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I wonder how many customers got the joke?

Very good.

@@stevekaczynski3793 Can you explain it?

puns are the lowest form of wit

Thank you for sharing - the mark of a true teacher - one that changes our lives

@@juliaconnell Thank you. She was a delightful personality too. Went to the University of Chicago and graduated Magna but chose to be a teacher when she had the chance to make "the big bucks". She must be resting peacefully knowing all the lives she changed. Peace and Love...

Methinks your post has somewhat the swagger of the Bard!

@@merxeddie6474 Until further notice, I will take that as a huge compliment. I'm not sure the Bard would use "freak" in his work but what the heck!! I loved living in England. Were it not for my wife, I would be there now. I love history and Britain is the proverbial goldmine. Cheers !!

David Warner was incredible. It seems no one remembers him anymore.

The big show-off.

Neither do I remember my own phone number, mainly because I call myself so seldom and I have no need to remember it.

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice; practice; practice.

To be fair...he forgot to limp right at the end, he limped all the way through then stormed off at the end quite briskly. I can forgive him, I hope you can. I too can't remember my phone number, I can't understand how actors can remember their lines, it's a dark art.

Nobody better than Olivier....

Was this not similar in any way to your father's daily breakfast soliloquy? "Now, is the time when you shall inform to me who ate the rest of my WORK-LUNCH baloney! I pray to hold thee nearest to my breast, and wring thy neck with the force of mighty stallions if I find the true culprit! Now dine on your Cheerios that which has issued from my loins for it may be the last earthly nourishment that you shall receive, courtesy of this gentleman's brow sweat, back, and anguish!" My dad worked at the GM plant in Kalamazoo, MI, and it was a whole thing he did every morning.

We used to practice our monologues on 17th street, in Denver, while attending the NTC. We we do them for the public. I remember doing Mobray, "Let not my cold words" From Rich II. It's a smoldering piece, that builds and builds, where he challenges a relative of the sitting King to a duel. This was a good way to work the piece up. Raising your rehearsal stakes by presenting and force you into the moment. Some fun reaction stories associated with this practice. Reactions varied but for the most part, people got it and seemed to dig it. With out a room but.. pretty much the approach you are musing at.

@@hungrypromethean Genius...bravo, bravo!

Hungry Promethean your dad sounds legit

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Media, not mediums.

Here I was thinking it would be the reverse. The more intimate he wants to become the further away he should get until his words become so indecipherable the "audience" has to get on stage to hear what he says. Then when he wants to throw his arms around he would natuarally go in for a close up of his face. Now that makes sense to me. But I have to bow to Olivier's wonderful genius.

@@simongleaden2864 The Actor's Medium: On Stage and in Film. Marc Silberman. Modern Drama, Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 1996, pp. 558-565 (Article). To clarify your ignorance.

He is speaking to someone. The door is pushed open slightly then one can hear the door close and the latch shut. Great work in both medium of stage and film. Media is incorrect. The Actor's Medium: On Stage and in Film. Marc Silberman. Modern Drama, Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 1996, pp. 558-565 (Article).

Ahem - the quoted sentence from the book is differently constructed to this comment. "Great work in both medium of stage and film." The second use of 'medium' is implied here, i.e. Great work in both medium of stage and (medium) of film. The plural of medium is media, so 'two different media' would be correct. I'm afraid using the quote from the book therefore does not support the argument.

It is actually two stitched together.

For everything else, there’s MasterCard…

@@cameradanblack Olivier was always doing that. It is one of the things about his performances that I really detest.

I don't know how to see what you see

How about this same Actor in Henry V ? Another of Olivier's Tour de Force! ❤

Judi Dench

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@@user-wz2qe2pv6r To be fair, there a many amazing actors but they probably all used Lord Larry as the template. Tom Hiddlestone is fantastic in Shakespeare plays as is Ralph Fiennes.

And guess who the director was.

So true, the interaction with the viewer is sublimely done

*eternal

He was not of an age, but for all time.

Completely agree

@Hell Bro Away, you three-inch fool.

Timeless

The way its set up, just a couple of empty, echoey rooms but by moving to certain places, with long shadows or the dark, green lighting from the stained glass windows it changes the tone without need for music or editing. Its a case of knowing Olivier can bring the goods and keeping everything else subdued, but not bland.

Exquisite

Garbo understood that..She used her own lighting man whenever filming.

The way the shadows darken on his face at the end!

*complement each other

It is what I dislike most about Olivier's performances.

As did Alec Guinness; to each his own...@@fearlessfosdick160

I don't like It. I didn't age well at all

No, it is still good. Interesting to know what is more 'modern' and effective. Please do not say Ian McKellan...@@edwardcoward5003

I wore a vhs cassette of my dad's out watching this. Blue ray now. Sublime.

