I mean, it sounds like a joke but it's genuinely true. Something about that character lends itself remarkably well to a male portrayal, and something about David lends itself remarkably well to a female role.
@@Xezlec that's spot on, the thing I always think with Mrs danvers is in so many ways a villain who has an incorrigible hatred of all things common, the literal definition of being uptight. It's crazy how David excels in those types of roles. Moreover, this horrifying glide from across the room is so in keeping with the tone of Mrs danvers, the feeling Mrs Dewinter has when danvers is in the room. Ghostly, cold, a spectre always judging and disapproving. Classic Mitchell and Webb, and the types of intellect not known to many comedy sketch shows
This is so funny, and incredibly well-acted by Robert Webb. They did well to get so many references to the original film in, in such a short time. The fact that they're talking about the wife who comes after her makes it an even creepier concept than the original! Bravo all around
I just saw he new 2020 version on Netflix. I had to go back to this immediately afterwards. Nobody even comes close to David Mitchell's portrayal of Mrs. Danvers!!!
I just watched the original film for the first time, and I kept thinking about this. This is one of their best! It is so perfect and fitting to the film. Amazing!!!
I recently watched Hitchcock's Rebecca and there things struck me...1. How bloody gorgeous Olivier was 2 how good this sketch was and 3 what an excellent talent is David Mitchell.
I could see that. If you've read the novel, and especially if you've seen the Hitchcock film, it's nigh perfect. The music, the set design, the shot selection - hard to believe they did this on a TV budget
Mrs. Danvers is the key to all this, if we can get Mrs. Danvers working, cause she's a funnier character than we've ever had in any of the other movies.
This is missing the preamble, in which the director, being interviewed, explains that the film was rewritten because studio executives found it unthinkable to have a film named _Rebecca_ that doesn't star the title character.
@@Ceruleanst You know, I must have got a good third of the way through the book before I thought to myself, "What *is* the name of the main character narrating this book? I remember Max and Mrs Danvers and other less important characters names, but I can't think what the main character is called." Then I started to skim through what I had already read, looking for her name before I realised it just wasn't there.
"Listen here, you limey bastard, if people go to see a film called 'Rebecca', there'd better be a dame called Rebecca in it!" - if I recall the line correctly. Certainly words to that effect if not!
I showed my friend this. He had never seen Mitchell and Webb before, and had no idea who David Mitchell was. When we finished with this, I showed him 'Medical Drama' and he thought Mitchell was a drag king.
a most sublime parody of what is so oddly my favorite Hitchcock film. I do not really understand exactly why but after watching Rebecca, it was an overall satisfying film experience and an movie i can happily watch again.
@@jamesmcinnis208 Yes but given they're flipping the narrative, the treasured wife isn't the first one anymore, it's the latter. So I'd argue my joke stands....
'Rebecca' is my favourite film of all time. Watch the original - the Alfred Hitchcock version - not a remake or TV adaptation. The film is quite faithful to the book except when describing the details of Rebecca's death - the film differs from the book slightly. But it makes no difference. So you don't have to read the book, unless you really want to. Mrs Danvers is such a great villain.
DeeplyShalllow ......of course it's not a literary masterpiece like Harry Potter..... but I thought the story pace was perfect.... But those who like a power ranger speed type plot it will seem "slow"....
Didn't they talk about doing a "Strangers on a Train" on peep show? Each taking care of a problem the of the other? Maybe? Cause I'm kinda remembering it connected with them too...
I just watched Rebecca, fantastic film..same music as well. This kinda spoiled the film a little, since it's a bit backwards...but it did make me want to see it.
I once overheard a woman talking to her friend. She went on about how she thought a certain man would be a good first husband for her daughter. I should have asked if there was a room he wasn't allowed to go into, because it was for the second husband...
This is so stupid. I love it.
"You won't be able to hold a candle to her... I shouldn't think."
