1:48 Lazar: "How is your brother-in-law in America?" Tevye: "Oh he's doing very well." Lazar: "He wrote you?" Tevye: "No, not lately." Lazar: "Then how do you know?" Tevye: "If he was doing badly, he would write." Very clever lines.
It's Reb. Reb /reb/ noun a traditional Jewish title or form of address, corresponding to Sir, for a man who is not a rabbi (used preceding the forename or surname).
MY FAVORTE LINES FROM THE SCENE LAZOR WOLF: TEVIA, I UNDERSTAND HOW YOU FEEL BUT AFTER ALL YOU HAVE A FEW MORE WITHOUT HER. TEVIA: OH I SEE. TODAY YOU WANT ONE TOMORROW YOU MIGHT WANT TWO. LAZOR WOLF: TWO? WHAT WOULD I DO WITH TWO? TEVIA: THE SAME AS YOU DO WITH ONE.
Lazar is way too old for Tzeitl. He's older than Tevye, I think! But he would've been good to her at least. I do feel bad for him but it's not like he was in love with her. It was just attraction.
I always felt a bit sorry for Lazar Wolf he isn't a bad guy, he doesn't hurt anyone and he works hard. Its a little creepy because Tzeitel is 19 but this was normal at the time most women his own age would be married already so he doesn't have much choice but to look for younger women anyway.
What makes me ill is that even today this happens in orthodox communities of many faiths. Girls, even little girls under 10 being forced to marry old men. I remember the first time I watched I was so relieved that Teyve didn't force his teenaged daughter to marry that old lecher. As I said elsewhere, if he was really so lonely, why didn't he find a lonely old widow his own age to marry? He's just an old lecher, lusting after Tzeitl.
They believed in arranged marriages. Usually there's a Matchmaker involved. A great, great movie close to my heart. My relatives were all from the same village in Russia, probably very much like the Anatevka village portrayed here
I didn't like this movie anyway, but this scene in particular horrified me. Here we have a father basically *selling his own daughter* in *marriage* to a creepy old man, which is *fucked up shit*.
liwmld This is why I think morality is subjective. Back then it was fine and normal, now it's not. And it is a horrible thing, but that's because we live now. Similarly, imagine if in 100 years or so vegetarianism becomes the norm and is put into law and all that. People would look back and think, "Wow, those people were so horrible eating dead animals". But nowadays it's perfectly fine and dandy. That was a bit of a ramble. Not sure why I felt the need to type it out.
THAT'S AN EXCELLENT OBSERVATION!!! I have to imagine that the writers of the film wrote it with that in mind. It fits too perfectly that I have to imagine that it was a deliberate metaphor.
@Rick O'Shay Kashrut -- Jewish Dietary Laws aka Kosher. The writers likely played a metaphor with this scene as per Jewish dietary laws, meat and dairy DO NOT mix.
imiss toronto glad i brought insight! It hit me as I was doing his play in high school for our school’s production. I played Yente the first time and Golde my senior year. It was the most fun I ever had. It took some of my classmates to get it 😅 and my Jewish peers had a nice laugh too
"I see. Today you want one, tomorrow you may want two!" "Two? What would I do with two?" - "The same as you do with one!" LOL this is my favorite sentence !!!
😂😂😂 As a child, I didn't understand the connotations, or the full meaning of Teyve's confused suspicions with Lazar Wolf when he said he was 'lonely', and apparently wanted a 'little cow to keep him company'! 😂😂😂
I did feel a little bad for Lazar Wolf, as he clearly was a good guy. But still, Tevye did make the right move allowing Tzeitel to marry Motel instead. I mean, come on! He's much older even than Tevye, and certainly way too old for his daughter, even by the standards of that time period. But it was very sporting of him to go to the wedding that was supposed to have been his, not to mention giving them a wedding present. Frankly though, just between us fans, if Lazar Wolf was looking for a wife, I kind of think Yente would have been good for him
@@Antony-pp8dg Well women tend to peak in their sexual market value around their twenties(probably a tad earlier back in those days more than a century ago) whilst men peak in their 40's or even as high as 50(because for them it's mostly about how successful you have been and managed to use to show you'll be a good provider). Women tend to be hypergamous and men tend to be hypogamous.
