"Many lives stand between me and the throne" - Me when there's a queue for the toilet.
@susanboyd5471
3 жыл бұрын
😂
@greencraig8570
3 жыл бұрын
Carry On Shakespeare!
@eS-ql7vm
Жыл бұрын
Two years and I still think about this comment. I would be lying if I told you I haven’t used this line queued up for the bathroom
@mostlypixels2975
Жыл бұрын
@@eS-ql7vm I haven't thought about this video since leaving that comment until today completely out of the blue for some reason. Then I got an alert that you left a comment under mine. Weird.
@robertclive491
Жыл бұрын
The worst thing about this awful joke is it's not even accurate.
@undeadshook
4 жыл бұрын
"I can smile, and murder while I smile" the bard is timeless
@Marco_Venieri
4 жыл бұрын
his words penetrating the real sense of things
@Odin029
4 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite lines from Shakespeare. There are so many, but this whole soliloquy has always stuck out to me.
@byronofrothdale
3 жыл бұрын
That's actually my favourite Shakespeare's sentence.
@tedpilledtonysoprano5512
3 жыл бұрын
As relevant As ever. Imagine a Richard geared by modern PR.
@byronofrothdale
3 жыл бұрын
@@tedpilledtonysoprano5512 If someone speaks The King's is definitely him. 😊
@StargazerNorth1
7 жыл бұрын
I can't think of any other actor working today who can be so sinister, and yet so charismatic at the same time. The perfect Richard III.
@tomservo75
5 жыл бұрын
You should see Ben Cumberbatch's version in the Hollow Crown.
@cherylhulting1301
5 жыл бұрын
Learned it from Sir Laurence and learned it well, didn't he? 😊
@cogithefool4284
5 жыл бұрын
Sir Anthony Hopkins
@angelamoore6459
4 жыл бұрын
Agree he was the best Richard III I've ever seen!
@Meow33109
3 жыл бұрын
Benedict Cumberbatch monologue Act 1!
@ffsf739
7 жыл бұрын
This gave me goosebumps. Hearing a great actor reciting Shakespeare is like hearing Bach or Mozart. Pure beauty!
@ithemba
5 жыл бұрын
exactly!
@Omar-sx6sj
4 жыл бұрын
ffsf739 Ist das Bach, ist das Bach, nein Mozart
@friendlyworm420
3 жыл бұрын
Nicely put into words. Thanks
@friendlyworm420
3 жыл бұрын
@@Omar-sx6sj AHH!
@kakarotwolf
Жыл бұрын
YES!! Exactly! I've rewatched this so many times, as well as the one with Damian Lewis, and each time they give me goosebumps.
@jarjarabrams7748
7 жыл бұрын
this is genuinely really scary
@spudrow2004
7 жыл бұрын
you should check out Benedict cumberatch, i got chills watching him in the Hollow Crown
@gwendys3332
5 жыл бұрын
‘Casisimir the great, (haha) So called...’ - Damn he was scary as the SS commander in Schindlers list!
@tomservo75
5 жыл бұрын
Actually I thought Voldemort would be a lot scarier than that.
@adelaidewatts1813
3 жыл бұрын
Wow, I never thought I’d hear a better Richard III than Ian McKellan, but he manages it. That was legitimately terrifying.
@maxhalsted5381
3 жыл бұрын
You should see him in film adaptation of coriolanus. He and gerad butler were amazing
@zacharymathey3901
2 жыл бұрын
I love the "i can add colors to the chameleon" it so well delivered
@olleronn616
5 жыл бұрын
"Tut" is a word that needs to be thrown about more.
@Jon.A.Scholt
5 жыл бұрын
This performance by fiennes and Damien Lewis's performance as Antony are my two favorites in this series of quick orations. Both are fantastic
@JohnDoe-dj3lw
4 жыл бұрын
I agree, clearly the best out of the whole series
@blurgle9185
4 жыл бұрын
If you want another great nugget of Shakespeare, here's Orson Welles doing Falstaff kzitem.info/news/bejne/t4Bs3Gt9gYt1lYI
@kakarotwolf
Жыл бұрын
YES!! I completely agree, those two are the ones that I constantly go back to.
@nicolastossenberger6066
Жыл бұрын
Personally I really like the David Morrissey one.