I've seen a few adaptations of Rebecca and David Mitchell is genuinely the best Mrs Danvers I've ever seen...
hahahaha !!!!
I mean, it sounds like a joke but it's genuinely true. Something about that character lends itself remarkably well to a male portrayal, and something about David lends itself remarkably well to a female role.
@@Xezlec that's spot on, the thing I always think with Mrs danvers is in so many ways a villain who has an incorrigible hatred of all things common, the literal definition of being uptight. It's crazy how David excels in those types of roles. Moreover, this horrifying glide from across the room is so in keeping with the tone of Mrs danvers, the feeling Mrs Dewinter has when danvers is in the room. Ghostly, cold, a spectre always judging and disapproving. Classic Mitchell and Webb, and the types of intellect not known to many comedy sketch shows
I think my favourite part is the slow glide mitchell does at 0:40
That is the one part where I actually cracked up.
The slow glide Mitchell AND whatever glid him did!
"No one ever goes in there... Yet."
Bluelunes I am Mrs. DeWinter, for now.
All I want is a full length movie featuring David Mitchell as the female lead
All I want is to see the east wing.
But you _can't_ ! We're keeping it for the _second_ CaptainLumpyDog!
quizzlie Heeheehee!
quizzlie 😂
I want a helicopter.
David Mitchell as Mrs Danvers is on point
Standard.
+CaptainLumpyDog Isn't it.
+Daniel Evans Isn't it.
CaptainLumpyDog Isn't it though.
+thelouisfanclub Brilliant and really sinister.
I think the plan was to have 4 wives: De Winter, De Spring, De Summer and De Fall.
D' autumn ?
@@gubernatorial1723 they're D' merican, so they say fall, not autumn
and 'De Spare'
That’s gold.
The way Mitchell glides across the floor towards her is genius.
This is so funny, and incredibly well-acted by Robert Webb. They did well to get so many references to the original film in, in such a short time. The fact that they're talking about the wife who comes after her makes it an even creepier concept than the original! Bravo all around
It's impressive how Webb manages to look like Laurence Olivier in the long shots.
I suspect digital trickery.
This is so brilliant, Mitchell makes a disturbingly convincing Danvers!
Notice she's gliding not walking
Still a better remake than the one from Netflix
No wonder this guy is so rich. Those are some amazing planning skills. I don't even know what I'm going to have for dinner.
It'll be pizza.
@@ian_b We all knew.
Now i know.
I just saw he new 2020 version on Netflix.
I had to go back to this immediately afterwards. Nobody even comes close to David Mitchell's portrayal of Mrs. Danvers!!!
Dame Judith Anderson did. Oh yeah!
"I am Mrs De Winter, for now."
I just watched the original film for the first time, and I kept thinking about this. This is one of their best! It is so perfect and fitting to the film. Amazing!!!
I recently watched Hitchcock's Rebecca and there things struck me...1. How bloody gorgeous Olivier was 2 how good this sketch was and 3 what an excellent talent is David Mitchell.
olivier had a wig on in that movie
I've never even heard of the film this is a spoof of but somehow I knew it was by Hitchcock. That's impressive for a comedy sketch.
JPaul C ....it is a parody of the film by Alfred Hitchcock from the famous book by Daphne du Maurier....
Impressive of Hitchcock too, to create such a distinct look and feel.
I love how Mitchell playing a woman is never done as a mocking caricature thing, just a male actor playing a woman. And quite well.
It's amazing as it's clearly just David Mitchell, but it still somehow works.
It sort of reminds me Darren from WKUK. He almost always plays women, but he is very **sexualised**
You won't be able to hold a candle to her, I shouldn't think!
The new Rebecca film on Netflix seems to be inferior to this
It's just SO well done! Hard to put into words how perfect the sketch is. Impressive doesn't do it justice.
Even the music is evocative.
Yes, yes Mitchell's Danvers is great. But Webb does a brilliant Olivier.
