinimedusa4679
    @cellinimedusa46793 жыл бұрын

    Olivier is breathtaking as Richard

  • @winternow2242
    @winternow22426 жыл бұрын

    For a guy who's left winter of discontent for a glorious summer, he sounds pretty pissed. Must be all those dogs barking at him what done it.

  • @cellinimedusa4679

    @cellinimedusa4679

    3 жыл бұрын

    It’s not glorious summer for Richard, he’s being sarcastic because he hates his brother Edward (the son/sun of York) who has just ascended the throne.

  • @cellinimedusa4679

    @cellinimedusa4679

    3 жыл бұрын

    No, he got back ache a lot

  • @scrubsrc4084

    @scrubsrc4084

    3 жыл бұрын

    Must be a cat person

  • @harrybdub

    @harrybdub

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lmao

  • @trevorkeyfauver9873

    @trevorkeyfauver9873

    3 жыл бұрын

    He’s being ironic because even though England has passed into a glorious summer, he is in his own personal winter of discontent because he resents his lot in life and really wants to be the King

  • @milesfolley6840
    @milesfolley68404 жыл бұрын

    I know people in the modern day would like to ridicule and parody Olivier and his pattern of speech...but I did not need to read to script while he spoke to see EVERY IMAGE and FEEL IT when he transformed into Richard III.

  • @Synochra

    @Synochra

    3 жыл бұрын

    Do people ridicule this though? I am stunned by this performance

  • @milesfolley6840

    @milesfolley6840

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Synochra most actors I met spoke how his cadence is mechanical. I completely disagree, but some modern actors who are in the Shakespeare world that I’ve met have said this. But it’s their opinion.

  • @anniethenonnymouse

    @anniethenonnymouse

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hear, feel, and see every word, every image he speaks. Olivier's performance is magical-- how have I never seen this before?

  • @mikesmyth5014

    @mikesmyth5014

    3 жыл бұрын

    Try this. Recite the words with his pauses, his emphases, his phrasing. Use the same motions he does with his eyelids, his eyebrows, his withered shrub of an arm, his halting gait that makes dogs bark. Then turn toward the camera and away from the camera in his own choreography. While casting your voice out and returning it like a veteran fly fisherman. Do all these artful things. Then tell me he is less than God Incarnate upon the stage. I won't believe you.

  • @pauloamaral6069

    @pauloamaral6069

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@milesfolley6840 Time to be slain by fanboys in the coments: Ironicaly many of out morden actors are worse than mechanical. They have no emotions, their faces are always the same in every situation and moment, and those who master some.emotion dont know how to change it to another. They rarely make transitions, its the same problem of our musical taste totday- no variations, no complexity, always the same tune and notes. Its all like a symphony that never leaves a crescendo. Tom Cruise, Ben Afleck, Di Caprio, Keanu R and so on. Thry only appease the girls and some adults that behace like teens.

  • @kevinmccarthy6981
    @kevinmccarthy69812 жыл бұрын

    I never could follow, much less appreciate Shakespeare, until I heard Olivier.

  • @davidlee4619
    @davidlee46197 жыл бұрын

    Without doubt the greatest performance of Shakespeare's Richard III by any actor.

  • @frazzleface753
    @frazzleface7534 жыл бұрын

    It is very difficult for an actor to bring Shakespeare's words to such life that common ordinary, uneducated folk such as me are enchanted by it and actually *understand* it. :) And yet Olivier could do it. It's like music. It's amazing.

  • @internetenjoyer1044

    @internetenjoyer1044

    3 жыл бұрын

    his eyes subconsciously guide your mind to the meaning of what he's saying. it's a brilliant performance

  • @carmencollor1224

    @carmencollor1224

    2 жыл бұрын

    Your comment tells me your heart and soul have the finest education.

  • @childofthesun32

    @childofthesun32

    2 жыл бұрын

    I felt this way too. If I was reading this off the page, I don't think I'd have any idea what the fuck I'm reading, but his delivery, the inflections and tone and eyes really convey the meaning excellently.