@mpjmcevoy1
3 ай бұрын
@@kakarotwolf I have a major soft spot for Tony Head doing Wolesley from Henry VIII - such an obscure monologue, but beautiful
@RitamBuchwald
Жыл бұрын
The way he delivered it I could actually comprehend the words this was brilliant, words that I struggled to fallow in other renditions. This makes so much more sense.
@maxhalsted5381
Жыл бұрын
He becomes Richard III
@tretower57
Ай бұрын
It’s said that that is the mark of the best Shakespearean actor-they say it and convey the emotions in such a way that you can understand it.
@UltimateKyuubiFox
5 жыл бұрын
It’s easy to make jokes about the fact that he played Voldemort but you watch this performance and it immediately becomes clear why he was hired for the job. It takes someone with this level of craft to make a villain who looks like that have any genuine menace and strike fear within the viewer whilst watching the films. He’s absolutely magnetic.
@Xarfax321
3 жыл бұрын
Too bad Voldemort was not menacing in the films.
@wendyhardin5259
11 ай бұрын
Watching him as Voldemort he was mesmerizing.
@TheIfifi
6 ай бұрын
Consider if you were really the target audience.
@UltimateKyuubiFox
6 ай бұрын
@@TheIfifi I was six when the first movie came out.
@ChancellorM1YT
Жыл бұрын
That's got to be the coldest line of all time. I can't get it out of my head. What a genius.
@PatBatemanAtDorsia
4 жыл бұрын
thats great Mr.Fiennes, but this is your child support hearing.
@cicerogsuphoesdown7723
4 жыл бұрын
Pat Bateman underrated
@user-wn8mc1yc1g
4 жыл бұрын
hahahah
@ffsf739
4 жыл бұрын
LOL
@seanlynch2417
4 жыл бұрын
This comment almost made me cough up a lung from laughter
@RjBenjamin353
4 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@LordHazari
6 жыл бұрын
I’ll make my heaven to dream upon the crown, And, whiles I live, to account this world but hell, Until my mis-shaped trunk that bears this head Be round impaled with a glorious crown. And yet I know not how to get the crown, For many lives stand between me and home: And I,-like one lost in a thorny wood, That rends the thorns and is rent with the thorns, Seeking a way and straying from the way; Not knowing how to find the open air, But toiling desperately to find it out,- Torment myself to catch the English crown: And from that torment I will free myself, Or hew my way out with a bloody axe. Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, And cry ‘Content’ to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions. I’ll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I’ll slay more gazers than the basilisk; I’ll play the orator as well as Nestor, Deceive more slily than Ulysses could, And, like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colours to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut, were it farther off, I’ll pluck it down.
@TheCousinEddie
5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic piece of work by Mr Fiennes but I'm curious as to why "Until my mis-shaped trunk that bears this head Be round impaled with a glorious crown" was left out of this version. This is my favorite part of Gloucester's lament.
@flawless_undergoer
5 жыл бұрын
Thank thee.
@tayedshahrear6838
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much
@amegreycat
2 жыл бұрын
I have rewatched this clip countless times. Everything is perfect: the backdrop, the music, his intonation.
@kirikou2595
5 жыл бұрын
The last two verses were amazing, perfection and acting at its finest. I cannot believe he delivered the last two verses so.... ah, I am lost for words!!!!
@melissaking6019
3 жыл бұрын
Ralph is mesmeric playing Shakespeare. He is a master of voice, verse and character! I saw his Coriolanus over 20 years ago in NY and he was brilliant. The best theatrical performance in 40 years of attending plays along with Derek Jacobi's King Lear.
@brendaharper5998
7 жыл бұрын
OH MY GOD!! I adore Ralph Fiennes! And as Richard III? Voldemort can't hold a candle to Shakespeare's Richard, for craft, for drive, for duplicity. This wee sip only whets my thirst for more!
@soldierside365
5 жыл бұрын
Saw him performing Richard III live some years back and I’m so glad I did. Honestly, the best live performance I’ve seen.
@edmonddantes3640
5 жыл бұрын
As we say here in Texas, " You lucky dawg!!!! "
@theena
2 жыл бұрын
I love how he gives himself a stoop to augment the evil of his words. Perfection.
