To think how much talent is required for actors to effortlessly have such a conversation in such a scene...both were maybe robbed of Oscars that year I would think....
@@nelyang5862 His acting in this film is so astounding because whilst he is the single most frustrating character arguably in the history of cinema, given his inaction over Miss Kenton, without really doing anything Hopkins' portrays such wonderful character development. We meet him at Darlington Hall when he has a sort of gravitas at times, a confidence assurance and pride in what he does. How he carries himself, his private quarters, the way he idolises his father and laughs at his stories. Yet Miss Kenton's presence and his falling in love with her starts to make that erode because he is suddenly in conflict with himself. 'I'd be lost without her.' His father dies, and Lord Darlington falls into disrepute and scandal and his affection for Miss Kenton grows as she slips farther away from him. Once she pursues a life outside of Darlington Hall, Stevens becomes increasingly sad because his fantasy of her staying forever erodes and the reality of what his life has been becomes apparent to him. The truth is their relationship would likely have never worked, because he wanted her to stay there with him forever. Film is a masterpiece
@@judithmurphy4133 I'm going to watch "The Elephant Man" in the next day or so, it's free on UA-cam, but I did see "Magic" a few days ago, and of course his performance blew me away.
This movie is a study of a person imprisoned by his own sense of duty for so long, that he no longer able to discern whether it was sincere, or just a form of excuse to hide his insecurity of whether he'd be a good lover for a woman he care so deeply. I had this similar patch in my life where I chose refrain from the feeling of love for fear of conflicting it with my duties and responsibility then, but contrary to Mr.Stevens, I managed to move on, recover and able to muster the strength to be truth to my own heart when I found a new love, the one that has been together with me until today
Their accents and language are so beautiful. So gracious and civilized. Many people in Britain sort of despise this type of "hoity toity" language nowadays but it is something that people from other countries admire because it represents something about the graciousness and civility of the British themselves.
Lerner Langwej ~ It says much that many in Britain and in America sort of despise this type of "hoity toity" language nowadays, does it not? ... It is contempt for the graciousness and civility of civilization in general.
Downton Abbey was written by an aristocrat and Remains of the Day by a 'commoner', and one who...uh...remained...culturally apart from Britain for his youth so right there you have a MAJOR difference.
@@squamish4244 it's got nothing to do with the background and all with the personality. Julian Fellowes is a fundamentally light hearted storyteller. It's not about substance, rather about creating comforting entertainment. Two very different goals, no reason to compare the two.
@@reasonablyserious Maybe. I'm not the only one to wonder if Fellowes is an apologist for the class system. As an outsider, Ishiguro could very clearly see the kind of single-minded devotion to servitude even at the price of one's happiness that was common among people like Hopkin's character at the time the book is set. However, I do agree that regardless, Fellowes is not the kind of person to write a wrenching, tragic love story that leaves you feeling shattered afterwards.
anthony is unique! watching him and listening, we can learn a lot, and that the manner that today very undamaged! Such people are there to remind us! lived anthony
@@HumansAreShitFactories I think you are right. When I watched the movie for the first, time, I couldn't relate more to Mr Stevens, because I think I also suffer the same disorder. It's romantic to some extent though, and "romantic" doesn't need to mean requited love, but the sense of romance, the "what would have happened if?".
In those days, people took great pride in serving a family or person that they deemed "worthy". It was often the way of Royalty to measure the honor of a House by the loyalty and diligence of that House's servants.
Lost 5 out of 8 to Schindler's List and rightfully so.. (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Art Direction and Best Adapted Screenplay)
"I appreciate your kindness Miss Kenton, but I prefer to keep things as they are" 0:15 They say men don't listen to women but Miss Kenton should have listened to Stevens when he said those words. He was dead serious.
You missed the whole point, he lived in his own illusion and struggled to keep up with it and it ended up costing not only his own life, but also a considerable part of Miss Kenton's..
@@dahamisamarathunga3911 What did he do? Did he killed someone? No, He was not into her. It happens. He did not destroyed any life. He lived his life in the way he chose. I am sure he was happy and had no regrets.
