"My roots are in thrash metal." I nearly died.

@MadKingOfMadaya

2 жыл бұрын

*_What does that mean?_*

A list of every author, title and composer mentioned: - Thrash Metal (music genre) - Beware of Pity - Stefan Zweig - Author Thomas Mann - Under the Volcano - Malcom Lowry - Ulysses - James Joyce - The Beatles (musicians) - Author Oscar Wilde - Author Sidney Smith (1771-1845) - (Implied 'The Importance of being Earnest' film 1952) - Actor Michael Redgrave - Dad's Army (Comedy series) - Quote 'I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection (!)' - black and white films in general - Film Sergeant York (1941) - Film Casablanca (1942) (If you haven't seen it you don't deserve to live! - Stephen Fry) - Led Zepelin (rock band) - Author Georgette Heyer - Author/ Composer Richard Wagner - Composer Richard Strauss - Composer Arnold Schönberg - ('the post-Wagnerians' ...possibly meaning Claude Debussy, Giacorno Puccini, Karl Goldmark, Gustav Mahler, Friedrich Nietzsche (who is also a conposer, not just a philosopher), Franz Schreker, Alexander von Zemlinsky) - The Great Gatsby - Francis Scott Fitzgerald - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Composer Johann Sebastian Bach - Pianist Glenn Gould

@ajamanaid

10 ай бұрын

I had impulses throughout this video to take notes and look up names and things. Your list is much appreciated!

Mr Fry is the living embodiment of the Enlightenment

@yjadalyn1

8 жыл бұрын

+superfuzzymomma good one

@satansgenitalia

4 жыл бұрын

He's a man from an upper-middle class background who almost fucked his life up in his late teens but managed to claw it back with good connections to Oxbridge dons and hard work. He's not a God. He's not a genius. He's a man who was born into privilege, squandered it, clawed it back, came good and continued to suffer publicly. Like him all you want; but get your head out the dude's arse. He might like the odd penis in there at times, but I'm sure he can't accommodate an entire human skull.

@street-wisesmart-bomb8536

4 жыл бұрын

M H Bravo 👏🏻

@satansgenitalia

3 жыл бұрын

Kaushik Kurudi I think I was a bit harsh, actually. We all need our heroes 🤷‍♂️

3:46 The impression Stephen must have left on this young fellow must have been incredibly eye and mouth opening.

I could hear him talk for hours he's a national treasure :)

@YomsterFUT13

Жыл бұрын

LITERALLY.

Love this man. Next time though, Oxford...remove the yawners and posers from the back row please :)

@alanprice7584

2 жыл бұрын

The guy on Stephens left is obviously bored out of his mind.

@grahamwarren6578

2 жыл бұрын

The Student on Stephen's left looks half cut at times!! I would have quite happily taken his place.

@mathildakd1

2 жыл бұрын

Hhahhhaa splendid comment!

@BillThompson1955

2 жыл бұрын

Decades from now that yawner might say "The most embarrassing moment of my life? After a long, sleepless night of studying, I was offered a seat at one of Stephen Fry's talks . . . .and there I was, struggling to stay awake. I'm still famed as 'The Back-Row Bounder.'" Although I assume he'll say it in British.

@judebrown2672

2 жыл бұрын

An absolute shame. Emagine having the honour of listening to this great man and someone being bored on camera next to him.

. “ ...and I digress...” Stephen Fry you are so fun to listen to...You put me on such a roller coaster of ideas...you silver tongued savant.

Such an honest nice man! His acting, writing, living on the edge attitude to life and equality is a light in a dark world ..thank you Stephen!

That guy at the lower right starting at about 3:00: "Oh God I have to fart. Hey Fry, you done yet?" Hey bruh, take a hike outside, blow your shorts, and let someone who is actually interested in Stephen Fry sit there!

@hanaanddad5529

3 жыл бұрын

What was he doing there? Why was he allowed to sit at SF’s left hand if he’s so disrespectful. The future doesn’t bode well for that kid.

I read Beware of pity in Russian because of Stephen Fry's opinion. Never regretted it. Thanks

'A dull blue colour was precipitated' well said. Yours, The North.

