@@BillyCalhoon Patrick Stewart's rich, deep voice, especially with age, is perfect for that...he can really lean into that gravelly, vocal fry quality in a way that adds so much texture and depth
tomorrow...AND...tomorrow...AND...tomorrow...You can hear the profound resignation in this delivery. Stewart's emphasis of the word "and" rather than "tomorrow" gives it a nihilistic feeling that life just drags ever on. And we think we're important. We're not.
He says that he learned this from Ian McKellen. When McKellen (who had been very successful in the role himself) learned that Stewart was playing Macbeth, he called him and said the only advice he could give is that in this line the most important word is ‘and’.
brilliant and moving Many people think that this point in the play marks the passage of MacBeth to definitive madness. On the contrary I think that this is the unique moment when he is perfectly AWARE of what is going on and conpletely SANE.
This is the point where he realizes everything he's done is all for naught. I also think this is the best version of this scene so far. Stewart comes across as more of a film actor than a stage actor in terms of his cadence and facial expressions. That grimace and catch in his voice when saying "tomorrow", and the weariness piling on after that, ending with that chilling "nothing" - amazing stuff.
There is no doubt the nihilism is the exact opposite of Shakespeare's worldview per se. 'Signifying nothing...' But of course Shakespeare is full of the idea of life and the world as universal symbol and full of profound meaning. He plumbs the depths here but this is definitely a man gone mad, at least in Shakespeare's view. Shakespeare is ultimately a merry traditional English Christian. He puts speeches like this into the mouths of his tragic heroes when they are on the point of oblivion to be pitied rather than admired. After all most of his plays were comedies. He is essentially the most cheerful and least nihilistic great writer of all.
To me it's more "seamless" - also, I like his rythm, pacing and "melody" more than this one. To me, McKellen plays with the words, letters, phrases and sentences better and more consciously.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Thank you for posting the words. My oldest sister had to recite this in school and asked me to help her with it. It’s been over 30 years and I still remember those precious words.🤗
Ian's rythm and delivery is theatrical, Patrick's is more cinematic. one was on a stage, the other in front of camera. Both perfect . Shakespeare can be proud
Did this speech on stage once. In rehearsal, said 'fruts and strets his hour'. Thereafter suffered with split second anxiety every time I got to the line! Happy days.
I read this out at my grandads funeral as he was a lover of literature and often recited Lady Macbeth to me. Thank you for this wonderful speech which is brief but effective
@@kotetsu131 it was a nice way to say goodbye because he used to recite Macbeth to me and he did like literature. He was suffering with dementia and it ruined him. I wanted to recite it because I love Shakespeare and Macbeth
Possibly the greatest lines ever written. I love the metaphor of life with a candle flame, especially due to its implications with how our life plays out in light/color consciousness, and saying that yesterday was an experience of "light." But perhaps I am reading my own interpretations into it. Shakespeare was a very awake man.
Sir Ian McKellen's "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" has always been, in my mind, the end all and be all. How refreshingly rare to find another, just as haunting, just as beautiful, and with a power of delivery singular to Sir Patrick Stewart.
The soldier at the beginning says the queen is dead in such a scathing voice because most people still on Macbeth's side were there on coercion, and inwardly were truly for Malcolm and the mix of Scottish and English forces to put down his reign. Macbeth knew this, but obviously he kept them because he still needed muscle. So it's a pretty perfect delivery to show the open defiance his troops had for him. Lady Macbeth dying is only a grievous event to Macbeth and that is it. Shakespeare himself did not philosophically agree with this speech (I won't get into his personal beliefs). The point of the speech is this is how Macbeth feels at the time, not a general philosophy that Shakespeare is ascribing to the entire world and all its people. But it is also Shakespeare having a dig at himself and stagecraft, and literature in general, in whatever form -- all literature, performed or not, is not real life, and is what Macbeth's words are conveying. A subtle way for The Bard to say as genius as fiction can get, don't mistake the forest for the trees, with the forest being the reality of you, your life, and the world around you. Hence so many stage metaphors in this speech. The fatalism expressed here is what one would expect from someone who thought everything was pointless unless they could change fate according to their own desires, like Macbeth tried throughout. That's long enough for a YT comment, yet I see so often people say that this speech was Shakespeare's ultimate "view of the world" yet it could not be further from the biographical truth.
