The Thorn Birds (1983, ABC): "Oh GOD, how much!"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Evil old Mary Carson (Barbara Stanwyck) has lived enough. She's ready to die. But not before planning some delicious agony for Father Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain).
Stanwyck plays this beautifully, and the bit about seniors feeling trapped inside their old bodies, with all their desires still intact is bittersweet.
The crew was left speechless and in tears after this scene was filmed I’ve read.
Stanwyck at the top of her game. And NO ONE could ever top that. And here she's still gorgeous, even in old age.
Yep. Writer nailed it. But Barbara delivered it. She won an Emmy for this.
Even at 14 when I saw this for the first time I felt the wrenching truth of it. And now that I am 54, so much, so much.
I was the same age the first time i watched this but Mary carson frightened me.. I thought she was jealous and frustrated..and i knew a woman à bit like her ..Very possessive and jealous so i hated her character for some years during my adolescence..Now i undestand her and see why shes so angry but it took time . Lol😅 And she s worst in the book ..i m 52..
THIS, Ladies and Gentlemen is high quality acting. Miss Stanwyck set the bar [for acting] in this scene as well as throughout her long career.
AMEN, MARY CARSON! Inside our old, broken bodies, we are still YOUNG!!! We still have needs, desires and dreams, but, nobody cares.
Marc C. Amen
Because we are judged by how we look old winkled shells of what was ,
Getting old is cruel 😢
@@mayicos66 especially for women.
Its exactly how I feel on a daily basis. Go head Sis.
You can feel her pain while talking about old age, so real for many of us. No wonder she won an Emmy for this!!!
Absolutely brilliant performance!!!!! Her acting in this movie was amazing
Great actress and her voice was great too
This scene has stayed with me my whole life. The GREAT Barbara Stanwyck giving this incredible performance.
I was a teenager when it first aired and I have never forgotten this scene. I learned so much from it that I've been able to carry through my life. When I've felt weak, I've gone looking my inner Mary Carson.
I agree - it has stayed with me also. So much emotional truth here.
me too, guys, I am happy and surprised Im not the only one in this!!
I cried at this part because Barbara Stanwyck as the rich woman went beyond what is normal to obsession but it breaks my heart for how she felt all along and wished for this priest to love her as much as she wanted him. Very sad.
Great scene remember it well good series also....
Every woman "of a certain age" can absolutely relate. RIP, the GREAT Barbara Stanwyck. 🙏🏻🌹
i was 18 when this came out and I will never forget this scene. It broke my heart the pain she was feeling. 40 years later, her words resonate.
Same here, so true !!
At 57, does it ever. Especially with this manniquin perfect, artificial looking youth culture where everybody is botoxed and siliconed, then looks down on us old farts for being natural. I cant see 62 year old Madonna doing this scene.
Indeed, they do. :o(
Even more strongly with the passage of time..
Indeed.
Those little pauses of when she catches herself & then realizes she’s saying too much are GOLD! Huge range of emotions.
Rest In Peace, Barbara 🌹
Such a wonderful actress, who really knew how to give a great performance every time. This is such an impactful scene. You can feel her emotional turmoil/struggle!!!
👏👏👏BARBARA WAS MAGNIFICENT!!!👏👏👏 YES, R.I.P ❤❤❤
She was Amazing 💕
OH!! that "Mmmmm" after she caught herlself being to emotional...God, you can almost touch her pain.
You were a marvelous actress, and no one could match your fire and determination as an actress.
This scene had me crying! Her performance was top notch academy! So glad she received an Emmy for "The Thorn Birds." RIP we love you!
Barbara Stanwyck 'WOW! What a fiction novel! Whos the author?
Colleen McCullough is the author.
And it was awarded to her by Robert Wagner - they'd had a four-year affair in the early 50s when he was 22 and she was 45. th-cam.com/video/MGAVmOyBaQI/w-d-xo.html
Non finirò mai di dirvi ..,tutti e due bravi 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻riposa in pace Barbara …e grazie …di ciò che ci hai lasciato !!!!!!!!
