This performance gives me chills every time I watch it. Since the day I saw it in the Theater in Los Angeles it has become my favorite speech in film. Nothing has moved me more than this speech. Bravo!
Battle of Agincourt's 600th anniversary is today October 25th. Read Shakespeare's "Henry V" this weekend, you few, you happy few, you band of brothers.
I am sure even Shakespeare's contemporaries overacted his plays. What sets Branagh's version apart: he turned theatre into reality. Well done! Believable, passionate, beautiful. Shakespeare springs to life in this version. Bravo!
He's referencing the way Lenin gave a speech, to help the British government prove Shakespeare plays were not written by Communists. See also: The Undiscovered Country for the American side of the problem of proving this.
Off course wonderful . But sadly I come out with it , in full , frequently in front of my friends!!!!! Who wonder about my sanity!!!! This is my idea of Harry's speech when they thought they would die!!! Can do a few of Churchill war speeches too as very Shakespearean and inspiring too.
PS understand not all of the speech as there is some spoken words too. My Great Aunt , died 99 left me her old Shakespeare book and could do lots of speeches.
Whilst I like Mike Rylance. At the Globe production his speech I think is totally boring and If I had been part of Harry's army I would have been asking for my passport to be made and crowns of convoy put into my purse!!!!!!
@@johngadsby6599 You may enjoy Ryland more in Angel's and Insects with Kristin Scott Thomas. I started off thinking he was very plain, but his performance by the end convinced me his characters was attractive and honest.
Yes - great to lead lots of men to their deaths and grievous injuries because the whole of England is not land enough to pillage. So run into a bunch of arrows and swords to get a few more acres in France for dear leader.
This is my favorite part of any Shakespeare work! I love this speech! Who could not hear this and not want to try to run through a stone wall for that man? I believe that many men who have read this passage and have seen this film are those who long to follow someone like King Henry V, and fight with every fiber of their being for a worthy cause!!!!!!
Braveheart NEVER comes close.......nothing does..this is passion, this is triumph, written when T V , movies and even radio DID nit exist..this is the VERY best!
These would be a little embarrassing in the Assembly of the Hopeful, fully armed the humans out numbered the Heroes that morning, outnumbers not for the rout but for the Point. Graph ye math and die in hope.
I haven't seen this movie in a long time and I accidentally found this video. I always cry with this scene and both Branagh's powerful delivery and Patrick Doyle's exquisite score. If you want to show someone what the term movie magic means, show them this.
Does there exist a speech so moving ever written by anyone ever? I ask honestly because this is honestly amazing. Kenneth Branagh's delivery honestly gives me goosebumps. "All things are ready if our minds be so!"
So Shakespeare basically invented the big rousing speech right before the battle? Because this is a lot like the speech in "Independence Day". Hell, this type of speech is in almost every war movie.
Ijusthopeitsquick Maybe thats why Emmerich think's Shakespeare's a fraud ;) Seriously, what I was saying is that this type of speech is such a pervasive part of popular culture that even Shakespeare used it. I guess everything's a ripoff of Shakespeare.
The music, the music, it means so much to the scene, as it did in the german speech in Band of Brothers. These magnificent words soar on the shoulders of this wonderful music. The combination makes for a moment of glory.
One of my favorite speeches ever. After studying the play in a Shakespeare class with a terrific teacher, and then going to Ashland, OR and seeing the play (front row, no less!) and seeing this Kenneth Branagh version, fantastic - I memorized the speech. I was thinking tonight, what would I most like to see, and this crossed my mind. Thanks for putting it here, so I wouldn't have to go search for the old VHS! :)
Out of all the crap, the total and complete crap that comes out of Hollywood, why, and I dare say, WHY aren't there more movies such as this. I say to Hollywood ... once more to the breach with a movie such as this ... or fill the internet with our intelligent dead!!! FOOTNOTE: I know it's based on Sir Williams humble play. That said, Kenny really nailed the scene!!!
because nowadays, if you showed anything christian themed in movies the SJWs will cry for something like "islamophobic" or "racist" and hollywood will listen to them SJWs.
There are great movies out there, but they're mostly made in Europe & Scandinavia, so if you don't mind reading subtitles give them a go - Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources would be a great start.
Today is Saint Crispin’s Day and the anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. "For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day"
It is the best speech...for its raw passion. And delivered superbly by Branagh. Also some other great discourse, such as Henry's talk with his men on the eve of Agincourt, while disguised as a common soldier and then his heart-wracked monologue of self-doubt and anguish at what he may be leading his men into. And also some famous and choice pieces during the attack on Harfleur.