  • @rogerturnill8832
    @rogerturnill88323 жыл бұрын

    The monologue is taken from two different ones of Gloucester's & skillfully interlaced & combined into one. Starts with Richard III then back to Henry VI (Part 3) then back again to Richard III then back to Henry to the end of the main speech then climbs the steps, looks out the window & descants about his desire for The Lady Ann, who is then pursued despite her hatred of him

  • @Walrus444

    @Walrus444

    3 жыл бұрын

    I notice when looking for the text this is different. Interesting, the director must have made that choice. Didn’t know that was allowed haha

  • @urosmarjanovic663

    @urosmarjanovic663

    2 жыл бұрын

    That is exactly what I thought... I know opening by heart and it wasn't that.

  • @aardvarkmcgillicuddy

    @aardvarkmcgillicuddy

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think it loses a lot of impact by mixing the two up.

  • @tygrysgargantuiczny9144

    @tygrysgargantuiczny9144

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sometimes actors forget few lines and they must furnish the with their words or with what they remember. Might be the case in here

  • @SuperTelefe

    @SuperTelefe

    Жыл бұрын

    Режисьора е сър Лорънс Оливие

  • @RobertPaterson
    @RobertPaterson5 жыл бұрын

    Still brilliant - BTW the Lady Ann was his childhood sweet heart - she had been forced to marry York dynastically - Richard and Ann loved each other very much and their marriage was a true love match

  • @mahnoorshahzad7171

    @mahnoorshahzad7171

    4 жыл бұрын

    Robert Paterson I don’t think that’s true, she was manipulated into marrying him

  • @Jazzzzyyyy__

    @Jazzzzyyyy__

    3 жыл бұрын

    justyouraveragetwitterstan I think it’s true. Anne was manipulated into marrying Edward of Lancaster but I think Richard he did love her. He most likely also wanted her inheritance as well but he gave up most of it to marry her so that masked me think that Richard iii loves his queen

  • @sirtalkalotdoolittle
    @sirtalkalotdoolittle4 жыл бұрын

    My all-time favorite villain. I find it impossible to root against him.

  • @corineusa1454
    @corineusa14542 жыл бұрын

    I find this hypnotizing. MAGNIFICENT!!!

  • @mjp152
    @mjp15210 ай бұрын

    "... stabbed in my angry mood at Tewkesbury" - I just love that line and his delivery. He makes a premeditated murder sound like a minor inconvenience he took care of one idle afternoon.

  • @ronaldbrumwell8414
    @ronaldbrumwell84143 жыл бұрын

    Simply breathtaking. Cunning and evil the acting beyond all other artists and the writing......well what can you say!

  • @zimatar489
    @zimatar4894 жыл бұрын

    Sir Laurence Olivier is the one and only LORD OF THE STAGE.

  • @tonywoollcombe1799
    @tonywoollcombe17993 жыл бұрын

    Superb....this play helped my love of history blossom......and Olivier was marvellous as Richard....so over the top brilliant!....

  • @R.Kinney1492
    @R.Kinney14924 жыл бұрын

    5:12; "A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman this spacious world cannot again afford." he, he 🤭

  • @Humanity708
    @Humanity7083 жыл бұрын

    My 18th great Uncle King Richard the 3rd of England, Wonderful!. :)

  • @paulputnam8211
    @paulputnam82115 жыл бұрын

    All in one take. Couldn't do that now. Our limited attention spans would have us checking our phones after 20 seconds !

  • @mariaochenas3634

    @mariaochenas3634

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’m actually slowly memorizing it! I have 8 lines memorized and it’s only been two weeks!

  • @Konrad_Wallenrod
    @Konrad_Wallenrod5 жыл бұрын

    I strive to be the Richard of our age, but alas, I have no more brothers to slay!

  • @LordTheProut
    @LordTheProut4 жыл бұрын

    Bravo, it s a real pleasure to hear a performance at this level of perfection..... Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. 5 Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; 10 And now, instead of mounting barded steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, 15 Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, 20 Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, 25 Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, 30 I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams, To set my brother Clarence and the king 35 In deadly hate the one against the other: And if King Edward be as true and just As I am subtle, false and treacherous,

  • @gordonbartlett1921

    @gordonbartlett1921

    3 жыл бұрын

    This day should Clarence closely be mewed up over a prophesy which says that "G of Edwards heirs shall the murder be." Dive thoughts down to my soul, here Clarence comes."