Antony in Jewish communities in Tsarist Russia arranged marriages were the accepted norm, and the children had little if any say in the matter. The fact that Lazar Wolf, a man older than Tevye, wants to marry Tzeitel just adds to the suspense that she should marry Motel instead because they broke with tradition.
I feel sorry for Lazar in a sense too - but, on the other hand -as Teyve likes to say ;) he was a man clearly older than Teyve, at least in his late fifties or sixties. Why would an old man want to marry a 19 year old girl (Tzeitl's age)? If he was so 'lonely' as he claimed to be, surely there were some widows in the village closer to his own age that he could have chosen from instead.It was just rather repugnant, a bit lecherous of him to want to go for Teyve's young daughter. It was especially repugnant to Tzeitl of course! She was not attracted to him (don't blame her) and was in love with Motel.
faeryquene Yes, of course you're right ^^ even if I think it was kind of normal for older men to marry young ladies at the time -it doesn't make it less creepy, though xDD
He seems like a good man. I personally like older men, he's not completely my type but if I was in the situation I'd marry him if I wasn't in love with someone else that is. Knowing me not a problem, so I'd marry the butcher.
I think you misjudge Lazar Wolf. It says no where that Lazar is in his late 50ties or 60ties. He seems like a nice gut. Nothing creepy about him wanting to marry Tzeitel. Maybe he wanted children, ever think about that?
As a little kid I watched this musical a lot and really liked it, but I was always confused about how there could be a laser wolf before they invented lasers.
I feel bad for the Laser Wolf. He puts his heart on his sleeve with "Frankly, I'm lonely", instinctively defends Tzeitel when he thinks Reb Tevye calls her a little cow, the genuine way he says "I like her" twice.
+William Craig I got a total creeper vibe from him. My dislike of him was solidified during the wedding sequence when he gets all pissed off, and acts like the woman who had just gotten married was a cow he was owed after winning a gambling match.
This was the very first clue, for me anyway, that moving forward with the match was a terrible idea from the start… it’s a funny moment but rewatching it again it makes me look at it differently.
@@travisjohnson6676 He was kind to his animals. At the end in the barn he told the horse and the cows to be good to their new owner and the man would be good to them. So I don’t think he liked killing them for money.
Dang wolf was thinking "oh my God he's abusing his poor daughter I better save her!" in this case he wasn't such a bad guy he needs to find a girl a little bit older
There aren't going to be any unmarried girls a little bit older. Tzeitel is already 19 which is pretty old to be unmarried, and it's probably because she has no dowry ("With no dowry, no money, no family background be glad you get a man"). When Lazar says "Why don't we shake on it and call it a match" he is saying "don't worry about any dowry Tevye". Lazar's options are probably a girl like Tzeitel or a widow like Yente, with nothing in between.
My grandfather came from the shtetl. He said there are three inaccuracies in this movie. First, The friendly constable. That was unheard of. Second, the movie portrays the matchmaker as a required religious tradition. It was not. Matchmaking was a service like anything else. You could use it or not use it. Third, my grandfather told me that no one, man OR woman, was ever forced to marry someone they didn't want to marry just because the matchmaker matched them.
Well, actually the case was not that the matchmaker matched them, but that Tevye made a deal with Lazer Wolf. If he had knew earlier what does Lazer want, he would certainly talk about it with Tzeitel (especially that he didn't like Lazer too much himself), but he was taken by surprise (+ alcohol ;) )
Thank you for sharing this with us. Though, I have to admit, I like the idea of the friendly constable as it creates a more interesting character arc. Here we have a man torn between his friendship with Tevye and his duties as a law enforcer who eventually makes the difficult decision to issue a pogrom and eventually an eviction. One of my favorite shots in the movie is when the constable looks over the deserted Anatevka with an expression that reads, "I wish I didn't have to do this, but they're safer anywhere but here." It may not be historically accurate, but I really think it added an extra layer of emotion to the story.