I have to express that as an Indian chartered accountancy student I feel his views about "freedom of thoughts" are absolutely genius yet required and the way he addressed Oscar Wilde as King of Bohemia and Prince of all students was so poignant but here in India especially in CA course we are left with everything from misery to straight grown existential crisis and not with quality time for us to grow as an individual and experience that freedom of thinking hence acting like or rather being a bohemian is seen as we are flirting with our own future in horrific way. There isn't enough time for students to develop their own morals, values, and even thinking process. Everything is being told by anybody else; and it is not about 'how we should develop our brains, thinking process, values so that we could live with ourselves knowing what we are and accepting it' but it is about 'what we should do to live happy' and I don't know how this homogeneous living principles going to lead individual's life towards the contentment he so dearly hopes to achieve considering his individual differences. I'm not saying it is all fucked up; I am saying there is scope for betterment and for that matters wheel should be given in the hands of student or person who cares for them with his heart. Anyway I am sincerely thankful to this channel for these amazing videos and blessed that I'm in position to enjoy them.

@okqhawe

4 жыл бұрын

I am a South African CA student here. I totally agree. I feel robbed of my university time because I had to spend every moment on an IFRS or an ISA. KZread has become a better teacher than my actual university space has ever been.

@adityashirapure

4 жыл бұрын

@@okqhawe Things will get better over time mate and good for your exams too!

@sristikaranjit1019

2 жыл бұрын

I can totally relate to both of you. I feel like I don't have enough time to do things I actually love. I've spent almost half a decade going through academic books, standards and sections and what not. But KZread, no matter what anyone says has been a source of immense knowledge and ideas for me. And lately I've been trying to focus more on my wellbeing, especially mental, and doing things I love, reading articles and watching videos which intrigue me. And I've recently started looking for Stephen Fry's content (highly recommended to me) and I simply can't stop. Thank you for making me feel like I'm not the only one. P.S. I'm a student at ICAI as well. Hope I don't remain just a student . 😁

The first answer he gave about having time hit me hard, so true. Such a great man

I agree with his love of The Great Gatsby - music in writing; beautifully written.

Every word he says is spot on, perfect.

This man is loved

One of the few Polymath in the world. I could listen to him for hours.

Will definitely have to watch Casablanca now. Ok maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon.

@ivi9438

4 жыл бұрын

Have you watched it?

@Astronic

4 жыл бұрын

Did you ever watch it? Ill watch it one day.

@torontomame

3 жыл бұрын

It has earned its place on the many "Best" lists it graces.

@dadikkedude

3 жыл бұрын

I don't like the fakeness of black and white film, that's why I think young people skip it. Not because it's black and white, but it's a idyllic love story wich makes me puke my guts out. Give me real, give me raw with all of lives imperfections and none of the traditional cultural values. Celebration of life, not ideals.

@CosmicTeapot

3 жыл бұрын

@@dadikkedude That's got less to do with the aesthetics of the film (black and white) and more to do with the historical context. What you describe emerged during the sexual/cultural revolution of the 1960s. The era of Casablanca is a period where love stories did happen that way, which we find cheesy today but was the standard back in the day. Ever asked your grandpa how he asked your grandma out? It was full of courting and cheesy flirtatious lace-worked exchanges.

Knight this man!

@elepheriakarageorgis9177

2 жыл бұрын

Newton Abbot 5.45 7#11#6#3--6.15 4#2#7--7.15 1#2#4-7.45 5#3--8.15 4#5#3#1#7-'8.50 5#4#10

How can you not love him? His pure fascination of world is heartmelting

Despite the broadside nature of his assessment - I have to say that I’ve seen Casablanca multiple times and have enjoyed it each time (including the four times when I was on board a trans-Atlantic flight between England and the U. S. I have enjoyed black-and-white film most of my life, my favorites being Some Like It Hot and (drumroll) A Hard Day’s Night, and I agree with Mr. Fry about its value.

Stephen, love you so much !

The Master and Margarita , I believe he said one time was another one of the novels he goes back to and reads over and over again. Perhaps that's the third novel he's forgetting.

I totally love you you Stephen .Your are a genuine inspiration for me . thank you x

A proper wordsmith

you are the visible personification of absolute perfection... wow

The guy behind him seems bored. I myself love Stephen Fry!

@viki1604

3 жыл бұрын

I think he commented on one of the other videos and mentioned that he was quite sick that day, but didn’t want to miss Stephen.

@mh8889

2 жыл бұрын

@@viki1604 pompous arrogant over privileged young man, should be clever enough to realise where he is, should be honoured to be in Stephens presence, you can tell what he is immediately absolute waste of mammy and daddy’s money

Student on the right looks completely fed up.....

University - don't let the lectures get in the way of your education

Does anyone know what was the third book?

