@@jimaiello750 so im pretty sure it's "let slip the hogs of war", and I've always inferred that it meant to be alert and that he permitted looting and pillaging,
I think his point is that many people don’t know Shakespeare... I remember once on TH-cam some boob made the statement that Apocalypse Now made Wagner famous (Ride of the Valkyries scene) and someone wrote back “are you kidding me? There is a general disconnection from the past for people today... I think that’s what leftcoaster67 was referring to.
Illl be honest. I don’t know how I got here. I’m drunk . A little stoned sall right. But holy shit I was so damn enthralled with taht actor and his speech. This is one of the greatest pieces of acting I’ve ever seen. Metal dude 🤘🏻🤘🏻
@@Skyscraper44able "His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep more than did laugh at it." "Yeah, well, that just your... opinion, man."
I have learned that taking Shakespeare word-by-word is very hard: The language has changed in 500 years. So, don't try: You listen to the Poetry instead and the meaning still comes thru'. of course, you could always try it in the original Klingon... :-D
Wait a second I didn't notice the horse rearing up.... Well like it reared up at the end of the clip but there was an explosion several seconds before it.
I AM I watched the Lawrence clip and to me, his delivery of the speech came off sounding like a local radio advertisement for the opening of a new pharmacy.
I AM: I saw the Laurence Olivier version firstly, when I was studying the play at school and secondly, when I re-watched it to compare it to this version. Please note that this is just my opinion. Branagh's version has much more energy, and I find he always makes Shakespeare completely comprehensible. He seems to speak it and doesn't treat it as if it was sacrosanct. Additionally, Branagh has the demeanour and energy of a youthful king. The rest of the cast doesn't hurt - Derek Jacobi is brilliant as the chorus (plus the staging of the chorus's role is a masterstroke), Brian Blessed is powerful and intimidating as the Duke of whatever he was, and the rest of the cast equally good (except, I always found Emma Thompson's Princess Katharine a bit twee). L. Olivier, I always felt, had a stagey approach to Shakespeare, and whilst he had a beautiful voice, I am always conscious of him declaiming his lines.
No! 'Do you expect of me a speech? There is only one that I can give, and it is the same one I'd give if we were to meet in the street by chance...'. Etc. Here's my opinion: The speech in The King is excellent. So is the main battle scene. Shakespeare is likely the most gifted and greatest poet/playwright/writer in all of human history - certainly amongst the best of the best in each category. And I enjoyed this rendition. But before a REAL battle when all odds are against you, which speech is more appropriate? Which is more realistic? Which would actually rally the troops around you effectively? Shakespeare's poetry, or the raw, clear, brief and REAL emotion displayed in The King? By far, that in The King. Shakespeare's might even be counterproductive in the moment, even if stirring later. Both are great in different ways. But if you're going for realism, it's The King!
@@Holly5.0 just so. The original speech is good but far too long winded and complicated for a battle speech. It's impressive and stirring but does not connect
He is refering to a later speech in the ffilm/movie not an insult th-cam.com/video/A-yZNMWFqvM/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=technicalmark watch this my fair cousin, Gods will my liege would you and I alone without more help could fight this royal battle. GB/US brothers forever
@@Setebos suspect they didn't so much bring him meals to eat but open the door just long enough to throw in some raw meat then slammed it shut and legged it
The Game's afoot: Follow your Spirit; and upon this Charge, Cry, God for Harry, England, and Saint George MAN that makes me grow additional balls everywhere
Fuck you. It's not being a patriot that's villified, it's the Trumpers thinking they have a monopoly on it. And now your cult leader is a convicted felon, you snowflake.
I'm never letting any of my classmates read this play out loud. They can't read in anything that isn't slow and monotone. Also, they have trouble with the words. THE PLAY IS MEANT TO BE READ WITH PASSION! YOUR VOICE MUST CONVEY ALL OF WHAT KENNETH BRANAGH'S DOES. I'm kidding, my standards are high but they're not that high
People get Shakespeare wrong - "It's stuffy. I don't understand it. Blah blah blah." Branagh's version got it right: HENRY V WAS THE WORLD'S FIRST SUMMER ACTION BLOCKBUSTER. IT WAS A POPCORN FLICK ABOUT BRITISH HISTORY.