  • @LordTheProut

    @LordTheProut

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gordonbartlett1921 delightful..

  • @gamers7800
    @gamers78003 жыл бұрын

    He actually delivers one of the creepiest turns in film history. Oliver’s performance in this movie is so frightening at times that it could easily stand against any horror film.

  • @mjp152

    @mjp152

    2 жыл бұрын

    Agree - so subtle yet soooo jarring.

  • @gamers7800

    @gamers7800

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mjp152 Excellent taste!👍

  • @ciaronsmith4995

    @ciaronsmith4995

    Жыл бұрын

    Shut up you uncultured Bruins Dog.

  • @gamers7800

    @gamers7800

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ciaronsmith4995 😢

  • @lucdavin285
    @lucdavin2854 жыл бұрын

    Why this way is so impressive? First of all because it remains so difficult to me to find another Richard as TERRIFIC as Olivier. His pronounciation of English is so eye-catching. Seriously I have boosebumps and feel scared... Fucking brillant...!

  • @rossmcleod7983
    @rossmcleod79833 жыл бұрын

    Shakespeare, the moon landings, early Kraftwerk.....these are the things humanity can be proud of.

  • @Daxkalak
    @Daxkalak8 жыл бұрын

    I pictured him walking down a cobbled street when I read this opening speech.

  • @Daxkalak

    @Daxkalak

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Daxkalak Btw, I love looking at the Technicolor that this movie was shot in back then. Apparently, Shakespeare had one foot in the historical world and one foot in the mythical, where everything and everyone is amplified and charged with a supernormal energy. If you look at such stories/plays with just your modern historical/empirical eye, then you miss the whole point.

  • @peterwilson5528
    @peterwilson55287 жыл бұрын

    He was the very best. ;)

  • @mikesmyth5014
    @mikesmyth50143 жыл бұрын

    It's a joy to be among so many who appreciate this masterpiece. Here's where it comes from: 1. Richard lll, speaking as Gloucester (Richard): Now is the winter of our discontent... 2. Henry Vl, Part lll, Act lll, Scene ll (Henry): Why, love foreswore me in my mother's womb... 3. Richard: Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace... 4. Henry: Then, since this earth affords no joy to me... 5. Unknown. I can't find it. Meantime, I'll marry with the Lady Anne... 6. Henry: That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring....end.

  • @matttttgj

    @matttttgj

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes indeed. Except that even in Henry VI (part III), it's still Richard Gloucester who speaks (and not Henry, as you seem to have written ...) For the part you can't find ("Meantime, I'll marry with the Lady Anne. And here she comes, lamenting her lost love Edward, Prince of Wales", this is a line written by Olivier for the movie, followed by "whom I some small time since Stabbed in my angry mood at Tewkesbury- A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman This spacious world cannot again afford- And made her widow to a woeful bed" (this if from Act I, Scene 2 of Richard III, in the "Was ever woman in this humour wooed ?" monologue), "That from his loins no hopeful branch might spring To cross me from the golden time I look for." (and this from Henry VI as you rightly said)

  • @Hinata.Sakaguchi
    @Hinata.Sakaguchi11 ай бұрын

    its been 2 and a half years since i first watch this....

  • @difusoseinfinitoslasidorem2241
    @difusoseinfinitoslasidorem22414 жыл бұрын

    Fascinante..graxiee !!!!!

  • @Theseus9-cl7ol
    @Theseus9-cl7ol4 жыл бұрын

    Laurence Olivier is so excellent here.

  • @gabruba
    @gabruba Жыл бұрын

    The Bard rules! Sir Lawrence at his right hand!

  • @PresMonroe
    @PresMonroe2 жыл бұрын

    Now watch Olivier as Henry V: "St. Crispin's Day" . No doubt Olivier was 20th century’s most brilliant classical actor and Old Bills best !!!

  • @mortalclown3812

    @mortalclown3812

    2 жыл бұрын

    Just watched it. Thank you.