You know, as inspiring as the speech may be, the battle that ensued was a complete massacre. The english forces wiped a third of the noble families of France and they killed all of the 2200 men they had made prisonner. We're talking about a war where knights were drowning in mud and where you could see piles of bodies that reached over you head. War is a strange thing.
Actually, most of the deaths come from the slaughtering of prisoners. They figured they'd only keep those they could get a ransom on, so they killed the rest. That guy ordered the murder of hundreds of war prisoners "because money"!
That handsome gentleman in the video didn't seem to mind all that much. Of course, the don't show that in the play or the movie, because Shakespeare was a true patriot.
Our Agincourt is again upon the English.....We shall prevail and against overwhelming odds the English will claw back lost freedoms and democracy today..................Vote Leave.
Moved to tears! This is how Christ's servants have been overmatched in this world and yet we're more than conquerors through Christ.Our hearts are in the trim as we stand or fall in this world for the kingdom is already won!
Branagh is a treasure! He makes middle English, Shakespearian poetry accessible to a modern, pragmatic mind. What amazing themes touched upon here. If only such speeches were given by world leaders today. If only world leaders led from the FRONT of their troops.
Speaking as an American I must say this is one of the most stiring speeches I've ever heard. When you consider the results you must accept the fact that leadrship is the most important factor in almost anything. Where are our true leaders today? I'm not talking military truly, and greatfully, they are more than present. I'm talking about our political people. Are there any true statesmen/women left that are more concerned for the county than their dear asses/pocketbooks?
"God for Harry, England and St. George" "We few, We happy Few, We band of Brothers, For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother," What a wonderful depiction of the spirit that was England. The spirit that is, today, nowhere to be found.
@JohnnyCamacho I'm so glad someone else picked up on this and commented. The herald had constantly showed his respect for the English and King Henry in particular. No words convey thus, just look, body language, and subtle gestures. Perfect acting.
To Henry V.. My great Granduncle... his wife and widow Catherine of Valois.... my great grandmother and to Owen Tudor who married the widow and started the great Tudor Dynasty!
Kenneth Branagh is class. I like his performances - if I travel to England or the US I'd never pass the opportunity to see him in a play. regards from germany
I'm Italian. The country where Dante, Machiavelli, and the most of Reinassance's best writers came from. But I really deeply feel a total respect for English literature. And Shakespeare. And this play. And this speech. And this actor.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day. Goosebumps everytime i hear this...
Is it just me, or is this actor so good, that I can almost hear Shakespear's voice through him, echoing through the ages, in the those who still understand the mighty power of words?
I am much bound to this movie: It was the first play of Shakespeare which I ever saw and as it was so well made I soon became addicted and did devour his works; and this movie does fulfil the commandment - “a kingdom for a stage, princes to act, and monarchs to behold the swelling scene” - from the play’s prologue as if there would be a Muse of Fire indeed; as it seems not to be staged but to actually have the proper medieval folk enact the play of Shakespeare, which is seldom achieved at best.
Shakespeare wrote this excellent play and we still can enjoy it. As I was reading the commentaries, I said to myself : "What a master, for a bit we could forget that the Frenchmen have won the war".
...and Saints Crispin & Crispinous were born and lived in Faversham... just down the road from Canterbury, where Marlowe was born...and Marlowe was apparently best mates with Mr Shakespeare... So it's no surprise Mr S'Speare was particularly, and rightly so, enamoured with this amazing episode in European (English/French) history! To the Brave French, & the Brave British (Welsh & English et al) we salute you!
MrDorado17: It's by Patrick Doyle, for his soundtrack for the film; the track itself runs some 14 minutes, and is called 'St. Crispin's Day / The Battle of Agincourt'. HND0: Yes, this was one of Christian Bale's early films, after EMPIRE OF THE SUN and before AMERICAN PSYCHO.
I always shed a tear at how sincere he sounds when he softly says "We few...we happy few, we band of brothers." Beautiful.
One of the greatest scenes in a film I have ever seen!
Amen, brother, AMEN! We few ... we happy few, that actually realize how beautiful this piece is, and shall ever will be.
Somehow I knew, that I would find you here.
Lovely speech!
(and you have a lovely channel)
This performance gives me chills every time I watch it. Since the day I saw it in the Theater in Los Angeles it has become my favorite speech in film. Nothing has moved me more than this speech. Bravo!
I agree with you there 100%
Goosebumps every time I watch this.
Angel of Silence as any Englishmen would have too
Such a mesmerizing scene. Such quality acting!
Battle of Agincourt's 600th anniversary is today October 25th. Read Shakespeare's "Henry V" this weekend, you few, you happy few, you band of brothers.