@@howardsmith9342 Yeah, I get it -- lots of his speeches are stuffed with common phrases like "It's all Greek to me" or "Let's kill all the lawyers" or that "unto the breach crap" that sooooo many others have said over the past 400 years. Here's the thing, though: He *invented* a lot of those cliches. They weren't cliches when he used them. Everybody else heard his lines and said HOLY SHIT I'M STEALING THAT!
I love that this movie removes certain repetitive lines, people speak this way. I usually would say do it how Shakespeare wrote it but this and the agincourt spearheaded removes the right lines to perfectly capture the ideas but keep it realistic
Thru the magic of 23 and me I discovered that there was a Welshman in the woodpile somewhere. This allows me imagine that I had a ancestor with King Harry on Saint Crispan.I am pretty good with a Longbow!
Not hard to imagine at all. The battle is flagging, the troops are considering fleeing, what are you going to do? INSPIRE THEM!! "Please" won't do it. Also remember that this battle came in an era that was not today, when soldiers were motivated differently than soldiers today. You miss the point if you measure by what contemporary short-attention-span might want. It is like criticizing Lord of the Rings for not being real. It is real if you do but let it be.
Breathtaking character... Amazing scene! I’m not British though i can attest that every child in the world knows about its might... can anyone, please, share some more historical movies about the British empire? (Older that 1997)
Bridge on the river kwai Too late the hero Zulu Zulu dawn Aces high/ battle of Britain/ angels 15 Charge of the light brigade Sharpe series of films Hornblower series of films Will give a good spread of the juxtaposition between the "soldier" the "officer" and the "orders" or "mission" As a rule we don't have heros in film, so often portray the strengths that flaws can be... The common soldier is shown as a base creature. In the army because he has no choice with simple desires yet fighting like a lion... Not for nation or glory but simple survival (as the characters in Henry v show) The officers are aloof, educated, privaliged, detached yet honour is their aim. They serve for honour of not failing in their given tasks. "Sharpe" is good for showing that, he was an ex soldier promoted officer in a time when you needed to be a "gentleman". Sharpe is like Shakespeare in that it's made small scale but your imagination needs to be the vast armies. "Work, work your thoughts... And in them see a siege..." Too many people want big budget with no substance!
Britain as a country didn't exist until about 300 years after this took place, give or take. For the British Empire in particular, look into Hornblower and Sharpe.
Chorus: Work, work, your thoughts, and therein see a siege. Behold the ordinances on their carriages with fatal mouths, gaping on girded Harfleur. Suppose th’ Ambassador from the French comes back, tells Harry that the king doth offer him Katherine his daughter and with her, to dowry, some petty and unprofitable dukedoms. The offer likes not, and the nimble gunner with linstock now the devilish cannon touches, and down goes all before them. Henry: Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more. Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility, but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger: stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage, then lend the eye a terrible aspect, let it pry through the portage of the head like the brass cannon, let the brow o’erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a gallèd rock o’erhang and jutty his confounded base, swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English! Dishonor not your mothers. Now attest that those whom you called fathers did beget you. And you, good yeoman, whose limbs were made in England, show us here the mettle of your pasture. Let us swear that you are worth your breeding, which I doubt not, for there is none of you so mean and base that hath not noble luster in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The game’s afoot. Follow your spirit, and upon this charge cry “God for Harry, England, and Saint George!” All: “God for Harry, England, and Saint George!”
Hate to break it to you, but 5% of the population isn't "overtaking" England. It would be much more realistic to say that Atheism was overtaking England, considering the fact that it really actually *IS* overtaking England, but of course that doesn't stir anyone, so it's never mentioned.
Stating the facts isn't stupid. There is often a difference in what someone perceives to be the case, and what actually is the case. If you think I'm wrong, why not rebut me instead of resorting to the usual ad hominem response?
My relative was a yeoman farmer from the near the Lake District in the 16th century and I assume his father's before him were, back into the 1400s, during the time of Henry V. I'd like to imagine my distant ancestor being inspired by Harry in this scene!
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends!" Or. "The game's afoot!" In the space of less than 3 minutes, The Bard gives us TWO famous quotes. Heart jolting, blood stirring quotes. And these in ONE epic play. A small sample of the Bard's unfailing ability...and yet I keep reading of what a low-down, unmitigated scoundrel he was..is.....that his "Richard III" is a vicious, Tudor-inspired pack of filthy lies, cooked up by Shakespeare for the sole purpose of painting the "saintly" Richard of Gloucester unfairly as an evil Usurper and child-murderer. Shakespeare merely embroidered A LITTLE upon commentaries made by Richard's contemporaries. That Richard illegally executed William Lord Hastings, and several members of the Wydville family. AND "disappeared" his own young nephews..Evil? I'd say so.....
