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Howard and Fiennes are both great in their own ways. The styles are different (and Fiennes was acting in a film not on the stage). One isn't better than the other, merely different.

Great that you were able to end with Branagh!

I love Tennant’s childlike portrayal of Richard’s hesitance and reluctance. Most think it inaccurate, but I find that tragedy can also be depicted in a humorous manner in way more depth than people give it credit for. A speech can be just as heart-wrenching whilst also eliciting amusement on the audience’s part. It’s an intense combination of sentiments. Bravo!

What's this then??

Looks like Wishaw got it right.

Happy St. Davy’s Day!

I love the hauteur of Alan Howard. It could strip paint. Fiennes is more brutish. Just a choice. Also, Fiennes says "reeks o the rotten fens." The line is "reek." No "s." And "Nodding of their caps"? Did he not think people would understand "plumes"?

Gower. Not for Cadwalladar and all his G.O.A.T.S. Pistol - Fluellen

I had as huge crush on Mike Gwilym when I was a theater going teenager in the eighties. It's good to see him again.

Howard was too remote, Fiennes too crude. The best Coriolanus for both humanity and great power was Tom Hiddleston, in the incomparable National Theatre production.

There is a world... elsewhere.

Entranced. Stunned. Surrendered. Hoorah!

Actualky quite well done...costumes n all

Terrible

Derek Jacobi!! Then Ben.

Derek Jacobi is just perfection! He absolutely breaks your heart.

Kindly reveal the meaning behind title? (Won’t tell a soul). ; $

I like to imagine George Washington saying this to the Continental Congress in 1777...

I weep bitter tears for all who prefer Fiennes to Howard. Truly we live in a fallen age.

Fiennes is by far the better one.

Until Ben Wishaw, I preferred Fiona Shaw's Richard II, which more people really should see. Of this group, I used to prefer Jacobi, but not for this scene. As someone else said, Jacobi didn't seem to know how to play this scene. I will be searching William's version out as I have only seen a couple of scenes. As for Tennant's humor, Richard II is constructed (as are all of the Bard's tragedies) to elicit laughs here and there; straight tragedy is boring and unrealistic. Both Tennant and Wishaw play Richard's uncertainty well, knowing what is expected of him but unable to bear it. Surrender, retreat, surrender again, much as I imagine the historical Richard must have felt. But Wishaw played it better.

Henry V - Speech - Eve of Saint Crispin's Day - HD th-cam.com/video/A-yZNMWFqvM/w-d-xo.html via @TH-cam #Brexit #StCrispinsDay 'Cry God and Brexit for Harry, England, and Saint George!' speech of Shakespeare's Henry V, Act III, 1598. No to #Brino #PaedoBrino #GrubStreetJournal

Fiennes is amazing!

How the hell did it take me so long to see this?! And to love it?!! (And how smart of you to make it 4:23!)

Interesting comparison. I think both deliveries work for their respective formats. Howard plays well to the clarity and drama required of a theatre stage, with clear pacing of the verse and deliberate snappy head movement so as to read well for the audience sitting at a distance. Whereas Fiennes, knowing the expectations of a modern “realism” style with a close-up camera, plays into the more visceral, comparatively-unpolished delivery. I’m genuinely curious how Fiennes’ delivery would read on a theatre stage; if it would be muddled from such a distance or if it would work.

Fiennes' version makes better use of the (to modern ears) rather strange dialogue. Shakespeare's direction is for the soldiers to "all shout and wave their swords, take him up in their arms, and cast up their caps", so in its original context 'make you a sword of me?' is simply a quizzical (but good humoured) response to his jubilant soldiers' reaction, with 'O me alone' apparently being something like 'Oh my goodness'. Howard's Coriolanus speaks these lines meditatively, almost to himself, as though absorbed in the realisation of his command and authority. Fiennes' version invents (or at least borrows from adaptations which have had the same idea) the idea that 'O, me alone?' is spoken prior to the men's reaction when no-one at first volunteers, leaving Coriolanus for a moment unsure who will follow him. 'Make you a sword of me!' then becomes a battle cry as Coriolanus leads the charge; an order to make use of him like any other soldier.

WONDERFUL video. Thank You !!!! Ne'er were words so many said, that touch the heart and strike upon the soul, and make the spirit rise above, to celebrate the feast of Crispin's day.

Hey! If you can get your hands on the RSC Henry V this seen was epic! (Alex Hassell plays Hal if you're wondering which version I mean) :D

Sajnálom hogy nincs, meg magyarul, várom a szinkronizálást!! nagyon jó az előzetese,ès kèt rémek szinèszről beszèlünk!!

Ralph Fiennes is better, hands down. He practically embodies Coriolanus, no offense to Alan Howard.......His version gave me the chills. Ilan Eshkeri's score too.....really good.

David tennant has a nice girly hair

I liked David William and Ben Wishaw the most. They approached this is a completely different way, but both interpretations are valid. William is calculating megalomaniac, he's still seeing himself as the star. As much as he can he wants to steal the show from Henry. He's playing for the audience - the audience being courtiers, soldiers etc. I also loved the way he pronounced "nothing". Wishaw on the other hand is a lost, uncertain, confused little boy. I was not convinced by Derek Jacobi. I thought he himself was uncertain how to approach this line. Still it's passable. I found David Tennant's interpretation to be far the worst. Adding silly comedy to this piece of dialogue was out of place.

Ben is the best. really got me into richard the 11. love his performance and Rory Kinnear . and the end o god the end . breaks my heart each time. must have watched the hollow crown 40 times by now. O god and Patrick Stewart brilliant.

I prefer Ben Wishaw's subtlety over the others' scream of "no!"

I wish I could've been a part of this! (I found it by searching for my own version of the speech - please watch it, if you can find it) I especially loved that it started with a person I know, not an actor, but a super-smart person nonetheless.

@1:27 Voldemort: "Nyaaaaaah!"

Love it!

Yay! Love it!

Coriolanus, a man that knows himself and makes no apology. How stoic, how commendable.

Alan Howard was a little annoying honestly. RALPH FIENNES RULES!

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I should be the worst audience in the world for this speech. Totally pacifist, I absolutely want to remain among those gentlemen abed in England. Why are there tears in my eyes?

Ben Crystal, in Original Pronunciation, pronounces "Warwick" as "Barrick" with a B?!?

Haha I made it in!

Wherefore thou wearest a bear upon thy darken'd head?

YAAAAAS! This is so great, thank you so much for including me! Also, that plush leek though.

Oh, hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!

Ralph Fiennes still has bits of scenery stuck in his teeth from this movie.

MAKE YOU A SWORD OF ME!!!!!