Hamlet "rogue and peasant slave am I" Richard Burton (1964)
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- Richard Burton's "Hamlet", directed by John Gielgud, produced by Alexander H. Cohen. Filmed live on Broadway in 1964 and released to theaters in Electronovision. It was the longest running "Hamlet" in Broadway history. Act II, Scene 2. Richard Burton soliloquy
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I don't rightly care about his alcoholism, his marriages, etc...I just care about the fact that he was one of the greatest live actors to ever grace the bloody stage...thank God there is a record of him performing live like this..
He was the best, greatest of all time. He IS Hamlet, as well as every role he played, film or the Old Vic, he was, still is the best, EVER! He was completely remarkable, that voice, those moves, his way of delivering his lines and stage presence. The BEST!!!
you have no idea what you are talking about, stick to pantomime.
There was nothing in the theater he could not do better than anyone, not only in this age, but probably even from other eras. The man was fabulous. When he made the movie Dr. Faustus with Taylor it made me realize that this role was art imitating life...he was wonderful and died so young.
Beautiful interpretation . The comments who say he’s overacting are so wrong in my eyes . This is a powerhouse bravura piece of acting . Magnetic . The voice is sublime .
Yes, Burton was a great actor. This film can give some idea of the beauty of his voice, and the intelligence of his ground-breaking interpretation of Hamlet. What we cannot see is his amazing stage presence. I saw him play Hamlet at the O'Keefe Centre in Toronto. He controlled that huge stage like no actor I have ever seen.
He was mesmerizing, he could fill a stage and movie screen. He oozed talent!
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He was one of the highest rated actors ever to have graced any stage.
For people to criticise this performance as overacting is to misunderstand the difference between theatre and film. One must project one's voice in theatre and also exaggerate one's movements.
Barath Murali agreed, most modern techniques like meisner say it should come from broken down human impulses, not exaggeration.
@@connorstaub9299 and yet most American actors, trained by the likes of Meisner or Strasberg, are terrible at Shakespeare.
I saw this production on tour in Toronto, and the physicality of Burton's interpretation, and the beauty of his voice are exactly as I remember them. Bravo, Richard!
He is the best ever!! There will never be another.
Richard Burton is the greatest hamlet. Hands down.
Fantastic! richard Burton is the best actor we ever saw.
I saw him do this live in June of 1964 from the third row-I had just graduated high school and took a bus from Ohio to New York. He will always be the definitive Hamlet for me, and this Harold Prince/produced John Gielgud/ directed production is the best version of the play I've seen. First love syndrome maybe.Yes, actors had no microphones nor was the staged miked so to reach the last row of the balcony the voice needed to be big, even in a whisper, and the gestures likewise. Withal, Burton seemed natural and real, sometimes menacing to me, at his ease in the part, credible and beautifully fatally wrecked. Hume Cronyn's was the best Polonius, no one else has come close, and Alfred Drake was a superb Claudius, but the other actors simply couldn't hold the stage with Burton. One just stared at him, even as he stood dead still.
Why didn't the theater owner just buy a THX sound system so the balcony could hear it?
Great well thought out comment, thank you
Longest running Hamlet in history so something clicked - he certainly interprets Hamlet as manic. The physicality he injects is interesting; twirling one way and then the next.
I beg to differ. Great voice. Great interpretation!
If people say Richard Burton wasnt great, they dont know what true acting is. They dont understand the stage presence he had. Also a characther such as Hamlet goes through shear agony understanding what is true and what isnt - considering even to end his life. Therefore the melodrama definatly suits this scene as it is a cry of emotion just as what lies within Hamlets mind.
I still think Burton's Hamlet is missing something - he rehearsed this production with John Gielgud in London, then it went to America without Gielgud. When Gielgud saw it a few months later for the first time he was shocked at what they had done to the production. All the actors had let themselves go to bad habits.
No, you have to understand. Immagine the scene. Lights out, the heads of people sitting before you, silence in the air, you see the stage, and then appears the protagonist. There's no television, no cinema, no screen, no camera, no close-ups... only the body and the voice of the leading actor with its echo that arrives to you. It's not an overacting speech. It's Theatre, that's all! Avoid to be cheated by the medium, try to see this speech sitting in stalls, and you'll find it extraordinary
I had the privilege of seeing Richard Burton in Camelot. By then he was too old for the role, but it was amazing just to see him perform. I don't know if he is the greatest Hamlet, but his _rogue and peasant slave_ soliloquy is my favorite version of this scene. I wonder if he was drunk when he did this. He might have been. But it doesn't matter. This is great.
