The poem Ozymandias, written by English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1818, performed by actor Harry Melling in the movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
I'm so glad they gave Melling a chance, because I can only imagine what happened in the casting room when they said "the guy who played Dudley Dursley is here to audition for the role of the most eloquent and stirring speaker you've ever heard."
@@josuebenvindo no it made sense. Chickens are a lot easier and cheaper to care for than a a disabled person. He was tired after years of feeding, washing, clothing, helping with bodily functions.
@@agonefire The chicken was a scam. Nobody sells a magical chicken calculator for any amount of money, did you see the size of that crowd? He'd be making fortunes upon fortunes for as long as that chicken was alive. The only explanation is that chicken was just an ordinary chicken.
Ozymandias: I met a traveler from an antique land who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert "Near them on the sand, half-sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command "Tell that its sculptor well those passion read which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things "The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal, these words appear: "'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings! Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!' "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare "The lone and level sand stretch far away."
I am so happy that Harry Melling's performance is getting more recognition recently: Merlin, Queen's Gambit, The Devil All the Time... hope to see more from this s talented actor!
So this guy gave the same performances, all amazing, no matter the number of audience members, no matter the weather. He had the same sweet wonder on his face, even when he realized his fate. Loved this movie
Try and really put yourself in a person from a town like that’s shoes, how rare entertainment was and how fascinating it had to be when someone like this *came* to town. I have heard that during the gold rush if you could play the fiddle you made more *money* than any miner. Edited for spelling and grammar mistakes. All edits are *bold*
@@Weird-City 100% was not better back. Proof you can watch this movie and make comments on it. You can chill now. You’re more likely to die than catch a laugh or even a good nights sleep unless you’re rich cause being rich makes going through the past fun/better
I like to think that he survived the fall, got rescued by a beautiful young woman who went to the river to collect water, and they lived happily ever after.
Being a not-shit man doesn't automatically entitle you to a "beautiful young woman". I'm sure he would have been grateful for literally _anybody_ saving him
Melling is one of the most talented actors around. Makes every role and script credible and a joy to watch. Recommend The Pale Blue Eyes where he plays the part of Edgar Alan Poe. More of Melling please, any Director worth his salt must know he’s a real box office investment. Massively on the up I would hope.
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
The Coen Brothers must have returned from the year 2120 because they're a good century ahead of their nearest filmmaking rivals. Every scene is a masterpiece of atmospheric painting, much like Kubrick, but they tell a story as well as Scorsese or Spielberg. They master the logistics necessary for huge casts and crews filming incredibly complex, nuanced ideas. It's not just that the Coens make increasingly brilliant films, it's that they make it look so easy to do. They're Mozart and we're all just Salieri.
Mr J Bettison representing the harsh reality that people would rather pay for cheap uneducated entertainment rather than appreciate real art like the speaker performing many famous speeches and poems
It’s so beautiful seeing these hard frontiersmen and women looking on in wonder. They’re enraptured by his performance. And it’s so sad to see that town by town, people become less interested in art or poetry. Instead they’re placated by simple spectacles and cheap tricks. Kinda makes you think about the state of current entertainment. God I love this Anthology.
The old man used ozymandias for money. And when the crowd began to get smaller and smaller and there's no flow of money, the old man thinks ozy is no use to him, The old man looked at him as just dead weight. But ozymandias was pure talented. He put his heart into every show, like his life depended on it, because in actuality, it did.
@@seanscott7070only not to learn the Choice he made was a fools errand. The boy he threw away still had talent though the source of the birds talent was elsewhere. Back where the Choice was first made. The lying man would buy another chicken to begin that cycle once more all the while the man burnt up his meal ticket from his pocket without any matches in sight. Soon his next Choice would lead to his last as weak minded fools don't last long in a cruel lying world.
I think it goes in the same thematic idea as one of the Coens favourite movie: "Sullivan Travels" in there Sullivan the title character plans to make a social relevant movie, he goes in a search a road trip only to find that ordinary people prefer comedies, simple escapism to entertain the daily life, its the same on this, people prefer the Chicken because its more entertaining than reading a poetic work belonging to literary academic world...
True to the theme, but historically the audience was much more literate than we would guess our college graduates would be. '49ers in the Gold Rush once performed, by memory, Romeo and Juliet.