'Let me tell you something about old age'... such a powerful, cut-to-the bone performance
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Amen
Absolutely right to the bone. Could not have delivered those lines any better. Barbara Stanwyck an excellent actress. One we should all be proud of.
"I have chosen to destroy you priest" 😅😅😅 so many emotions in 2:31 min...mixture of love, anger, hate, dissapoitment. She was speaking with her eyes. Bravo Barbara, you were unique and special here!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Jeez...what an actress...and Chamberlain is indeed the most beautiful man...
"NO! Kiss me on MY MOUTH as if we were lovers!!" Barbara can never NOT deliver a line. Boy, Stany cranked it up in The Thorn Birds like it was still the 30s/40s with the emotion, the dramatics, the everything!! She aged like few ever will....that white hair and that unchanged lithe body.
This was the part that in my opinion got her The Emmy.
I saw this as a small child. Watching it as a 40 year old man, my heart breaks for this poor woman.
But MY GOD….what an amazing actress!!!!
Quando ho visto la serie ero piccola piccola e non avevo capito molto il senso di quelle parole. Oggi, dopo 40 anni, lo percepisco in tutta la sua tristezza e ineluttabilità. Interpretazione magistrale. 💖🇮🇹
I will always love Barbara Stanwyck, outstanding brilliant actress!!! She is truly missed!!!!
She was the creme de la creme. My favorite actress
(: Me Too ... ☺
(: Yes ... She was a really Great Actress ... She was :One of the Best"!!!!! ... 🏆😚
I almost wish that I'd never watched this today. I felt everything she was saying,even though I was never rejected for my age. I've been rejected by people I was in love with and that gnawing gut wrenching feeling it comes with.
I know what you mean 😢
Me too because im wheelchaired. But im just sad not bitter.
We are here for you those of us rejected folks
I am 60 years old and it's always the woman that are being judged about there age, and there looks.
It brings tears to my eyes when I see this part of the serie. The truth was spoken from Barabara how actually the Society looks at us being a wonen when we age.
But on the other hand, woman in generally live much longer then men, and that is our benefit.
@@sangoud8583 you are right they look through us using patronizing speech but we are women who have a lot still to offer
This may be the finest scene i've witnessed on broadcast TV. I was slobberknocked by it in '83 and now it has me in tears.
Gad!
This and Anthony Hopkins’s performance in Westworld are the finest television performances I’ve seen….absolute transcendence.
What an amazing performance, by her, and by all the cast, in this beautiful and charming movie !!!..loved every minute of this !!
One of the absolute best monolouges in written history! Amazing
And one of the best acted, they couldn't have casted a better actress for mary carson
@@EternalPayne absolutely 100%
I was 16 when I saw this series and scene on TV. I've always remembered it, and that line about old age. I'm sure I felt pity for the "old woman" back then...
Now I'm 56 and I know EXACTLY what she's talking about!
Bette Davis. Katherine Hepburn. And Barbara Stanwyck.
The holy trinity of Hollywood legends.
Some want to also include Joan Crawford. She was great, but not as good as the top three!
Vivien Leigh should be there instead of Hepburn.
"....inside this stupid body, I am still young! I still feel! I still want! I still dream!..."
Chokes me up every time I watch it. I can't help but wonder, did the person, Barbara Stanwyck, feel that way about her own life. A thin parallel line between the character of Mary, and the aging actress herself.
Yes
It's called "acting".
I think everyone feels that way as they age....so probably...
I agree. Acting at is best is when you reach deep into your soul, so I think she must have really connected with these lines.
Mary très bonne actrice et belle comme femme
I cry every time I watch this scene...Miss Stanwyck is superb
La vecchiaia …che suscita ancora emozioni e pensieri …ma la bellezza e la giovinezza di Ralph ..non possono cedere a quei desideri …nemmeno con la prospettiva del denaro
Yes she is a great actress.