@maxhalsted5381
2 жыл бұрын
King Richard all perfectly
@milocunningham9473
7 жыл бұрын
Outstanding
@MilesDavis2012
4 жыл бұрын
Other writers write until they find some poignant line or two, then write a bunch of prosaic stuff around it to vaguely support it. Shakespeare just kept going with the full energy of the line, not just for a few more lines, but often for pages. It's hard to remember to breathe while reading through many sections of his plays, and almost impossible to find a prosaic or uncritical section in any of his work. Even his comedies are full of astounding and timeless wisdom.
@CaptainLuckyLuke
2 жыл бұрын
Well said.
@starranger9410
8 жыл бұрын
Who else expected Ralph Fiennes to laugh maniacally as the screen faded to black?
@naly202
7 жыл бұрын
I did!!!!
@lordrotarec
6 жыл бұрын
I think it's better like that. It add gravitas and leaves you with this lingering threat that never really goes away.
@RacinZilla003
5 жыл бұрын
YOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUU COMMON CRY OF CURS!!!!!!!!!!!
@cherylhulting1301
5 жыл бұрын
Ralph is too fine an actor to do something so cheesy. That's why he just nailed that scene. If you haven't seen him do Shakespeare, trust me - you're missing out.
@DeuceSF
4 жыл бұрын
It's literally taught not to add "acting" on to Shakespeare as the words should do that job alone. However I was expecting it haha.
@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy
4 жыл бұрын
He is one hell of an actor. Anyone who saw him play Amon Goeth in Schindler's List will attest to that. He gave me a major dose of the creeps when I watched it.
@azmodanpc
4 жыл бұрын
"you ARe an INANIMATE Object!" I loved Fiennes in In Bruges. Mad props
@holly7869
Жыл бұрын
I've watched this several time and it never fails to raise goosebumps. You believe it.
@maxhalsted5381
Жыл бұрын
Ralph Finnes was perfect
@steviejd5803
7 жыл бұрын
Wow! I am very impressed. He scared the living do do out of me. I did manage a thin smile with Richard at the end, but more with relief than joy.
@ClintoriusMaximus
4 жыл бұрын
Powerful. One of the greatest Performers of our time...
@melodyreyes2071
7 жыл бұрын
such passionate and wit, Ralph is amazing!
@steerpike66
8 жыл бұрын
Now there's someone I want to see in the role. Cumberbatch was hamstrung by unimaginative direction. Fiennes has tremendous reserves of charisma and smooth charm to go with his darker skills.
@audreyann1975
5 жыл бұрын
Ralph Fiennes is one of the greatest Actors ever to live!
@comeacross9
5 жыл бұрын
His dining room discussion with his father,played by Paul Scofield in "Quiz Show", is one for the ages. He also gave a bone chilling performance of Amon Goeth,the vile prison warden in "Schindler's List." He is a great one.
@edmonddantes3640
5 жыл бұрын
@@comeacross9 strongly agree.
@edmonddantes3640
5 жыл бұрын
@@comeacross9 Fair Winds my friend.
@user-sf3fe4bh2q
11 ай бұрын
Ralf Fiennes is an amasing actor! I adore him!❤
@fuferito
5 жыл бұрын
Seeing how young Niccolò was just 16 years old, in Florence at the time of Richard's death, Shakespeare turned out to be right. Richard did, indeed, "set Machiavel to school."
@ziggytonumaa
Жыл бұрын
One of the finest actors of our time
@joew.3354
5 жыл бұрын
Ralph Fiennes is a legend
@arladicey
5 жыл бұрын
Always such an extraordinary actor; and he was gorgeous when he was younger, and I can still see the beauty in his amazing eyes. Those eyes...
@OBGynKenobi
Жыл бұрын
The non blinking makes it spookier.
@maxhalsted5381
Жыл бұрын
Indeed
@TheSerpico32
4 ай бұрын
Simply Amazing! Ralph Fiennes your a pure talent!
@maxhalsted5381
4 ай бұрын
I thought he was King Richard III
@tomtrinchera8405
7 жыл бұрын
Anyone see his vers of Coriolanus. Not highly praised by the critics but it's really good.
@marichristian1072
5 жыл бұрын
I thought it was a superb production! What do the critics know?