Some of it's the writing...

That's a very goofy reaction.

I'm definitely not on his side. Iago, though.

@@hmq9052 I regret that you fail to stand under understatement...

Yes a truly wonderful piece

I envy you, what a wonderful experience, what a priceless memory.

Ronald Pickup played the younger son and Maureen Lipmann played the maid.

Amen. I saw Ian Holm play him at The Royal Shakespeare Theater many moons ago when I was 12. Hooked me for life on Shakespeare.

@@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy You're lucky! : )

@@spockboy Thanks. Also saw him play Henry V and David Warner as Hamlet. I was an Air Force brat and my teacher was a card-carrying Shakespeare nut, as we called her. Opened my eyes to a part of the world I'll always appreciate. I mean, how many kids can say they have seen what I saw? Not many. Cheers !!

Yes it does! Add genius _director_ to that resume!

Genius director too.

You're ahead of me, then. I couldn't catch MOST of what he was saying.

dialogue? where?

"Unpacking"... yeah, you go unpack, genius.

@@LoveOneAnotherHeSaid feeling a bit salty darling ?

@@LoveOneAnotherHeSaid What’s your problem?

They do have a similiar bangin' fashion sense! 😂

Now is the summer of our sweet content...

Als

Hello Joe - this is brummagem Peter. I also saw him in Othello in the 60´s and it will stay with me all my life.

@@peterknight2860Strange to think it would be banned/cancelled now. Probably his Shylock too.

@@nagoranerides3150 They already cancelled the long running annual summer Shakespeare outdoor festival here in our midwestern US city on the grounds that it isn't diverse enough. Harold Bloom is probably rolling in his grave.

VINCENT PRICE AS WELL

not one of, the best one

Sounds like an admirable use of your time. No one has used our language so well as Shakespeare; it almost seems like it was designed for his pen.

Ever give that speech in a post office, buying stamps? Or in a bar?

It's just "love foreswore"; past tense, which can't be preceded by "doth", which is the present active/infinitive form of "do".

@@slappy8941 -- Source, please.

@@rerite2 2:10 Also, that's how grammar works. "doth" is the old form of "does"; you wouldn't say "love does forswore me".

Russell G It's: "Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb." But you're right: cold.

​@@varana You overlook three things: In modern English we could correctly say 'Love *did foreswear* me ...' (&) Grammatical rules shift significantly overtime - Doth could well have equally meant does & did (but see below) Part of the foundation of the impact of Shakespear's writing stems from his ability and willingness to bend the usual rules of Grammar to carry extra potency. And then again maybe not because in Julius Ceasar there is a very, very clever piece of underhanded character assasination Cassius says to Brutus in essence 'Yeah mate? You thing Ceasar's well hard, more or less a God. Pha! When we were in Sapin he had a fit and fell sick and - yeah get this innit: His coward lips did from their colour fly'. So Shakespear did (or possibly doth) use 'did' as well as 'doth'. But on the other hand he spelled Shakespear at last half a dozen different ways. Ironically to make sure I had the quote spot on (of course I had, as but modesty (which I obviously do flawlessly) obliged it) I checked it. And I was slightly sad to read next to the original a modern English version. My first thought was 'great, its being make accessible'. Sadly, the muppets writing the conversion evidently had no real concept of nuance & connotation. It became 'His lips turned white' Evidently oblivious to the deeper meaning of someone 'flying from their colour(s)'. Its like saying "The Mona Lisa's this young old time chick, quite pretty, eyes are done nicely. And because the gaze is horizontal it gives the impression she follows you with her eyes. It a well used technique. Done in paint. Not much going on in the background".

Seen lots of them have you? Seriously, this may be your opinion, and is as valid as mine or anyone else's, but "without a doubt"? I think there might just be some doubters dotted here and there.

He's not THE greatest. Many others including Gielgud, Rylance, Hopkins, Fiennes, Schofield and others have been equally great. @@adolforodolfo6929

Try Ralph Fiennes now Also In Stratford upon Avon where the RSC is based Outside a sports shop appeared this sign ‘Now is the discount of our winter tent’

Ben Dover I love the way his cheekbones sink at that moment and says ”i’ll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall”, its so good!!!

Some actors do put in "a lot of work" nowadays, but sadly, it is often the kind of work that Hugh Jackman did to gain muscle for Wolverine.