These are interesting interpretations, but we can't ever say what anyone other than ourselves thought or believed - only what they wrote or said. With Shakespeare we only have what he wrote to go on, so if you're quoting his view on the world from something biographical, I'd be interested to know where you found it, because he's a bit of a mystery in terms of things he actually said and did outside of his (... maybe his?) plays and poems besides the details on the records of births, marriages and deaths.
Lmao…are you that actor or something? That’s an absolutely insane amount of mental gymnastics in service of a shit line reading. It could have been done in any number of other ways that would have gotten the point across in a far more subtle and effective way. The guy had a bit line, wanted to make the most of it, apparently. And boy did he.
I love the humanity in his delivery- this is my favorite although McKellen's and Fassbender's are excellent too. I like that Stewart connects with a kindness inside the madness for this speech. It makes the final "nothing" hurt a little more.
Kevin Frodahl "There is nothing after death and death itself is nothing" - Seneca. That's why death is so tragic. Why there can never be love without pain. There's no going back and there's no coming back. To realize how precious your fading time is and still not be able to have the things you want. At least death is an escape from consciousness and the sorrow and horror of it all. If I try to hang my hat on an afterlife, it will fall to the ground like a man without a pulse.
You say that. But imagine him playing pretty much anything ever. He is just that good. An actor who has clearly transcended the ages. An actor who can play any role on stage, and nail any role in television or film. Sir Patrick Stewart is a once in a lifetime actor. For those who havent seen him in films such as the green room or safehouse I cant stress enough that you should watch them.
Shakespeare is the mark of an actor. So easy to overdo (see 'the other guy' at the start) , but if you can accept the performance of an actor, he/she/they is/are fit for anything.
just don't get in the way of the text. Its like sondheim. Don't think you need to add anything to the brilliance of the words. Just say them and live in that moment and it will play honestly. No one is "better" than shakespeare. Don't try and add your "thoughts" on it. Just do it
My favourite. Besides the breathtaking performances, the claustrophobic sets and intensity of the vision of this film make it the quintessential MacBeth in my mind.
Sir Patrick uses the tiny word "and" to great effect here. It brings together all the yesterdays, which mean nothing now, and the tomorrows that are nothing now as well. I think this is so for many at the loss of a love one. Sir Patrick's use of the work "and" is brilliant here.
There is something in Stewarts' performance that surpasses every stage performance I have ever seen, he brings these lines to life in humanness, and his meter makes them current.
I had the honour of seeing this great actor plying his trade on the boards in London. He was, is, and always be an icon of British acting and stand as a benchmark for any budding actor to gaze upon, and know what is possible.
God, those words, hitting the nail on the coffin of life and tearing the meaning of it from my very soul. Still can't get over how real and depressing that is. "And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death." Thank you for posting that.
My God, what a gift to live a life while the likes of Olivier, Burton, Gielgud, Stewart, McKellen, Branagh, Redgrave, Klein, Jacobi, Dench, and Holm have walked the stage. (And yes, so many accomplished others to list, but even if it was *only* this group, it would still be a blessing.)
Weak? Actually, the line is given in the play to an underling who just reports the news as ordered. In this version, the reporter is also a combatant who has a distinct attitude in his delivery that goes beyond merely doing his job. I don't understand your use of the word "weak."
What is summarised is the brevity and absurdness of the human condition. Countless many have suffered its bitter fruits and can relate to this speech. But Shakespeare captured for all of us so perfectly, I shed a tear.
This is simply the greatest giving of the speech ever by a mile. See Ian Mckellen's and see the huge gulf in quality, the subtlety gained here is magnificient. It brought to life what to me was previously dead.
I learnt this short poem or piece of Macbeth script like 10yrs ago . stuck in my head since. I'm not literature freak or obsess with art. but I could remember every word of this even if I'm not thinking about it for ages. I even went to Stratford upon avon just because I felt something bout this poem.
OK @Vesivian, there are two types of people who try to educate themselves. Those who do it to make others feel bad and those who do it to make themselves and others feel good - get yourself in the latter group! It's fine to correct people if you do it tactfully. Please don't put people off art that's one of the worst things you can do imo.
An absolutely fantastic thespian. I could listen to Patrick Stewart for hours, Ian McKellen secondly, then Morgan Freeman.. awesome listenable voices and brilliant actors too
his delivery of the first tomorrows, the first to his wife, in hope, in mourning, in memory. then the realization that it never ends, there is no escape from this life, from the suffering
The key change down in the backing pad just before Sir Patrick utters that final, defeated *'nothing...'* was a great touch and really captured the emotion of the final moments.