@fuferito
5 жыл бұрын
Bought the DVD. Just the scene alone of him scolding the crowd of protesters is worth the price.
@aurorar.6409
7 жыл бұрын
simply Marvelous ! one of the greatest actors ever .
@johnnydtractive
6 жыл бұрын
This is a great actor. A story we know inside out, & yet you watch this brief moment & it's like the whole story is fresh & newly told. Who can watch this & not want to see more, not want to hear the story of this character told in the unique way Ralph Fiennes wishes to tell it. I certainly hope his performance was recorded.
@marinakrsmanovic3871
3 жыл бұрын
He is so perfect i could listen to him 24/7 ❤️
@charmaineelizabeth7051
8 жыл бұрын
FREAKING BRILLIANT
@tiko545
Жыл бұрын
this is mesmerizing. one of the greats of our time.
@byronofrothdale
6 жыл бұрын
Richard iii indeed sent Maquiavelli to school since Il Principi was published in 1530s. The sun of York died in 1485...
@Theomite
5 жыл бұрын
See? This is what I come to the internet for!
@TrayDyer38
3 жыл бұрын
If I could hang with this guy for one day and ask him one question, it would be, “seriously, spill the beans, how in the hell did you prepare for your roll as Amon Goeth in Schindler’s list?”
@ashleyartus
7 жыл бұрын
I ADORE HIM.X.
@hsepo
3 ай бұрын
I am hypnotized..what an actor
@maxhalsted5381
2 ай бұрын
I thought he was Richard III
@DeniseInChains
7 жыл бұрын
This man... ❤
@MKECBS1
5 жыл бұрын
Not just a great actor, also winner of the 'don't blink' competition 2016.
@bagrym
5 жыл бұрын
so calm and yet so much threat in it...
@scout005
4 жыл бұрын
The dude barely blinks for a minute and a half! That's some fearful, shark eyeballs going on. Great stuff.
@beruduassasin
8 жыл бұрын
what the hell? that was so good it is ridiculous!!
@AvvocatodiTito
6 жыл бұрын
I bought the dvd, and it was worth it. All the actors were excellent. Especially, Anne, Hastings and Tyrrell surprised me. Such performance should be more renowned.
@Xarfax321
3 жыл бұрын
Where did you get the dvd? :O
@AvvocatodiTito
3 жыл бұрын
@@Xarfax321 I ordered it on the website "premiere opera". Just write "richard III fiennes" on the search bar and you'll find it. And, I have to say, it was well spent money.
@friendlyworm420
Жыл бұрын
@@AvvocatodiTito can’t find it 😢
@user-hm6ud9eh1j
4 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest Actors in whole history! Amazing man!
@chopin65
5 жыл бұрын
Wow. That gave me chills. England has Shakespeare. The world will never catch up.
@macabro716
Жыл бұрын
He is amazing
@maxhalsted5381
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely sends chills down my spine
@johnmulvey5121
Жыл бұрын
He does that very well. No fuss or gimics . Simple and powerful.
@alunchurcher7060
8 ай бұрын
Shakespeare was a genius writer of great plays. Just listen to this speech to try to see how great he was at his art. Yes in school you may of doing Shakespeare's plays, but did you hate via peer pressure or from your own mind.
@brettdando
2 жыл бұрын
Seeking a way (and yet straying from the way)
@carolturner6189
11 ай бұрын
Wow!! What an actor!!
@reisekeller6859
5 жыл бұрын
Superb actor!!!
@GrayNeko
5 жыл бұрын
Look, I'm sure Mr. Fiennes is a great guy IRL. But let's be honest, the man has a unique abilty to scare me shitless!
@cherylhulting1301
3 жыл бұрын
The funny part is that I've met Ralph; he has a certain intensity and in person he's quiet, reserved and a bit shy, but kind. That's the kind of actor he is.
@amandalogan89
5 жыл бұрын
God his voice is just fantastic!
@WorgenGrrl
4 жыл бұрын
I like the way he angled his posture just so, to give you the illusion of the hunched back of Richard III.