Sorry, but the snow job on Richard III, who was evidently one of the better kings, was perpetrated by one of his mortal enemies, and it just kept getting repeated until everybody thought it was the truth! Shakespeare didn't invent it, but he borrowed a bunch of his plots from previously published stories and this one was no exception. I'm sure he didn't care one way or another if it was the truth--he just wanted a good story!
Don't judge a man whose shoes are too big for you to fill. Shakespeare wrote and did what he had to do to survive in a bloody and challenging age. He wasn't a historian, he was a playwright. He could have ended up on the chopping block he wasn't careful.
I won't get into this controversey but i will say this: Only a man who truly loved his country could write something as poetic, beautiful, and stirring as "This blessed plot, this shining stone set in a silver sea, this fortress made by nature for herself against infection and the hand of war..." I don't remember all of it but i think you know what I'm talking about. Shakespeare was a genius.
@@joybranham8250 Yeah -- he also did a bit of a job making Henry VII look saintly (because gotta keep Elizabeth happy). But at his core, he exposed truths about power -- often in sly ways that would have gotten a less-skilled writer sent to the Tower. (And his Richard III got off one of the best lines every ... when a grieving mother, whose two boys have been lost to the wars, screams at him "I HAVE NO MORE SONS TO GIVE YOU!" and he coldly replies "You have a daughter..." Even the groundlings had to have said "ooooooo....." at that one.)
People don't seem to remember that Laurence Olivier's version was of a different time, people were more stiff lipped and appeared calmer and of course he would do it far away from the breach, the troops were retreating and he tried to get their spirits up for an attack. I love this version but i dislike it when people discredits Laurence's version of it.
That war must go to "guiness" as the biggest of them all. 116 years of war. The "one hundred years war". 1337/1453. With great caracters, Henry V, Joan D'arc, and I yet dont know if Bolingbroke battled as well
Go and see "Shakey" at the R.S.C - you will never forget it. Shakespeare as it should be seen -acted in front of you by many actors - not read in a classroom!
A rousing call to arms and inspiring but not so much as Brannagh's St. Crispin's Day (band of brothers) speech in the prelude to the battle of Agincourt. Now THAT is inspirational.
the difference between shakespeare and every other writer, ever, is the same as the difference between bach and regular folk music. except that in music there's hundreds of people on that level, but there are no other shakespeares.
@Chris Hansen He was Jesus' most beloved apostle, he stayed with Jesus until the bitter end, and following the instruction of Jesus from the Cross, John took Mary, the mother of Jesus, into his care as the last legacy of Jesus He was also brother of James, of whom they were called 'The Brothers of Thunder' A gospel story relates how the brothers wanted to call down heavenly fire on an unhospitable Samaritan town, but Jesus rebuked them. He was a bit of an OG.
Awesome! The only thing about Shakespeare (Henvry V) is it seems so long winded (in battle scenes)- as if in the Heat of Battle a Knight would take so much time to profess. Nevertheless, that is the nature of Theatre.
"ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH"
if you're not yelling this at least once in your life you didn't really live bro
Once more unto the breach!
FUCK YES, MATE ! ! !
Fuckin' A !
Trivia Question: What did "Cry havoc and let slip the goode of war" mean?
@@jimaiello750 so im pretty sure it's "let slip the hogs of war", and I've always inferred that it meant to be alert and that he permitted looting and pillaging,
Brian Blessed looks like he's ready to tear a man's limbs off. Branagh's impassioned speech, Jacoby's booming narration... now THIS is acting.
I think that's just how Brian looks normally. XD
And good writing - a shame that film wasn't around in Shakeys day.
Brannagh was only 28 here. Gave this performance and directed the whole movie himself.
And Harry was only 29 !
Einstein was 27 when he wrote his paper on General Relativity.
Branagh's my hero
Same age as Harry at Agincourt
Andrea Brannagh, Toronto raptors #1 draft pick
Brannagh’s reading is, in my opinion, the gold standard for Henry V.
What about Lawrence Oliver?
IMO they are both fantastic as Henry v
Jacobi right here is even better I think...
I loved it then. Listening now, I think it is a bit too sing song and over the top. But I'm just a dude.
@@jamestreacy6488 IMO Superior to Olivier in the delivery of this speech.