This scene is all I remember from the series; it left an inedible impression on me, even being a teenager at the time. Barbara Stanwyck showed total class, what a woman, strong and beautiful until her last day, bless her!
One of her best scenes. She was an exceptional actress.
Barbara Stanwyck was a queen. This scene alone makes me want to go watch The Thorn Birds
Yes totally agree! She was great.
Barbara Stanwyck così intensa come non l'ho mai vista in altri film !
This has to be the most powerful moment in acting history... Barbera gives all she has and I, even as a man felt every word she spoke and I felt it deep in my soul. She made me feel all of it, her words came from the heart even though she was acting a part, it was Babara that was speaking and I heard her and I felt her emotions. Barbera was brilliant and no one else could have done this with such real emotion. And kudos to Richard Chamberlain who was the recipient of her feelings and he played the part very well.
"This has to be the most powerful moment in acting history... "
It was a nice moment, but nowhere near what you wrote, which was quite over the top from reality.
@MrMark -
Your opinion is EXACTLY the same as mine,
Odd, at first in the mini-series, I just thought Mary Carson was toying with Father Ralph. Like a cat with a mouse.
I thought she just loved dangling his lowly priesthood and buying him a place at the Vatican just because she was a vicious woman.
It was THIS SCENE that made me realize she LOVED HIM! At her age, to think she could sway him with money or Vatican power was rather pathetic.
But to KNOW she loved him took the story to a different level. I N ever saw her true feelings would be her love for him, and it not being returned ……
Wow, just WOW, breathtakingly beautiful, I'll never forget this scene xx
I first saw this film in 1985, over 30 years later life happens and this scene resonates. Loving a man twenty years younger than me.❤
At the age of 62, I fell in love with a woman twenty years younger than me. It was a love doomed from the start, and how ironic that I too am left to feel "old" (too old for her), yet this body, this mind, these feelings still feel so young, so vibrant, so alive. It happens to men too - rejection, made to feel old.
No wonder she won a Emmy! What a powerful piece of acting!
Barbara played the hell out of this scene right here . " I have always loved you so much so that I would've killed you for not wanting me 🙆🏾♀️ Richard was left speechless , that woman ate that scene and left no crumbs no where to be found.
Risposta a Debra Cox..un commento …che merita davvero ..,L applauso ..,due grandi attori …a confronto …che scena superba !!
Lui bello …stupefacente …e lei ancora Bella …e mille volte brava !!!’
Well... Back then people were MAGNIFICENT. There was no " eatin" and no lame " assignment" comments either. Those expressions are good for what is on T. V. these days. People were simply that great. A level of legendary that people can't even describe properly.
Powerful an still brings tears to my eyes.
When I first saw this I was 21 and I’ll be honest, I really didn’t understand a lot of what she was saying, it was Brand New Information to me. That inside her body she’s still young and still loves the way she always did, and all that. I was used to my grandma who had severe depression and all kinds of things wrong with her, and who never admitted to any emotions except annoyance and boredom. I guess I thought most people get to X Age and everything kinda shuts down? But this monologue and performance certainly convinced me otherwise!
God that was heavy and so sad at the same time. She symbolizes the fact that although you can have everything Materialistically it doesn't mean anything because you are so poor emotionally. Onassis, Elvis, Michael Jackson can attest to that fact.
"When Satan tempted Christ with the whole world, is
it because he hated Him or because he loved Him?"
*Stellar line delivered with such passion!*
Satan wants to be like God and he deceives the world in promising "good" things and all he wants is your soul which belongs to God and Him alone.... My friend the devil is a deceiver, destroyer, and thief.... Please do not let he deceive you, you are to special for God..... 👍🙌
Indeed.....Such an iconic display of passionate acting-Whoa!!!!! 😱👍👍👍❗️❗️
Rina Strydom god exists?