I liked this and I did laugh at the chemist part.

The bored student behind Fry is the future.

@supasayer

9 жыл бұрын

David Corbett truesay

@supasayer

9 жыл бұрын

David Corbett .....freeze at 3.48, he looks just like a sneering Tory MP

@CTravelx728

5 жыл бұрын

Omg haha I thought this...looks like he had a rough uni night out 😂 seriously...he should be taking all this in cause our young generation need these lessons

@opalbear.274

5 жыл бұрын

I just read comments to find this comment XD

I learnt a new pick up line

Apparently when you are listening to someone who is probably more knowledgeable than you and is discussing subjects that you may never have considered in such depth it is more important to look like you're concentrating than it is to ignore outside distractions and meditate on what he's teaching you.

I adore Georgette Heyer! The Great Gatsby is awesome and layered. Sad so many don’t peel back the layers. They only read at face value, never wading into its depths. The work of Richard Wagner touches one soul.

I wish I could be the pricks sitting beyond stage left and right yawning and sleeping through this. It must be so hard not maintaining their Geordie Shore hair cuts for a few hours.

@satansgenitalia

7 жыл бұрын

Are you kidding? He was talking for over an hour? who has the energy to concentrate for that long on top of uni work/work commitments/social commitments. People get bored and tired. I know I did listening to him. Thankfully I had the luxury of dragging back the video to re-listen to it.

@SUZE.

4 жыл бұрын

@@satansgenitalia I agree. He is just a tired educated student. It's the coughing student I want to kick out. You sick? Go home!

@mh8889

2 жыл бұрын

@@satansgenitalia pompous arrogant over privileged young man, should be clever enough to realise where he is, should be honoured to be in Stephens presence, you can tell what he is immediately absolute waste of mammy and daddy’s money

There is a particular specimen of a poseur behind S.Fry who is certainly bound for de Pfeffel's cabinet.

So what was that third book ?

Every clip I've been on today has commented on the young man in the background, leave him alone, I imagine he is dreadfully exhausted and perhaps Stephen Fry doesn't bring him to ecstasy. University is awfully tiring, a beautiful privelege but all the same still drying.

@pelayopar

4 жыл бұрын

Still no excuse to blissfully throw your privilege into the sad and awful pit of ignorance. It does not seem to be due exhaustion to me, it seems to be originated in ignorance, superiority and stupidity. Totally qualifies as the next hot entitled politician though ;) I still appreciate your point and admit I may be wrong though...

@mh8889

2 жыл бұрын

pompous arrogant over privileged young man, should be clever enough to realise where he is, should be honoured to be in Stephens presence, you can tell what he is immediately absolute waste of mammy and daddy’s money

shame we all didn't get that "time"

Stephen could never do a speed round of anything. But he is so damn interesting!

Awe.

Bored guy prominently featured couldn't feel less as enthralled as I am.

Stephen Fry is a modern day Samuel Johnson.

I could listen to you for hours; however, the bloke to your left, might argue with me.

Who's the tired prat wasting this great moment with Stephen?!

I watched a sifi movie or something(dont remember) where at the end what was thought as highest power a few people possessed turned out to be merely a 'ticket' to watch(otherwise they wouldn't even notice what they're doing) another level of battle. I guess the reason those old literature including films are being forgotten is because people, with shame include me, are not striving for the ticket itself. We have too much cheap entertainment established.

That coughing...

@calebcostigan2561

4 жыл бұрын

These are such young people too. Vaping? Cold season? Shitty English weather? I think Steven even sniffles a little.

Wow!

That guy who's watching his feet in the background needs a slap

@grahamkeane2776

8 жыл бұрын

Bottom right!? I reckon he needs a trip to the hydraulic press channel, but in person, feckin' gowl

@ryanbonner25

3 жыл бұрын

that room is full of pricks, believe me

@mh8889

2 жыл бұрын

Well said, pompous arrogant over privileged young man, should be clever enough to realise where he is, should be honoured to be in Stephens presence, you can tell what he is immediately absolute waste of mammy and daddy’s money

6:15

The guy that people say looks bored might actually be depressed, exhausted and worried about something

Someone in the crowd is eating Triscuits and breathing at the same time.

Occasionally in our history people of interest are thrown up so to speak. Einstein Elvis and Mr Fry. And of course many others. People like these are what make the human race special. Of course unfortunately we have the other end of the spectrum people we would rather forget..