By the end of the play, many people who were still on Macbeth's side were serving him with reluctance or worse: Malcolm: (...) Both more and less have given him the revolt, And none serve with him but constrained things Whose hearts are absent too. (Act IV, scene 5, i.e. the scene just before Lady Macbeth's death). In the Macbeth version with Patrick Stewart, they may have wanted to convey this by the callous delivery of the news of Lady Macbeth's death. Does that make sense?
In my English class I got to read as Macbeth as I am an “A* student.” According to my teacher. And I had to rehearse this speech. And it is by far my favourite part of the book.
I'm quite surprised that I prefer Sir Patrick's to Sir Ian's, but here we are. They both seem to be quite delightful people & I admire them both, for the record.
Patrick Stewart brings a very good performance of Macbeth. You feel his complexity, his sadness and everything he has to do to become the King before loosing everything he has fought for
I love how he delivers the lines, then looks at the camera, then away. As a long time literature student. I love that. But i havent seen this. Ill watch tonight
It was Sir Ian McKellen himself who told Sir Patrick that the most important word was not "tomorrow" but "and". And Sir Patrick of course took this instruction to heart.
Thank you, Sir Patrick! Words cannot begin to describe my feelings. I never had a chance to portray MR. M. as an actor.... But he was always in my heart. In re: "signifying nothing" Nope, Bill...what you wrote signifies everything. Our entire existence.... In a phrase...
"Creeps in this petty place from day to day" To me, a perfect encapsulation of everyday life how we all meander our way through our days inside our homes and our places of work like some tedious actors pacing up and down a stage steuggling to make meaning our of their empty petformance Life is a play with no story
My only critique is that I feel the ‘signifying’ should have been said as a distant thought, almost a growled whisper, leading the incredible ‘nothing’ he delivers rather than a ramp up to the ‘nothing’ - still, my favourite performance of this scene
I like this delivery of this monologue due to Patrick Stewart's emotions as well as the emptiness he exhibits at the end when listening I could hear and feel the pain he portrayed for Macbeth's reaction to Lady Macbeth's death while Ian McKellen's made me think of a cold and emotionless man as if all his atrocities broke him mentally and emotionally
Dracula Nova No actor owes you a great roll, just like no casting-director owes any actor any great roll. It has to do with luck and skill and what’s most important: what the actor actually wants for themselves. They’re not public property. Whatever the reason that drove one of the best actors of our generation to choose to play a walking turd is his business and not ours. No one is forcing you to watch “The emoji movie”.
Ooh, I love the subtle emphasis on "and" instead of "tomorrow." Brilliant. Hope and life and that is all "tomorrow" but really we live in the "and," the getting by, that's what really wears us down.
Scholars agree that the nihilism and seeming under reaction to his wife's death is in fact what gives the speech it's tragic power. My interpretation is that this response is the only one Macbeth can have and still manage to survive. His wife meant everything to him, his sun would rise and set on her- if she dies the only way that life would make sense is if nothing mattered at all, since she was the only thing that mattered to him- especially after his life takes a turn toward corruption.
Oh Mr. Patrick. This scene is perfection. I watch all the time. The words written during a time when women could only birth babies, sew, and cook. When women were just starting to b allowed on stage and most women parts played by men and all stage performers looked down upon. I get goosebumps every time I watch. U do w such ease and eloquence hearing guns popping off in background. That these words ring as true as the day they were written. We are fools and idiots and our time is fleeting. We No more wise than when Queen Elizabeth I ruled England even though we all think we so much smarter and better than those of the past. U to me are the epitomy of the best captain ever rather on a starship or a ship of old. I am hugging and kissing u now. Thank you for all u do. Please b captain of the Enterprise 1 more time. We need u. Love Kim. Engage!! 💖🤓⭐⭐⭐
I wonder if Shakespeare intended to form a link between Macbeth's "Out, out, brief candle" and Lady Macbeth's "Out, out, damned spot." Is Macbeth actually seeing an image of a candle, the way his wife saw an image of blood on her hand, or like the way he himself saw an image of a dagger as he was preparing to kill Duncan?