It is indeed a stellar line, but the scriptwriters can't take credit for it - it's taken word for word from the novel. She finishes with "Do you doubt that Satan loved Christ? I do not."
Because Satan hated Jesus Christ
Barbara Stanwyck was fantastic in this role! I loved this series and the books!
The spiritual meaning in her dialogue is PROFOUND! I recall the last time I saw this, especially-and FEELing the TRUTH to her words, she portrayed this character to the utmost of realistic, so much so, that the meaning comes thru deeply when U have the awareness to really feel & see the truth of the words...
👏👏👏VERY WELL WRITTEN AND AMAZING PERFORMANCE!! 👏👏👏
Man, I hope she was awarded with an Emmy for that incredible performance.
She won an Emmy Award. Great actress.
Magnificent as always!
RIP Barbara Stanswyk.You played that part. She was just good in this movie period.Father Ralph(RC) was a good match for her also.
She did not play the part, she lived it! Always remember that when you get old your thoughts and needs are the same.
Stanwyck created such a powerful scene here. It’s gut wrenching because she makes you feel and u sweat and the heartache and frustration she is feeling.
Barbara Stanwyck is so convincing in her role. I could even see and feel the malevolence in her facial expression and the evil reflecting in her eyes! It scares me!
In the minute 2:11, if you look closely, you see her shed a tear...
Yes. Lol she terrified me as à teenager. I was 13 when i watched this séries first and remember being afraid of Her jealousy ans possessivity. Evil woman lol ☺️ scary as hell!!
Her malevolence and brokenness..
She's not the evil one, the priest is. Because he pretends to be something he's not. She's honest about it. He's a snake in the grass. She's just the snake
@@robluck21 As you said, "She's honest about it", she's honest about being evil as this old hag desperately lusted & was futilely chasing after the priest and was green with envy of a pre-teen innocent girl! She gives me the creeps! Yikes!
Barbara blew the roof off the place with this performance. She deserved every award she got and then some. The viciousness, desperation and malevolence oozed out of her. Her Mary Carson was truly evil.
You forget the pain, the vulnerability, the unrequited love, the humiliation. She is a tragic character!
Mary Carson was a woman who wanted for nothing except peace and perhaps, true love...the two things that cannot be bought, the two things that gives the rest of life meaning and joy. She was broken, so were Meggie and Ralph. The story is about the broken, struggling for redemption.
@@princevesperal Truly, it is tragic to deeply desire something that can never be. To want someone who does not want us. She had an iron will, and behaved just a person of privilege would when denied something they felt entitled to.
BARBARA STANWYCK grandissimo attrice
A portion of this scene has been circulating as a funny meme lately, and it made me come back and revisit this clip. Like others here, I saw it as a kid when I first aired, and even then I could appreciate what she was saying... it seemed like a deeply honest performance that was as much about Stanwyck as her character. (Lauren Bacall had some similar moments in "The Mirror Has Two Faces" where you got a sense that she wasn't just reciting lines, but living them.) Now as the decades have ticked by, and having had to accept all that falls away and is lost with age, this scene packs even more of a punch. It's a shame there weren't more roles available for Stanwyck at this late stage of her career and that her output by that point was minimal... she still clearly had a lot to offer (in this miniseries, she's actually around the same age as Meryl Streep now is, FWIW).
In my opinion, this is one of the two best scenes in cinematic history based on all the films I've seen, which are many. Stanwyck was one of the best actors ever, and she kills it here. The other is Jack Nicholson on the stand as Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men. I pull up both these scenes on TH-cam now and then and am riveted every single time I watch them.
"You can't handle the truth".........awesome.
also Mickey Rourke in The Pledge. less than 3 minutes and a masterclass in screen acting
Let's face it, there are more than "two" greatest scenes but I agree that this one and Nicholson's Jessup are WAY up there. Here's another one from the great Montgomery Clift in Judgment at Nuremberg. Titanic acting. th-cam.com/video/vQltcMFirsc/w-d-xo.html
Let's not forget Al Pacino's unbelievable "I'll Show You Out of Order." speech in the movie Scent of a Woman. He was incredible as blind Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade.
omg he is one of the most handsome man ever ...