5:07 Whenever I’d watch that moment with my Jewish grandparents when I was younger, I could not stop laughing seeing Lazar’s bulging eyes 😂 RIP grandma and grandpa 😢
Why is he so creepy just because he is not suave and young and handsome. A good man that makes and honest living, that wants to give happiness and a good life to a bride, and he is lonely. A sad predicament for old Lazar Wolf since Tzeitel already loves someone else. And the whole Fruma Sarah dream was the dread of my childhood - it used to scare the life out of me!
It's only wrong because it would be an arranged marriage. Tzeitel would have no decision in the matter and she would resent her father forever. And Tevye would feel guilty about selling his daughter for wealthy connections. Tzeitel obviously doesn't love this supremely older man but she loves Motel. She would lose the man she loves, not even getting to choose for herself and her husband would pass on in a few years anyways, leaving her with the responsibility of being a young widow.
In reality she was 19 and he was older than her father and she would probably end up a young, lonely widow. Imagine being told, at the age of 19, that the husband picked for you is older than your father? Motel Kamzoil was a far better choice as they could grow old together like Tevya and Golde.
Second marriages with older men and younger women was common. If the first wife died, the man would need someone to take care of him. The woman was often be poor and would be financially secure. It was a different world.
This scene is a hoot! "Reb Lazar...how can a little cow keep you company?'! LOL! I feel a little bad for Lazar Wolf but if he was really so lonely he could have approached a lonely old widow his own age to marry and keep him company. He gives off a bit of the old lecher for wanting to go for Teyve's teenaged daughter. The funny thing about the late (and wonderful) Paul Mann, the actor that plays Lazar Wolf - here he is old and obese but in his youth he played leading man type roles in the theater and some films! Chaim Topol the Star who plays the unforgettable Teyve is incandescent! :)
the best part got all screwed up! Right before Lazar wolf comes out of his freeze face at the end of tevye's thought, he says "Whoioysh!" or something to that effect. It was always a killer!
A period where children especially daughters are considered property. Thank God this will not hold in 2023 and beyond. Except for a few isolated cultures and very exceptional families.
My DNA test told me that I am 4% Jewish. Not much. And yet all of my life their music, the humor, the dances, all of that culture resonates with me so strongly. Perhaps it has a universal appeal. Or perhaps it is simply that underneath the skin we are all the same.
1:50 to 2:05. love this part: how is your brother-in-law in America? oh he's doing real well. oh he wrote you no, not lately than how do you know? if he was doing badly he would write. no news is good news as they say.
Lazar Wolf is not a creep, Tzeitel was already a woman and a man marrying a much younger woman was normal back then. I believe that if he did marry Tzeitel he would be a good husband but of course, he wasn't the man for her.
This entire movie is acted much better than most movies made today.
1:48 Lazar: "How is your brother-in-law in America?"
Tevye: "Oh he's doing very well."
Lazar: "He wrote you?"
Tevye: "No, not lately."
Lazar: "Then how do you know?"
Tevye: "If he was doing badly, he would write."
Very clever lines.
"Submarine love,"
They only surface when they in trouble.
(No news is good news)
"Reb Lazar what are you talking about? How can a little cow keep you company?!?"
LOL
Phil A It's actually Rev. 😉
@@garyjones2561 Wow, all this time I thought it was Reb
@@spaniard_flower2539 You may be right. It's been a while and I think I've heard "Reb".
@@garyjones2561 maybe, but Rev makes sense too
It's Reb.
Reb
/reb/
noun
a traditional Jewish title or form of address, corresponding to Sir, for a man who is not a rabbi (used preceding the forename or surname).
