Amen. Moby Dick is my most favorite book. I didn't really understand it when I was young, but now it so nicely summarizes so much of the human experience for me.
@@marysepradet6162 Check out the 2001 adaptation of Bartleby starring Crispin Glover. It's a kind of a....surreal adaptation but it stays true to Melville's story
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 what do you mean ? Bartleby unknown or Melville unknown , if you mean Bartleby, I agree, I just discovered this book while looking for all novels from Herman Melville,
This is the kind of movie I used to watch late at night when my parents were asleep when I was a teenager. It would stay in my mind for days just like this one will. Thanks for sharing it.
This movie randomly popped in my head as the only time I seen it was 16 years ago when I was sophomore in high school. I found it strangely intriguing while a few of my classmates were calling this the worst, most boring movie ever lol. Glad to see it on TH-cam!
The long tale of Herman Melville (the movie is based on that) is a precedent of the absurd literature. The tale was originally published in 1853 as "Bartleby, the Scrivener". Melville anticipated the absurd literature in 100 years. The phrase "I would prefer not to do it" encloses a world of meanings. The original story is located in New York, not in London. The original story has many meanings: the mental illness, the human incommunicability, the law of entropy, etc. Herman Melville is as great as the world. Not in vain, he is the author of "Moby Dick".
What a movie! Everyone will have a different takeaway. For me, his identity was linked to having an office and a desk but not to the work he did. How often we come across this sort of a disengagement in our careers and can't understand it. Beautifully done.
_I also liked very much this so special movie, Vasant Inamdar! I watched it late on night yesterday, with no stop since the very beggining! I'm a Little bit Bartleby too, That's why this movie is so amazing tô me, because I have my own ideas and nobody can change my mind...! Great Bartleby! God bless you always, Vasant Inamdar!_
Saw it on TV in the early ‘70s - I was 14 or 15 at the time - and never forgot it. What a wonderfully subtle actor John McEnery was, and I immediately remembered he’d been the most overwhelming Mercurio ever in the best ‘Romeo & Juliet’ movie so far. A few years later I also read the Melville novella, at the University, but both characters, to me, were still McEnery and Scofield, and they will always be.
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This reminds me of the job interview at a pathology lab I went for many years ago. Didn't have any qualifications in that field and went to that interview as a joke really. For an unknown to me reason, they gave me the job!!! The only Latin word, (which was required for the position) l knew, was "Amen"!😂 I never found out why they gave me the job. I was terrified every single day for about six months! After that it got easier and I kept getting monetary awards for hard work, every single month. That was one of the most bizarre times of my life! 😊
Great movie . Of course it has to be taken as a metaphore . Incredibile. Opens so may ways to anlyse the underlying circumstances of human condition .Masterpiece.
After reading the book, 'Bartleby, the Scrivener,' years ago, I claimed that as my mantra. I can't tell you how often I've used it in a neutral tone when asked to do something I do not want to do & then just continue on with my day. People are baffled and have no reply. I especially used it with great satisfaction at work when expected to do work that was not part of my job description.
@@ritawing1064 Bartleby's statement has a deep philosophical implications. The name of it is "passive resistance", Mahatma Gandhi's, for example... (who liberate Idia from English domination).
@@slavenpuric3803 Satyagraha. except in the Bartleby story, there is no social dimension present, tho it is implied and logical that there are many such individuals similarly working (oppressed). I can't imagine someone reading/watching and not being touched by the storytelling.
