The problem with this recording isn't that Rowan Atkinson is bad vocally. He's great. It's that he's such a physically comic genius, we don't get to see how good he actually is in this recording.

@evasquiress

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, I feel like a lot of these comments are comparing him to Ron Moody but only basing it on the vocals, whereas - like you said - Rowan Atkinson uses a lot more physicality to create jokes. I’d love to have seen what he was doing physically whilst performing this!

he was phenomenal live. I was so lucky to see him

@tardistime6857

5 жыл бұрын

msfs19941 same

The violin work is great in this version. Rowan also does a great East London-Jewish accent.

I agree with lots of these comments, Rowan Atkinson is a national treasure, if his entire life's work consisted of Blackadder and Mr Bean that would make him a genius, but his other performances and stand up work are also great. However Ron Moody set the bar soooo high with this role, no one will ever live up to him and Atkinson falls very short.

@MaskedMan66

7 жыл бұрын

I saw an actor in a community theater production in Wheaton, IL, who made this song screamingly funny, and I honestly thought to myself, "Ron who?"

@michaelasmith4489

Жыл бұрын

​@@MaskedMan66💩 🤡

@MaskedMan66

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelasmith4489 ?

I sooo loved going to see this version of Oliver in the west end! Even met Rowan Atkinson after ❤️

@williamfairchild7439

5 жыл бұрын

At the stage door

Saw this show Christmas 2008 with my young lads and mother. The best musical production I have ever seen with RA being the absolute genius he is. UNFORGETTABLE !

Marvellous song and brilliant lyrics

Not gonna lie, I was waiting for Baldrick to interrupt the song.

@dsszerothlaw

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@mnomadvfx

4 жыл бұрын

He has a cunning plan to deal with Sykes.....

@Isildun9

4 жыл бұрын

@@mnomadvfx as cunning as a fox what used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University, but has since moved on and is now working for the UN Committee for International Cunning Planning?

@drxym

2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact - Tony Robinson was part of the child cast in the original Oliver! production.

Are we comparing this to Ron Moody's film performance or his stage performance. If its the film version, Moody had the benefit of mutliple takes if all went wrong. Rowan Atkinson here was performing on stage to a live audience.

@whoknows5106

3 жыл бұрын

R. Moody played him on Broadway too, look it up

@MarkHarrison733

8 ай бұрын

Moody played the role in the West End in 1960.

@frostymcfang4656

5 ай бұрын

​@@whoknows5106didn't read the comment we were reacting to, did we? He acknowledges Moody played him on stage.

@frostymcfang4656

5 ай бұрын

​@@MarkHarrison733read the actual comment

He’s good closet to the late great Ron moody unfortunately no actor not matter how talented they are can surpass him it’s the role Ron created he is and will always be the best

A good stab at replicating something special. However, Ron Moody is unsurpassed.

@alexandermillar1202

7 жыл бұрын

You can hear him trying to avoid all the same cadences as Moody, but the result is clunky/unmusical/somewhat schizophrenic. It doesnt flow or swing like it should. But I suspect that he fell back on a lot of slap-stick which made it a good visual performance at least.

@MaskedMan66

7 жыл бұрын

Well, that's the thing about fictional characters; keep within the parameters set by the author and you can perform it any number of ways.

@mnomadvfx

4 жыл бұрын

It's easier to be unsurpassed when you have unlimited takes, first on camera and then in dialogue replacement in post production. Doing the same thing on stage several nights in a row as well as the entire show besides is another kind of feat entirely.

@isoldehammond23

3 жыл бұрын

A performer should never replicate another performers performance... it would have been bad taste and show off a severe lack of imagination, creativity, intelligence and professionalism if he’d just copied. He’s doing his own interpretation, and the audience laugh during and clap rather loudly, so he’s done his job, people were entertained.

great actor

abslutely legendary amazing!!!!

Awesome song.

Ron Moody the best but let me add that Atkins diction is absolutely clear and precise. Why do I say this ? I decided to learn it and Atkins version I didn’t have to play back to hear 👂 the lyrics. Thanks 🙏 for posting.

that violin makes me wanna cry and laugh at the same XD

Yes indeed, that famous Boublil & Schönberg musical. There are many parallels between Oliver and Les Mis. Cameron Mackintosh speaks of how the Dodger inspired the character of Gavroche. Also, one can imagine how the songs of Thenadier were inspired by Fagin's songs.

@t.f.byoutube1308

2 жыл бұрын

Oooooh i see the parallels!

I saw Kerry Ellis and Russ Abbot and they were both phenomenal. Would love to have seen Rowan Atkinson though.

kin gran actor. Dúctil, polifacètic... Fantàstic!!!

Well done!

Always loved Rowan Atkinson and it sounds as though he did a great job as Fagin, even though in the first couple of verses he sounds uncannily like Rolf Harris!!

@immir6647

4 жыл бұрын

Oh God he really does. Lol

I seen Kerry Ellis and Griff Rhys Jones couple of weeks ago and they were fab.

yep! the best! ron moody!