What's sad is how many Sherlock Holmes fans don't realise when Holmes says "The games afoot!" he's quoting this.
leftcoaster67 BBC Sherlock made this so clear now they'd have to be blind not to see it! It's a brilliant quote
Watson also says, "Once more unto the breach", which is what brought me here.
Naiara Albino this isn't from a movie it is Shakespeare in a movie adaptation also seen in Sherlock, rainbow six siege and many others
I think his point is that many people don’t know Shakespeare... I remember once on TH-cam some boob made the statement that Apocalypse Now made Wagner famous (Ride of the Valkyries scene) and someone wrote back “are you kidding me?
There is a general disconnection from the past for people today... I think that’s what leftcoaster67 was referring to.
Chang says it in Star Trek 6 too.
Illl be honest. I don’t know how I got here. I’m drunk . A little stoned sall right. But holy shit I was so damn enthralled with taht actor and his speech. This is one of the greatest pieces of acting I’ve ever seen. Metal dude 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Just about any English much quoted meme [Once more into the breech!] comes from Shakespeare, Casa Blanca, la Dolce Vita or the Big Lebowswki ....
That's how a drunk soldier would feel like.
@@Skyscraper44able
"His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep more than did laugh at it."
"Yeah, well, that just your... opinion, man."
@@abrahamlincoln9758 thank you!
That's the best bloody review I have ever read on here. Respect!
"Dishonour not your Mothers: now attest,
That those whom you call'd Fathers, did beget you." Now that's how you get someone to do something for you
I was surprised that he left out "Be copy now to men of grosser blood and teach them how to war." One of the best lines in the speech, in my opinion.
Agreed
"men of grosser blood" doesn't really fly today, I guess.
@@classiclife7204are you literally challenged? When was this film made!!? Think for gods sake!
Hell of a line in any epoch.
It's not as motivating and to the point...
The breath comes faster, the pulse quickens and a tear falls from the eye. Incredible!
I only understood every other word half the time and yet I have never been so inspired!
*ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH!*
You mean every fourth word? Just kidding with you. It truly is an inspiring speech!!
I have learned that taking Shakespeare word-by-word is very hard: The language has changed in 500 years. So, don't try: You listen to the Poetry instead and the meaning still comes thru'.
of course, you could always try it in the original Klingon... :-D
Harry's horse rearing in front of the explosions... fantastic!
Wait a second I didn't notice the horse rearing up.... Well like it reared up at the end of the clip but there was an explosion several seconds before it.
Such a brilliant film
I love how they seem ready to charge as he says “on you noblest England!” But the explosion makes everyone nervous and he has to re-hype them up.
This is the only actor who does Henry V anything close to justice.
I'm sure you were there to witness it the first time :p
It's the same guy who played Gilderoy Lockheart in Harry Potter.
I AM I watched the Lawrence clip and to me, his delivery of the speech came off sounding like a local radio advertisement for the opening of a new pharmacy.
I AM: I saw the Laurence Olivier version firstly, when I was studying the play at school and secondly, when I re-watched it to compare it to this version. Please note that this is just my opinion.
Branagh's version has much more energy, and I find he always makes Shakespeare completely comprehensible. He seems to speak it and doesn't treat it as if it was sacrosanct. Additionally, Branagh has the demeanour and energy of a youthful king. The rest of the cast doesn't hurt - Derek Jacobi is brilliant as the chorus (plus the staging of the chorus's role is a masterstroke), Brian Blessed is powerful and intimidating as the Duke of whatever he was, and the rest of the cast equally good (except, I always found Emma Thompson's Princess Katharine a bit twee).
L. Olivier, I always felt, had a stagey approach to Shakespeare, and whilst he had a beautiful voice, I am always conscious of him declaiming his lines.
Terry Baby I really agree!!! Totally!
This makes me want to follow King Henry into battle. That is how you lead.
I also feel excited by this great speech and then remember that I'm French. Oh well.. once more unto the breach my friends, once more!
I will never understand how England went from THIS ... to Henry VI. I may have to watch this again.
This gets me so pumped! Anytime I have an interview or hard work to do I always watch this to get me ready! Once more!!!!
That's cool.
Could've saved a lot of time and just said "do you really want to go back and tell your familes that you lost to the French? The FRENCH."
Amigo, the French have 1000 years of glorious history. William the Conqueror was a French Viking.
They did lose to the French, eventually...