I mean, I study Remains in Literature and Stevens is nothing at all this....handsome....charming...witty...and smoking and flirty gentleman...he's a total boor there in the books. Anthony makes him so...human!
I ship USUK What I've gotten out of the book so far is that Mr. Stevens presented himself as stiff and a boor through telling us his story. But in reality he was putting on a bit of a front to hide his regret.
I think the beauty of the writing in the novel is the way that Stevens portrays himself as emotionless, within his idea of "dignity" while comments from the other characters indicate he is in fact crying, or troubled, or otherwise experiencing emotion
What you have to remember is that Stevens is always just giving an account of himself which he feels represents "dignity". You have to approximate his actual behaviour, which may be more lively than he is letting on.
I disagree. He came across to me every bit the gentleman you see in this movie. You simply found yourself taken up and fooled by the unreliable narrator's prim and proper façade
i have been on both sides of this "scene"...trying to define "appropriate" is tough and trying to remain "calm" when you are kicked in the "proverbial" balls is not easy either.
the first time i saw it i felt sorry for Stevens. The second time im like, you go Miss kenton that old fool never had the balls to make a move on you, you deserve better lol
One of the thingsI never saw picked up on was Steven’s substituting service for courage- an outgrowth of the Darlington Hall mentality. Your second opinion is correct.
Well I find both of what you're saying somewhat true and somewhat false. Miss Kenton certainly shouldn't have waited another set of years () for him to make a move, in fact she alread encouraged the man more than other women of her time would've. However, she didn't leave to teach Stevens a lesson or to punish him for holding back, neither would that be much to celebrate. I'm sure part of the reason she stayed in the household for so long was her waiting for him to make a move given how much he obviously desired her. They both always suffered from fear and loneliness, their opposite tempers just showed it differently. After all those years in the "co-worker - zone" (in the book even since the early 1920s!!!), Sally was upset and rightly so, because she discovered what she was missing out on as her young protégé announced her engagement + notice. Otherwise she might as well have left years earlier since she was never aboard with the Lord's toxic ideology or Stevenson's manner of dutifully ignore it, eventhough he knew better (another central trait they didn't have in common). Anyhow, Sally was utterly unhappy realizing how unable that poor creature was to ever get out of his comfort zone (while he did indeed love her back). And that reality must have made it even harder for her to leave than moving on from a man who simply doesn't want you. Sally had been hoping for so long and eventually became aware that life's too short to wait for the initiative of anxious Stevens, thus she took the next best chance to live her own live. Bottom line, of course we should see her notice as a great act of self- determination, but we might as well feel very sorry for Stevens. Yes, he utterly disappointed her, still there wasn't actually a "lesson to be paid". Stevenson knew what he was loosing, he simply could not help himself, unable to cross those deeply rooted inhibitions. I ensure you, in the end, he's the one who suffered the most from his own emotional shiftlessness.
@@NiVi192 I like it. As a guy- if I crawl inside Stevens I know exactly why the wall was so impenetrable. The adherence to professionalism was a smokescreen- he could never feel good enough for her.
Except for royalty, the day of Big Houses & Staff are long-gone. The truly wealthy nowadays own multiple luxurious condos in major cities & just plane-hop from one to the next...
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Mr. Stevens JR. may have even been afraid of being happy and probably would have ended up eloping with Miss Kenton. That would have put them both in severe financial risk. Thus, costing them both decent provisions and a place to live, had they both just let loose and done what both really wanted to do together..... which was elope and live happily but really struggling with food, rent, ect. Just like all the other employees they worked with & were not willing to be ..... hypocrites. This would have eaten Mr. Stevens JR. alive morally and for practical reasons. Miss Kenton seemed more resourceful and more jobs/careers were becoming more available to women during their generation anyway. She would not have suffered much financially. However, Mr. Stevens JR. Dignity would have suffered. He would have (in his mind) been a double minded hypocrite for leaving together with Miss Kenton. Which is exactly what they both wanted to do together. I doubt that Miss Kenton would have viewed herself a hypocrite. She was strong, hard working and happy. Mr. Stevens Jr was a survivalist and just wanted to live vicariously through the books he read (all that he knew how to do) but also not having the guts to show his love for Miss Kenton. She was in love with him too. You see, what ya'll are forgetting is that this goes both ways. Who would have replaced them? That would have bothered them. They weren't exactly expecting to meet one another and become friends with each other.... much less deeply fall in love with each other. Neither one of them knew what to do about their compatible romance that never happened between them both.... tragically. This movie came out when I was in my early teens. Seeing it now in my mid 40s, I just still can't help but love this movie!! Great acting by everyone!! Great story overall....
