Waiting for Godot

Рет қаралды 24,271

Razor Kanguru

9 жыл бұрын

Пікірлер: 26

@a0b0 6 жыл бұрын

zero mostel showing us how much of a genius actor he was.

@mrpicky1868 4 жыл бұрын

i insist ppl watch only this version! Becket had hand in it personally. both brilliant play and rendition .TY so much for this! maybe someone can point me to even better quality

@mrpicky1868 4 жыл бұрын

if you search for explanation. here it is: this is not theater of absurd. this is thoughtful representation of human civilization and our core relationships. which are absurd! master-slave . friend-friend. morally conditioned farmer that does not actually want to help thous two bums. everyones hopes that someone will solve your problems. common for everyone sliding into repetition and passiveness. depicting all our motivations to the basic reflex that is in core of most of our actions. no wonder it took 6 years to write. its super dense.

@CLASSICALFAN100 3 жыл бұрын

Actually, the play shows the consecutive effects of 2 horrible mental disorders: (1.) Nervous exhaustion (brought on by trauma), which leads to (2) Traumatic paralysis, which prevents any sort of positive decision-making. Trauma there is in plenty ("I slept in a ditch last night!"), and the characters agree on courses of action, only to stand motionless! How often this is duplicated in "real life"...

@mrpicky1868 Жыл бұрын

@@CLASSICALFAN100 facepalm

@shawntoh 7 жыл бұрын

1:34:27 Eerie, like a "Twilight Zone" version of Beckett. However, Beckett didn't seem to care much for his play shrinking to the size of television set as he conceived and noted that the wide expanse of the theatre stage suggested the vastness of space and thus the desolateness of the setting. Still, I'm glad this version survives and I'm glad Beckett didn't have the film/video tapes of this version destroyed. The painted backgrounds are kitschy to me in an unintentional nostalgic way of expression due to the limits of television technology especially the distant hills.

@mrpicky1868 4 жыл бұрын

good that we have bigger televisions now))))

@eldacar351 5 жыл бұрын

I think this is amazing. It's just vaudeville.

@mrpicky1868 4 жыл бұрын

just?)

@CLASSICALFAN100 3 жыл бұрын

**TRAUMATIC PARALYSIS** Certainly "not just vaudeville". Underneath all the gags, this is a vivid portrayal of a genuine medical condition known as Traumatic Paralysis. When high stress is prolonged, people can lose the ability to function. From that point, all they can do is talk, while being incapable of action. Therapy can help. Here's more info: www.newscientist.com/article/mg15520922-000-traumatic-paralysis-is-all-in-the-brain/

@WestVillageCrank 6 жыл бұрын

Alan Schneider, who directed the North American premiere of WFG, and who directed this production had high praise for working with Mostel, but said Meredith, who had been brilliant up until show day, went on a drunk, required his entire part written on cue cards, and was a nightmare during performance. And so it goes...

@eldacar351 5 жыл бұрын

Can you share the source?

@massivecumshot 2 жыл бұрын

That's the first negative comment I've ever heard about Burgess Meredith in my 67 years. A unique and mesmerizing voice.

@johnlowell9300 11 ай бұрын

@@eldacar351 Four years later! The source was Scheider's posthumously-published autobiography: ENTRANCES