Definitely watching this instead of reading the play for summer reading

@grahamholmes6645

8 жыл бұрын

+Sugar Clover REEEEEEEEEEE

@fondationekomeli238

3 жыл бұрын

To get the summary of the plot - maybe. But this film doesn't have the Chekhov's soul. There is a version by Warner's Brothers, not as good as the Russian one, but much better than this one.

@thevintageplaylist7191

3 жыл бұрын

How sad! Is way better

The young and beautiful Frank Langella has never been topped by any actor. God gave him a gift to be shared.

I feel like I am eating up my own life for the honey that I give away. You're the last chapter of my life , if you leave me , I'll be out of my mind. Cast and the acting make your eyes glued and heart enraptured till the end.

I love every actor in this production. Blythe and Frank. You could not find another them anywhere.

My first exposure to Chekov. Saw it when it originally aired in 1975 and loved it. Boy, have the actors in this cast aged like the rest of us! Watched it again this evening (THANKS FOR POSTING) and it still holds up quite well. Especially Blythe Danner, Lee Grant and Frank Langella. Some of the supporting performances not as much, but still very compelling and thought provoking. Enjoyed comparing it to the recent film with Annette Bening and Elizabeth Moss, which is also quite well done.

Thank you for uploading this. I remember watching it on PBS forty years ago (!), it was a great pleasure seeing it again.

I don’t know the accuracy of this interpretation, but watching this after reading the play did help me to visualize and digest it

2022 July 2, I am still reading Anton Chekov short stories... He read internal spirits of human from different social class and present in fewest words - a short story master...

Very helpful for an essay for class, thank you!

I've never seen a greatest Nina. Blythe Danner IS Nina. Gosh, she's incredible!

@robertgallagher5285

4 ай бұрын

Have seen her before she looked familiar but was shocked she was such a great THEATER actress??!!!

Thanks so much for uploading this!

Rest in peace, Mr. Hal Holbrook. Thank you for the lovely intro. You will be missed dearly!

Tqsmuch it's help lots for me to easily understand the play .

Thanks for this! Blythe Danner is the definitive Nina.

@davefuller3311

8 жыл бұрын

+irenebullock1021 Agreed. She is simply superb! I saw this when it originally aired on PBS in 1975. I was 19. Last year I purchased the DVD and watched it again. The passing of time has only increased my appreciation of this production. All the actors play their roles very well. Miss Danner, Mr. Langella and the amazing Miss Lee Grant each give performances of immense depth. It is, however, Miss Danner who remains the stand out. In particular the way she delivers the line, "I am a seagull.". Acting is an art and it doesn't get any better this.

@mikefuller6959

7 жыл бұрын

LMFAO! I just love these intellectuals who understand this fancy intellectual stuff! Juicy thinking stuff! I don't understand it but I love it! Or I love some people's enthusiasm of this stuff.

@georgesonm1774

3 жыл бұрын

she's unbelievable. and so beautiful!

@fondationekomeli238

3 жыл бұрын

She is not. Russian women of Chekhov's time, even aspiring actresses didn't talk like that.

I am russian guy, was seraching for a perfetct represantation of the final scene between Nina and Treplev, watched MANY russian movies and they not even close to this one. SO true to life scene here

@sitting_nut

3 жыл бұрын

no

@fondationekomeli238

3 жыл бұрын

I am surprised you write that, there is nothing remotely Russian or true to Chekhov about this film. Actors were acting and overacting, unnaturally.

@TheJohnyFreeman

3 жыл бұрын

@@fondationekomeli238 Maybe, you are right. When I was searching it, I was trying to find idea behind the scene, because I wanted understand the idead behinds characters motivation maybe the actors are overplaying, but I clearly what exactly they think about in a lot of moments.

@syedhasibulislam167

2 ай бұрын

​@@TheJohnyFreeman If you are Russian . Please i want to talk to you about The Seagull.

Frank Langella has so much charisma, even when he's playing this nervous anxious mess.

great film to watch & entertain ......

The Seagull showing in London Harold Pinter on June 2022

This is the best version on KZread. I still remember it.

This is extremely beautiful. So nice to see these actors on the stage rather than in film.

@classica1fungus

2 жыл бұрын

Ummmmmmmm... what stage? This is film lol

@Call.me.reham22

Жыл бұрын

@@classica1fungus he preferred them to be on the stage not in a film.

Unrequited love!

I remember this series King Lear James Earl Jones, beautiful young Blyth Danner in the Seagull, late 30s Irene Atkins in The Lady's Not for Burning. Entertaining serious theatre.

@pambisugar8286

6 жыл бұрын

paxwallacejazz Thank u. I will search for it and watch

This was excellent! thanx a lot!