Wishing it was a full lenght movie parody, we see top notch acting in this sketch.
I could see that. If you've read the novel, and especially if you've seen the Hitchcock film, it's nigh perfect. The music, the set design, the shot selection - hard to believe they did this on a TV budget
Duke OfOmnium ......BBC do have a massive amount of money though......from licence payers.....
@@fredrickaappletree3402 I doubt it was too expensive, stately homes aren't particularly expensive to rent for a few days of filming.
I love Mitchell & Webb, but I think I laughed harder at this than anything else I've seen them do!
A true classic. Perfect on every level.
The production values on these sketches were insane.
Still the best remake of Rebecca
Damn prequels.
Hello there
Mrs. Danvers is the key to all this, if we can get Mrs. Danvers working, cause she's a funnier character than we've ever had in any of the other movies.
Robert Webb looks a lot like Olivier did in the original haha
But this film is not _Rebecca_ . It is clearly _The Second Mrs de Winter_ .
This is missing the preamble, in which the director, being interviewed, explains that the film was rewritten because studio executives found it unthinkable to have a film named _Rebecca_ that doesn't star the title character.
@@Ceruleanst You know, I must have got a good third of the way through the book before I thought to myself, "What *is* the name of the main character narrating this book? I remember Max and Mrs Danvers and other less important characters names, but I can't think what the main character is called." Then I started to skim through what I had already read, looking for her name before I realised it just wasn't there.
"Listen here, you limey bastard, if people go to see a film called 'Rebecca', there'd better be a dame called Rebecca in it!" - if I recall the line correctly. Certainly words to that effect if not!
Ha ha yeah. But she disposes of statue in drawer and a butler (?) gets fired. Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland - NOT so cool after all.
I had never heard of the book until I watched the new film (2020) on Netflix yesterday. UA-cam then suggested this today. The internet is creepy.
Is this what life was like with Charles and Diana?
Yes, only with less crossdressing.
+Working Class Zombie I thought she was friends with Elton John.
Zing!
I showed my friend this. He had never seen Mitchell and Webb before, and had no idea who David Mitchell was. When we finished with this, I showed him 'Medical Drama' and he thought Mitchell was a drag king.
I think this is my favorite M & W Sketch- David Mitchell as Mrs.Danvers and Robert Webb's Olivier are just SO happy making.....
a most sublime parody of what is so oddly my favorite Hitchcock film. I do not really understand exactly why but after watching Rebecca, it was an overall satisfying film experience and an movie i can happily watch again.
+divinuminfernum Sounds like you've seen hardly any Hitchcock films.
Now that i know more about the original story of rebecca this is even funnier 🤣
Petition for them to make the entire film and call it "(The Woman Before) Rebecca" 😂
Except that she is Rebecca.
@@jamesmcinnis208 Yes but given they're flipping the narrative, the treasured wife isn't the first one anymore, it's the latter. So I'd argue my joke stands....
@@LilyGrace95 As you wish.
@@jamesmcinnis208 ....?
So, Rebecca but directed by the Tralfamadorians, for the Tralfamadorians.
Well well, Vonnegut turns up everywhere.
So it goes.
Yes! We will loved it.
Marvelous! Mrs Danvers reminds me a little bit of Olivia de Havilland! Ha!
This is really weird when you haven't seen the original it's based on...
A really apt parody of the classic book. Loved it!
Of the movie of the book
This is perfect. So clever. My favourite novel turned on its head. Love it
I love the idea that Max is a psycho who just makes all his wives think they are inferior to the past/future one....
Robert Webb looks so convincing as this old fashioned "upper class type" I'm sure Daphne du Maurier would have loved this "adaptation" of her book :)
Fredricka Apple tree he was in one of the recent Miss Marple movies, iirc
It’s a very good impression of Olivier
Always thought Max was a miserable bastard, in the book and hitch's version. BTW, the best thing about the movie is the waxman score
''TBA''
I love that detail too 😂🤣
Mrs Danvers is the role Mitchell was born to play.