  • @tygrysgargantuiczny9144

    @tygrysgargantuiczny9144

    2 жыл бұрын

    Please don’t forget Boguslaw Linda in eternal classic movie Psy of 1992. Both actors seat on the same throne

  • @silvinaprioris5207
    @silvinaprioris52072 жыл бұрын

    Larry I love youuuuuuuuu....thanks for everything ......

  • @tylerwicks4895
    @tylerwicks48955 жыл бұрын

    I’m literally studying this at the moment, brilliant, it just happens to appear in my recommendations, haunting me

  • @dorisschubert6947
    @dorisschubert6947 Жыл бұрын

    Sir Laurence Olivier is still the best. I believe he will never be surpassed. I do enjoy other actors but they are not Olivier.

  • @colintraveller
    @colintraveller3 жыл бұрын

    Greatest Shakespearian by far . who ye said to another ..at an audition "Come back when one is better"

  • @MontgomeryBarncaly
    @MontgomeryBarncaly3 жыл бұрын

    Perfect amount of rambling character development / exposition. hits hard.

  • @Metron65
    @Metron655 жыл бұрын

    Now that’s how you do it🤩Acting at its finest that will never be matched

  • @claudiapost-schultzke7216
    @claudiapost-schultzke72162 жыл бұрын

    And it's spoken effortlessly. Pure

  • @c.smythe8905
    @c.smythe89055 жыл бұрын

    Magnificent

  • @TheBebelehaut
    @TheBebelehaut9 жыл бұрын

    It occured to me this charming monster can turn on anyone.... including You!

  • @slothfromthegoonies8201
    @slothfromthegoonies82018 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact. Richard III was the inspiration for Frank Underwood in House of Cards, including his regular breaking of the fourth wall.

  • @k0inGamesbro

    @k0inGamesbro

    7 жыл бұрын

    Sloth from The Goonies Um, know Frank Underwood is based on Francis Urquhart from the original show, right?

  • @ovieimoni5832

    @ovieimoni5832

    7 жыл бұрын

    Nope. House of cards is clearly Macbeth.

  • @daniel_is_aladdin

    @daniel_is_aladdin

    6 жыл бұрын

    TheShinigamiInquisition Urquhart is based on Richard

  • @NostalgiNorden

    @NostalgiNorden

    5 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: You are full of shit

  • @slothfromthegoonies8201

    @slothfromthegoonies8201

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@k0inGamesbro, Ummm, you know Francis Urquhart was based on Richard III? Tit.

  • @gibbonsgriffithsinc7731
    @gibbonsgriffithsinc77314 жыл бұрын

    I love the line I'll drown more sailors than the mermaids shall. The way he says it is very sinister

  • @cwwiss1
    @cwwiss13 жыл бұрын

    To recognise that the second scene from act 3 could be added to the first scene shows genius. It really works but it should have been rounded with "inductions have I laid etc"

  • @LesterMoore

    @LesterMoore

    2 жыл бұрын

    I prefer hearing this missing portion as it further delivers the groundwork already enacted by this arch villain to demonstrate to the audience his soliloquy is not just angry outburst and nothing more. He indeed means all he says.

  • @Fatherofheroesandheroines
    @Fatherofheroesandheroines2 жыл бұрын

    Wow. This man was a virtuoso of the stage. He was larger than life.

  • @WizardOfHumor1989
    @WizardOfHumor19892 жыл бұрын

    “Run run run as fast as you can! You can’t catch me, IM THE GINGERBREAD MAN!!!”