Throw enough bodies at something and you're bound to win. France is the 2nd most conquered nation on earth, Italy is number 1.
Amigo,
You are DELUSIONAL.
France Roar from 1640s to the 1720s and again under Napoleon.
Rome remains the Greatest Empire in history.
V Cab despite battles like Blenheim and Ramilles in the War of Spanish Succession?
Needed to cleanse myself after watching “The King”, so I came here, to see this legend!
Not cleansing of much, The King is as excellent as this
And this is coming from a King of England.
No!
'Do you expect of me a speech? There is only one that I can give, and it is the same one I'd give if we were to meet in the street by chance...'. Etc. Here's my opinion:
The speech in The King is excellent. So is the main battle scene. Shakespeare is likely the most gifted and greatest poet/playwright/writer in all of human history - certainly amongst the best of the best in each category. And I enjoyed this rendition.
But before a REAL battle when all odds are against you, which speech is more appropriate? Which is more realistic? Which would actually rally the troops around you effectively? Shakespeare's poetry, or the raw, clear, brief and REAL emotion displayed in The King?
By far, that in The King. Shakespeare's might even be counterproductive in the moment, even if stirring later.
Both are great in different ways. But if you're going for realism, it's The King!
@@Holly5.0 just so. The original speech is good but far too long winded and complicated for a battle speech. It's impressive and stirring but does not connect
@@daxaraya3826 Not by a long shot lol
FOR HARRY, ENGLAND... wait, I'm American.
Oh, the hell with it. FOR HARRY, ENGLAND, AND SAINT GEORGE!!!
@@roas2 Whatever.
On this day, my noble American cousin, be ye ne'er so vile, we are both Englishmen...
Most Americans have English heritige
He is refering to a later speech in the ffilm/movie not an insult th-cam.com/video/A-yZNMWFqvM/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=technicalmark
watch this my fair cousin, Gods will my liege would you and I alone without more help could fight this royal battle. GB/US brothers forever
Are there American saints? Genuine question
If you want stirring speeches, Henry V is FILLED with them!
What's scary is watching Brian Blessed getting worked up into a battle fever. Yikes!
The mans a bear, in plate armor
I'd run away. Definitely.
No kidding. He looks like he's about to jump out of the screen and start attacking the audience.
🤣🤣🤣
@@Setebos suspect they didn't so much bring him meals to eat but open the door just long enough to throw in some raw meat then slammed it shut and legged it
The Game's afoot:
Follow your Spirit; and upon this Charge,
Cry, God for Harry, England, and Saint George
MAN that makes me grow additional balls everywhere
Literally an awesome spectacle
My favorite Henry V.
is this basically every man screaming at the tv every world cup football match
In these days when being a patriot is vilified, it's things like this that keep me going.
Fuck you. It's not being a patriot that's villified, it's the Trumpers thinking they have a monopoly on it. And now your cult leader is a convicted felon, you snowflake.
"Once More Unto the Breach!" My girlfriend hears this quite often.
And how often do you tell her to go into your breach?
Why? Is she a midwife?
Then she closes up the walls.
Good God! Why should they mock poor fellows thus?
I say this all the time.
I'm never letting any of my classmates read this play out loud. They can't read in anything that isn't slow and monotone. Also, they have trouble with the words. THE PLAY IS MEANT TO BE READ WITH PASSION! YOUR VOICE MUST CONVEY ALL OF WHAT KENNETH BRANAGH'S DOES. I'm kidding, my standards are high but they're not that high
you sound like a cunt. if they want to read it, let them.
Shakespeare was a pretty good writer. He had a way with words.
Branagh speaks this language like it's still a living, breathing language.
The days when leaders had the balls to lead their people into battle
Last orders at this bar is hell.
God i love this speech!
Henry didn’t need to make this speech to take the castle. He just need to send Brian Blessed in armed only with a fruit knife.
🐻
Was I the only one expecting Brian Blessed to shout "LET BLOOD,BLOOD, BLOOD BE YOUR MOTTO. SLIT THEIR GIZZARDS!!" ?
No. I was expecting “BLOOD! WAR! DEATH! RUMPY-PUMPY! TRIUMP!”
How many other Black Adder fans here?
IMP. Thought he was gonna say "Fly my Hawkmen"
People get Shakespeare wrong - "It's stuffy. I don't understand it. Blah blah blah."