It just occurred to me that I had assumed that Liam Neeson's character had discovered him this way, but after what he ended up doing what's to say he didn't do this to him in the first place?
I had a similar thought. The railroad tracks became a clue: either a deliberate act at a prior time--perhaps in England--or, an accident while Harrison (The Artist) was working, walking, or playing on the crossties--either there, or within the states. If either were the case, how fitting then, in the impresario's mind that, when or if the body was found, it would be assumed that the young man had met his tragic end by coming into the path of a locomotive.
«Incontrai un viandante di una terra dell'antichità, Che diceva: “Due enormi gambe di pietra stroncate Stanno imponenti nel deserto… Nella sabbia, non lungi di là, Mezzo viso sprofondato e sfranto, e la sua fronte, E le rugose labbra, e il sogghigno di fredda autorità, Tramandano che lo scultore di ben conoscere quelle passioni rivelava, Che ancor sopravvivono, stampate senza vita su queste pietre, Alla mano che le plasmava, e al sentimento che le alimentava: E sul piedistallo, queste parole cesellate: «Il mio nome è Ozymandias, re di tutti i re, Ammirate, Voi Potenti, la mia opera e disperate!» Null'altro rimane. Intorno alle rovine Di quel rudere colossale, spoglie e sterminate, Le piatte sabbie solitarie si estendono oltre confine”.»
you know..... for the old west, this aint a half bad show. Maybe it wont make insane money, but its unique and intresting enough that it would continually bring in an audience, also i think the guy might live longer then the chicken he was replaced with.
Me alegro por el. De todos los actores de Harry Potter es el más destacado junto a Robert Patinson. Nunca habría apostado por él la verdad, eso demuestra que con trabajo y esfuerzo todo se consigue
Really good poem. I studied this one at GSCE level. The big message is that the sands of time will always erode away a statue. Made more poignant when the statue is/was created by a narcissistic emperor. Time gets us all. Yeehhawww.
Imagine never knowing who this actor was and be shocked when he shows up in “The Devil all the time” and he has both arms and legs Screaming about Jesus.
The chicken that the impresario bought in order to replace harry (whom he threw into a river) was all a trick, the chicken doesnt actually do basic math
He seems like a promising young actor I hope he doesn’t get thrown into a river.
He survives 😊
Like Sally no arms legs huh
Just a stone's throw away.
I watched him in The Pale Blue Eyes and came to the conclusion that he is one the greatest actors who ever lived.
Was pretty astonished at Harry Melling's performance. Underrated actor
Takes after his grandfather, the 2nd Doctor!
Quite the resemblance in a lot of ways.
Nah, he's in every Netflix movie lately
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Good to hear. He's very talented.
Brilliant actor and a genuinely nice person
@@eldermillennial8330 what, Patrick Troughton ?
Can't believe Harry Melling cut off both his arms and legs just to get this role. That's what I call true method acting.
Chi Liu ‘‘tis just a flesh wound
@@wurly164 but***********************
But they grew back for his role as Harry Beltic.
Hahahaha!
how did he swim at the end though?
I'm so glad they gave Melling a chance, because I can only imagine what happened in the casting room when they said "the guy who played Dudley Dursley is here to audition for the role of the most eloquent and stirring speaker you've ever heard."
You must have missed the scene where he confronts Voldemort
To be fair, Mr. Dursley was a detective for Scotland Yard and owned a 5-star restaurant before he had to keep that orphan troublemaker in line.
@@Scott-vc8oi I think you mix him up with the actor of neville. He played dudley he never met voldemort.
@@kogerugaming You're right, I got him mixed up with Matthew Lewis, who played Neville Longbottom.
He's had a lot of theatre roles before he started making films again
Probably the best reading of that poem I've ever heard.
Andrew Elias he messed it up. When he said “in an antique land,” he said it wrong. The original poem says “from an antique land.”
Plus Brian Cranston read it better. Look up his reading of it. You won’t be sorry that you did
@@johncajski2046 ok big deal
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Bryan Cranston
Literature, art, pure emotions replaced by a chicken.
Not just "replaced "...
But the chicken can do math!
Liam Neeson was dumb. That boy would be a good partner to the chicken.