4:57

6:00

legend

3:46 - i'm the guy on the right during all my classes

Beware of Pity by stephan strike Australian writer Under volcano by Malcom Larry Canadian British writer

@mariaeugeniae

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

George Orwell

He's right about the interests of academics. In America, it's meant that students wanting a real education are abandoning elite institutions to those who see them as entrees to the elite.

Im chronically ill and have avoided relationships so beware of pity will probably hit me hard but im gonna read it anyway

5:45 hypnotizing speech into wizard's spell cast... obviously we are apes... Obviously.

Casblanca

As someone who never watches black and white films, I feel well and truly told off 🤣

I've seen Casablanca even before watching this.

Rupert Croft Cook cuts through a lot of mythology surrounding Wilde's remarks but they make for good a good story.

How rude is the lad at 3:48?!?

Sittin' on the porch, sippin' on mint julep.. ;)

French new wave

Who is the guy in the corner lol Looks like he is in pain 😂

@avinandandey6418

4 жыл бұрын

I FUCKING KNOW RIGHT

when is QI coming back with you in it

4:24 guy on the left was had no soul

I have now been pressured to pirate download Casablanca...

Guy on our right....his left.

7:00 Piece is not an Anglo-Saxon word!

@sophitsa79

5 жыл бұрын

Where is it from?

@pelayopar

4 жыл бұрын

@@sophitsa79 from Latin petium (piece of land) still one word out of the sentence

who`s on the statue making?

yay Georgette heyer.

The speaker's verbose commentary seems to bring on what some have conspiratorially called the "homophobic yawn" in some peevish Oxford boys @ 03:45

Ohi 10.05 5#7#11

so, what is the ´bored student´ doing now?

English is got a ton of French in to

@on_my_own_two_feet

8 жыл бұрын

+His Most Gracious Excellency Saxo Ungrammaticus I which descended from the spoken Latin of the Roman Empire.

I would love to think Stephen is a fan of Thrash Metal, or any kind of Metal, alas I doubt he is and doubt he will ever hear the music I create, I'd like to think there is something in my music for everyone though so you never know.

lop sided world

has anyone read ulysses and not found it purely confusing

I hate the bored kid why is he even in the shot

look how bored the dude behind fry is. it's more entertaining than the discussion itself.

@JohnWaylon

7 жыл бұрын

I think he's high

@timsplanet2

5 жыл бұрын

@@JohnWaylon I think he was sick. Read his apology

@julierogers1155

5 жыл бұрын

The "bored dude" is more entertaining that Stephen Fry? You are the embodiment of absolute ignorance. Deep sigh for Sean.

Nah Stephen I used to watch a channel that just played black and white movies because it didn't have commercials. Most of them were stiff lifeless bores.

I'm very skeptical that most of the best movies ever made are black and white. I have been systematically watching the most critically acclaimed movies and only a few of them are in black and white.

@AminTheMystic

5 жыл бұрын

You are reading the wrong list. Hint: Look beyond Hollywood.

how could you look so bored (lower right).... please slap him.... then ask him to leave

@timsplanet2

5 жыл бұрын

I think he was sick

@mh8889

2 жыл бұрын

pompous arrogant over privileged young man, should be clever enough to realise where he is, should be honoured to be in Stephens presence, you can tell what he is immediately absolute waste of mammy and daddy’s money

only time i have ever disagreed with stephen fry, 85% of the best films ever made are NOT in black and white, that may be your opinion, but it is clearly WRONG, the acting in the majority of black and white movies was terrible, they were theater actors no screen actors and it comes across very evidently

@TheCheweeRevolutions

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe you haven't watched the right black and white films

@almahperditae

5 жыл бұрын

He is right. He is talking not about the movies in general, But only about the greatest movies ever. If you make a list os the top 10 movies of all time, good luck being able to put 3 in color in that list. (Great movies, absolut classics, the ones that no one can't argue. Your personal opinion doesn't count)

@gingerbill128

5 жыл бұрын

@@almahperditae The idea that film making techniques have not improved over time or acing hasn't improved makes no sense, never mind the fact that some of the greatest stories could not be told properly because of censorship or technology. Many countries and culture's could not even make there films and tell there stories in the early days. I would completely disagree that black and white films were any better or worse. There are always classics and brilliant films being made.

@almahperditae

5 жыл бұрын

@@gingerbill128 of course the technics evolve. Of course the technology evolve. But film, great movies, are art, not technology. And art is making the best you can with whatever you have. Again, tell me who are the 3 color movies in the all time greatest classics.