I swear, Lazar Wolf has the bluest. Eyes. Ever.
He can shoot beams of coherent light from them, Cyclops style.
The acting here is just fantastic. So believable.
Lazar Wolf’s laugh always cheers me up 😊
My grandfather name was Lazar Wolfe. No kidding and he was a butcher too.
I think if a man has to say “I’ll be good to her”, that seems like a red flag.
Depends on context
It was normal at the time.
MY FAVORTE LINES FROM THE SCENE LAZOR WOLF: TEVIA, I UNDERSTAND HOW YOU FEEL BUT AFTER ALL YOU HAVE A FEW MORE WITHOUT HER. TEVIA: OH I SEE. TODAY YOU WANT ONE TOMORROW YOU MIGHT WANT TWO. LAZOR WOLF: TWO? WHAT WOULD I DO WITH TWO? TEVIA: THE SAME AS YOU DO WITH ONE.
Best ever classical film I've ever(y) seen..
All this from killing innocent animals!! Tevje!! The righteous angel! Best man on earth
Don't touch anything!
All right! 😀😀😀
4:00 - Tevye wondering if Lazar has gone insane!
Lazar is way too old for Tzeitl. He's older than Tevye, I think! But he would've been good to her at least. I do feel bad for him but it's not like he was in love with her. It was just attraction.
If I were forced to marry him, I'd tell him 'Don't you dare lay a hand on me EVER fat old man! Blech! 😲
This comes straight from Shalom Aleichem's story. Hilariously done.
His daughter would never want for anything. I don't blame him.
Plutus
I always felt a bit sorry for Lazar Wolf he isn't a bad guy, he doesn't hurt anyone and he works hard. Its a little creepy because Tzeitel is 19 but this was normal at the time most women his own age would be married already so he doesn't have much choice but to look for younger women anyway.
Okay silly ? if he is widowed who is that woman who answers the door? Was she like his maid or his mom?
I always assumed maid
Today you want one, tomorrow you may want two.
Two? What would I do with two?
Lmfao
“Laser Wolf” would make a cool Marvel superhero. But yeah, he’s got to be in his 60s. Would he give Tzeital a baby?
I thought Lazar was actually a pretty good guy. A perfect husband.
Just not the right husband for Tzeitel.
OMG IT DRIVES ME ABSOLUTELY CRAZY THAT THAT YUCKY OLD MAN WAS GOING TO MARRY POOR TZEITEL!!!
What makes me ill is that even today this happens in orthodox communities of many faiths. Girls, even little girls under 10 being forced to marry old men. I remember the first time I watched I was so relieved that Teyve didn't force his teenaged daughter to marry that old lecher. As I said elsewhere, if he was really so lonely, why didn't he find a lonely old widow his own age to marry? He's just an old lecher, lusting after Tzeitl.
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6:02 holy shit
Why can Lazar wolf not pick someone his own age.
Most of the women in the village his own age, or near his age, are likely already married. It's a very small town with few options.
They believed in arranged marriages. Usually there's a Matchmaker involved. A great, great movie close to my heart. My relatives were all from the same village in Russia, probably very much like the Anatevka village portrayed here
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I didn't like this movie anyway, but this scene in particular horrified me. Here we have a father basically *selling his own daughter* in *marriage* to a creepy old man, which is *fucked up shit*.
I think that's the point.
To be fair he does only want the best for her.
yep, and when she says she's not interested, her father does not make her marry the butcher.
Emperor, it IS messed up, but that's how they did things back then. not so long ago also done in our own culture.
liwmld This is why I think morality is subjective. Back then it was fine and normal, now it's not. And it is a horrible thing, but that's because we live now.
Similarly, imagine if in 100 years or so vegetarianism becomes the norm and is put into law and all that. People would look back and think, "Wow, those people were so horrible eating dead animals". But nowadays it's perfectly fine and dandy.
That was a bit of a ramble. Not sure why I felt the need to type it out.