I agree him and Robert Redford
And so gay too
Barbara was a phenomenal actress.
I was watching this yesterday never stop enjoying it.❤
@shirleyhair2261 ...Me2 !! I even have the DVD set but went to visit my Mom and we watched THE THORN BIRDS about a month ago from Amazon Prime we had to pay 1st episode $2.99, then $1.99, then $2.99 last two episodes. Greatest Forbidden mini-series love story, this part playing with Father Ralph and Barbara Stanwyck Phenomenal acting at its best, this scene TORE ME UP !! Fantastic writers and author. I'll never get tired of watching THE THORN BIRDS, as many FANS can attest to this heart breaking 💔 Forbidden Love that we can relate to.
True definition of a great script being carried on screen by an amazing actress making this scene poignant and genuine. Wow
Barbara Stanwyck was an amazing actress,,,she made that movie so great.
Barbara Stanwyck turned heads in seven decades…
Mary carson meggie and ralph excelent artists .thank you
Barbara Stanwyck is, without a doubt, one our our greatest actors.
The most memorable lines in thornbirds
Behold the greatest actress to ever live.Her body of work a testimony.
Barbara une Magnifique interprète, que nous a quitté trop tôt.RIP.
Amazing and powerfull scene. Great Barbara Stanwyck
+Achtung Baby This shows why she won the Emmy for it. Brilliant. Just brilliant.
How important are great actors and actress, as R. Chamberlain and B.Stanwick, isn't it? When I read this passage in the book I could never imagine this scene as they show me with their performances , wow!
Achtung Baby Same here. So powerful.
You know what made this Miniseries so amazing. That everyone practices Hypocrisy. Father Ralph insists that he doesn't want Drogheda but he doesn't mind taking her Thirteen Million Dollar Fortune to move up in the hierarchy of the church. Meggie insists as a child that she would never play favorites with her children, that she would raise them equally but she gives all of her attention to Dane but ignores Justine. Then Mary acts like she's being a "Saint" by bringing her Brother's Family to Australia but she reminds them that they are nothing but Hired Help.
when Meggie said that, she didn't know she would be having Ralph's child. And Drogheda wasn't Ralph's to own, it was given to the RC and he was only conservator.
Yes, there are always excuses to take the responsibility to "them".
Sounds like a soap opera.
@@watchgoose Oh okay. My Bad! I just felt that since he kept going over and "insisting" to Mary he didn't want it but deep down he did.
La sua bellezza …la sua giovinezza ..non potevano essere toccate ..da una persona anziana …non è vero che con i soldi si può comprare tutto !!
Powerful scene with the amazing Miss Barbara Stanwyck.
Easily the best scene in the series. Emmy worthy for sure.
Damn, that was good 🙂 The lady was top-notch.
Grandma was 31, Grandpa was 18 when they married. In 1927
Yes, we still feel, we still love and nobody cares 😢
Get a better group of friends! They care, believe me. I’ve had one husband (that I’ve outlived 😔) and I may have another for the rest of my life, as he is the love of my life 💘 (no shade to the first one of my youth). My great aunt had FIVE husbands (she liked variety). In all in how you live it. Don’t give up, there’s hope for you yet! ☀️😉
@@yvettemarshallTWN Thank you for those words. The problem is that I don’t have any friends. I don’t go out. I’m 55 and I feel like I’m too old for that. I had a marriage once, but he was extremely abusive, I ran out of there after 7 years, I said no more, and I promised myself that no one will ever abuse me again. But I like your comment. Thank you 🙏
wow she;''s a woman of the ages. what an actress and a powerful performance that compares with the likes of bette davis and joan crawford. rest in peace barbara. you've earned it.
A master class in acting from the one and only Ms. Stanwyck.
the is the greatest piece you must watch before you die.