  • @martythetickler
    @martythetickler5 жыл бұрын

    Greatest Shakespeare portrayals I've ever seen of characters I'd play if I were a decent actor. Richard III - Laurence Olivier Mark Antony - Marlon Brando Henry V - Kenneth Branagh The Ghost - Paul Scofield Puck - Stanley Tucci Caliban - Djimon Honsou Benvolio - Dash Mihok Cassio - Nathaniel Parker MacDuff - Sean Harris Don Pedro - Denzel Washington Lear's Fool - Sylvester McCoy Lucentio - Michael York

  • @EpicGeopolitics

    @EpicGeopolitics

    5 жыл бұрын

    I would defo add John Geilgud as Cassius and then again, John Geilgud as Caeser to this list as well. But Laurence as Richard the third and Brando as Marc Anthony defo top the list for me as well, with Geilgud's performances a close third and fourth Defo need to check out some of the others on your lists tho, so thanks for this

  • @andreaskallstrom9031

    @andreaskallstrom9031

    4 жыл бұрын

    Olivia Hussey as Juliet

  • @juliusmiddleton5138

    @juliusmiddleton5138

    3 жыл бұрын

    harry lennix in titus beats everybody!

  • @gordonbartlett1921

    @gordonbartlett1921

    3 жыл бұрын

    @BrokenWolf,etc. Had you ever seen the late Bob Hoskins as Iago? Great piece of work in one of the longest roles in Shakespeare.

  • @pendarricrolynd7444

    @pendarricrolynd7444

    2 жыл бұрын

    I think I prefer Heston's Mark Antony

  • @IRP01
    @IRP014 жыл бұрын

    Peter Seller's Hard Days Night brought me here!

  • @christopherjamesfisher5519

    @christopherjamesfisher5519

    3 жыл бұрын

    It has been a hard day's night and I have been working like a dog!!!

  • @kenmorales7496
    @kenmorales74962 жыл бұрын

    Great performance by lord farquad

  • @wendyponsford7428
    @wendyponsford74284 ай бұрын

    “This guy,” is Lord Laurence Olivier!

  • @bernhardwall6876
    @bernhardwall68763 жыл бұрын

    The part of Richard's soliloquy that begins, "Love forswore me in my mother's womb" is actually from "Henry VI, Part III." It confused me when I heard him the first time. Olivier also used this version of Richard's speech on what I think was a radio production.

  • @bernhardwall6876

    @bernhardwall6876

    3 жыл бұрын

    BTW, Richard's nose also appears to be rather large.

  • @mariaochenas3634

    @mariaochenas3634

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sometimes parts of the Henry VI Part III is incorporated into this so the audience can understand Richard’s motive better. In fact, most of this was not from the actual Richard III. How do I know? I read it.

  • @martythetickler
    @martythetickler7 жыл бұрын

    They say that history is always written by the victors. In this case, it's definitely true, and that is sad. Anyone who has studied Richard 3 knows that Shakespeare's description of him isn't very accurate. Most recent studies say he was a short guy with thin limbs and BAD scoliosis. I mean... BAAAAAAD scoliosis. I've seen his alleged skeleton, and that poor bastard must have been in intense pain all his life.

  • @enzo_eleven

    @enzo_eleven

    6 жыл бұрын

    BrokenWolf1990 how is it not accurate, then?

  • @martythetickler

    @martythetickler

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@enzo_eleven Because Shakespeare describes him as being a hunchback with one withered arm, which is not remotely the same thing.

  • @lightbox617
    @lightbox6174 жыл бұрын

    I am about to rewind Gielgud in "Prospero's Books" as written and directed by Greenaway. I recognize the touches given by the Royal Shakespearean Society

  • @188basstrom
    @188basstrom7 жыл бұрын

    Now is the winter of discontent made fine summer by this sun of Stark

  • @thomaswykes3647
    @thomaswykes36475 жыл бұрын

    The last monarch to personally lead the charge into battle - cut down in his early 30's. God bless the last Plantagenet.

  • @DanielMumby

    @DanielMumby

    5 жыл бұрын

    Didn't George II lead his troops into battle?

  • @krabbykat9918

    @krabbykat9918

    4 жыл бұрын

    And God bless the poor nephews he probably had smothered in the featherbed

  • @thomaswykes3647

    @thomaswykes3647

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@krabbykat9918 and God bless the Tudors for hiding behind their army and smearing his image with Shakespeares propaganda

  • @mikev4621

    @mikev4621

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DanielMumby George II was on the field , little more

  • @mariaochenas3634

    @mariaochenas3634

    2 жыл бұрын

    Long live the king!