When I first read Bartleby I got to him being sent to jail before I realized he wasn’t a talking duck. To this day i don’t know why I thought they were all birds rather than just thinking they had funny nicknames
There would seem little need for proceeding further in this history. Imagination will readily supply the meager recital of poor Bartleby’s interment. But ere parting with the reader, let me say, that if this little narrative has sufficiently interested him, to awaken curiosity as to who Bartleby was, and what manner of life he led prior to the present narrator’s making his acquaintance, I can only reply, that in such curiosity I fully share, but am wholly unable to gratify it. Yet here I hardly know whether I should divulge one little item of rumor, which came to my ear a few months after the scrivener’s decease. Upon what basis it rested, I could never ascertain; and hence, how true it is I cannot now tell. But inasmuch as this vague report has not been without certain strange suggestive interest to me, however sad, it may prove the same with some others; and so I will briefly mention it. The report was this: that Bartleby had been a subordinate clerk in the Dead Letter Office at Washington, from which he had been suddenly removed by a change in the administration. When I think over this rumor, I cannot adequately express the emotions which seize me. Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters, and assorting them for the flames? For by the cart-load they are annually burned. Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring:-the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity:-he whom it would relieve, nor eats nor hungers any more; pardon for those who died despairing; hope for those who died unhoping; good tidings for those who died stifled by unrelieved calamities. On errands of life, these letters speed to death. Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!
I've read the Melville story, he's a still a local celebrity here in New Bedford Massachusetts. This looks like a great film adaptation, and I'm watching it right now. Indicator has a Blu-ray version and it's on sale for the next few days for just $11 I'm probably going to order it, but it's worth the list price if you miss the sale. Thanks for sharing this, I'm a big fan of your channel and subscribed at least a year or two ago.
A stunning movie. John McEnery deserved an oscar for that performance. The problem of the poor misfit guy and how he is finally taken care of doesn't solve his difficulties, but who knows or could understand him?
People today are subleting houses and refusing to pay rent or Leave, like this. The homeowners are Losing their Homes because of it. Melville was a seer.😂
Bartleby was sinking into serious clinical depression, verging on a psychotic episode, anorexia and bipolar disorder. The inevitable outcome was suicide.
Thank you so much for posting this (I also like the rare works on your channel very much, I'm grateful that you have the generosity to share them with us) That said, this adaptation of Bartleby is quite mediocre. It trivializes its subject by making Bartleby a "lost in the crowd" type. The metaphysical, mysterious nature of Bartleby and the significance of his relationship with his boss is ignored completely. The film attempts to give a purely "social" message and hence aged poorly (there is also severe pacing and rhythm issues). Overall, Ronet's version still remains the best by far, even if Ronet had to make it for TV and had a very small budget and significant time constraints. Alson the acting in Ronet's film is mich better (Lonsdale us just great).
@@TheSaltydog07 this is a movie. If you have to read a book, in Order to understand a movie, something is wrong. And, there is nothing to understand. This has No Plot or Story whatsoever.
@@bigblockjalopythe problem is the short story is told in first person from the perspective of the boss but the movie is just in third person perspective, so it misses out on the most crucial angle
Negli anni '60 lo definivano disadattato sociale. Poteva lavorare come custode e avere un alloggio garantito. Forse, o probabilmente non è mai il momento. Tristezza.
Halfway into the movie I wondered where it's gonna lead.... Well, nowhere. Basically the "Story" of an office clerk who refuses to work and then dies. Wt ..? A waste of time. I like old movies and seeing the 60s or 70s is always good, so I couldn't vote thumbs down, but didn't give it thumbs up either.
A good version from this remarkable Melville work but imagining an ideal BARTELBY I would choose Crispin Glover. I am still searching for his take on the character.
I 'preferred not to' have children. The flak I have received for that bit of dissidence gives me great sympathy for anyone outside social convention, let alone an individual on the autism spectrum.
"To know what your prefer instead of what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive." Robert Louis Stevenson. Imagine all those dead souls out there voting for people like Boris Johnson and for ideas like Brexit. It's enough to make you go on a starvation diet.
I agree with you Maxwell. But perhaps they're suffering now with their shortages of fruit and veg; cheap east european workers; and lorry drivers that are not prepared to sit in border queues for several days. It's just a shame that everyone suffers, not just the misinformed that voted for brexit.