ThatZommy Well, people have been hunting and eating animals throughout all of history. I don't think that's going to change in one little century.
and this marriage could never work. The milkman's daughter marrying the butcher. It's a great allegory to kashrut and that match is not kosher
THAT'S AN EXCELLENT OBSERVATION!!! I have to imagine that the writers of the film wrote it with that in mind. It fits too perfectly that I have to imagine that it was a deliberate metaphor.
@Rick O'Shay Kashrut -- Jewish Dietary Laws aka Kosher. The writers likely played a metaphor with this scene as per Jewish dietary laws, meat and dairy DO NOT mix.
@@classified773 Forty years I never thought that and I keep kosher!
imiss toronto glad i brought insight! It hit me as I was doing his play in high school for our school’s production. I played Yente the first time and Golde my senior year. It was the most fun I ever had. It took some of my classmates to get it 😅 and my Jewish peers had a nice laugh too
@@classified773 Tell that to my mom's tenderloin in cream.
"I see. Today you want one, tomorrow you may want two!"
"Two? What would I do with two?"
- "The same as you do with one!"
LOL this is my favorite sentence !!!
😂😂😂 As a child, I didn't understand the connotations, or the full meaning of Teyve's confused suspicions with Lazar Wolf when he said he was 'lonely', and apparently wanted a 'little cow to keep him company'! 😂😂😂
Totally agree. So f'ing funny omg.
And the face Lazar makes when Tevye says that.
Classical, humorous misunderstanding, its genius writing for this scene.
A joke to us, a way of life to Mormans 😆
I did feel a little bad for Lazar Wolf, as he clearly was a good guy. But still, Tevye did make the right move allowing Tzeitel to marry Motel instead. I mean, come on! He's much older even than Tevye, and certainly way too old for his daughter, even by the standards of that time period. But it was very sporting of him to go to the wedding that was supposed to have been his, not to mention giving them a wedding present. Frankly though, just between us fans, if Lazar Wolf was looking for a wife, I kind of think Yente would have been good for him
Yea well older men often have an eye for young women
Garrettk41
Lol. The only way I can feel good about that is imagining how she'd get Lazar's mother off her high horse!
@@Antony-pp8dg Well women tend to peak in their sexual market value around their twenties(probably a tad earlier back in those days more than a century ago) whilst men peak in their 40's or even as high as 50(because for them it's mostly about how successful you have been and managed to use to show you'll be a good provider). Women tend to be hypergamous and men tend to be hypogamous.
coward
Antony in Jewish communities in Tsarist Russia arranged marriages were the accepted norm, and the children had little if any say in the matter. The fact that Lazar Wolf, a man older than Tevye, wants to marry Tzeitel just adds to the suspense that she should marry Motel instead because they broke with tradition.
“All this from killing innocent animals?” I love Tevye.
RIP
Vegetarian
Lazar Wolf is the coolest name ever.
I will always ear Laser Wolf only.
Dr. Evil: "I want a wolf with freakin' "Lazar-beams" attached to its head!"
Dr Who - Wolfs Bay. are we in a conspirancy here?
I played him last year at school!
I mean, Lazar Wolf with the legendary surname 'the butcher' could be a feared name in every mafia movie in history.
This scene cracks me up. And I always feel a little sorry for Lazar...he looks like a cute chubby Santa.
I feel sorry for Lazar in a sense too - but, on the other hand -as Teyve likes to say ;) he was a man clearly older than Teyve, at least in his late fifties or sixties. Why would an old man want to marry a 19 year old girl (Tzeitl's age)? If he was so 'lonely' as he claimed to be, surely there were some widows in the village closer to his own age that he could have chosen from instead.It was just rather repugnant, a bit lecherous of him to want to go for Teyve's young daughter. It was especially repugnant to Tzeitl of course! She was not attracted to him (don't blame her) and was in love with Motel.
faeryquene Yes, of course you're right ^^ even if I think it was kind of normal for older men to marry young ladies at the time -it doesn't make it less creepy, though xDD
Cali Bananas
He probably wanted children!