I love this version. Love the soviet aesthetic, love the weary take on Macbeth, but Nicol Williamson is by far and away my favourite actor to play the character. it'll take a lot of beating
I myself take particular pleasure in McKellen's soliloquy because it is dripping with sardonic humor. McKellen's MacBath is so bitter, but there is a piece of him who savors his bitter clarity of vision. His lip curls when he says "idiot", i.e., a tale told by an idiotic God. He savors his new proud liberty to be lucidly contemptuous. It resonates because it's so modern. Patrick Stewart's MacBeth is not bitter. He aches with sadness and loneliness and despair. Though the text includes the word "fool" and "idiot", he is speaking with sad compassion for human beings as they stumble forward, unaware that all their petty struggles amount to nothing in the end.
The amount of futility and resignation that he put into that last "nothing" was phenomenal
100% agree
Almost a growl. Superb
@@BillyCalhoon Patrick Stewart's rich, deep voice, especially with age, is perfect for that...he can really lean into that gravelly, vocal fry quality in a way that adds so much texture and depth
tomorrow...AND...tomorrow...AND...tomorrow...You can hear the profound resignation in this delivery. Stewart's emphasis of the word "and" rather than "tomorrow" gives it a nihilistic feeling that life just drags ever on. And we think we're important. We're not.
He says that he learned this from Ian McKellen. When McKellen (who had been very successful in the role himself) learned that Stewart was playing Macbeth, he called him and said the only advice he could give is that in this line the most important word is ‘and’.
After the bitter speech the sudden “hollowness” with which he delivers the “nothing” line is chilling. Fantastic acting.
100%. One of my favorite performances of Macbeth.
brilliant and moving
Many people think that this point in the play marks the passage of MacBeth to definitive madness.
On the contrary I think that this is the unique moment when he is perfectly AWARE of what is going on and conpletely SANE.
This is the point where he realizes everything he's done is all for naught. I also think this is the best version of this scene so far. Stewart comes across as more of a film actor than a stage actor in terms of his cadence and facial expressions. That grimace and catch in his voice when saying "tomorrow", and the weariness piling on after that, ending with that chilling "nothing" - amazing stuff.
There is no doubt the nihilism is the exact opposite of Shakespeare's worldview per se. 'Signifying nothing...' But of course Shakespeare is full of the idea of life and the world as universal symbol and full of profound meaning. He plumbs the depths here but this is definitely a man gone mad, at least in Shakespeare's view. Shakespeare is ultimately a merry traditional English Christian. He puts speeches like this into the mouths of his tragic heroes when they are on the point of oblivion to be pitied rather than admired. After all most of his plays were comedies. He is essentially the most cheerful and least nihilistic great writer of all.
What is awareness to some is madness to most...
(like the world is real to some and to some its a ghost)
@@jeromebosch4057Woah
@@ishmaelforester9825King Lear would disagree
I like Ian McKellen's delivery more, but Sir Patrick Stewart's "nothing" is one of the most powerful and nihilistic nothings I've ever heard...
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Why do you like Ian's better?
To me it's more "seamless" - also, I like his rythm, pacing and "melody" more than this one. To me, McKellen plays with the words, letters, phrases and sentences better and more consciously.
I actually prefer Sir Patrick's rendition - that moment after "It is a tale..." when you can SEE HIM PICKING HIS NEXT PHRASE, is absolute magic.
well, it's a different medium, IM was more a theatre delivery, while Sir Pat was more cinematic and naturalistic.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Who knew that ten lines could ever be so powerful as this!?
All of that took 2 minutes to say
Twatapottamus Rex Which only adds to the power
Thank you for posting the words. My oldest sister had to recite this in school and asked me to help her with it. It’s been over 30 years and I still remember those precious words.🤗
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Ian's rythm and delivery is theatrical, Patrick's is more cinematic. one was on a stage, the other in front of camera. Both perfect . Shakespeare can be proud
We all know Shakespeare loved the movies. 🤪
Behold when Patrick spoke the Gods froze.
Did this speech on stage once. In rehearsal, said 'fruts and strets his hour'. Thereafter suffered with split second anxiety every time I got to the line! Happy days.
I read this out at my grandads funeral as he was a lover of literature and often recited Lady Macbeth to me. Thank you for this wonderful speech which is brief but effective
Hopefully, everyone there knew Shakespeare too...
Damn dude that's dark.....I hope your grandfather would've appreciated it. That must've been a heavy funeral.