Bartleby is on the spectrum: the wandering around trying to make sense of the world, the lack of ‘theory of mind’, his interest in the procedures of rubbish trucks and machines, his inability to solve day-to- day living problems. His ‘prosody’ i.e ‘ I’d prefer not to’; all points to ASD.
Super movie but imho the ending could have been more imaginative and the characters of the secretary and long haired messenger might have been further developed.
11:58 pm, I enjoyed Bartleby‘s journey with melancholy sadness. I fail to understand the lack of humanity when we interact with another human being who is slightly different. There is no NORMAL it doesn’t exist because human beings are NEVER exactly the same. Shame on those human beings who ostracise one of our own family . The KINDNESS of his BOSS /friend was overwhelmed by his lack of understanding/coping mechanisms. Humankind will eventually self- destruct. Perhaps if/ when FEMALES steer the ship our WORLD may become a STRONGER KINDER SAFER COMPASSIONATE place.
Let us take a moment of gratitude for the great Herman Melville.
Amen. Moby Dick is my most favorite book. I didn't really understand it when I was young, but now it so nicely summarizes so much of the human experience for me.
yes I loved Moby Dick and I just discovered this other novel " Bartleby" fantastic !
@@marysepradet6162 Check out the 2001 adaptation of Bartleby starring Crispin Glover. It's a kind of a....surreal adaptation but it stays true to Melville's story
When Melville died, he was virtually unknown by everyone.
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 what do you mean ? Bartleby unknown or Melville unknown , if you mean Bartleby, I agree, I just discovered this book while looking for all novels from Herman Melville,
This is the kind of movie I used to watch late at night when my parents were asleep when I was a teenager. It would stay in my mind for days just like this one will. Thanks for sharing it.
I thought I was alone.
Me too :)
just red the book which is extraordinary ! pleased to see the movie !
Sir would you suggest me other movies in this same kind , please.
This movie randomly popped in my head as the only time I seen it was 16 years ago when I was sophomore in high school. I found it strangely intriguing while a few of my classmates were calling this the worst, most boring movie ever lol. Glad to see it on TH-cam!
Extraordinary performances, a beautifully crafted film. Thank you for posting it 🙏
The long tale of Herman Melville (the movie is based on that) is a precedent of the absurd literature. The tale was originally published in 1853 as "Bartleby, the Scrivener". Melville anticipated the absurd literature in 100 years. The phrase "I would prefer not to do it" encloses a world of meanings. The original story is located in New York, not in London. The original story has many meanings: the mental illness, the human incommunicability, the law of entropy, etc. Herman Melville is as great as the world. Not in vain, he is the author of "Moby Dick".
we all read wikipedia, you know?
Scofield was one of the best actors this country ever produced.
What a movie! Everyone will have a different takeaway. For me, his identity was linked to having an office and a desk but not to the work he did. How often we come across this sort of a disengagement in our careers and can't understand it. Beautifully done.
A wonderful film. Leading actors give excellent performances. A movie masterpiece. Thanks TH-cam
_I also liked very much this so special movie, Vasant Inamdar! I watched it late on night yesterday, with no stop since the very beggining! I'm a Little bit Bartleby too, That's why this movie is so amazing tô me, because I have my own ideas and nobody can change my mind...! Great Bartleby! God bless you always, Vasant Inamdar!_
I knew nothing of this major film, which belongs beside the film of THE CARETAKER. A new kind of edge-of-the-seat thriller! Funny, too. Thank you.
I considered all the glowing comments so decided to watch. I didn’t care for this movie but finished it. He died of depression.
Saw it on TV in the early ‘70s - I was 14 or 15 at the time - and never forgot it. What a wonderfully subtle actor John McEnery was, and I immediately remembered he’d been the most overwhelming Mercurio ever in the best ‘Romeo & Juliet’ movie so far. A few years later I also read the Melville novella, at the University, but both characters, to me, were still McEnery and Scofield, and they will always be.
This is the only channel im subscribed to that won’t keep the closed captioning off.