Barbara Stanwyck:The epitome of excellence!
God, she was magnificent.
J'aimerais tellement que lon redifuse cette serie trop top les oiseaux ce cachent pour mourir ❤
Thank you for uploading this scene from "The Thorn Birds" wonderful and moving to see how much she cares but sad to see he has no feelings for her except his ambition. Too bad he finds out too late when he is old what matters the most. At least Maggie was constant in her feelings for him. However, sad to realized even he would not make the right decision because his thoughts were selfish ones.
Barbara Stanwyck ever the glorious actress.. heart and soul into her role ❤️.. she is to be pitied in this segment as she really is mourning her loss of youth and love... Bravo Barbara Stanwyck 👏 👍 👌 🙌 ❤️
Great acting.
This was the scene that got her an Emmy Award. Fantastic actress. A legend.
I cannot fathom any other actress performing this scene as powerfully as Barbara Stanwyck.
Was that shock on his face at her revelation or amazement at her stellar performance?
I really can’t tell and the fact that we’re wondering this is a true testimony to his acting abilities as well.
2 gianits of cinema history acting of the highest command bravo bravo
She had the entire crew in tears as this scene was filmed.
My mum loved Ralph ..was a lovely story she wanted lol ..sadly I lost her Nov 2010 and I still watch for the best memories with my mum xxx
I love Barbara Stanwyck, she's my favorite actor 😘❤❤❤🌹👍✨😉😊😃💯✔
Barbara Stanwyck 1907/90 R.I.P
Barbara Stanwyck still got the acting gooooods here!
Epic series
Stanwyick was definitely on top of her game😊❤❤❤. What an actress
You just got a Superb Top Notch Cream of the Crop Acting Lesson from a Superb Actress. Mrs. B. Stanwick. Exquisite.
Gran actuación de esta actriz, impactante. Todo tiene su tiempo. Debe ser muy doloroso enamorarse así de un hombre joven; solo queda dolor y decepción.
She is not EVIL. She is a person who use to love wrong men...
👏👏👏👏👏ALWAYS SUCH A POWERFUL SCENE!!👏👏👏👏
BARBARA STANWYCK ACTED HER BUTT OFF IN THIS SCENE! Wow. But I must wonder if this was just acting chops or a REAL experience?!! RIP Barbara Stanwyck.
I recall this scene so clearly. It was the first time television had moved me so completely. I don't think (as the poster of this video avers) that she's "Evil old" Mary. I think she speaks the truth.
Sadly that's usually evil. Barbara Stanwyck was a great actress!
With any worthy actor, you pick an experience or understanding and apply it. This was written with truth that had never been written for a woman before. Add a phenom actress and you have a very powerful, heartbreaking scene.
Real, very real
Old age dose cut one off of the life one is used to, im 56 now and i know everything Barbara is saying, but i dont blame GOD i blame Adam and Eve for old age they disobeyed thats why we die, old age is death before we get six feet under .
Babs never lost the right stuff
He was my teen crush. Thank goodness it was many years later that I learned he was gay, though not entirely convinced.
WOW !!!
Barbara stanwyck great actress even in this film,who ever wrote this script 👌💙,what she says , inside this old stupid body I'm still young ,I still feel ,I still want ,I still dream ,and I can still love,never a truer word,as they say loves a 4 letter word,we may age but our mind still is young and our heart still beats and feels love like being young again,in the time this film was made it was to alot of religious orders a discrace,but to me I found it beautiful and the music to,10/10 for this 🎥,💙👌🌈👍
Risposta a im so cute
Le scene …le frasi ..,di quella meravigliosa fiction …resteranno negli anni immutati …per il pathos …per L impatto emotivo …che gli attori ..trasmettono allo spettatore ..lasciamo stare ..L ipocrisia degli ordini religiosi saluti ❤️👋👋👋
I was going to asked did she get an Emmy for that performance. That was one of her last roles! They don't make them like Barbara anymore.
Yes she did!