@@kotetsu131 it was a nice way to say goodbye because he used to recite Macbeth to me and he did like literature. He was suffering with dementia and it ruined him. I wanted to recite it because I love Shakespeare and Macbeth
truly, a grim choice
@@kotetsu131 Funerals should be heavy, heavy as hell, heavier than anything anyone could ever lift. Then lunch and affable reminiscing.
Possibly the greatest lines ever written. I love the metaphor of life with a candle flame, especially due to its implications with how our life plays out in light/color consciousness, and saying that yesterday was an experience of "light." But perhaps I am reading my own interpretations into it. Shakespeare was a very awake man.
No, I disagree. The greatest line was: “Bull-queers take by force. That’s all they want or understand.”
@@dightonazpeitia4350 no no no
He was very awake. I know what you mean. You can see it time and again in his work..
Sir Ian McKellen's "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" has always been, in my mind, the end all and be all. How refreshingly rare to find another, just as haunting, just as beautiful, and with a power of delivery singular to Sir Patrick Stewart.
The soldier at the beginning says the queen is dead in such a scathing voice because most people still on Macbeth's side were there on coercion, and inwardly were truly for Malcolm and the mix of Scottish and English forces to put down his reign. Macbeth knew this, but obviously he kept them because he still needed muscle.
So it's a pretty perfect delivery to show the open defiance his troops had for him. Lady Macbeth dying is only a grievous event to Macbeth and that is it.
Shakespeare himself did not philosophically agree with this speech (I won't get into his personal beliefs). The point of the speech is this is how Macbeth feels at the time, not a general philosophy that Shakespeare is ascribing to the entire world and all its people. But it is also Shakespeare having a dig at himself and stagecraft, and literature in general, in whatever form -- all literature, performed or not, is not real life, and is what Macbeth's words are conveying. A subtle way for The Bard to say as genius as fiction can get, don't mistake the forest for the trees, with the forest being the reality of you, your life, and the world around you. Hence so many stage metaphors in this speech.
The fatalism expressed here is what one would expect from someone who thought everything was pointless unless they could change fate according to their own desires, like Macbeth tried throughout.
That's long enough for a YT comment, yet I see so often people say that this speech was Shakespeare's ultimate "view of the world" yet it could not be further from the biographical truth.
Interesting, thanks.
Magnífico análisis. Gracias.
And yes, probably some of the best lines ever written.
These are interesting interpretations, but we can't ever say what anyone other than ourselves thought or believed - only what they wrote or said. With Shakespeare we only have what he wrote to go on, so if you're quoting his view on the world from something biographical, I'd be interested to know where you found it, because he's a bit of a mystery in terms of things he actually said and did outside of his (... maybe his?) plays and poems besides the details on the records of births, marriages and deaths.
Lmao…are you that actor or something? That’s an absolutely insane amount of mental gymnastics in service of a shit line reading. It could have been done in any number of other ways that would have gotten the point across in a far more subtle and effective way.
The guy had a bit line, wanted to make the most of it, apparently. And boy did he.
Daniel Gray:
Respect, yo!
Allegedly this is also exactly what he said when he first read the script for the emoji movie
I love the humanity in his delivery- this is my favorite although McKellen's and Fassbender's are excellent too. I like that Stewart connects with a kindness inside the madness for this speech. It makes the final "nothing" hurt a little more.
Behold the most depressing and nihilistic speech ever written.
I had to memorize this speech in high school...quite some time ago and I can still recite it
there are some more depressing.....
Behold the languid pace, the beauty of reality, and Shakespeare.
read Schopenhauer...
Kevin Frodahl "There is nothing after death and death itself is nothing" - Seneca. That's why death is so tragic. Why there can never be love without pain. There's no going back and there's no coming back. To realize how precious your fading time is and still not be able to have the things you want. At least death is an escape from consciousness and the sorrow and horror of it all. If I try to hang my hat on an afterlife, it will fall to the ground like a man without a pulse.
I think about this a lot. Hundreds of years later the bards words are still moving us.
Imagine Patrick Steward playing old snake in a metal gear solid movie
fergus dawson DUDE!! That would be incredible if he got the accent right.
Um.. let's not.
Ehhhh, Patrick Stewart is talented, but he does a shit American Accent (Although, he's probably just not interested or trained for it)
You say that. But imagine him playing pretty much anything ever. He is just that good. An actor who has clearly transcended the ages. An actor who can play any role on stage, and nail any role in television or film. Sir Patrick Stewart is a once in a lifetime actor. For those who havent seen him in films such as the green room or safehouse I cant stress enough that you should watch them.