You can easily turn it off? click-the-button
Brilliant cinematic poem. Thanks a lot, CCC!
This was shown on the newly released C4 in 1982 or 1983 and I remember watching and trying to find it ever since !
Had seen Paul Scoffed in Man for all seasons. But MacEnry was just amazing.
what a unique movie.......had me spellbound...
Great movie, great soundtrack.
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Did not know about this film. I liked it very much. Thank you!
This reminds me of the job interview at a pathology lab I went for many years ago.
Didn't have any qualifications in that field and went to that interview as a joke really.
For an unknown to me reason, they gave me the job!!!
The only Latin word, (which was required for the position) l knew, was "Amen"!😂
I never found out why they gave me the job.
I was terrified every single day for about six months! After that it got easier and I kept getting monetary awards for hard work, every single month.
That was one of the most bizarre times of my life! 😊
Great movie . Of course it has to be taken as a metaphore . Incredibile. Opens so may ways to anlyse the underlying circumstances of human condition .Masterpiece.
Super good movie. Thanks!
The legendary statement in Malville's Burtleby (which repeats): "I would prefer not to".
After reading the book, 'Bartleby, the Scrivener,' years ago, I claimed that as my mantra.
I can't tell you how often I've used it in a neutral tone when asked to do something
I do not want to do & then just continue on with my day.
People are baffled and have no reply.
I especially used it with great satisfaction at work when expected to do work that was not part of my job description.
I had this on a t-shirt, great slogan for life.
@@ritawing1064 Bartleby's statement has a deep philosophical implications. The name of it is "passive resistance", Mahatma Gandhi's, for example... (who liberate Idia from English domination).
@@ritawing1064 India, pardon... you understand.
@@slavenpuric3803 Satyagraha. except in the Bartleby story, there is no social dimension present, tho it is implied and logical that there are many such individuals similarly working (oppressed). I can't imagine someone reading/watching and not being touched by the storytelling.
Dear Persons , what a great movie , and I really feel for his boss who wants to be understanding ,
Preciosa pelicula,interpretada por buenos actores y en la que se demuestra que el cine ingles esta entre los mejores
Hello! Thank you CCC
I remember seeing this in the afternoon in the 80s, Its a very disturbing film with no clues or answers.
When I first read Bartleby I got to him being sent to jail before I realized he wasn’t a talking duck. To this day i don’t know why I thought they were all birds rather than just thinking they had funny nicknames
There would seem little need for proceeding further in this history.
Imagination will readily supply the meager recital of poor Bartleby’s
interment. But ere parting with the reader, let me say, that if this
little narrative has sufficiently interested him, to awaken curiosity
as to who Bartleby was, and what manner of life he led prior to the
present narrator’s making his acquaintance, I can only reply, that in
such curiosity I fully share, but am wholly unable to gratify it. Yet
here I hardly know whether I should divulge one little item of rumor,
which came to my ear a few months after the scrivener’s decease. Upon
what basis it rested, I could never ascertain; and hence, how true it
is I cannot now tell. But inasmuch as this vague report has not been
without certain strange suggestive interest to me, however sad, it may
prove the same with some others; and so I will briefly mention it. The
report was this: that Bartleby had been a subordinate clerk in the Dead
Letter Office at Washington, from which he had been suddenly removed by
a change in the administration. When I think over this rumor, I cannot
adequately express the emotions which seize me. Dead letters! does it
not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone
to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten
it than that of continually handling these dead letters, and assorting
them for the flames? For by the cart-load they are annually burned.
Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring:-the
finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a bank-note
sent in swiftest charity:-he whom it would relieve, nor eats nor
hungers any more; pardon for those who died despairing; hope for those
who died unhoping; good tidings for those who died stifled by
unrelieved calamities. On errands of life, these letters speed to
death.
Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!
Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!