@@josuebenvindo no it made sense. Chickens are a lot easier and cheaper to care for than a a disabled person. He was tired after years of feeding, washing, clothing, helping with bodily functions.
@@agonefire The chicken was a scam. Nobody sells a magical chicken calculator for any amount of money, did you see the size of that crowd? He'd be making fortunes upon fortunes for as long as that chicken was alive. The only explanation is that chicken was just an ordinary chicken.
Not gonna lie, I'm sorta disappointed that there isn't a full uncut version of all of these readings. His narrative voice is so compelling.
He'd be great doing audible narrations of the classics.
Thanks for not lying.
It’s definitely not “uncut” 😏
@@FakeNewsDaily Well, you're an adventurous one.
It'd be cool if they put this in the next Red Dead Redemption.
Ozymandias:
I met a traveler from an antique land who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert
"Near them on the sand, half-sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
"Tell that its sculptor well those passion read which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things
"The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal, these words appear:
"'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings! Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
"Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
"The lone and level sand stretch far away."
I am so happy that Harry Melling's performance is getting more recognition recently: Merlin, Queen's Gambit, The Devil All the Time... hope to see more from this s talented actor!
he was great in the old guard too!
Also liked him in Pale Blue Eyes as a young Edgar Allan Poe
So this guy gave the same performances, all amazing, no matter the number of audience members, no matter the weather. He had the same sweet wonder on his face, even when he realized his fate. Loved this movie
I don't think he 'really' understood his fate...I think he's supposed to be some type of savant. He never talks other than in his performances.
Try and really put yourself in a person from a town like that’s shoes, how rare entertainment was and how fascinating it had to be when someone like this *came* to town. I have heard that during the gold rush if you could play the fiddle you made more *money* than any miner.
Edited for spelling and grammar mistakes. All edits are *bold*
I think life was better then.
@@Weird-City 100% was not better back. Proof you can watch this movie and make comments on it. You can chill now. You’re more likely to die than catch a laugh or even a good nights sleep unless you’re rich cause being rich makes going through the past fun/better
" if you could play the fiddle you made more miner than any miner."
This sounds like a Joe Biden quote
kinda hard to do since he couldnt wear shoes
Miners earned wage so obviously, it was the mine owners and investors that really earned
This was an unusual standout performance for me. I really wish they had included the entire prose. Melling did an amazing job of this role.
Knowing the Coen Brothers, they picked this poem because the character is a legless trunk.
Good observation.
And has the "hand that mocked, and the heart that fed", much closer to him than most.
I like to think that he survived the fall, got rescued by a beautiful young woman who went to the river to collect water, and they lived happily ever after.
Na. He dead
@@thomasborgland9247 RIP bozo
Being a not-shit man doesn't automatically entitle you to a "beautiful young woman". I'm sure he would have been grateful for literally _anybody_ saving him
@@victoriapulcifer6218 true, but there’s no harm in wishing someone a happy life with someone who loves them.
Her him and a little wagon
I've just started to see him in other roles than harry potter and wow! he's a great underrated actor.
I don't want to go out on a limb, but give that guy a hand.
you're so funny, now get the f out of here
@@thurmanmerman7024 you don’t fucking own youtube
There was fierce competition for that part.
He got it.
But it cost him an……………….
*limb* 😂
Melling is one of the most talented actors around. Makes every role and script credible and a joy to watch. Recommend The Pale Blue Eyes where he plays the part of Edgar Alan Poe. More of Melling please, any Director worth his salt must know he’s a real box office investment. Massively on the up I would hope.
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
This was the most disturbing story in the whole movie
So perfect. Beautiful performance 👏
Chicken killed the theatre star
Poultry doing math broke your heart.
It buggles the mind, don't you think?
The Coen Brothers must have returned from the year 2120 because they're a good century ahead of their nearest filmmaking rivals.
Every scene is a masterpiece of atmospheric painting, much like Kubrick, but they tell a story as well as Scorsese or Spielberg.
They master the logistics necessary for huge casts and crews filming incredibly complex, nuanced ideas.
It's not just that the Coens make increasingly brilliant films, it's that they make it look so easy to do. They're Mozart and we're all just Salieri.
That movie was absolutely astonishing
The best of the short stories and it’s a shame this series wasn’t continued
The best short film ever
This entire film engaged me in thought throughout and ever since.