He’d be a great Zero too
At the back of every Shakespearean play, no matter how tragic of comical, there is a skull smiling mirthlessly at us.
Interesting thought. Where do you think the skull is in Midsummer Night's Dream?
@@Elcore yeah Midsummer is pretty much death free.
Shakespeare is the mark of an actor. So easy to overdo (see 'the other guy' at the start) , but if you can accept the performance of an actor, he/she/they is/are fit for anything.
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just don't get in the way of the text. Its like sondheim. Don't think you need to add anything to the brilliance of the words. Just say them and live in that moment and it will play honestly. No one is "better" than shakespeare. Don't try and add your "thoughts" on it. Just do it
michael minarik Excellently said!
@@minarik01 I don't know, titus could have used a few more versions
One of my favorite lines from any of Shakespeare's plays, delivered by my favorite Shakespearian actor.
My favourite. Besides the breathtaking performances, the claustrophobic sets and intensity of the vision of this film make it the quintessential MacBeth in my mind.
I was lucky enough to get to watch this in my English class.
So was I!
Yessir
@@DGK774I don’t know why, but my class absolutely hated it.
I've never been so moved by 5 words as I was his "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow." Chills and tears.
Sir Patrick uses the tiny word "and" to great effect here. It brings together all the yesterdays, which mean nothing now, and the tomorrows that are nothing now as well. I think this is so for many at the loss of a love one. Sir Patrick's use of the work "and" is brilliant here.
that was on ian mckellan's advice. he said to Patrick, the most important word in that monologue is 'and'
@@nepntzerZer thanks for that!
@@nepntzerZer "I'm in a storm."
There is something in Stewarts' performance that surpasses every stage performance I have ever seen, he brings these lines to life in humanness, and his meter makes them current.
I had the honour of seeing this great actor plying his trade on the boards in London. He was, is, and always be an icon of British acting and stand as a benchmark for any budding actor to gaze upon, and know what is possible.
God, those words, hitting the nail on the coffin of life and tearing the meaning of it from my very soul. Still can't get over how real and depressing that is. "And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death." Thank you for posting that.
Alternate universe where Captain Picard goes mad with power and tries to take over Star Fleet.
Ha! Right!
He has the Mirror Universe facial hair so maybe...
He could probably do it as well
Simply the Picard of the mirror universe, the comic book series
Or this when Wesely annoys him too much and he needs to retreat to the holodeck and play out his tyrannical fantasies
My God, what a gift to live a life while the likes of Olivier, Burton, Gielgud, Stewart, McKellen, Branagh, Redgrave, Klein, Jacobi, Dench, and Holm have walked the stage.
(And yes, so many accomplished others to list, but even if it was *only* this group, it would still be a blessing.)
Dont forget Freeman and James Earl Jones :)
Ralph Fiennes is a great actor too in Shakespeare and, surprisingly, so is Gerard Butler.
Despite the first actor's very weak set up, this is the best most crushing version of this soliloquy I have seen.
Weak? Actually, the line is given in the play to an underling who just reports the news as ordered. In this version, the reporter is also a combatant who has a distinct attitude in his delivery that goes beyond merely doing his job. I don't understand your use of the word "weak."
That pause before the "nothing" was breathtaking
He brings understanding and emotion to every word. Don't miss the whole performance. Truly a gem.
What is summarised is the brevity and absurdness of the human condition. Countless many have suffered its bitter fruits and can relate to this speech.
But Shakespeare captured for all of us so perfectly, I shed a tear.
This is simply the greatest giving of the speech ever by a mile. See Ian Mckellen's and see the huge gulf in quality, the subtlety gained here is magnificient. It brought to life what to me was previously dead.
I learnt this short poem or piece of Macbeth script like 10yrs ago . stuck in my head since. I'm not literature freak or obsess with art. but I could remember every word of this even if I'm not thinking about it for ages. I even went to Stratford upon avon just because I felt something bout this poem.
It's a soliloquy
it's not a poem, go back to school.
no need to be rude and stating what obvious, he clearly state that he's unsure, and not that obsess with art
you need to learn english, go back to school
OK @Vesivian, there are two types of people who try to educate themselves. Those who do it to make others feel bad and those who do it to make themselves and others feel good - get yourself in the latter group! It's fine to correct people if you do it tactfully. Please don't put people off art that's one of the worst things you can do imo.