Funny, my wife was watching the modern remake of this last night and it popped up today.
@ 0:41 I love how he is moving forward without moving his legs
Sooo funny!!! Excellent.
Very impressive.
Beyond the best!
Webb really does look like Olivier.
This is sooo much better that the Netflix's Rebecca (2020)
And much shorter too! 😄 Totally captures the essence of the original film. One of their finest sketches.
So, SO perfect.
this sketch is one of my fav's. i showed it to my friend who hadnt read or seen rebecca and he didnt find it nearly as funny
'TBA' hahahaha
You left out the "Reel Stories" bit at the start which is kind of explains the whole sketch?!? Thanks for uploading tho :)
Bloody brilliant fantastic 😂
Splendid mickey-take of an absurd story.
Only my Daddy was allowed to call me Mander
'Rebecca' is my favourite film of all time. Watch the original - the Alfred Hitchcock version - not a remake or TV adaptation. The film is quite faithful to the book except when describing the details of Rebecca's death - the film differs from the book slightly. But it makes no difference. So you don't have to read the book, unless you really want to. Mrs Danvers is such a great villain.
aerialkate This is her garden party dress if she's a size twelve!
You should read the book, it's a bit slow but it's an amazing read!
DeeplyShalllow ......of course it's not a literary masterpiece like Harry Potter..... but I thought the story pace was perfect....
But those who like a power ranger speed type plot it will seem "slow"....
This also serves as an allegory to how silly the concept of an afterlife is.
Dunno how i missed this one. It's probably the most bonkers and surreal sketch they've done?
Nicely done.
Superb, they could do an entire remake.......
Superb!
Of course, none of this was filmed in the official "Mitchell and Webb" garden.
totally how it feels to watch old romantic movies
i had to read this for my english literature a-level, its only worth reading to inform you for this sketch
That was awesome 👌
Continuing the great British tradition of blokes dressing as comedy women
Brilliant
It's based on the film 'Rebecca' by Alfred Hitchcock, which itself is based on a novel of the same name.
Anyone uploaded their Strangers in a Train parody? Searching that and searching "Mitchell and Webb Hitchcock " just comes up with the Rebecca clip...
ua-cam.com/video/IPkCDqJOoWw/v-deo.html there is this one by Harry & Paul. I've never seen one by Mitchell and Webb. Could be you confused them.
Didn't they talk about doing a "Strangers on a Train" on peep show? Each taking care of a problem the of the other? Maybe? Cause I'm kinda remembering it connected with them too...
There surely is a film based on such a twist.
Rebecca.
Oh, I get it. It's like his wife died and he remarried, but in reverse.
David Reddy correctamundo
Didn't realise this was all her dream 😂
Good god he looked spitting image of L.O.
I just watched Rebecca, fantastic film..same music as well. This kinda spoiled the film a little, since it's a bit backwards...but it did make me want to see it.
not as funny without the intro
Agree!
Joanna Neary
I once overheard a woman talking to her friend. She went on about how she thought a certain man would be a good first husband for her daughter. I should have asked if there was a room he wasn't allowed to go into, because it was for the second husband...
Very good but I wonder how many of the Mitchell and Webb fanbase were familiar with the film?
Ben Wheatley's style of directing has really changed. haha
Parents were watching Rebecca last night and this was all I could think of.
What does "TBA" on the 2nd Mrs.Dewinter's face mean?
To be announced
He does look like Laurence Olivier
Manderly?! 😂😂
Oh my god this is fucking hilarious if you've seen the film.
This was funny and i like the way u guys used the original music as well
I don't get it, what movie/book is this based off of?
...is David being carried on a dolly?
number wang
I know this is based on a film, but cant remember the name.
Thought David Mitchell had a game plan to be the 2nd wife
Plot twist: he's the third wife