@supermardikian
3 жыл бұрын
I’ll make my heaven to dream upon the crown, And, whiles I live, to account this world but hell, And yet I know not how to get the crown, For many lives stand between me and home: And I,-like one lost in a thorny wood, That rends the thorns and is rent with the thorns, Seeking a way and straying from the way; Not knowing how to find the open air, But toiling desperately to find it out,- Torment myself to catch the English crown: And from that torment I will free myself, Or hew my way out with a bloody axe. Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, I can add colours to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut, were it farther off, I’ll pluck it down.
@tonypayson8306
5 жыл бұрын
Loving the slow build. It's perfect.
@vladtepes97
2 жыл бұрын
i want that background drone playing when i explain to my daughter why she can't have the car tomorrow night.
@wcraigburns3458
3 жыл бұрын
Genius . Encapsulates the malignant odour of the bards dark words . As a Scot I love Robert Burns but Shakespeare is the boss . Mr Fiennes plays this to perfection .
@robinsings
8 жыл бұрын
LOVE LOVE LOVE..
@charmaineelizabeth7051
8 жыл бұрын
"Can I do this and can not get a Crown!"
@ambernicolecartwright2136
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah he is perfect for this role
@d.l.jardine-dq3kp
10 ай бұрын
absolutely beautiful performance
@kapnerad
5 жыл бұрын
Can't WAIT to see this on screen!!
@duncanwhyyou611
7 жыл бұрын
He blinked only twice..
@kentondickerson
6 жыл бұрын
I was expecting this speech in Parseltongue.
@bohdyburmich7165
3 жыл бұрын
You sir, are an actor.
@davidlucey1311
5 ай бұрын
Now that’s what I call acting.
@matthewrmyers
6 ай бұрын
Magnificent!!!
@maxhalsted5381
5 ай бұрын
I agree completely
@markp44288
2 жыл бұрын
In Bruges sealed him as my favorite actor ever, and this is exactly the level of quality I expect from him.
@trifidos39
5 жыл бұрын
My favorite actor
@kxmode
3 жыл бұрын
"I just asked what you would like for breakfast."
@drdfrgplls
2 жыл бұрын
"One can add colors to a chameleon, but fail to take over a high school." - M. Gandhi, 1987
@alephmorricone7207
7 жыл бұрын
I saw a relay of this in Dubai, it was astounding...Great Actor
@RealBanz
6 ай бұрын
A impressive detail with the illusion of a hunched back.
@brendapascale786
5 жыл бұрын
What actor he is!
@tomservo75
6 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see his full performance if available! Great actor and VERY underrated scene and play too.
@FlorisGerber
4 жыл бұрын
do you really think that this play, and especially this soliloquy are underrated? Underrated by whom? By fools? Certainly. By afficionados? Certainly not. Underated amongst what? Amongst Shakespeares plays? Do you see that by claiming yourself to be judge about what is underrated, you make yourself look as if you tried to stand above shakespeares work? Seriously, declaring something to be "underrated", usually something of unimpeachable quality, is only surpassed in annoyance by the people who ask "Am I the only one who noticed...?" Let's meet at: "Great Actor, great scene, great play."
@justice7219
7 жыл бұрын
i enjoyed the intensity of the reading, and of the musical score that was provided.
@rishabhaniket1952
11 ай бұрын
Always rated Fiennes above his peers and also the next gen, even above DDL.
@frankyg821
5 ай бұрын
This has deeply touched me ever since it came out. I think about it often
@mariahaydee2853
7 жыл бұрын
Fantastic
@claudiagennaio4954
4 жыл бұрын
Terrific.
@ThePosichris
7 ай бұрын
Brilliant and haunting
@maxhalsted5381
6 ай бұрын
Ralph Fiennes became King Richard III
@DutchPlanDerLinde
2 жыл бұрын
Sir this is a Wendy’s
@thomasmuller1662
3 ай бұрын
😂
@irenaresman5138
2 жыл бұрын
So tragic and powerful!
@lightbox617
4 жыл бұрын
astonishing and great.
@Lessdeth14
10 ай бұрын
The perfect representation of an imperfect representation; as much as Shakespeare has been proven to be entirely wrong about Richard III, Fiennes has proven to be entirely correct for the part.
@jarkkoautio8318
2 жыл бұрын
Shakespeare forever!
@Hard_Boiled_Entertainment
2 жыл бұрын
Jokes aside, I could easily imagine Tom Riddle giving a soliloquy like this as he resolves to become Lord Voldemort....
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