He seems like a good man. I personally like older men, he's not completely my type but if I was in the situation I'd marry him if I wasn't in love with someone else that is. Knowing me not a problem, so I'd marry the butcher.
I think you misjudge Lazar Wolf. It says no where that Lazar is in his late 50ties or 60ties. He seems like a nice gut. Nothing creepy about him wanting to marry Tzeitel. Maybe he wanted children, ever think about that?
As a little kid I watched this musical a lot and really liked it, but I was always confused about how there could be a laser wolf before they invented lasers.
Lazer is a nickname for eliezer, a traditional jewish name (meand god will help in hebrew)
I know! Right? 😄 That name would make me think of a possible name for a video game! LOL
@@chelebelle2223 Or a Gacha Life OC lol
"How goes it with you, Reb Tevye?"
"How should it go?
"You're right."
"And you?"
"Uhh.. the same."
"I'm sorry to hear that."
😆😆😆😆
One of the best scenes of miscommunication of all time.
And has there ever been a name cooler than Lazar Wolf?
Reb Tevye?
Reb Tevye.
Lazar is usually short for El'azar, sometimes Eli'ezer.
"Have a drink"
"I won't insult you by saying no"
My new line😈😈
lazar wolf is literally older than tevye and yet lazar wants to marry tevye’s oldest daughter which isn’t even 20 yet 💀
🤢
Yeah, Because Love Island is such a superior and moral way of being.
@@madwhitehare3635as if most of the population is on love island. Women clearly don't want to marry grandfathers. Get over it.
I feel bad for the Laser Wolf. He puts his heart on his sleeve with "Frankly, I'm lonely", instinctively defends Tzeitel when he thinks Reb Tevye calls her a little cow, the genuine way he says "I like her" twice.
"Laser"🤣
Lazar
@@meridaskywalker7816What's funny?
after knowing the character is a butcher it made more sense why he might think he would think he was talking about a cow as opposed to his daughter.
So true
I always feel sort of bad for Lazar. I mean, he seems like a nice guy. And I think he's sort of cute, in an old-man way.
"I like her." Says it twice. That gets to me.
In a good way or a bad way?
Good
+William Craig I got a total creeper vibe from him. My dislike of him was solidified during the wedding sequence when he gets all pissed off, and acts like the woman who had just gotten married was a cow he was owed after winning a gambling match.
Of course in today's modern degenerate society they would call him a pedophile or worse.
Love his laughter, but also felt very bad for him during the wedding scene where the camera is on him and you see pain in his eyes.
IDK, I felt less bad for him when he intentionally gave a bad wedding present and lied about it
I love this lack of communication.
How can a little cow keep you company!? HAH! That was favorite part of the movie as a kid!:-)
Tevye’s milkcow brings all the farmers to the barn
😂😂😂😂😂
R.I.P Chaim Topol, sad to lose such a brilliant actor 😢
All things end, but at least he's in a better place.
"And all this from killing innocent animals?" xD
Great line.
The same animals Tevye ate
This was the very first clue, for me anyway, that moving forward with the match was a terrible idea from the start… it’s a funny moment but rewatching it again it makes me look at it differently.
@@travisjohnson6676 He was kind to his animals. At the end in the barn he told the horse and the cows to be good to their new owner and the man would be good to them. So I don’t think he liked killing them for money.
One of the funniest scenes in the movie. Absolutely hysterical!!
Dang wolf was thinking
"oh my God he's abusing his poor daughter I better save her!"
in this case he wasn't such a bad guy
he needs to find a girl a little bit older
“A little bit”
There aren't going to be any unmarried girls a little bit older. Tzeitel is already 19 which is pretty old to be unmarried, and it's probably because she has no dowry ("With no dowry, no money, no family background be glad you get a man"). When Lazar says "Why don't we shake on it and call it a match" he is saying "don't worry about any dowry Tevye". Lazar's options are probably a girl like Tzeitel or a widow like Yente, with nothing in between.