wow!!! I love this version
there is no wow, my friend. no surprise. it is richard burton. he is a master of the arts. 😊Hi, I’m Brittney Hill :D . I really enjoyed your upload! I’m living in Los Angeles county, where Hollywood is! I am homeless and currently looking for a overnight, only, shelter or a place to live… Yay, me ! My whole life, I’ve always done everything by myself, literally, so that’s why I’m super proud that I figured out my, Destiny. My Destiny is to get married to, Thomas John Ellis (he is a, famous, British, actor, on a T.V. show, in America, called, Lucifer.). I will become his Wife and a Mother (for the first time), to his 3 daughters. Then, I am also going to, finally, become a, famous, American, method, actress. The second thing in my Destiny is to be a real, live, Princess, for the United Kingdom. I was born to do all of these things :D, so it is in my blood. I’m Middle class, and I AM social climbing so I will marry the first rich man I come in to contact with, of course. HAHA! Either way my story plays out, I will end up married to, Tom Ellis. That is a promise. I’m 31 years old, I’m not just any Millennial, I’m, THAT, Millennial! You can join me wherever you see me in person :D ! See you on the big screen :D ! Family. Love. Love. Love.
signed,
Brittney Hill, Saturday, October the 26th, 2019.
'In a fiction and a DREAM OF PASSION!!!!' love Richard Burton
Sally Hay Burton found this true gem copy of Hamlet in his garage. Mr Burton will be heaven in my belief...
Burton was a tad old for Hamlet during this production. He was I think 37, and looked older.
His handling of Shakespearean meter was a little eccentric, if not erratic. Sometimes he lingers over phrases; sometimes he rushes through them, as though he was trying to reach the end of the line or lines ASAP.
And yet --
My God, that voice. Like A serrated sword wrapped in dark-brown silk, tinged with red or purple. Huge, multicolored, at its best (and BURTON'S best) expressive dang near beyond belief.
And despite my comments about his verse-reading, Burton was in love with language. One hears this, even while wishing he would have slowed down here or there, emphasized another word in a line, etc.
Also despite what I've said about his appearance, he was still heroically handsome.
So many roles I wish he'd done, or returned to later in his career. Lear, Coriolanus, Brutus, Macbeth, Iago, Petruchio, the Chorus of "Henry V" and "Romeo and Juliet."
Also Oedipus. And assuming he could have Americanized his accent a bit, James Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" --
I wonder if he needed dental work after chewing that much scenery.
I can't believe he played it like that every night considering how that production is considered mythic.
Richard Burton had stage presence
Confession: Scrooged brought me here! :)
Where can I see the the whole play? TV versions are not shown much Like Mayerling with Audrey Hepburn. I love Richard Burton. Face it! All of us are Hams sometimes.Burtons voice and fire in his eyes are lovely to watch.
I love Richard burton. But, was he channeling William Shatner?
Impressive!
He's acting like a mad man but here Hamlet's all by himself on stage, so it's not consistent with what Hamlet intends: ¨To put an antic disposition on¨, which means he will pretend to be mad but he's not mad at all.
1:14-1:16 Awesome Noise....EEEEGAADIT!!!
awesome
THE GREATEST!!!
Underrated actor.
There is real power in Burton's performance. If anything, it's tramelled by that old ham Gielgud's direction.
@TaraMoriah You can get it on Amazon but for the dvd it is very expensive. About $70 I think.
Audible has an audio version though.
Look, I'm an actor mystelf too, and the mine was a professional opinion like yours, I began with Shakespeare. In this speech the words of Hamlet said that he screams like a whore or a scullion, then, the interpretation is consistent. Burton acts badly in to be or not to be, ma this is the best rogue soliloquy I've ever seen
II's the best way to do it so I hear.
Look, I am an actor myself, and it was a professional opinion. Of course there are no close-ups in the theatre. I know you only have your body and your voice. I simply feel that one need not bellow and flail to get a point across.
Hamlet: Speak the speech I pray you as I pronounced it to you,
trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it as many of your players
do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the
air too much with your hand thus, but use all gently; for in the
very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion,
you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it
smoothness. Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split
the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of
nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise. I would have such
a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant - it out-Herods Herod.
Pray you avoid it.
Great quote... But why did you attach it to this video?
Burton is not following Hamlet's advice.
+oilthatgate Maybe not, but it is still an excellent performance imho.
If it was a film, I would agree, but it is a stage performance. He is f-g brilliant! And we can hear every syllable!