601th years since this day, the arrows flew over the field of Agincourt.
Five minutes of goose bumps.
I am sure even Shakespeare's contemporaries overacted his plays. What sets Branagh's version apart: he turned theatre into reality. Well done! Believable, passionate, beautiful. Shakespeare springs to life in this version. Bravo!
To believe in passion and acting not human reality
He's referencing the way Lenin gave a speech, to help the British government prove Shakespeare plays were not written by Communists. See also: The Undiscovered Country for the American side of the problem of proving this.
Myth.....
Absolutely fabulous!! The play, the film, the soundtrack...
"All things are ready if our minds be so."
Battles are not won with flesh alone. For victory is determined before the clash of swords begins.
“Perish the man whose mind is backward now!”
“And thou dost not wish more help from England cause?”
Fantastic acting! Absolutely flawless!
I always like to watch this agan and again.
Any one else watch this more than 20 times?
Off course wonderful .
But sadly I come out with it , in full , frequently in front of my friends!!!!! Who wonder about my sanity!!!!
This is my idea of Harry's speech when they thought they would die!!!
Can do a few of Churchill war speeches too as very Shakespearean and inspiring too.
PS understand not all of the speech as there is some spoken words too. My Great Aunt , died 99 left me her old Shakespeare book and could do lots of speeches.
Whilst I like Mike Rylance. At the Globe production his speech I think is totally boring and If I had been part of Harry's army I would have been asking for my passport to be made and crowns of convoy put into my purse!!!!!!
@@johngadsby6599 You may enjoy Ryland more in Angel's and Insects with Kristin Scott Thomas. I started off thinking he was very plain, but his performance by the end convinced me his characters was attractive and honest.
RYLANCE!!! Thanks AutoCorrect for knowing more than I do....
Gotta love how the herald was so impressed with King Henry he literally took his hat off to him. Glorious.
Yes - well said
Leadership at its best.
Yes - great to lead lots of men to their deaths and grievous injuries because the whole of England is not land enough to pillage. So run into a bunch of arrows and swords to get a few more acres in France for dear leader.
This pure and noble language was written by Shakespeare. So it is an authentic medieval movie, without the psicose and pessimism of the XXI century.
ah ... context
This is my favorite part of any Shakespeare work! I love this speech! Who could not hear this and not want to try to run through a stone wall for that man? I believe that many men who have read this passage and have seen this film are those who long to follow someone like King Henry V, and fight with every fiber of their being for a worthy cause!!!!!!
Braveheart NEVER comes close.......nothing does..this is passion, this is triumph, written when T V , movies and even radio DID nit exist..this is the VERY best!
These would be a little embarrassing in the Assembly of the Hopeful, fully armed the humans out numbered the Heroes that morning, outnumbers not for the rout but for the Point. Graph ye math and die in hope.
Braveheart is fuckin shit
In my honest opinion, Kenneth Branagh gave the best performance of the decade. Even better than Day-Lewis in My Left Foot
god bless old england xxx
Such a great speach done by such a great actor ^.^
I love this speech
Kenneth Brannagh. What a great actor
Was? He's still acting...
oh sorry mis-read your comment!
That's where the respect and admiration we've got for you come from. Greetings from Florianópolis, Brazil.
This scene still gives me goosebumps.
Kenneth Branagh is brilliant! His voice along gives me chills! What a magnificent speech!
Great leadership speech. And note Shakespeare's use of '"our minds" (i.e. good psychology and motivation). Delivered by the master, Kenneth Branagh .
I haven't seen this movie in a long time and I accidentally found this video. I always cry with this scene and both Branagh's powerful delivery and Patrick Doyle's exquisite score. If you want to show someone what the term movie magic means, show them this.
Great movie and what a great speech!! If that dosent make you wanna get up and go do something, somethings wrong with you!
When I need a lift, I just watch this clip...and am instantly cheered by it. 29 years old. Amazing. Now, *Sir* Kenneth Branagh. Kudos ~
I love this speech made by the great William Shakespeare and played by Kenneth branagh
Does there exist a speech so moving ever written by anyone ever? I ask honestly because this is honestly amazing. Kenneth Branagh's delivery honestly gives me goosebumps. "All things are ready if our minds be so!"
It's a myth.... A fiction... A fairytale..... 🤣🤣🤣
1:43, holy shit! I had no idea Christian Bale was in this and I am like, "that looks like a very young Christian Bale"
Bruce Wane's early years.
best version of this speach in my humble opnion, makes me proud to be british.