I like this very much

go Blythe Danner!

I just loved this play. Apparently checkov wrote to take the piss, as s joke, but I found it so real.

I found a copy recorded off of KCET, back when they had BBC-style clocks during intermissions and also The Dick Cavett Show on PBS.

I love this TV play of the seagull it's the only thing I've seen it performed in

Definitive and indelible.

lovely

So it’s not Russian, it’s different and good for it’s manner . Thank you for sharing this here :)!

Good play, I saw it in a manga called Kasane

this was extraordinary

@fondationekomeli238

3 жыл бұрын

Watch the Russian version. It's the best. This doesn't convey the atmosphere of Chekhov's Russia. Acting was forced, theatrical, unnatural.

@jensmalzer6344

8 ай бұрын

@@fondationekomeli238 Which russian version?

Excellent interpretation of Chekhov's play! Some scenes even better than what we seen in the best performances in Russian leading theaters and cinema-versions.

@fondationekomeli238

3 жыл бұрын

Totally disagree.

Is The Seagull Chekhovs greatest play: GREAT performances by all but knew Nina looked familar found out her name from the end credits was shocked Blythe Danner such a magnicent STAGE actress??!!!

Nina rises in the triangle of Chekhov's idea, real Russian life, & the concept of the director of this play.

Gwyneth Paltrow looks like his mother Blythe Danner at the same age, same face, same expressions! (47")

Supposed to be doing a monologue from this and I understand nothing so I’m gonna try watching it. Kinda surprised I found it.

Could anyone please give this text written in english ?

Mrs. Blythe Danner I am in love with you.../

1:45:56 Nina's Monologue

I'm afraid the casting is wrong here. For example, Nina is supposed to be a 18-19 year old girl. Blythe Danner was 32 at the time and she just can't convince me. Masha is also a similar age as Nina, maybe a year or two older, but she's played by an older woman. I also never get to see the actors' faces clearly. They all move around too much.

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Son cümle can alıcı

Does anyone know the actress at the time frame of 0:27 ?

@ellengrana7798

8 жыл бұрын

+Francis Blair That's Faye Dunaway

@malikjulien8537

8 жыл бұрын

+Ellen Grana Thank you, so much.

@darrellecavan5852

7 жыл бұрын

Francis Blair "

@dgfox474

6 жыл бұрын

Faye Dunnaway

43:36

17:08

13:48

Frank Langella throws away so many beautiful lines

@fondationekomeli238

3 жыл бұрын

Terrible acting. Kostya was not a psychopath, neither did he have such a physique. Nothing saying Chekhov's Russia about his acting. He acted like a maniac.

Why does Dukakis have a Bronx accent?

1:41:55

Apologizes to Checkov, but all these people are nuts.

@rasheednode

2 жыл бұрын

Of course they're all nuts, so are we, all!!! Not a fault of Chekhov, in any way.

20:55

Beautiful play, perhaps the best play of Chekhov, I wonder if Seagull was written in form of a short story, it would have been a far better creation because I believe Chekhov was a far better short story writer than a playwright. I believe 1978 BBC Play of the month is a far better version/performance than this attempt.

Which script adaptation is this?

@AutismThespian1993

Ай бұрын

It is a translation by Stark Young that was written around the 30’s-40’s.

1:06:27

03:59

1:05:50 - 1:12:34

try to watch the "Ultimate" Seagull With Alla Demidova

@ludmilaturkova1274

6 жыл бұрын

many companies have played it AS a "generation fight" stuff, many AS "art concepts" fight. but. it's NOT about "any fight" apart all humane have with themselves. it's about human highs and lows, searches and callings for a higher meaning. in the contrary to Tolstoy, completely outside any spiritual space. just people!!!

@fondationekomeli238

3 жыл бұрын

Ludmila, TOTALLY agree! The version with Demidova, Yakovlev, Djigarkhanyan, Kopelyan is so, so much better. I feel Chekhov in that version, and I don't feel Chekhov or Russia in this one.

Kevin McCarthy was 61 when he did this and he was suppose to be playing someone in their thirties ?

@mauricioduron3193

7 жыл бұрын

Casting would be at fault. With Mr. Langella, at age 37, as Konstantin his mother would be in her mid-50s. It would not be amiss for McCarthy to play Trigorin at 61.

@Robespierre1758X

7 жыл бұрын

Hes too old what women is head over heels in love with a 61 year old man ???"?