Branagh's version got it right: HENRY V WAS THE WORLD'S FIRST SUMMER ACTION BLOCKBUSTER. IT WAS A POPCORN FLICK ABOUT BRITISH HISTORY.
Oh thanks 😂😂😂
Meh, Shakespeare is just a bunch of cliches strung together...😅
@@howardsmith9342 Yeah, I get it -- lots of his speeches are stuffed with common phrases like "It's all Greek to me" or "Let's kill all the lawyers" or that "unto the breach crap" that sooooo many others have said over the past 400 years.
Here's the thing, though: He *invented* a lot of those cliches. They weren't cliches when he used them. Everybody else heard his lines and said HOLY SHIT I'M STEALING THAT!
@tgdavidson I know. It was a joke.
I like to think this is what Gareth Southgate’s extra time team talk was like against Denmark.
I love that this movie removes certain repetitive lines, people speak this way. I usually would say do it how Shakespeare wrote it but this and the agincourt spearheaded removes the right lines to perfectly capture the ideas but keep it realistic
I would have marched through the gates of hell after hearing that speech!🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I would want to after hearing his St Crispin Day speech.
Love this movie
Thru the magic of 23 and me I discovered that there was a Welshman in the woodpile somewhere. This allows me imagine that I had a ancestor with King Harry on Saint Crispan.I am pretty good with a Longbow!
I love how pumped the Yeoman is
Who wouldn't be, with a King like that?
imagine stopping mid-battle to deliver paragraphs of thick dialogue.
Not hard to imagine at all. The battle is flagging, the troops are considering fleeing, what are you going to do? INSPIRE THEM!! "Please" won't do it. Also remember that this battle came in an era that was not today, when soldiers were motivated differently than soldiers today. You miss the point if you measure by what contemporary short-attention-span might want. It is like criticizing Lord of the Rings for not being real. It is real if you do but let it be.
Breathtaking character...
Amazing scene!
I’m not British though i can attest that every child in the world knows about its might... can anyone, please, share some more historical movies about the British empire? (Older that 1997)
Bridge on the river kwai
Too late the hero
Zulu
Zulu dawn
Aces high/ battle of Britain/ angels 15
Charge of the light brigade
Sharpe series of films
Hornblower series of films
Will give a good spread of the juxtaposition between the "soldier" the "officer" and the "orders" or "mission"
As a rule we don't have heros in film, so often portray the strengths that flaws can be...
The common soldier is shown as a base creature. In the army because he has no choice with simple desires yet fighting like a lion... Not for nation or glory but simple survival (as the characters in Henry v show)
The officers are aloof, educated, privaliged, detached yet honour is their aim. They serve for honour of not failing in their given tasks.
"Sharpe" is good for showing that, he was an ex soldier promoted officer in a time when you needed to be a "gentleman". Sharpe is like Shakespeare in that it's made small scale but your imagination needs to be the vast armies. "Work, work your thoughts... And in them see a siege..." Too many people want big budget with no substance!
And as I read what I put about not doing "heros" half the films I listed are in one way or another military failings...
fishyc150 thank you for all those titles. I’ll check all of them!
My deepest regards for the analyses
Britain as a country didn't exist until about 300 years after this took place, give or take. For the British Empire in particular, look into Hornblower and Sharpe.
@@fishyc150 I'd also add to that list Waterloo (1970), which doesn't take an overly pro-english perspective, but still fits the same tone.
i love that the heart of the speech is "come on you bastards kill 'em" :)
I'll try this before quiz night next Thursday.
Chorus: Work, work, your thoughts, and therein see a siege. Behold the ordinances on their carriages with fatal mouths, gaping on girded Harfleur. Suppose th’ Ambassador from the French comes back, tells Harry that the king doth offer him Katherine his daughter and with her, to dowry, some petty and unprofitable dukedoms. The offer likes not, and the nimble gunner with linstock now the devilish cannon touches, and down goes all before them.
Henry: Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more. Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility, but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger: stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage, then lend the eye a terrible aspect, let it pry through the portage of the head like the brass cannon, let the brow o’erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a gallèd rock o’erhang and jutty his confounded base, swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English! Dishonor not your mothers. Now attest that those whom you called fathers did beget you. And you, good yeoman, whose limbs were made in England, show us here the mettle of your pasture. Let us swear that you are worth your breeding, which I doubt not, for there is none of you so mean and base that hath not noble luster in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The game’s afoot. Follow your spirit, and upon this charge cry “God for Harry, England, and Saint George!”