Households in these days were extremely formal and rigid in their expectations. The Butler, the housekeeper, the ladies' maid, the valet and the chef, not the cook, would be addressed by their surname, the rest by their christian names. The housekeeper was perfectly correct to address the father with William. He was, after all, the under-butler. Expecting the Housekeeper, who is head of her department, to address an under-butler with his surname is disrespectful because it places her lower than her station would warrant. That is not to say we don't understand why Mr. Stevens jr, would like it his way, it is just not proper.
Dutchy McDutch ~ The housekeeper was perfectly correct to address the father as William in another household perhaps, but not in one where the son was the boss.
Goes to show why I cannot hold a job at all. I would have been loving that woman every break allowable by OSHA but that fool is so blind and crabby. Great film. Our instincts are awoken and put to sleep at the same time.
An excellent film on all accounts! Glad to see how this servile servitude is a thing of the past. Taking pride in a job well done is fine and dandy but subjugating your entire being as Mr. Stevens does is sad in the extreme.
The fact that people don't realize what a pathetic raging narcissist Stevens is in the book is mind boggling to me. This movie dropped the ball on that with the romanticization of Miss Kenton and Steven's relationship and the victimization of Stevens as being so dedicated to his work when in the book he seriously sucks at both his job and having empathy for other people
I've read the book a variety of times, and that's not what I get from the book at all. Ishiguro's characterization of Stevens is brilliantly complex and requires reading between the lines to see the character's real feelings, fears, and disappointments and to get past Stevens' "pretending" (as Miss Kenton puts it). The movie did an excellent job of capturing the book Stevens without resorting to clunky voice over. There's a good reason people who have read the book don't realize what you claim...
Depends on how you define "foreigner." Ishiguro was 5 when he moved to England. Lest we fall for the (dangerously close to r*cist) "forever foreign" stereotype of non white Asian westerners, I might revise your otherwise insightful comment.
Okay I just read the book and after watching these clips.. I am completely disappointed. Mr. Stevens in the novel is extremely well-composed, gentle, and an almost flat character. I understand that in the movie he may need to be livened up a little, but the beauty in the storyline is seeing Stevens open up throughout the plot and loosen with Mrs. Kenton. I'm not seeing any of this here, and it just doesn't look/feel right to me.
I don't think you would say that if you saw the movie, watching bribes on UA-cam is likely to mislead you. "Extremely well-composed, gentle, and an almost flat" is exactly how Hopkins plays the part, which makes his "opening up" near the end even more emotionally satisfying. So I don't think it's fair to juge this splendid and flawless adaptation on the basis of that scene, Stevens is just 'loosening up' a bit because he adresses Miss Kenton and doesn't feel he needs to get all formal with her, that's why he's so patronizing. I'm not saying your judgment isn't right but you didn't pick the right scene to analyze how "flat" Stevens is in the movie.
why is she overreacting? it’s a job. just say yes and move along. it’s not really something that needs to be argued about. if they want to be addressed by their last names then just do so. 🤷♂️.
what a shitty movie, it reminds me of my neighbor, who had the secret garden on VHS, she made such a rave about it, and then there was the english patient, these movies are so pretentious and god awful drags, bleak too
i think my point was made, when grammar is brought into question it's usually indicative of a weak argument, how do you like those apples? big red ones there, make for some excellent cider, you want a tall glass? oh wait, you just been served (nothing but ruins after those bombs) lol
Careful... Keep ranting like that and we won't just be able to SMELL the skid marks from your superhero briefs but TASTE them as well. I'm sure your mother would quite agree now go and get OUT of those soiled Spider-Man trunks and into a clean pair young man...💩
To think how much talent is required for actors to effortlessly have such a conversation in such a scene...both were maybe robbed of Oscars that year I would think....