I've read the Melville story, he's a still a local celebrity here in New Bedford Massachusetts. This looks like a great film adaptation, and I'm watching it right now. Indicator has a Blu-ray version and it's on sale for the next few days for just $11 I'm probably going to order it, but it's worth the list price if you miss the sale.
Thanks for sharing this, I'm a big fan of your channel and subscribed at least a year or two ago.
A stunning movie. John McEnery deserved an oscar for that performance. The problem of the poor misfit guy and how he is finally taken care of doesn't solve his difficulties, but who knows or could understand him?
He was very good but an Oscar is stretching it... a lot.
The hospital should not have let him die.
Well he played someone with cognitive/psychiatric problems (the droning voice, the mannerisms etc..)
This is NOT Bartleby.
People today are subleting houses and refusing to pay rent or Leave, like this. The homeowners are Losing their Homes because of it. Melville was a seer.😂
London makes this film bearable.
Bartleby was sinking into serious clinical depression, verging on a psychotic episode, anorexia and bipolar disorder. The inevitable outcome was suicide.
😢 very sad movie
Thank you.
Trebuie să-l văd. Mulțumesc!
Thank you so much for posting this (I also like the rare works on your channel very much, I'm grateful that you have the generosity to share them with us)
That said, this adaptation of Bartleby is quite mediocre. It trivializes its subject by making Bartleby a "lost in the crowd" type. The metaphysical, mysterious nature of Bartleby and the significance of his relationship with his boss is ignored completely.
The film attempts to give a purely "social" message and hence aged poorly (there is also severe pacing and rhythm issues).
Overall, Ronet's version still remains the best by far, even if Ronet had to make it for TV and had a very small budget and significant time constraints.
Alson the acting in Ronet's film is mich better (Lonsdale us just great).
50 yıldır film seyreden birisi olarak kesinlikle söyleyebilirim ki ; izlediğim en ilginç film.😮😳
Why? There is basically No Story or plot whatsoever.
Please read the book. Herman Melville.
"Bartleby the Scrivener."
@@TheSaltydog07 this is a movie. If you have to read a book, in Order to understand a movie, something is wrong. And, there is nothing to understand. This has No Plot or Story whatsoever.
Is it perhaps because you relate to him somewhat?
@@bigblockjalopythe problem is the short story is told in first person from the perspective of the boss but the movie is just in third person perspective, so it misses out on the most crucial angle
The real story was Bartleby's back story, and the person that structured his life. We see what happed to him after that person was gone.
SALUDOS Y GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR UNA PELICULA MMUY ESPECIAL PERO MUY BIEN ACTUADA FELICIDADES
This is such a good story and the two lead actors are so good, its a shame the director did not know what he was doing.
The story was great so I wanna see the movie.
A gem in terms of acting . An Autistic spectrum patient I would say .
Negli anni '60 lo definivano disadattato sociale. Poteva lavorare come custode e avere un alloggio garantito. Forse, o probabilmente non è mai il momento. Tristezza.
Has the feel and atmosphere of a Mike Leigh.
A rejection, a heart felt protest. I remember seeing this as kid, even then I thought it was something special.
He seems to have a most leanient Boss you will ever have
Oh meu Deus! I love Bartleby! ❤
Halfway into the movie I wondered where it's gonna lead.... Well, nowhere.
Basically the "Story" of an office clerk who refuses to work and then dies. Wt ..? A waste of time. I like old movies and seeing the 60s or 70s is always good, so I couldn't vote thumbs down, but didn't give it thumbs up either.
yes, i agree. 3/10
A good version from this remarkable Melville work but imagining an ideal BARTELBY I would choose Crispin Glover. I am still searching for his take on the character.
Such insubordination,will never be taken rightly with the kind of Bosses we have
More than a film.. it's a documentary (idem the paper from which it is taken )
Didn’t know any of these movies existed, paying tribute to my favorite author. Mr Herman Melville.
‘ I prefer not to . “
I 'preferred not to' have children. The flak I have received for that bit of dissidence gives me great sympathy for anyone outside social convention, let alone an individual on the autism spectrum.