So Shakespeare basically invented the big rousing speech right before the battle? Because this is a lot like the speech in "Independence Day". Hell, this type of speech is in almost every war movie.
Yes, I believe Shakespeare stole this speech from Independence Day.
Ijusthopeitsquick LOL - I'm beyond despair for humanity.
Ijusthopeitsquick Maybe thats why Emmerich think's Shakespeare's a fraud ;)
Seriously, what I was saying is that this type of speech is such a pervasive part of popular culture that even Shakespeare used it. I guess everything's a ripoff of Shakespeare.
aquagrl63
Now I see what you mean. Yes, there's nothing new about generals haranguing their troops before a battle, in real life and in fiction.
Ijusthopeitsquick Haha! Shakespeare write this speech 200 years before Independence.
What a wonderful actor doing a wonderful play. This is my favrouite film of all time.
So proud to be English 🏴
this speech has true value to me
HAPPY St GEORGES DAY !!
??? Stay off the poitin !!
The music, the music, it means so much to the scene, as it did in the german speech in Band of Brothers. These magnificent words soar on the shoulders of this wonderful music. The combination makes for a moment of glory.
Chemistry test tomorrow - I CAN DO THIS! God wills it!
One of my favorite speeches ever. After studying the play in a Shakespeare class with a terrific teacher, and then going to Ashland, OR and seeing the play (front row, no less!) and seeing this Kenneth Branagh version, fantastic - I memorized the speech. I was thinking tonight, what would I most like to see, and this crossed my mind. Thanks for putting it here, so I wouldn't have to go search for the old VHS! :)
Out of all the crap, the total and complete crap that comes out of Hollywood, why, and I dare say, WHY aren't there more movies such as this. I say to Hollywood ... once more to the breach with a movie such as this ... or fill the internet with our intelligent dead!!! FOOTNOTE: I know it's based on Sir Williams humble play. That said, Kenny really nailed the scene!!!
because nowadays, if you showed anything christian themed in movies the SJWs will cry for something like "islamophobic" or "racist" and hollywood will listen to them SJWs.
There are great movies out there, but they're mostly made in Europe & Scandinavia, so if you don't mind reading subtitles give them a go - Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources would be a great start.
This speech was reclaimed by soldiers headed into the Normandy beaches in 1944. Very rouding
Today is Saint Crispin’s Day and the anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
"For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day"
"That fought with us upon SAINT CRISPIN'S DAY!"
Goosebumps.
Damn. Now I want to go to battle against the French.
It is the best speech...for its raw passion. And delivered superbly by Branagh.
Also some other great discourse, such as Henry's talk with his men on the eve of Agincourt, while disguised as a common soldier and then his heart-wracked monologue of self-doubt and anguish at what he may be leading his men into. And also some famous and choice pieces during the attack on Harfleur.
Young Christian Bale at 1:44
I definitely had to learn this in elementary school. I remember watching this movie in the 7th grade! SO MUCH AWESOME
Dear God it's Gilderoy Lockhart
God bless Henry V. I'm glad my ancestor, the Duke of Exeter, was one of the happy few.
Too bad we don't have leaders like this today.
You know, as inspiring as the speech may be, the battle that ensued was a complete massacre. The english forces wiped a third of the noble families of France and they killed all of the 2200 men they had made prisonner. We're talking about a war where knights were drowning in mud and where you could see piles of bodies that reached over you head.
War is a strange thing.
The results of the battle that followed make this speech all the greater.
Actually, most of the deaths come from the slaughtering of prisoners. They figured they'd only keep those they could get a ransom on, so they killed the rest.
That guy ordered the murder of hundreds of war prisoners "because money"!
It's a hell of a thing killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
That handsome gentleman in the video didn't seem to mind all that much. Of course, the don't show that in the play or the movie, because Shakespeare was a true patriot.
We won! You`re not English so you`ll never understand!
So many years later... after first reading it.. I turn to this for motivation.
I want to run off suddenly and conquer for the medieval English..
Our Agincourt is again upon the English.....We shall prevail and against overwhelming odds the English will claw back lost freedoms and democracy today..................Vote Leave.
so proud to be British. Our Kings and Queens have made our Kingdom great and exceptional!
Amazing! the best acting and shakespearean writing to be put to film
Moved to tears! This is how Christ's servants have been overmatched in this world and yet we're more than conquerors through Christ.Our hearts are in the trim as we stand or fall in this world for the kingdom is already won!