All: “God for Harry, England, and Saint George!”
Fcuking glorious.
Noble lustre in your eyes...... its magical stuff.
One of the best scenes ever
It's MY island!
Its how we rock in England!
that's why England is my second favorite country (first is Canada(third is America where I live))
Sure... sure. That‘s why England is being overtaken by Islam.
Hate to break it to you, but 5% of the population isn't "overtaking" England.
It would be much more realistic to say that Atheism was overtaking England, considering the fact that it really actually *IS* overtaking England, but of course that doesn't stir anyone, so it's never mentioned.
***** You‘re insanely stupid.
Stating the facts isn't stupid.
There is often a difference in what someone perceives to be the case, and what actually is the case.
If you think I'm wrong, why not rebut me instead of resorting to the usual ad hominem response?
Oh #Netflix I love you for making #TheKing
"For England, for Harry & St. George" "Once more unto the breach my friends"
The Harry in this flick would eat live sharks for breakfast & ask for seconds!
My relative was a yeoman farmer from the near the Lake District in the 16th century and I assume his father's before him were, back into the 1400s, during the time of Henry V. I'd like to imagine my distant ancestor being inspired by Harry in this scene!
Everytime Burger King Screws up my Order... and I have no choice but to Confront their Treachery!!!
The British equivalent of screaming "Banzai!!!!!"
This is my english homework in quarantine, 2020
My God, Shakespeare could conjure up an awesome speech - and Brannagh certainly delivered it…
Shakespeare’s King plays are criminally underrated.
I don’t think King Lear is.
Harry: Lend the eye a terrible aspect!
Exeter: Grrrrr!
Wonderful, just wonderful
That's heavy. I'm crying.
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends!" Or. "The game's afoot!" In the space of less than 3 minutes, The Bard gives us TWO famous quotes. Heart jolting, blood stirring quotes. And these in ONE epic play. A small sample of the Bard's unfailing ability...and yet I keep reading of what a low-down, unmitigated scoundrel he was..is.....that his "Richard III" is a vicious, Tudor-inspired pack of filthy lies, cooked up by Shakespeare for the sole purpose of painting the "saintly" Richard of Gloucester unfairly as an evil Usurper and child-murderer. Shakespeare merely embroidered A LITTLE upon commentaries made by Richard's contemporaries. That Richard illegally executed William Lord Hastings, and several members of the Wydville family. AND "disappeared" his own young nephews..Evil? I'd say so.....
Sorry, but the snow job on Richard III, who was evidently one of the better kings, was perpetrated by one of his mortal enemies, and it just kept getting repeated until everybody thought it was the truth! Shakespeare didn't invent it, but he borrowed a bunch of his plots from previously published stories and this one was no exception. I'm sure he didn't care one way or another if it was the truth--he just wanted a good story!
Don't judge a man whose shoes are too big for you to fill. Shakespeare wrote and did what he had to do to survive in a bloody and challenging age. He wasn't a historian, he was a playwright. He could have ended up on the chopping block he wasn't careful.
I won't get into this controversey but i will say this:
Only a man who truly loved his country could write something as poetic, beautiful, and stirring as "This blessed plot, this shining stone set in a silver sea, this fortress made by nature for herself against infection and the hand of war..."
I don't remember all of it but i think you know what I'm talking about.
Shakespeare was a genius.
@@joybranham8250 Yeah -- he also did a bit of a job making Henry VII look saintly (because gotta keep Elizabeth happy). But at his core, he exposed truths about power -- often in sly ways that would have gotten a less-skilled writer sent to the Tower.
(And his Richard III got off one of the best lines every ... when a grieving mother, whose two boys have been lost to the wars, screams at him "I HAVE NO MORE SONS TO GIVE YOU!" and he coldly replies "You have a daughter..." Even the groundlings had to have said "ooooooo....." at that one.)
"...God for England, Harry and Saint George!!!!!!!!" Brilliant!
The Howling V brought me here. I heard the quote “once more unto the breach“ and wondered what it was from. Lol. Now I know.
If you're an Englishman and this don't stir you up, your officially Dead.
DAMN THE TROOPS! FULL STEAM AHEAD!!!!
People don't seem to remember that Laurence Olivier's version was of a different time, people were more stiff lipped and appeared calmer and of course he would do it far away from the breach, the troops were retreating and he tried to get their spirits up for an attack. I love this version but i dislike it when people discredits Laurence's version of it.