Is he not the singer from Kraftwerk. The power of Patience 😅
"To know what your prefer instead of what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive." Robert Louis Stevenson. Imagine all those dead souls out there voting for people like Boris Johnson and for ideas like Brexit. It's enough to make you go on a starvation diet.
I agree with you Maxwell. But perhaps they're suffering now with their shortages of fruit and veg; cheap east european workers; and lorry drivers that are not prepared to sit in border queues for several days. It's just a shame that everyone suffers, not just the misinformed that voted for brexit.
It's worse now with all this woke nonsense.
It's crazy to think Colin Jeavons is still alive, he was already in his 40s here.
Perfect
Well really...!!!!! Bertie's Aunt Agatha would sort this out immediately!!! Wouldn't stand for it for one moment!!!!
Makes me think of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground.
Bartleby is on the spectrum: the wandering around trying to make sense of the world, the lack of ‘theory of mind’, his interest in the procedures of rubbish trucks and machines, his inability to solve day-to- day living problems. His ‘prosody’ i.e ‘ I’d prefer not to’; all points to ASD.
That's what I thought.
Is this from The Apprentice?
Do you think autistic, or degree of autism. Love the movie so far.
ポールスコフィールドってこんなにハンサムでした？
I would prefer not to comment on this video.
Law of the jungle says poor creeping wretched creature must inevitably perish!!!
Please, Spanish subtitles 🙏Thank
I er...prefer two....😂😂😂
I don't know !👸
Your Paolo is on wrong trace .Your Arjuna is not Arjuna in BHAGAVAD-GITA. Why do you do not want to to talk about it with him?
STRECLY PERSONAL, as in one song by Captain Beefheat, "Gimme' Dat Harp Boy".
Why you ignore me? Do you want that to you be indifferent?
@@slavenpuric3803 I love u more my dear Slaven Puric!👸 💋
Is Brian Jones in this movie?
Simple, fire him.
But this isn't Melville's Bartleby. They've completely re-written it. What a travesty.
Yes,it's quite changed from the original story,though most movies alter the source.
I guess Bartleby was one of the people who took the brown acid at Woodstock.
I'm not sure I can stand another of Schofield's shoot-'em-up action spy thrillers! We already have Steven Seagal FFS.
?????????
To live, a choice.
From a Christian point of view, Bartleby has turned his employer into a saint.
I think his employer represents a good Christian man.
Super movie but imho the ending could have been more imaginative and the characters of the secretary and long haired messenger might have been further developed.
What a strange man.
Looks like the result of one too many bioweapon jabs!
Only to conspiracy nutjobs, sweetie.
Cambian muchos detalles del libro
Billy Budd is available too, you pay for it though.
I think Bartleby was just like most od the human race only more so...
11:58 pm, I enjoyed Bartleby‘s journey with melancholy sadness. I fail to understand the lack of humanity when we interact with another human being who is slightly different. There is no NORMAL it doesn’t exist because human beings are NEVER exactly the same. Shame on those human beings who ostracise one of our own family . The KINDNESS of his BOSS /friend was overwhelmed by his lack of understanding/coping mechanisms. Humankind will eventually self- destruct. Perhaps if/ when FEMALES steer the ship our WORLD may become a STRONGER KINDER SAFER COMPASSIONATE place.
Filme chato. Não faz jus a grandiosidade do livro.
he’s just like me fr
😴 💤
Awes
Does anyone agree with me that Bartelby has something to do with autism?
Cel mai prost film pe care lam vazut vreo data.
Joj tolikome iritiro da sam ...poludio ....bolest ili bilo sta neznam ali sam puko ...psiha radi svasta ali imaoje nekog...poremetio me
Ne brini prijatelju, to ti sve jedno veliko sranje, a ja sam se zajebao kad sam otisao u dubinu...
I would’ve preferred not to have watched this.