A classic, back when they made good movies :D If you haven't watched the whole movie, it's definitely worth watching!
This is the highest tier of misunderstanding scenes.
Lazar seems like a sweet man.
My grandfather came from the shtetl. He said there are three inaccuracies in this movie. First, The friendly constable. That was unheard of. Second, the movie portrays the matchmaker as a required religious tradition. It was not. Matchmaking was a service like anything else. You could use it or not use it. Third, my grandfather told me that no one, man OR woman, was ever forced to marry someone they didn't want to marry just because the matchmaker matched them.
+vegaslover777 No one in the movie is forced any marriage, am I wrong ?
+FoxyChibi:3 Tevye tricks Golde to get Tzeitel out of it.
Well, actually the case was not that the matchmaker matched them, but that Tevye made a deal with Lazer Wolf. If he had knew earlier what does Lazer want, he would certainly talk about it with Tzeitel (especially that he didn't like Lazer too much himself), but he was taken by surprise (+ alcohol ;) )
Thank you for sharing this with us. Though, I have to admit, I like the idea of the friendly constable as it creates a more interesting character arc. Here we have a man torn between his friendship with Tevye and his duties as a law enforcer who eventually makes the difficult decision to issue a pogrom and eventually an eviction. One of my favorite shots in the movie is when the constable looks over the deserted Anatevka with an expression that reads, "I wish I didn't have to do this, but they're safer anywhere but here." It may not be historically accurate, but I really think it added an extra layer of emotion to the story.
Nelson Faier No but Tevya could have forced her if he had chosen to. That’s why Tsitel was begging Tevya on her knees not to force her.
I love it how time freezes as Tevye thinks through things. That and the times he breaks the forth wall are what make this movie awsome..
He was too impulsive at the moment. Rather than telling him he’d think about it and talk to his daughter.
@@arielsea9087 if he didnt say yes we wouldnt have had the song lechaim, which is my favorite part of the musical and the reason i discovered it
If he was doing badly he would write lol
"im sorry to hear that" BAHAHAHHAHA ohh i love tevye! this character is amazing XD
“And all this from killing innocent animals.” Simply LUV Tevye. Gotta’ luv the Butcher’s hat.
5:07 Whenever I’d watch that moment with my Jewish grandparents when I was younger, I could not stop laughing seeing Lazar’s bulging eyes 😂
RIP grandma and grandpa 😢
Beautiful memories much love to both of them ❤❤
Why is he so creepy just because he is not suave and young and handsome. A good man that makes and honest living, that wants to give happiness and a good life to a bride, and he is lonely. A sad predicament for old Lazar Wolf since Tzeitel already loves someone else. And the whole Fruma Sarah dream was the dread of my childhood - it used to scare the life out of me!
He should find himself a widow. Give young people a chance to marry other young peope and raise a family.
It's only wrong because it would be an arranged marriage. Tzeitel would have no decision in the matter and she would resent her father forever. And Tevye would feel guilty about selling his daughter for wealthy connections. Tzeitel obviously doesn't love this supremely older man but she loves Motel. She would lose the man she loves, not even getting to choose for herself and her husband would pass on in a few years anyways, leaving her with the responsibility of being a young widow.
Tzeitel would've become a young widow.
In reality she was 19 and he was older than her father and she would probably end up a young, lonely widow. Imagine being told, at the age of 19, that the husband picked for you is older than your father? Motel Kamzoil was a far better choice as they could grow old together like Tevya and Golde.
@Rick O'Shay I mean. thats a 5 year age gap. kinda gross. especially since she just turned 18. she is basically still a teen
Lazar Wolf is secretly a Metal Gear Solid boss.
That had to be hard for the actor playing lazar wolf. Keeping that same facial expression through the monologue
I'm almost sure the camera would have frozen the image
Second marriages with older men and younger women was common. If the first wife died, the man would need someone to take care of him. The woman was often be poor and would be financially secure. It was a different world.