The way he says "oh well" and gives a little chuckle at the end!
and 0:37 he's really good using facial expression at the perfect exact time
@@rayhanihsannasution4199 he's such an excellent actor. I was thinking about him the other day because I saw him in the film "The Elephant Man"
I believe this chuckle was meant to signal Mr Stevens inability to interpret Miss Kenton reaction rather than for comedic effect.
@@nelyang5862 His acting in this film is so astounding because whilst he is the single most frustrating character arguably in the history of cinema, given his inaction over Miss Kenton, without really doing anything Hopkins' portrays such wonderful character development. We meet him at Darlington Hall when he has a sort of gravitas at times, a confidence assurance and pride in what he does. How he carries himself, his private quarters, the way he idolises his father and laughs at his stories. Yet Miss Kenton's presence and his falling in love with her starts to make that erode because he is suddenly in conflict with himself. 'I'd be lost without her.' His father dies, and Lord Darlington falls into disrepute and scandal and his affection for Miss Kenton grows as she slips farther away from him. Once she pursues a life outside of Darlington Hall, Stevens becomes increasingly sad because his fantasy of her staying forever erodes and the reality of what his life has been becomes apparent to him. The truth is their relationship would likely have never worked, because he wanted her to stay there with him forever. Film is a masterpiece
@@judithmurphy4133 I'm going to watch "The Elephant Man" in the next day or so, it's free on UA-cam, but I did see "Magic" a few days ago, and of course his performance blew me away.
This movie is a study of a person imprisoned by his own sense of duty for so long, that he no longer able to discern whether it was sincere, or just a form of excuse to hide his insecurity of whether he'd be a good lover for a woman he care so deeply. I had this similar patch in my life where I chose refrain from the feeling of love for fear of conflicting it with my duties and responsibility then, but contrary to Mr.Stevens, I managed to move on, recover and able to muster the strength to be truth to my own heart when I found a new love, the one that has been together with me until today
Their accents and language are so beautiful. So gracious and civilized. Many people in Britain sort of despise this type of "hoity toity" language nowadays but it is something that people from other countries admire because it represents something about the graciousness and civility of the British themselves.
Lerner Langwej absolutely!!! they are extremely eloquent , especially the queen's language
Lerner Langwej ~ It says much that many in Britain and in America sort of despise this type of "hoity toity" language nowadays, does it not? ... It is contempt for the graciousness and civility of civilization in general.
It represents discipline ....& that is hard work- sadly, discipline.... has a negative connotation these days
Yes with a dark underbelly that people forget
Nonsense
This movie is a billion times more elevating than Downtown Abbey.
Downton Abbey was written by an aristocrat and Remains of the Day by a 'commoner', and one who...uh...remained...culturally apart from Britain for his youth so right there you have a MAJOR difference.
@@squamish4244 it's got nothing to do with the background and all with the personality. Julian Fellowes is a fundamentally light hearted storyteller. It's not about substance, rather about creating comforting entertainment. Two very different goals, no reason to compare the two.
@@reasonablyserious Maybe. I'm not the only one to wonder if Fellowes is an apologist for the class system. As an outsider, Ishiguro could very clearly see the kind of single-minded devotion to servitude even at the price of one's happiness that was common among people like Hopkin's character at the time the book is set.
However, I do agree that regardless, Fellowes is not the kind of person to write a wrenching, tragic love story that leaves you feeling shattered afterwards.
The language in this film, my god, just beautiful.
We'll never talk like this again 😔
anthony is unique! watching him and listening, we can learn a lot, and that the manner that today very undamaged! Such people are there to remind us! lived anthony
Movie is a masterpiece. Just finished the book. Masterpiece as well.
Just *love* this film. One of my all time top 10.
Anthony Hopkins should have played James Bond he can do cold, charming with effortless ease.
He was too creepy for Bond. He would have been an exceptional Blofeld though.
Remember him in red 2 look up the seen " I did not see that coming "
Or a Bond Villain
@@caesar4857 Yes, Dr No if he was around back then.
He would've been much better as Smiley.
LOVE THIS FILM. Really really enjoy how very propper Mr Stevens is, what a very pleasant gentleman he is.