@rickhenderson2970

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed, but not for the reasons you say. It's pure numbers: film didn't really come into maturity as an art-form until the 20s, as the great films before that--like those of DW Griffith--were outliers and not representative of the dreck from that time that nobody today, even hardcore cinephiles like myself, would want to watch. Color came in in the 50s, though for about a decade (more in some countries) there was a mix of films made in B&W and color, so we can say that we have about 30-40 years (depending on where you want to start/end) of film mostly in black-and-white. Meanwhile, we've now had almost 60 years of film primarily in color! I've seen over 8000 films in my lifetime. I love and adore a great many films in B&W, but I can assuredly say that the ratio of my beloved color to B&W films isn't 15/85. I also dare say that if you look at any reputable list of the greatest films ever made like Theyshootpictures--which is really a meta-list made from all other reputable lists--the ratio would be nowhere near 85/15. In fact, going through TSPDT's Top 100 (out of 1000), I count 53 B&W films and 47 color. 50/50 sounds much more reasonable than 85/15, but even that I suspect will tilt towards color as time goes on.

I cannot for the life of me fathom why you would go to a talk with Stephen Fry and spend your time yawning and looking as generally unimpressed as the young man in the tweed suit to the right of Mr Fry on his close up. Something about his indifference screams "self-entitled little shit", the likes of whom are only impressed by ardent contrarians who spend their time constantly looking at things with a cynical and inhumanly logical gaze. I just can't imagine how someone can go to a talk like this and fail to appear in the least bit interested in what the person has to say. Are they forced to attend these talks? Because if not, he really shouldn't be there and give his place to someone who may have benefitted more from hearing what Mr Fry has to say.

@mh8889

2 жыл бұрын

Well said 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 he a pompous arrogant over privileged young man, should be clever enough to realise where he is, should be honoured to be in Stephens presence, you can tell what he is immediately absolute waste of mammy and daddy’s money

Mr Fry is of course brilliant, but it's making me physically uncomfortable to watch that total imbecile in the background yawn, roll his eyes, and act above the whole thing. I feel this way not because this is Stephen Fry, though that surely makes it worse, but because no person deserves that level of disrespect. It takes a lot of courage to give a talk. I can only assume that this young man's parents failed him miserably in some way.

I don't like his apologetic stance on Wagner. If you love something as profound, be proud of it and stand up for it.

@louisholden5127

9 жыл бұрын

Archishman Ghosh He apologises for the man, not the music.

@Archiekunst

9 жыл бұрын

The music exists because of the man and his experiences.. It does not make sense to decouple the two.

@Archiekunst

9 жыл бұрын

He is actually apologetic for the music too because he is in front of a young crowd... He is not at all like this in his documentary.

@DieFlabbergast

8 жыл бұрын

Archishman Ghosh You are saying that unless one likes or approves of Wagner the man, one cannot like the music that he wrote. Is that really what you are saying? If so, you live in a different world from the rest of us.

@Archiekunst

8 жыл бұрын

I did not say you have to like the man to like his music. But one should realize that the music is there because of his experiences in his life and his personality. You cannot compartmentalize the human psyche into, "oh that's his personality and its trash" and then say the music came out ethereally from some other plane of imagination. It was his nationalism, unbent and arrogant belief in himself and all his complexes that mashed up and drove him into creating an entirely different world. The same goes for a lot of other composers. You wouldn't accuse Chopin for the same.

Stephen Fry taking a shit on his educators is really a pretty low blow. You don't learn everything from your friends, a tremendous amount comes from your teachers and the structure of the academic environment as a whole. He is also assuming that one will have a dynamic circle of friends, all of whom are engaged and interested in areas that overlap with their studies. I haven't found that to be the way at all. Not anymore. People aren't interested in being academically or intellectually stimulated. They want to take the fastest, most direct and least interesting way through, which means making no waves and having no convictions, get their paper, make their money, and spend the rest of their time making themselves look impressive on social media. He is so badly out of step with the times and he doesn't even seem to know it.

Wtf is wrong with the blond guy in the background?

The guy on our right is so obviously not a Stephen Fry fan. Shame for him to be so disinterested. Why did he bother to pitch up. He could learn so much from Stephen..

@colonyofrats4193

3 жыл бұрын

Lynne Longman we clearly haven't read the comments lol

Gatsby is the most overrated novel of all time. Discuss.

Dude on right looked utterly bored.

Who's the little bore peckerhead in the lower right screen? He should be ashamed!