I always loved 1:45, he's already keen for another shot lol
I always heard it as "Laserwolf"
Ok I feel bad cause he’s clearly a nice man who is lonely and deserves a wife, but NO she is way to young. I draw the line there
Laughter is the best medicine G-d did I laugh at this. Thanks for posting.
Why on earth wouldn't Tzeitel (sp) want to marry a man with a name as basass as "Lazar Wolf?"
she was afraid of the monster cock
Because the name Motel Kamzoil is even BETTER!
“Little cow?!”
Gets me every time
Excellent acting
This scene is a hoot! "Reb Lazar...how can a little cow keep you company?'! LOL! I feel a little bad for Lazar Wolf but if he was really so lonely he could have approached a lonely old widow his own age to marry and keep him company. He gives off a bit of the old lecher for wanting to go for Teyve's teenaged daughter. The funny thing about the late (and wonderful) Paul Mann, the actor that plays Lazar Wolf - here he is old and obese but in his youth he played leading man type roles in the theater and some films! Chaim Topol the Star who plays the unforgettable Teyve is incandescent! :)
the best part got all screwed up! Right before Lazar wolf comes out of his freeze face at the end of tevye's thought, he says "Whoioysh!" or something to that effect. It was always a killer!
Most infectious laugh in movie history
This is the best musical ever! I have watched it so many times, Tevye is the best
I still can't believe there's an actual character named Lazer Wolf in this musical
It's spelled Lazar. It's just a Jewish name🤷
The name is derived the same as Lazarus, from the Christian New Testament
How did the film in many ways touch upon the key concepts of marriage, family life, and sexuality?
Lazar wolf is not a good choice becous he likes her but motle loves her
Jerry Seinfeld dated Shoshana for a bit SO Lazar wasn't exactly too old. Plus had an old Polish king wanted to scoop up tzeitel who knows
Tevye is not afraid to ask Lazar for a refill on his drink, and Lazar is glad to oblige, especially if Tevye agrees to a match.
Bacchus
Why do they pronounce his name laser? Its Lazar.
A period where children especially daughters are considered property. Thank God this will not hold in 2023 and beyond. Except for a few isolated cultures and very exceptional families.
"Two?... what would I do with two?"
"The same thing you do with one!"
Tremendous acting
Tev the weights of the world. ❤
Question: Is Reb the Yiddish equivalent of Mr?
Indego84 Yes. It is the Yiddish equivalent of Mr. or Sir. used to refer to men other than Rabbis.
My DNA test told me that I am 4% Jewish. Not much. And yet all of my life their music, the humor, the dances, all of that culture resonates with me so strongly. Perhaps it has a universal appeal. Or perhaps it is simply that underneath the skin we are all the same.
I would have been the girl to actually marry this man and not worry. One son and one daughter and I'm good.
"The same as you do with one." lol!
Can someone please explain to me 5:08-6:04? Why is Lazar wolf still and not moving?
1:50 to 2:05.
love this part:
how is your brother-in-law in America?
oh he's doing real well.
oh he wrote you
no, not lately
than how do you know?
if he was doing badly he would write.
no news is good news as they say.
Innocent animals . . . the Kotel.
The actor married the actress who played the eldest daughter's real life sister.
?
She made a very good impression on me....
This Wolf…… it shoots LAZARS out of its eyes!!!
Lazar Wolf is not a creep, Tzeitel was already a woman and a man marrying a much younger woman was normal back then. I believe that if he did marry Tzeitel he would be a good husband but of course, he wasn't the man for her.
“Little cow?!”
Gets me every time
I feel for Laserwolf
Классная сцена,с выпивкой вдвойне!
Taking to himself moment❤️🙃🙂❤️👍
Otacon marries Sniper Wolf and changes his name to Lazer Wolf.
7 years later I'm telling you I liked that joke