  • @davidallen508
    @davidallen5083 жыл бұрын

    I can’t help thinking how proud Vivien Leigh must have been to be married to this genius of a man ; without him in her life, she never appeared to be the woman or the actress that she had been.She always kept his photo on her dressing-room table.Very sad.

  • @carmencollor1224
    @carmencollor12242 жыл бұрын

    Splendid.

  • @BOTG_Adventures
    @BOTG_Adventures2 жыл бұрын

    Incredible makes proud to be English even though England Is dead our culture or traditions buried as we take the knee to others.

  • @jackflash743

    @jackflash743

    2 жыл бұрын

    hard to proud of ouselves nowadays, we could have in those days, but now the scum taking the knee, in memory of a dirty filthy serial evil criminal

  • @hoodplays9380
    @hoodplays93802 жыл бұрын

    i remember watching this in english class a few months ago we finished the whole play a couple days ago

  • @lorddaver5729

    @lorddaver5729

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why did it take so long so finish the play?

  • @hoodplays9380

    @hoodplays9380

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lorddaver5729 cuz we watched it every now and again and the teacher always rewinded it back a few mins and we only watched it for like 10/20 mins

  • @josevelez5598
    @josevelez55986 жыл бұрын

    The real Richard ironically was allot different than Shakespeare's Richard. The few real aspects of Richard from the play to the historical person was his deformity, withered arm and a hunch because of his twisted spine when they found his skeleton after so many years, and of course a true warrior in real life.

  • @panchopuskas1

    @panchopuskas1

    Жыл бұрын

    ....and , of course, he had nothing to do with the "disappearance" of his nephews.....that must have been somebody else.....

  • @trinpanapan2990
    @trinpanapan29902 жыл бұрын

    3:40“Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart,And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,And frame my face for all occasions”

  • @michaelrussell7806
    @michaelrussell78068 жыл бұрын

    just noticed the massive crown hanging above the throne at 3:40. Contemporary interpretations almost always focus on "realism" or worse, "update" the play and change the historical setting...I much prefer the simpler, though more symbolic, touches of the old school plays like this one.

  • @Euanbuddie

    @Euanbuddie

    6 жыл бұрын

    That's likely because we live in an age influence heavily by realism as opposed to the romanticist influences of the original context.

  • @garysandiego

    @garysandiego

    4 жыл бұрын

    But the fascist setting for Richard III used by Ian McKellen puts an interesting spin on this story.

  • @GeorgeHutchins
    @GeorgeHutchins2 жыл бұрын

    A classic opening phrase

  • @daniel_is_aladdin
    @daniel_is_aladdin6 жыл бұрын

    This is not the full speech...well it’s a mix of the “winter of our discontent’” speech and bits of others from “Henry VI Part 3” , in which he was also a main character

  • @IskalkaQuest2010

    @IskalkaQuest2010

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. I looked at the text and found discrepancies. Then next Q I had was from where comes the text not found in Richard III.

  • @daniel_is_aladdin

    @daniel_is_aladdin

    4 жыл бұрын

    IskalkaQuest2010 Cheers! Glad I could help.

  • @Loy801

    @Loy801

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @Terrakinetic
    @Terrakinetic2 жыл бұрын

    Imagine if they decided to walk through the backdoor that day and heard his whole monologue right there and then.

  • @MisterTutor2010
    @MisterTutor2010 Жыл бұрын

    Imagine being this guy's therapist :)

  • @tabfiend
    @tabfiend2 жыл бұрын

    Acting par exellance. Olivier a God amongst actors. And this scene shows that extreme intelligence can so often be linked to incredible evil.

  • @paulwary
    @paulwary3 жыл бұрын

    God, he was brilliant, Olivier, wasn't he?

  • @nicholasfawwaz1147
    @nicholasfawwaz11472 жыл бұрын

    this speech is a great cut of the end of richard of york and the beginning of richard iii

  • @cmourat1
    @cmourat18 жыл бұрын

    the winter of discontent of 1978-79 brought glorious summers by this grocer's daughter (hahahahaha) Great sir Lawrence Olivier. Simply great!

  • @gordonbartlett1921

    @gordonbartlett1921

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's spelled "Laurence."

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