His chuckle at the end says everything
Who else wants a Remains of the Day lunchbox? I carry my Dinner with Andre action figures around in mine🤣🤣
I totally wanted that lunch box 😁
One of the greatest romantic films ever made. Beyond the compartment of "romantic film."
I don’t think this artwork could be characterised as a romantic film. It’s about schizoid personality disorder.
@@HumansAreShitFactories I think you are right. When I watched the movie for the first, time, I couldn't relate more to Mr Stevens, because I think I also suffer the same disorder. It's romantic to some extent though, and "romantic" doesn't need to mean requited love, but the sense of romance, the "what would have happened if?".
In those days, people took great pride in serving a family or person that they deemed "worthy". It was often the way of Royalty to measure the honor of a House by the loyalty and diligence of that House's servants.
true.
This should have swept the Oscars. Didn't win any; speaks volumes about them.
Lost 5 out of 8 to Schindler's List and rightfully so.. (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Art Direction and Best Adapted Screenplay)
"I appreciate your kindness Miss Kenton, but I prefer to keep things as they are" 0:15
They say men don't listen to women but Miss Kenton should have listened to Stevens when he said those words. He was dead serious.
When people tell you who or what they are, believe them.
@@tommym321 I am goat
You missed the whole point, he lived in his own illusion and struggled to keep up with it and it ended up costing not only his own life, but also a considerable part of Miss Kenton's..
@@dahamisamarathunga3911 She was just as delusional. That she would transform Stevens into the man of her dreams.
@@dahamisamarathunga3911
What did he do?
Did he killed someone?
No,
He was not into her.
It happens.
He did not destroyed any life.
He lived his life in the way he chose.
I am sure he was happy and had no regrets.
A work of sublime Genuis.
I Love this movie
I mean, I study Remains in Literature and Stevens is nothing at all this....handsome....charming...witty...and smoking and flirty gentleman...he's a total boor there in the books. Anthony makes him so...human!
I ship USUK What I've gotten out of the book so far is that Mr. Stevens presented himself as stiff and a boor through telling us his story. But in reality he was putting on a bit of a front to hide his regret.
I think the beauty of the writing in the novel is the way that Stevens portrays himself as emotionless, within his idea of "dignity" while comments from the other characters indicate he is in fact crying, or troubled, or otherwise experiencing emotion
What you have to remember is that Stevens is always just giving an account of himself which he feels represents "dignity". You have to approximate his actual behaviour,
which may be more lively than he is letting on.
I disagree. He came across to me every bit the gentleman you see in this movie. You simply found yourself taken up and fooled by the unreliable narrator's prim and proper façade
I like to think of this movie as an insight into Carson's past life.
Agree with Madam Thompson about our scale of strength and how unique we are individually.
I agree its that charm he has, he does the same thing in Zorro.
i have been on both sides of this "scene"...trying to define "appropriate" is tough and trying to remain "calm" when you are kicked in the "proverbial" balls is not easy either.
Two brilliant actors
hannibal lecter meets nanny mcphee
They had already played husband and wife in Howards End.
Jajaajajjaja bueniiiiisimo
Argh now I can’t unsee this.
the first time i saw it i felt sorry for Stevens. The second time im like, you go Miss kenton that old fool never had the balls to make a move on you, you deserve better lol
One of the thingsI never saw picked up on was Steven’s substituting service for courage- an outgrowth of the Darlington Hall mentality. Your second opinion is correct.
Well I find both of what you're saying somewhat true and somewhat false. Miss Kenton certainly shouldn't have waited another set of years () for him to make a move, in fact she alread encouraged the man more than other women of her time would've. However, she didn't leave to teach Stevens a lesson or to punish him for holding back, neither would that be much to celebrate.