What a reading! Replacing this guy with the counting chicken was like the dumbing down of the BBC with crappy game shows!
Mr J Bettison representing the harsh reality that people would rather pay for cheap uneducated entertainment rather than appreciate real art like the speaker performing many famous speeches and poems
Discovery channel and national geographics' decay over the years
History channel too
Culture in general to be honest
Look at how many people know who the Kardashians are versus how many people even know who Ozymandias is, and it's very simple.
This travelling show was probably the highlight of these people's year.
Great performance from an underrated actor.
Who knew Dudley Dursley could be so eloquent.
He will live a long prosperous life travelling And speaking the word until a ripe old age I’m sure of it
He read that poem beautifully
😂
@@Skywalker20000 cringe
One man's sorrow is another man's meal ticket...in the end he replaced Shakespeare with a savant chicken...
It’s so beautiful seeing these hard frontiersmen and women looking on in wonder. They’re enraptured by his performance. And it’s so sad to see that town by town, people become less interested in art or poetry. Instead they’re placated by simple spectacles and cheap tricks. Kinda makes you think about the state of current entertainment. God I love this Anthology.
I LOVE that poem - always makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
Fantastic acting....
One of the best movies, Acting,Camera angle,scenes,music,comedy,drama,action,adventure everything!
This one story hurt me too hard. Absolutely heartbreaking what happens in the end
what a story!
Harry Melling is a brilliant actor.
Yes
The old man used ozymandias for money. And when the crowd began to get smaller and smaller and there's no flow of money, the old man thinks ozy is no use to him, The old man looked at him as just dead weight. But ozymandias was pure talented. He put his heart into every show, like his life depended on it, because in actuality, it did.
In the mind of the old man, between Ozymandias and the chicken, a definite pecking order was established, relative to utility.
@@seanscott7070only not to learn the Choice he made was a fools errand. The boy he threw away still had talent though the source of the birds talent was elsewhere. Back where the Choice was first made. The lying man would buy another chicken to begin that cycle once more all the while the man burnt up his meal ticket from his pocket without any matches in sight. Soon his next Choice would lead to his last as weak minded fools don't last long in a cruel lying world.
Damn, going from Dudley to this is such a glow-up
Who but Harry Melling to play Edgar Allan Poe? He was fantastic in The Pale Blue Eye.
As an admirer of Edgar A. Poe, I was quite pleased with Harry Melling's "subversive" portrayal of him.
I think it goes in the same thematic idea as one of the Coens favourite movie: "Sullivan Travels" in there Sullivan the title character plans to make a social relevant movie, he goes in a search a road trip only to find that ordinary people prefer comedies, simple escapism to entertain the daily life, its the same on this, people prefer the Chicken because its more entertaining than reading a poetic work belonging to literary academic world...
True to the theme, but historically the audience was much more literate than we would guess our college graduates would be. '49ers in the Gold Rush once performed, by memory, Romeo and Juliet.
God how I love this scene
It just occurred to me that I had assumed that Liam Neeson's character had discovered him this way, but after what he ended up doing what's to say he didn't do this to him in the first place?
I'd guess the former cause it's hard to keep someone alive after an "operation" as grim as that
I had a similar thought. The railroad tracks became a clue: either a deliberate act at a prior time--perhaps in England--or, an accident while Harrison (The Artist) was working, walking, or playing on the crossties--either there, or within the states. If either were the case, how fitting then, in the impresario's mind that, when or if the body was found, it would be assumed that the young man had met his tragic end by coming into the path of a locomotive.
The chicken was the Kardadhians of the Wild West.
I look upon an outcast state with despair and crave more of Harry Melling's monologues
I knew Melling was going to be killed. There was a foreshadowing when he quoted the Bible where God questions Cain about the murder of Abel.
@fgfghjkggdfdghjfgfjh there's no Alice in bible
What a beautiful soul.
«Incontrai un viandante di una terra dell'antichità,
Che diceva: “Due enormi gambe di pietra stroncate
Stanno imponenti nel deserto… Nella sabbia, non lungi di là,
Mezzo viso sprofondato e sfranto, e la sua fronte,
E le rugose labbra, e il sogghigno di fredda autorità,
Tramandano che lo scultore di ben conoscere quelle passioni rivelava,
Che ancor sopravvivono, stampate senza vita su queste pietre,
Alla mano che le plasmava, e al sentimento che le alimentava:
E sul piedistallo, queste parole cesellate:
«Il mio nome è Ozymandias, re di tutti i re,
Ammirate, Voi Potenti, la mia opera e disperate!»