@@Herodollus so menacing and in no time at all

Yep

……his first name is spelled the Latin way, ‘Laurence’……

@@elizabethroberts6215 Thank you so very much for your kind correction.👌⚘

I didn't even realise this was two separate soliloquies combined into one. I can't even pinpoint where one soliloquy ended and the other began. Olivier flowed from one to the other so effortlessly that I could easily buy that it was always written as one scene.

Oh it is impossible to surpass that.. this is the edge of the horizon

Tera Reid is better...

I never saw him in the theatre so I'll take the word of other actors who said he was great,but could you really imagine him playing the role of Arthur Seaton, or Mr Sugden in Kes?

@@DJKinney You are unaquinted with the craft.

@@DJKinney I found that more gripping to watch than any number of current method-bores, it's a different style for sure but still brilliant. There's a lot of subtlety under the bluster.

@@DJKinney are serious?i really feel his emotion and im not even an english speaker,most of the word he said i dont understand but the emotion and feeling is certainly there.he is like speaking to you personally telling all his evil plan and man he is scary,,im actually shocked that he is great,i find theatrical acting boring, but not this one, he knows what he's doing and is very good at it...the only thing a non english speaker understand someone is through his action while speaking,its not about what he say it is how he say it

That reminds me I have to make a dental appointment 🤣👍

Worlds apart...galaxies...

Damn, beat me to it...

The industrial music group Skinny Puppy introduced me to that movie. They sample that line in their song "Assimilate".

The then Richard of Gloucester was too young to fight at Towton, of course. And your comment being where it is, is very misleading to those who do not know that there is very little substance to connect Shakespeare's diabolical Richard with the real man.

The words of Shakespeare and the delivery of Olivier make a deep emotional tide in one’s soul. Moving and uplifting with a mesmerising performance……

Absolutely spot on my friend

For sure.

The first season of Blackadder is basically a parody of this, the first episode especially

What is the message of the video?

How is so?

@@osman01003 His earlier material, especially his standups, draw inspiration from this (or Olivier in general). I've never seen Olivier before, but I _immediately_ thought of Atkinson.

yes it is, I'd forgotten that. It used to be played frequently on the radio---a lot of things did, once upon a time. Now it's junk.

Now, we are on the money!

Well he was a stage actor and he would have the whole play learnt off by heart I suppose

yeah too bad they abridged it.

Interesting fact, he suffered from stage fright. He would always vomit just before going on stage it was that terrible

better than that its two sollilogauirs merged into one. The start is from richard the third but it then moves into King Henry VI, Part 3. Oliver understood the audiance needed to see just how much richard wanted the crown. ( true history be dammed as always history was written by the victor+

Yh I really don't get it. I'm sure this was considered great back then, but there's a reason you don't see this kind of acting in Shakespeare plays anymore.

Correction. Marlon Brando is the greatest. Olivier doesn't come close.

Amazing that he also played Henry the Fifth so well--enormously different characters!

@@johnmulligan455 who is greater than him?

@@johnmulligan455 :D HIM

Is he, sirs? I fear there will a worse come in his place.

He wasn't always good at it - in Nicholas and Alexandra, he overacts quite a bit.

I laughed disproportionately more than I think any man should

I prefer Peter Sellers' version.

@James Henderson You are merely jealous. Larry's girl was Vivian Leigh. From 19 years old......

James Henderson Watch a streetcar named desire. She plays a pathetic whore

@James Henderson What fucking vile people you are. Miss Leigh has won numerous awards as the most beautiful of all Hollywood stars. I myself would put Raquel Welch on top of a list. But Ugly? Ridiculous.

​@James Henderson You cannot have any sense at all if you think Vivien Leigh ugly. SShe is the most beautiful creature to ever. Also, your eyes are failing you; go see a doctor. Also, you have no heart. I suspect you're just very jealous or perhaps one of those incels. Retreat to your mothers basement, from whence you came

The author was a guy of some renown in the playwriting business...

It was unnecessary to define "etymology".

Read "A Theatre of Envy"

@@wholeNwon In this day and age, I don't think so.

Certainly; this embodiment of the audience in the form of the camera-man is also seen at the beginning of the clip, when Richard notices the camera-man entre, and begins his soliloquy then, speaking directly into the lens.

I love that part!

Exactly!)

I agree that it’s impressive, but... He’s looking directly at the camera and saying things like “he capers nimbly in the lady’s chamber”. It’s not exactly slice of life lol

@@wilfwilfman dude come on I say that kind of stuff at least twice a week lol 😋

You are most fair, kind Sir Robert. May the trumpets of St. Peter always sing thy melody, and the beasts of Lucipher be ever at thy beck and call.