An absolutely fantastic thespian. I could listen to Patrick Stewart for hours, Ian McKellen secondly, then Morgan Freeman.. awesome listenable voices and brilliant actors too
Gordon Freeman > Morgan Freeman
He got it right -- the word to emphasize in "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" is "and".
his delivery of the first tomorrows, the first to his wife, in hope, in mourning, in memory. then the realization
that it never ends, there is no escape from this life, from the suffering
The key change down in the backing pad just before Sir Patrick utters that final, defeated *'nothing...'* was a great touch and really captured the emotion of the final moments.
I saw this live in Chichester ages ago, absolutely brilliant.
Those lines "the queen, my lord, is dead" were delivered incredibly poorly.
That was my exact thought.
By the end of the play, many people who were still on Macbeth's side were serving him with reluctance or worse:
Malcolm: (...)
Both more and less have given him the revolt,
And none serve with him but constrained things
Whose hearts are absent too.
(Act IV, scene 5, i.e. the scene just before Lady Macbeth's death).
In the Macbeth version with Patrick Stewart, they may have wanted to convey this by the callous delivery of the news of Lady Macbeth's death. Does that make sense?
Excellent observation. Agreed.
Yes, thanks for that.
Overacted too.
In my English class I got to read as Macbeth as I am an “A* student.” According to my teacher. And I had to rehearse this speech. And it is by far my favourite part of the book.
Am I allowed to say it? Genius ... both in the original writing, and Stewart's delivery of them.
I'm quite surprised that I prefer Sir Patrick's to Sir Ian's, but here we are.
They both seem to be quite delightful people & I admire them both, for the record.
Both Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart are phenomenal actors in my opinion. However, Patrick Stewart will have my vote as the better of the two.
i agree mr bananananananna
Patrick Stewart brings a very good performance of Macbeth. You feel his complexity, his sadness and everything he has to do to become the King before loosing everything he has fought for
best version I've seen.
Watch mckellen's
The best delivered line in this clip was "the queen, my lord...is dead!"...Brilliant performance
lol
The best Macbeth Soliloquy ever done IMO
That's because you haven't seen Ian McKellen's..
but i have
@@Vanirvis Nah this is way better.
I love how he delivers the lines, then looks at the camera, then away. As a long time literature student. I love that.
But i havent seen this. Ill watch tonight
It was Sir Ian McKellen himself who told Sir Patrick that the most important word was not "tomorrow" but "and". And Sir Patrick of course took this instruction to heart.
One of the best verses written in human history.
It's the moustache that I can't get over
Signifying nothing
Chiko was here He looks like G. Gordon Liddy with that stache.
Glad to finally see Patrick, go back to his roots.
Thank you, Sir Patrick!
Words cannot begin to describe my feelings.
I never had a chance to portray MR. M. as an actor....
But he was always in my heart. In re:
"signifying nothing"
Nope, Bill...what you wrote signifies everything.
Our entire existence.... In a phrase...
"Creeps in this petty place from day to day"
To me, a perfect encapsulation of everyday life how we all meander our way through our days inside our homes and our places of work like some tedious actors pacing up and down a stage steuggling to make meaning our of their empty petformance
Life is a play with no story
This man is a legend! Hands down, one of the best actors ever!!!
This gives me shivers! By far my favorite play of The Bard's and Stewart is superb.
chills down my spine
You, Mr. Stewart, are quite clearly made of 100% pure win!
There would have been a time for such a word, RIP the queen, we'll miss you
I don’t think I’ll ever be satisfied with any actors delivery of this pinpoint accurate summation of life
Magnificent
My only critique is that I feel the ‘signifying’ should have been said as a distant thought, almost a growled whisper, leading the incredible ‘nothing’ he delivers rather than a ramp up to the ‘nothing’ - still, my favourite performance of this scene
Absolutely terrific.
I like this delivery of this monologue due to Patrick Stewart's emotions as well as the emptiness he exhibits at the end when listening I could hear and feel the pain he portrayed for Macbeth's reaction to Lady Macbeth's death while Ian McKellen's made me think of a cold and emotionless man as if all his atrocities broke him mentally and emotionally
From this to... Poop in The Emoji Movie
Dracula Nova that shit Fucking hurts
It's such a painful thing to accept
Well kinda makes some sense bc Sir Patrick Steward is THE 💩 not A 💩
@@twoguyskissingpng and to expel...