Null'altro rimane. Intorno alle rovine
Di quel rudere colossale, spoglie e sterminate,
Le piatte sabbie solitarie si estendono oltre confine”.»
Grazie
you know..... for the old west, this aint a half bad show. Maybe it wont make insane money, but its unique and intresting enough that it would continually bring in an audience, also i think the guy might live longer then the chicken he was replaced with.
Let's Give him a hand folks.
This is a red dead redemption 2 side thing. In Valentine
Those words mean so much to him.
"My father's name was Robert, but as misfortune would have it, i was was not worthy of the name bob."
This feature is so sad.
After the events in Harry Potter, Dudley Dursley ate one too many pastries, got diabetes, and had all his limbs amputated.
I really really hope he plays "Franz Kafka " someday soon.
Damn Dudley Dursley spittin 🔥🔥🔥
Was racking my brain trying to remember this movie, oh wait it's like 6 movies in one. Google was useless. Found it myself by brain power
The title of the movie is in the title of the video.
Shrewd critique of American society who chooses entertainment over art.
I have a particular set of skills… like chucking a torso with a head into the drink!
✨This scene
is the precise length it should be, short.✨
Nothing Ends
Me alegro por el. De todos los actores de Harry Potter es el más destacado junto a Robert Patinson. Nunca habría apostado por él la verdad, eso demuestra que con trabajo y esfuerzo todo se consigue
Wow, so this is what happened to Dudley after Harry left.
Joking :^)
Such a sad episode.
It was, it shook me to the core
I saw this movie just one day after I finished read "Fevre's Dream" (it's from George RR Martin). This poem it's a big deal in that novel.
Great to see Harry Potter's jerk cousin in a totally different role. Wonderful.
Oh damn this is the chess guy from the Queen's Gambit!
What a handsome, handsome man.
You into nuggets ??
He seemed so familiar but I just couldnt remember until I remembered harry potter
Really good poem. I studied this one at GSCE level. The big message is that the sands of time will always erode away a statue. Made more poignant when the statue is/was created by a narcissistic emperor. Time gets us all. Yeehhawww.
Everyone was like "WTF"
It went afoul in the end
afowl
I find him sexy, I can't point my finger why. He looks like that main character from a Tim Burton's movie that I'll fall in love with.
I was not a fan of the movie but this scene was fantastic.
And for his next number, the limbless one will sing, "Splish Splash".
David from the Covenant brought me here.
"He's coming for you Elizabeth"
Just realised..I think that line was from Prometheus, that's because I was trying avoid mentioning the line from 'The flute incident!' 🙈😂
I had to Google Harry Melling just to be assured that he had his arms and legs intact.
People are surprised he cut his arms and legs for scene. I'm surprised he allowed himself to thrown off a bridge after such.
My favorite Byron poem. Yes I know it was written by Shelley (Aliens reference).
Imagine never knowing who this actor was and be shocked when he shows up in “The Devil all the time” and he has both arms and legs Screaming about Jesus.
Can we get breaking bad season 5?
No son, we have season 5 at home.
Holy fuck i didn't Know this was Harry Melling, that's crazy.
Oh, Dudley is at it a-gain!
It's OK. He grew his limbs back to play chess.
I believe his cousin who knows magic helped him
That guy that cracks up at "trunkless legs"
It’s actually “legs of stone” I think
A legless trunk recites a poem about trunkless legs.
Oscar worthy atuff.
Well done Jared Don!
Lighthouse is good and all, But the Cohen's Magnum Opus, Is this in my opinion
Я видел этого парня в сериале Ход королевы, но потом узнал что это толстяк из Гарри Поттера. Как же быстро бежит время...
awesome reading!
This was the rocks great great great grandfather
The chicken that the impresario bought in order to replace harry (whom he threw into a river) was all a trick, the chicken doesnt actually do basic math
Upload this full movie plzzzzz
It is on NETFLIX!
His death is chilling