I am an American but feel pride in my semi-ancient English blood at this part!
well that was one hell of a pep talk lol
That's pretty much why we kick arse
I love this, it makes me feel so patriotic,
Cry Harry, England and St George aarraahhhh 👍🙏
Small correction:-- Cry God for Harry .("Brilliant")
Dishonor not your mother, Saxon.
The wonderful Brian Blessed acting with just his eyes.... AWSOME!!!!!!
That war must go to "guiness" as the biggest of them all. 116 years of war. The "one hundred years war". 1337/1453. With great caracters, Henry V, Joan D'arc, and I yet dont know if Bolingbroke battled as well
Did this monologue for Juilliard! One of Shakespeares best pieces.
2:20 "Hawkmen!.....DIIIIIiiiiiiivvvvveeeeeee!!!"
Can you imagine actually saying this s*** in combat?
"Once mor(shot)"
Go and see "Shakey" at the R.S.C - you will never forget it. Shakespeare as it should be seen -acted in front of you by many actors - not read in a classroom!
The French … “‘ave a minute lads, Harry’s giving another speech. Put the kettle on.”
As if Brian Blessed needed any more motivation to wreck, ruin, and slay. Like pouring gasoline on a forest fire.
Those teeth he was bearing were once used to cut an umbilical cord. Not joking.
@@abrahamlincoln9758 His own, no doubt.
@@tflynn2400 His dad's, likely
But also, true story. He helped deliver a stranger's baby in a car and bit through the umbilical cord.
A rousing call to arms and inspiring but not so much as Brannagh's St. Crispin's Day (band of brothers) speech in the prelude to the battle of Agincourt. Now THAT is inspirational.
Shakespeare is a flipping monster.
For England and St George!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
best ambient while drunked play
chills
CRY GOD FOR ENGLAND! HARRY! AND ST GEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORGE!
the difference between shakespeare and every other writer, ever, is the same as the difference between bach and regular folk music. except that in music there's hundreds of people on that level, but there are no other shakespeares.
Beethoven might be a better comparison than Bach. But there were never hundreds of people on a level with either of them. None in fact.
Bach was unique - no one else was on that level, And Bach was recognized by Mendelssohn, who lived among many great composers.
01:12 bloke on the left looks like John Cleese as the Frenchman in Holy Grail 🤣
"FOR HARRY! ENGLAND! AND ST. JOHN!"
It’s St. George btw. It’s actually called St. George’s day speech
@Chris Hansen He was Jesus' most beloved apostle, he stayed with Jesus until the bitter end, and following the instruction of Jesus from the Cross, John took Mary, the mother of Jesus, into his care as the last legacy of Jesus He was also brother of James, of whom they were called 'The Brothers of Thunder' A gospel story relates how the brothers wanted to call down heavenly fire on an unhospitable Samaritan town, but Jesus rebuked them. He was a bit of an OG.
Either that, or OP is calling for an ambulance...
With all that talking, the French should have launched a cow or two at the English. That would have made Henry shout "Runaway! Runaway!"
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Hahaha hagaha this broke me!!! I cant even!!! Hahaha 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
hahaha
Just the speech for England taking on France this weekend. Unto the breach Three Lions and take that second title!
Why am here
we Americans could learn a thing or two from this
You Americans didn't exist when this was written. The native Americans did, but you all come from invading Europeans two centuries later.
What a gee-up!
Awesome! The only thing about Shakespeare (Henvry V) is it seems so long winded (in battle scenes)- as if in the Heat of Battle a Knight would take so much time to profess. Nevertheless, that is the nature of Theatre.
It's not just Shakespeare. In Medieval Romances, they're inclined to make lengthy speeches or monologues in the middle of battles as well.
medievalgirl002 in battle and in death. In a lot of scenes the "Victim" will give a long drawn out monolog with his "dying breath"
to be fair in medieval battles there were often pauses that could last as long as an hour, but it is largely to get across the emotions and feelings
Ah, but you are taking it too literally. Remember, the chorus has asked you to make imaginary puissance.
This version of Henry V would make an excellent servant in Fate/Grand Order, a Rider would be perfect for him.
When he offers to buy the next round....
On me !
On me !
Hurray !!
For England.... Harry ... and St George.
Did he spend a solid 30 seconds explaining what facial expressions his men ought to adopt?
History teacher: The battle lasted for 3 days.
12 yo me: But why?