I'm sure part of the reason she stayed in the household for so long was her waiting for him to make a move given how much he obviously desired her. They both always suffered from fear and loneliness, their opposite tempers just showed it differently. After all those years in the "co-worker - zone" (in the book even since the early 1920s!!!), Sally was upset and rightly so, because she discovered what she was missing out on as her young protégé announced her engagement + notice. Otherwise she might as well have left years earlier since she was never aboard with the Lord's toxic ideology or Stevenson's manner of dutifully ignore it, eventhough he knew better (another central trait they didn't have in common). Anyhow, Sally was utterly unhappy realizing how unable that poor creature was to ever get out of his comfort zone (while he did indeed love her back). And that reality must have made it even harder for her to leave than moving on from a man who simply doesn't want you. Sally had been hoping for so long and eventually became aware that life's too short to wait for the initiative of anxious Stevens, thus she took the next best chance to live her own live. Bottom line, of course we should see her notice as a great act of self- determination, but we might as well feel very sorry for Stevens. Yes, he utterly disappointed her, still there wasn't actually a "lesson to be paid". Stevenson knew what he was loosing, he simply could not help himself, unable to cross those deeply rooted inhibitions. I ensure you, in the end, he's the one who suffered the most from his own emotional shiftlessness.
@@NiVi192 I like it. As a guy- if I crawl inside Stevens I know exactly why the wall was so impenetrable. The adherence to professionalism was a smokescreen- he could never feel good enough for her.
Great Film...One of the Best...
Biggest irony of this uber british film. The book its based on was written by an east asian brit. The screenplay. A south asian brit.
Stevens's smoking is actually rather...sexy.
Except for royalty, the day of Big Houses & Staff are long-gone. The truly wealthy nowadays own multiple luxurious condos in major cities & just plane-hop from one to the next...
The end of this clip, damn
Absolutely classic
Butler is right ...he is the boss
Duty duty duty above all... until you forgot to live.
انتوني هوبكينز من أعظم الفنانين في التاريخ 🤍
anthony је непоновљив! гледајући га и слушајући, можемо пуно научити,а то су манири који данас јако неостају! такви људи постоје да наш подсете! живео anthony
This film makes me want to become a butler.
One can see why the English ruled the world. So civilized, so stoic, so disciplined. What a culture
Mr. Stevens JR. may have even been afraid of being happy and probably would have ended up eloping with Miss Kenton. That would have put them both in severe financial risk. Thus, costing them both decent provisions and a place to live, had they both just let loose and done what both really wanted to do together..... which was elope and live happily but really struggling with food, rent, ect. Just like all the other employees they worked with & were not willing to be ..... hypocrites. This would have eaten Mr. Stevens JR. alive morally and for practical reasons. Miss Kenton seemed more resourceful and more jobs/careers were becoming more available to women during their generation anyway. She would not have suffered much financially. However, Mr. Stevens JR. Dignity would have suffered. He would have (in his mind) been a double minded hypocrite for leaving together with Miss Kenton. Which is exactly what they both wanted to do together. I doubt that Miss Kenton would have viewed herself a hypocrite. She was strong, hard working and happy. Mr. Stevens Jr was a survivalist and just wanted to live vicariously through the books he read (all that he knew how to do) but also not having the guts to show his love for Miss Kenton. She was in love with him too. You see, what ya'll are forgetting is that this goes both ways. Who would have replaced them? That would have bothered them. They weren't exactly expecting to meet one another and become friends with each other.... much less deeply fall in love with each other. Neither one of them knew what to do about their compatible romance that never happened between them both.... tragically. This movie came out when I was in my early teens. Seeing it now in my mid 40s, I just still can't help but love this movie!! Great acting by everyone!! Great story overall....
Well that went well.
I respect Anthony's opinion here. I would also not want a young person calling an elderly person by their first name. I think its disrespectful.
Households in these days were extremely formal and rigid in their expectations. The Butler, the housekeeper, the ladies' maid, the valet and the chef, not the cook, would be addressed by their surname, the rest by their christian names.
The housekeeper was perfectly correct to address the father with William. He was, after all, the under-butler.
Expecting the Housekeeper, who is head of her department, to address an under-butler with his surname is disrespectful because it places her lower than her station would warrant.
That is not to say we don't understand why Mr. Stevens jr, would like it his way, it is just not proper.
Dutchy McDutch ~ The housekeeper was perfectly correct to address the father as William in another household perhaps, but not in one where the son was the boss.
I was on the set of this movie!!
"oh well" .... No Mr Stevens, it didn't go well.
Ive never read the book, would you say Hopkins takes the character even further and more in-depth on film?