Branagh is a treasure! He makes middle English, Shakespearian poetry accessible to a modern, pragmatic mind. What amazing themes touched upon here. If only such speeches were given by world leaders today. If only world leaders led from the FRONT of their troops.
brings a tear to my eye, with all our advancements we have forgotten what great men and leaders look and sound like.
god bless, our history and traditions have been washed away but this reminds me of when you could be proud to be english,,,,, no surrender
This speech is incredibly moving, but fucking hell, the captions...
Speaking as an American I must say this is one of the most stiring speeches I've ever heard. When you consider the results you must accept the fact that leadrship is the most important factor in almost anything. Where are our true leaders today? I'm not talking military truly, and greatfully, they are more than present. I'm talking about our political people. Are there any true statesmen/women left that are more concerned for the county than their dear asses/pocketbooks?
Since it's Crispin's Day today, a bunch of students stood up today in the cafeteria and recited this, waving the flag and all. I cried.
What a powerful inspirational speech!
What great music!
You know, rewatching this today made me realize why they put Kenneth Branagh in charge of the Thor movie. And it's cool to see Batman there too.
about time this was said at Friday prayers throughout the land in every Mosque... every week, fellow countrymen...
Let them achieve me and then SELL MY BONES!
Bring it on if you think you're hard enough
"God for Harry, England and St. George" "We few, We happy Few, We band of Brothers, For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother," What a wonderful depiction of the spirit that was England. The spirit that is, today, nowhere to be found.
Wonderfully rousing
@JohnnyCamacho I'm so glad someone else picked up on this and commented. The herald had constantly showed his respect for the English and King Henry in particular. No words convey thus, just look, body language, and subtle gestures. Perfect acting.
So, this was very first monologue to preform. one of my best.
love hearing it
I feel honored to witness this video's passage into the million number of views.
I get positive chills whenever I hear this speech.
To Henry V.. My great Granduncle... his wife and widow Catherine of Valois.... my great grandmother and to Owen Tudor who married the widow and started the great Tudor Dynasty!
Kenneth Branagh is class. I like his performances - if I travel to England or the US I'd never pass the opportunity to see him in a play.
regards from germany
Goosebumps. Every time I hear it.
Amazing it gave me shivers.
Happy St. Crispin's Day!!!! And we get to study this play today in Shakespeare class, and then i write a paper on this film adaptation. Sweetness!!
The panning of the camera for the first few minutes just makes the suspense that much more epic.
THIS, is the kind of spirit that WE need to get back to!
I'm Italian. The country where Dante, Machiavelli, and the most of Reinassance's best writers came from.
But I really deeply feel a total respect for English literature. And Shakespeare. And this play. And this speech. And this actor.
this speech gives me chills its so awesome
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
Goosebumps everytime i hear this...
Good writer Old Shakespeare! Damn Good!
I always listen to this, when I'm sad and therefore unmotivated. Inspires me every time.
Is it just me, or is this actor so good, that I can almost hear Shakespear's voice through him, echoing through the ages, in the those who still understand the mighty power of words?
I am so gald I found this on youtube. The play and the moive are moving!
how right you are. and yes, a very stirring speech, apt somehow now.
I am much bound to this movie: It was the first play of Shakespeare which I ever saw and as it was so well made I soon became addicted and did devour his works; and this movie does fulfil the commandment - “a kingdom for a stage, princes to act, and monarchs to behold the swelling scene” - from the play’s prologue as if there would be a Muse of Fire indeed; as it seems not to be staged but to actually have the proper medieval folk enact the play of Shakespeare, which is seldom achieved at best.
Can you subtitle this please.
amazing this video
Shakespeare wrote this excellent play and we still can enjoy it. As I was reading the commentaries, I said to myself : "What a master, for a bit we could forget that the Frenchmen have won the war".
...and Saints Crispin & Crispinous were born and lived in Faversham... just down the road from Canterbury, where Marlowe was born...and Marlowe was apparently best mates with Mr Shakespeare... So it's no surprise Mr S'Speare was particularly, and rightly so, enamoured with this amazing episode in European (English/French) history!
To the Brave French, & the Brave British (Welsh & English et al) we salute you!
so were watching this movie in english and i was like "OMG thats Gilderoy Lockhart!" which made me pay attention a lot more.
This movie, and "Non Nobis, Domine" following this battle...are some of the best scenes I have ever seen in the history of cinema.
Oh sure go on ... For old times sake, I'll watch it once more.. for the 5 millionth time.
MrDorado17: It's by Patrick Doyle, for his soundtrack for the film; the track itself runs some 14 minutes, and is called 'St. Crispin's Day / The Battle of Agincourt'.
HND0: Yes, this was one of Christian Bale's early films, after EMPIRE OF THE SUN and before AMERICAN PSYCHO.
fav movie