Dracula Nova No actor owes you a great roll, just like no casting-director owes any actor any great roll. It has to do with luck and skill and what’s most important: what the actor actually wants for themselves. They’re not public property. Whatever the reason that drove one of the best actors of our generation to choose to play a walking turd is his business and not ours. No one is forcing you to watch “The emoji movie”.
Ooh, I love the subtle emphasis on "and" instead of "tomorrow." Brilliant.
Hope and life and that is all "tomorrow" but really we live in the "and," the getting by, that's what really wears us down.
God exists and he's all merciful!
Scholars agree that the nihilism and seeming under reaction to his wife's death is in fact what gives the speech it's tragic power. My interpretation is that this response is the only one Macbeth can have and still manage to survive. His wife meant everything to him, his sun would rise and set on her- if she dies the only way that life would make sense is if nothing mattered at all, since she was the only thing that mattered to him- especially after his life takes a turn toward corruption.
Wow, I didn't know Andy Parsons had such great acting chops!
Has to be my favorite version. Masterful stuff.
Oh Mr. Patrick. This scene is perfection. I watch all the time. The words written during a time when women could only birth babies, sew, and cook. When women were just starting to b allowed on stage and most women parts played by men and all stage performers looked down upon. I get goosebumps every time I watch. U do w such ease and eloquence hearing guns popping off in background. That these words ring as true as the day they were written. We are fools and idiots and our time is fleeting. We No more wise than when Queen Elizabeth I ruled England even though we all think we so much smarter and better than those of the past. U to me are the epitomy of the best captain ever rather on a starship or a ship of old. I am hugging and kissing u now. Thank you for all u do. Please b captain of the Enterprise 1 more time. We need u. Love Kim. Engage!! 💖🤓⭐⭐⭐
This genuinely scares the shit out of me, and I can’t stop coming back to it.
One of the few who really gets it!
Gielguid, Fassbender, McKellen.
All excellent.
But this one here.
This version.
Incredible.
Love this, I think it's genius, best Macbeth acting!
that's perfect. fluidity of emotions with the words. ian mckellen's delivery is quite theatrical and dense. doesn't flow with the words.
I can't believe I've missed this.
I love modern interpretations ...
Those lines "the queen, my lord, is dead" were delivered ... perfectly ...
This is the first time I got, that “a tale told by an idiot” is self-reference by Shakespeare: a teller of tales. He so sly
Sir Patrick Stewart's acting in this scene is amazing
I think his Ebenezer Scrooge and Captain Ahab are underrated.
Most wonderfully dismal part of my favorite Shakespeare delivered by a true King among men.
Brilliant.
My favourite part of any Shakespeare play. Patrick did it justice.
Wow!! That hurts the heart. What a reading, from a true thespian
Patrick Stewart could read the phone book and I'd be enthralled.
That 'nothing' is hauntingly powerful.
I wonder if Shakespeare intended to form a link between Macbeth's "Out, out, brief candle" and Lady Macbeth's "Out, out, damned spot." Is Macbeth actually seeing an image of a candle, the way his wife saw an image of blood on her hand, or like the way he himself saw an image of a dagger as he was preparing to kill Duncan?
I love this version. Love the soviet aesthetic, love the weary take on Macbeth, but Nicol Williamson is by far and away my favourite actor to play
the character. it'll take a lot of beating
Stunning. Fantastic.
his delivery is AMAZING. So natural.
Wow!! I recite these words to myself on my job at the 99 cent store.
Thank you! I will probably be looking this up cause it's wonderful! I love Patrick!
Such a wonderful production!
Those goosebumps go away after a few minutes
I myself take particular pleasure in McKellen's soliloquy because it is dripping with sardonic humor. McKellen's MacBath is so bitter, but there is a piece of him who savors his bitter clarity of vision. His lip curls when he says "idiot", i.e., a tale told by an idiotic God. He savors his new proud liberty to be lucidly contemptuous. It resonates because it's so modern.
Patrick Stewart's MacBeth is not bitter. He aches with sadness and loneliness and despair. Though the text includes the word "fool" and "idiot", he is speaking with sad compassion for human beings as they stumble forward, unaware that all their petty struggles amount to nothing in the end.
The way the dude told him the queen was dead sounded like he was way too happy about that fact.
Good Job Captain!
Superb!