Y'know, I've been aware of this performance for years and how Burton supposedly chewed the scenery like a mad dog-and of course the infamous delivery of “He…cu…baaaa…”-but good god almighty. This is the first time I'm seeing it and the hell with arguments that this is for theatre and not film: Do an experiment and listen to this without looking at the screen and tell me if you can make heads or tails out of what he's saying when he's shouting and emoting and speeding up and slowing down and stopping and pausing and breaking up sentences and going up and down in pitch and hitting or extending or flat out distorting words with no apparent rhyme or reason other than he's Richard fucking Burton and can get away with it. It's like William Shatner on steroids. And, jesus, I love Shatner and I love Burton, but this? This is just bad. Entertaining as fuck, mind you-but BAD. Amazingly, I'm actually torn now between which performance is more over-the-top: Burton's Hamlet or Pacino's Shylock, hmmmmm...
Underated actor??? Everyone knows he was the best.
I really like Burton´s voice. And I like him as an actor on screen. But this delivery is utterly terrible. Often he is just reading the sentence as fast as he can like he wanted to get rid of it. Other times he just screams for no reason. Shakespeare was not his thing, but I still regard him highly. I thought his performance in "Who´s Afraid of Virginia Woolf" was brilliant.
@violetavalery
Another example of Shakespeare's ironic twists!
"Utterly terrible"? Burton? Here? My, my.
@RichardElden There is no proof of that, and you damn well know it. Burton died of a cerebral hemorrhage, he did not commit suicide.
I agree with Pasquale, as I think that is very well performer - I disagree that he performs To Be or Not To Be badly though aha
I don't know how he does it.
wow
...character he is presenting us. I'm not gonna say he's not a good actor or anything, I don't even know more of his work; I'm just saying that I just can't feel with Hamlet in this bit because it seems to much like a planned monologue and not like something that EVOLVES while he speaks what would make it seem real. I'm sorry, that is how I feel, don't hate on me, I still think it was a good stage performance, I just wanted to express my feelings about this. :P
You're not alone. While he has some sublime moments in this... it's a little "big". And sometimes he speaks so quickly, I completely lose the lines. I don't know whether those were his choices or Gielgud's, but it just doesn't work for me.
Watching a taped play is not the same as being there watching it live. Ofcourse it looks like overacting and shouting because it's taped and looks too big. It's not camera work.
A filmed performance is a hybrid. He has to let the back of the dress circle hear
But the camera is too near for some of the more expansive interpretations physically and vocally.
Бёртону можно только сапоги чистить у принца Гамлета.
hi
I will probably get a lot of hate for this, but I really don't like this version of Hamlets Soliquy. I might be spoiled because so far I've only seen David Tennant perform this and it was AMAZING. But I came here because I thought "you can't go through life just knowing one Hamlet, take a look at how different other people may have done this". But I feel like Burton rushes through some big parts a lot, which makes it hard to follow, and I don't really understand the...
i don"t if it was just a product of the times but I think he is much too dramatic in this scene. he draws out a lot of words like dreaaaammmm and i just laugh
Meaning ....
Don't make em like DAT... anymore!
@simpsonmark Don't bother with "RichardElden." He's a reknowned troll who posts and reposts the same goofy hate-bile all over TH-cam. His various accounts have been deleted by TH-cam. I think he may be a remarkably sinister 12-year old; a bit like Stewie Griffin with internet access.
My favorite is Macbeth.
@RichardElden No.
Я бы свои деньги на Бёртона не потратила. Плебей!
Too much acting at the expense of heart and understanding. Hamlet is talking to himself, not an audience. I’m surprised “directors” overlook this. We are flies on the wall, not the recipients of this speech.
Cocaine is a helluva drug ...
Richard Burton never fails to humiliate himself.
@RichardElden I don't care.
Eh. It feels rather overacted to me. Some moments, such as the frantic paranoia of "Who does me this?" are quite good, but too much of it seems composed of hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance.
This is awful. Just shouting. No real idea about how to bring this alive for an audience
Critics, try bringing the dead words on a page to life as a musician plays a piece. Tape yourself. Is it alive? Would people pay to see it? Burton could memorize the lines and bring them to life. Are you feeling lucky punk? Make our day.
Overacting 101.
Overacting
I’ve watched a lot of adaptations of Hamlet in this soliloquy and this one may be my least favourite of those I’ve seen. I don’t know the actor but despite hearing that he is supposedly very good, it doesn’t matter; this isn’t one that I like. Honestly, having performed this soliloquy myself, I feel as though I have done better than this performance, or had come pretty close to doing so.
Noone will ever care about you. But Richard Burton is immortal and your kind is unworthy of him.
Welp you must be selling out Broadway night after night, then, no? That comment is rotten to the core with hubris.
Burton was great, but his Hamlet really sucked.
Embarrassing. what a terrible actor, performer, anyone who thinks this is acceptable knows nothing about Shakespeare or acting.
Look at me my names Mike Johnson I’m so great
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