Get a room, you two.
How American of you.
Jolly good.
Goes to show why I cannot hold a job at all. I would have been loving that woman every break allowable by OSHA but that fool is so blind and crabby. Great film. Our instincts are awoken and put to sleep at the same time.
Ooh well 😊
An excellent film on all accounts! Glad to see how this servile servitude is a thing of the past. Taking pride in a job well done is fine and dandy but subjugating your entire being as Mr. Stevens does is sad in the extreme.
i cant find this movie
Ah the English grace, the civility …..the colonialism
Gangsta! Of London? Suck it up you departed gun-toting machines something whatever. 🤓
I guess some of us are just the Donatello turtle.
😢
bruh... sarah kenton's life was damaged because of him too
oh well ((chuckle))
oh well :)
(Hopkins i mean)
The fact that people don't realize what a pathetic raging narcissist Stevens is in the book is mind boggling to me. This movie dropped the ball on that with the romanticization of Miss Kenton and Steven's relationship and the victimization of Stevens as being so dedicated to his work when in the book he seriously sucks at both his job and having empathy for other people
I've read the book a variety of times, and that's not what I get from the book at all. Ishiguro's characterization of Stevens is brilliantly complex and requires reading between the lines to see the character's real feelings, fears, and disappointments and to get past Stevens' "pretending" (as Miss Kenton puts it). The movie did an excellent job of capturing the book Stevens without resorting to clunky voice over.
There's a good reason people who have read the book don't realize what you claim...
It took a foreigner (Ishiguro) to write a book about the English, and get it so well.
foreigner? his family moved to britain when he was only 5. he didn't get his degree in Tokyo, he got it in Kent.
Robin Preston Ishiguro was British you dumb twit
Exactly, bút hé was raised in uk
Depends on how you define "foreigner." Ishiguro was 5 when he moved to England. Lest we fall for the (dangerously close to r*cist) "forever foreign" stereotype of non white Asian westerners, I might revise your otherwise insightful comment.
What a compfy film to watch
Okay I just read the book and after watching these clips.. I am completely disappointed. Mr. Stevens in the novel is extremely well-composed, gentle, and an almost flat character. I understand that in the movie he may need to be livened up a little, but the beauty in the storyline is seeing Stevens open up throughout the plot and loosen with Mrs. Kenton. I'm not seeing any of this here, and it just doesn't look/feel right to me.
I don't think you would say that if you saw the movie, watching bribes on UA-cam is likely to mislead you. "Extremely well-composed, gentle, and an almost flat" is exactly how Hopkins plays the part, which makes his "opening up" near the end even more emotionally satisfying. So I don't think it's fair to juge this splendid and flawless adaptation on the basis of that scene, Stevens is just 'loosening up' a bit because he adresses Miss Kenton and doesn't feel he needs to get all formal with her, that's why he's so patronizing. I'm not saying your judgment isn't right but you didn't pick the right scene to analyze how "flat" Stevens is in the movie.
What a jerk
She trespassed into his private space and tried to claim a little piece of it. Stevens (maybe subconsciously) didn't appreciate that at all.
undebutla jaja
why is she overreacting? it’s a job. just say yes and move along. it’s not really something that needs to be argued about. if they want to be addressed by their last names then just do so. 🤷♂️.
Because professional conventions were very important back then, and this request was very out of line.
Why is your perception so poor? I mean the rest of us can't keep explaining the obvious to you forever...
what a shitty movie, it reminds me of my neighbor, who had the secret garden on VHS, she made such a rave about it, and then there was the english patient, these movies are so pretentious and god awful drags, bleak too
i think my point was made, when grammar is brought into question it's usually indicative of a weak argument, how do you like those apples? big red ones there, make for some excellent cider, you want a tall glass? oh wait, you just been served (nothing but ruins after those bombs) lol
ur a troll i seen u on other videos,
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Careful...
Keep ranting like that and we won't just be able to SMELL the skid marks from your superhero briefs but TASTE them as well.
I'm sure your mother would quite agree now go and get OUT of those soiled Spider-Man trunks and into a clean pair young man...💩
Clearly you're too daft to appreciate art like this.