@mauricioduron3193

7 жыл бұрын

NOT at all qualified to say. Still, this is late 19th century Russia and Nina, a lifetime resident of the countryside - not a city sophisticate - becomes infatuated with a mature man whom she regards a person of great intellect and accomplishment and actually tells him so despite his objections. This might help: "What do young women see in much older men?" Neil Lyndon (67) tries to fathom the appeal of the older man. www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/10980731/What-do-young-women-see-in-much-older-men.html www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/10980731/What-do-young-women-see-in-much-older-men.html

@mauricioduron3193

7 жыл бұрын

Such profanities, Maximilien. FYI - profanity is a subset of a language's lexicon that is generally considered to be strongly impolite, rude or offensive. It can show a debasement of someone or something, or show intense emotion. Linguistically, profanity takes the form of words or verbal expressions that fall into the category of formulaic language. ADDENDUM: Beware Apraxia of Speech. Individuals with AOS have difficulty connecting speech messages from the brain to the mouth.

@mauricioduron3193

7 жыл бұрын

+Robespierre1758X - Suggest that you start by taking some remedial English: www.wikihow.com/Use-There,-Their-and-They%27re as well as posts that involve the possessive and contractions, as here: www.yourvsyoure.com/ Regarding your confusion on the initial issue of age difference, follow that with: Neil Lyndon (67) tries to fathom the appeal of the older man. www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/10980731/What-do-young-women-see-in-much-older-men.html

Treplev is not Hamlet, that’s the problem in this one version, he is not a hysterical sociopath too , for Russian this character is far away from this version at all:))))

Bookmarks 2:28 Start 14:18 35:15 Act 2

Chekhov played like daytime tv soap opera. Chekhov calls this play a comedy. This is cream cheese when it should be roe.

@mmcgihon

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, Masha gets called "Marsha," at around 7.00; says it all.

It looks like soap opera... I thought this was a classic.

3:59

My neo-vagina smells like shit. I never should have let them use the colon and just the facia. I didn’t do it the natural way and now my boyfriend calls me “two shitters.” 😢

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@user-sc8vf2lg5r

7 жыл бұрын

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@Namedjames22

7 ай бұрын

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The Russian look and appearances being towed along by such American stylized voices, acting skills, and accents totally destroy the deeper spirit of this particular production. These actors should've just "Americanized" the play and made it contemporary to America and it would've made so much more sense for their acting skills and attitudes put forth in this production. This is a fine troupe of actors working with what they were given...the produces horribly failed in their effort to really display the great play.

@ludmilaturkova1274

6 жыл бұрын

curt childress D honestly, it brothers less than overplaying all the normal feelings. Chekhov is ALL about normal human feelings

@ludmilaturkova1274

6 жыл бұрын

i guess one of the problems might be that the Shakespearian GREAT tradition does NOT Always go Well With Chekhov;-)

16:40 41:00

Unfortunately the sphere is missing :/ And of cause it didn’t help it taking the play partly in natural environment, alas . The ability to tell yo text by heart, making face or grimacing is not enough to create the real atmosphere of any Chekhov’s play Only the actress who’s playing Arkadina is not so bad to me.

Americans can't do this play.

@SuperZombieUnicornsss

8 жыл бұрын

How come?

@richardhewlett5603

8 жыл бұрын

Gross stupidity.

@axelcarlsson6795

7 жыл бұрын

I'd say the notion that an entire nation doesn't have the capacity to do Chekhov is the grosser stupidity.

@richardhewlett5603

7 жыл бұрын

There's a lot of things Americans can't do.

@axelcarlsson6795

7 жыл бұрын

Richard Hewlett You keep saying that, yet won't explain why.

The Russian soul is missing...

@fondationekomeli238

3 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY. The Chekhov's soul is missing too. Acting is all wrong. Actors are also wrong for the roles.

@BytomGirl

3 жыл бұрын

@@fondationekomeli238 Precisely

I am sorry to have put dislike, but there is nothing saying Chekhov or Russia about this. Almost all actors are wrong for their roles, esp. the ones playing Constantin, Nina and Marsha's mom. Masha is supposed to be much younger than the actress who plays the role. Irina Arkadina here is too vulgar. The emotions are so wrong, again esp. those of Kostya and Nina. Really, the filmmakers should sometimes watch the old Soviet era movies based on Chekhov's plays to get the feeling of the era when Chekhov's was writing. Music is wrong - it sounds Central European, not Russian, besides that's not what aristocracy was playing in Chekhov's time.

just terrible to listen to chekovs words in that ghastly pronunciation of english.

Pompous second-rate writers and hysterical women -- what a bunch of jerks. I'm laughing all the way through this play.

you literally saved my finals thanks. wish me luck🤌🏻

@shortstackofpancakes

2 жыл бұрын

how did you go?

@ayahxx3062

2 жыл бұрын

@@shortstackofpancakes i passed.

@shortstackofpancakes

2 жыл бұрын

@@ayahxx3062 YAY CONGRATS!

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