@@wilfwilfman dude if I had a dollar for every time I heard that id be a rich man. 😏

@@wilfwilfman FYI, he looks directly at the audience because he's speaking to the audience. It's a MONOLOG. It's a theatre thing. Ancient tradition, etc. And btw, when he says '“he capers nimbly in the lady’s chamber”, he's saying the King is a puff. It's an insult.

Me too!😊

first a knight and then became a lord

No argument here. I saw Ian Holm play Richard III in about 1964 at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford. I was 12. Was an addict immediately.

LOL Ahh yes Peter Sellars. : )

It’s...............been

She lufffs you! Yah! Yah! Yah!

Peter Sellers was great at it.good call.

and iv been working like a dog

Yes! Lord Farquaad is absolutely based on this performance, as a grasping, deformed malcontent.

I mean, Lord Farquaad was very much based on this kind of medieval look. :P

Lord Farquaad was based off Richard III.

I was gonna say the exact same thing!

Lord Fuckwad.

(And the skeleton revealed that he did in fact have a curvature of the spine.)

And blonde, a gracile, and likely his dark representation and rancid evil was merely political smearing to appease Shakespear’s sponsors. I think.

Curvature of the spine but still a warrior. I think King Richard was misunderstood.

I think Sir Larry, would have been amused by that recent find.

did they find his car too?

I would hope the UK will always cherish Shakespeare. Maybe they will remain closer to Elizabethan English than Americans. Sadly, too many American students are not literate enough to understand this former and increasingly alien version of the language. Compounding the problem is the push for more current and relevant reading material (I will not call it literature) in all schools and the movement to reduce colleges to trade schools.

Thomas Chacko His Othello was rendered- and I do mean rendered- in burnt cork blackface makeup. To complete the effect, he would roll his eyes and flash his whitened teeth. It really was something to see.

He would've been a great MacBeth, IMHO. Vivian Leigh as Lady MacBeth. Today, he could raise the money through GoFundMe. Alas....

@@vestibulate Hey, Tom! At the time (1964 - 65), Olivier's portrayal of "Othello" did stir some controversy: many raves, some scathing reviews. Others - including Orson Welles - had played the role as a Middle Eastern type. But Olivier made a firm decision to play Othello as an African. I've read how hard he worked to prepare: workouts at the gym, voice lessons to lower the pitch, and even developing a more "athletic" walk. The makeup took a couple of hours to apply, about the same amount of time to remove! (Can you imagine doing this every night for the stage?) The reason they did the filmed recording was, the show was a complete sellout! Plus, it made additional money for the National Theatre. I wish I could have seen Paul Robeson do it!

Thomas Chacko Larry? Who would dare!

He'd be strung up if he did Othello today! Yet plenty of black actors take traditionally Caucasian roles

Lol a genius

It was meant to be "in the style of Laurence Olivier" was it not?

@@weatheranddarkness if that was the case then without a doubt it succeeded!

It's been...a...hawd....days night....and I've been working.....like-a-dog.....

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Rugby8 A lot of people, misunderstanding the syntax, quote the first seven words as if they're a complete sentence on their own: "Now is the winter of our discontent." That's not what Shakespeare meant. In contemporary English prose, it would be: "Now, the winter of our discontent is made glorious summer by this sun of York."

@@cufflink44 ummmm.....That's exactly the point I am making 😁 The first 7 words by themselves make a "negative" statement. However, the line in its entirety, as written by Mr. Shakespeare, is a Positive - a Glorious one. I am fully aware of its intended meaning, nor does it need to be "contemporary English prose " --- that's Exactly the point I was making 😎😎😎

@@rugby8-Philadelphia You seem to be taking my comment as a slam at you. It wasn't. I was agreeing with you, and trying to extend what you said to make it clearer how the line is often misinterpreted.

@@cufflink44 Appreciated, and Sorry! But I think I was pretty clear - don't think it needs to be "clearer" 😁😁😁

@@rugby8-Philadelphia To both gentlemen: I take "now" as "this moment" is the winter......Am I on the wrong track?

Ham

@@DWinegarden2 I like it on rye with swiss cheese.

They all do.

I did...

rico567 Olivier or Shakespeare? 😎

cufflink44 Either or both, take your pick. Although Shakespeare even had a hand in contributing to modern English.

Wasn't Richard Burton the narrator on War of the Worlds?

Although the script was a tissue of lies from start to finish. If all you know of the war was what you, as I too, learned from that television entertainment, then you have been duped.

@@randallpmcmurphy7501 What, that Nazis were bad?

@@tarakihi4658 Yes he was, but Jeff Wayne's album "The War of the Worlds" and the TV history series "The World at War" were two different things. Realise you were probably just making a joke,