Why can I just not help but to laugh at his face

he does the old jewish accent so well....its painful.

His name was Ron Moody.

Ron Moody. Definately.

He sings like he's teaching a class of kids to sing the song. He says each word so carefully it's as if he's being tested on it. Ron Moody is 100 times better.

Sandie Shaw did a great cover of this!

Ron Moody. I agree.

the funny thing about seeing rowan as fagin here is the oliver reference raymond fowler used in the thin blue line regarding oliver.

But now we can say we have an amazing new Fagin!

omg dude! Rowans owns!

2019

Mr Bean meets Fagan

@filippo333444555 You missed out! Oliver's still playing at West End but Rowan's done his time. I regret missing it too, it would have been fantastic :(

I wonder if theres an existing film of the production?

he's good, but Ron Moody is better :)

No, he speaks of Les Mis, a brothel in France.

I bet Blackadder fans lol'd at 4:05 :-)

That would've been Ron Moody. I agree.

I've seen Omid and Jodie. Jodie was brilliant, as was Omid. I'd have loved to have seen rowan though!

@williamfairchild7439

5 жыл бұрын

I've seen Omid and Jodie in Oliver as well on Saturday 5th September 2009

Ron Moody

@MrBc223 Ron Moody :)

Is this the same production in which Burn Gorman played Bill Sykes?

@WarringtonJedi

3 жыл бұрын

It looks like it was..... Yes

still got the Mr Bean voice haha (well, it is his own voice lol)

3:39 scariest eyes ever o.O lol

@fatg1t wow. didn't know Rowan Atkinson raced...

ive always wanted to play fagin in oliver

@rahulkemp8347

6 жыл бұрын

me too!!

JONN3H his name IS Ron Moody. Saying WAS kind of implies that he died and he is still very much alive :-D

@martythefearless85

8 жыл бұрын

+Terry Lingwood His name was Ron Moody now... I cried when I heard :'(

@terrylingwood

8 жыл бұрын

My daughter (10) absolutely loves the movie so he lives on :-D people like Ron Moody will never really die

@martythefearless85

8 жыл бұрын

I Agree. I really truly agree.

@martythefearless85

8 жыл бұрын

I can't stop listening to Oliver! music.

@devorahs6886

3 жыл бұрын

RIP ( BD”E) he passed in 2015. But Moody’s amazing talent will live forever !

I liked him better too. He had that kind of voice.

hahahaha nice one

me 2

very good but Ron Moody set the bar

Check out the 1961 version. Best Fagin ever.

@nicole5182

7 жыл бұрын

1968 you mean?

He looks like he belongs in the Lord of the Rings! XD

make it a video not just photos

@teasa10 LOL!

Very good but Ron Moody was the best

He got confused in the last lyrics

oliver is the greastest musical of ALL TIME

Rubbish see Paul Kaye if you want to see a great interpretation of this song

Rowan Atkinson is great but he should stick to what he is good at. No one can surpass Ron Moody with this role.

@PJL7095

Жыл бұрын

In 2009, they decided to do another stage production of OLIVER!. Guess what… Ron Moody was not available… plus he already did Fagin. They casted Rowan instead. He did a fantastic job in the role portraying the Fagin character in his own unique style.

@MarkHarrison733

8 ай бұрын

@@PJL7095 Moody would have been far better, even at 85.

@PJL7095

8 ай бұрын

@@MarkHarrison733 Moody was by far the best Fagin. Oliver is done all over the world … and Moody isn’t available to do them all 😂😆. Plus- in a way it’s fun to see how other actors portray the character.

@MarkHarrison733

8 ай бұрын

@@PJL7095 He was still playing Fagin in his 80s.

@PJL7095

8 ай бұрын

@@MarkHarrison733 good for him! I hope to be not wearing diapers when I hit 80. Hmm… maybe he was too. Cheers!!

By Les Mis...do you mean Les Miserables?

The book was better than Ron moody

Inspector Raymond C. Fowler: The artful dodger was a thief. And I don't think he'd have considered himself quite so "at home" in a juvenile detention center, which is where I'd have put him. Thieving is thieving and no amount of oom-pa-pa or boom-titty-titty will change that.

yeah Ro nMoody was better

hmmm. not much chance of trying to disguise that upper-middle class accent.

I saw this and it just wasn't good casting.

Meh, good but not great

I love Rowan...but he's HORRIBLE in this role. Just listen: he's late on every. Single. Beat. At least sing in time if you're going to do one on the most famous parts ever. (And NO, it's not his interpretation of the part. It's just Bad)

@suepogson621

6 жыл бұрын

I agree in a way - I don't think he's at his best in this role but it is the conductor's role to quide the orchestra to follow the soloist - not the other way around.

@lfletcher6734

3 жыл бұрын

I saw Rowan in this production and he was perfect. I think you’re confusing ‘being late’ and characterization

@anesu846

3 жыл бұрын

Hes really dragging out out his words. That's why he's hitting late

Atkinson could not sing at all.