Unlike Shakespeare’s cowardly Falstaff, the man he is based on, Sir John Fastolf was a revered soldier who fought in the Hundred Years’ War. He served with distinction at Agincourt and used barrels of herrings to shield his troops in the Battle of Herrings. He also fought in the famous Battle of Patay in which the English lost to Joan of Arc and her army. Because of the defeat, he was stripped of his knighthood and accused of cowardice for escaping capture and death. But he was later cleared of the charge before he retired from military service to become a successful businessman.
Fastolf's legacy continues. He died withotu issue and as he had as his executor William Waynefleet, Bishop of Winchester, a near neighbour to his Southwark manor, he left his estate for charitable purposes. this formed the original endowment to Magdalen College, Oxford.
Sir John Fastolf! Who had nearly fought the Dragon of Agnor, who had nearly stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol and who had personally wet himself at the Battle of Badon Hill. That Sir John Fastolf?.
Shakespeare definitely got the name from Sir John Fastolf, but the character is probably mostly based on John Oldcastle. A descendant of Oldcastle's persuaded Shakespeare to change the name.
Its so beautiful and subtle how Falstaff understands and takes pride in his 'son' and how Henry shows a moment of weakness before turning away.. Is this not all a father can hope for?
Yeah, I hadn't expected that - in all the other versions I've seen, Falstaff is on the verge of tears. Here, he looks like a proud teacher. I'm not sure I agree with it, but it's well done!!!
Lest you should be deluded about Falstaff’s wisdom of sorts, read in the play what comes after the king’s answer and accounts for Falstaff’s grin (Henry IV Part 2 act V scene 5).
@@ConcealedCarrier Indeed. He expects to be able to repay his debt thanks to the king’s favour because he’s under the illusion the rebuke he has received from him is but a pretence to please the crowd : He (the king) must seem thus to the world » « This that you heard (the rebuke) was but a color » Hence the grin…
Except that he used five thousand pedantic words when a dozen would’ve sufficed. He wrote 32 plays…but the world only knows 4 or 5. When someone decides to showcase some of his lesser known works…it becomes immediately apparent why these pieces go un produced. He doth talketh too much!
@@dgunit01 Hal was his father's son - a hypocrite. He subsumed his individuality in the pageantry and office of his inheritance. "I am not a double man" - Falstaff, Henry IV, Part 1
@@edydon Hal more so than Bolingbroke. Bolingbroke was stripped of his inheritance, his father’s, John of Gaunt, estates, after he was banished. And while Richard the second was away on campaign in Ireland. He initially landed with the hopes of regaining his and his father’s titles, and estate, which Richard seized to fund the aforementioned wars in Ireland, and John of Gaunt’s estates were second only the kings himself in terms of profitability. He was right to be angry about his state. But he landed and was so popularly received that he saw the chance and usurped and deposed the unpopular, corrupt Richard. The difference is that he was not ever going to be king by birth. Whereas, Hal was born the crown prince and heir apparent. Hal’s fate was laid before him and he sought out the path of joining a band drunkards, with the forethought of a redemption arc. This is very schemy, but installing Falstaff, poins, bardolph, etc as dukes or earls or any position they were not fit to hold would be the kind of nepotism Richard the second committed. What was he to do forswear the crown for the sake of his friends? Even if he did genuinely care for them, the duties of a king come before the feelings of a man.
@@nickwest_acousticno, you’re right. It’s an insult about his weight. Most of Shakespeare’s dialogue is roasts tbh. It’s characters roasting each other, the environment, or the world around the two.
@@nickwest_acousticIt would not have been out of place in Garfield. (In fact, a 1980s TV special DID have the computer bathroom scale call Garf “Judging by your weight… you must be Orson Wells!”😂
This is one of the great scenes in all drama: the pain of becoming an adult. How we must turn away from frivolity, dear, loving even, though it may be. We also know that Sir John never reformed himself. That must have broke Harry’s heart, though Henry would never allow himself to show it.
thats certainly one interpretation. id argue its an indictment of that very behavior you describe as a necessity. I agree its one of the greatest scenes in all of literature, but I think of Fallstaff of the real hero of the play not Harry
I think Henry knew Fallstaff would never reform himself, even if he hoped he would merely because of his desire to see his friend again he knew Fallstaf's nature well enough.
After nearly 40 years wait I have finally seen the whole of this film. There are two other scenes which in my view are up there with this one: John Gielgud as dying Henry IV giving his deathbed blessing to Hal, and Hal's fight with Hotspur (Norman Rodway) and what they say to each other after Hotspur is vanquished. Orson Welles was the greatest filmer of Shakespeare in history.
What an extraordinary force and presence is Orson Welles. Kenneth Tynan wrote a piece in which he touches on certain limitations of Welles as an actor but bore witness to how this was almost irrelevant in the context of an immense intellectual and personal charisma that shown out of him. It created its own category of performance that no one could rival. Gielgud said that as actors, 'we would have worked for nothing if we could still have worked with and for him'. Welles' Falstaff here is vulnerable in rejection but then, ultimately dignified in that final smile of pride in Hal.
@@kennethwayne6857 THANK YOU!!!! :D The Friar is expecting relief and joy from Romeo, but Romeo gives him the opposite, exclaiming, "Ha, banishment! be merciful, say "death"; For exile hath more terror in his look, Much more than death: do not say 'banishment'"(3.3. 12-14)."
For a moment, the old man smiled in pride at the boy child he once knew, become man and king, standing tall. Sadness and happiness mixing together in his heart, he walked away, pondering, pondering, can I be redeemed.
@williamcole960 Yes, I turned away from my sinful life and Jesus Christ was the only reason I was able to do it. There is always hope even for the most hardened of sinners.
@williamcole960 Jesus saved me from despair and sorrow, i couldn't forgive myself I was too ashamed of what I'd done in the past. I had no hope, He gave me hope. I asked him to forgive me, His mercy is infinite.
This rejection was not intended to kill off Falstaff, Shakespeare planned him to appear in HENRY V, as you learn from what the Chorus says at the end of HENRY IV Part 2. Apparently the actor identified with the role left the Company before HENRY V was performed, so Falstaff only "appears" in an off-stage death scene.
I can't beleive even SHAKESPEARE had to deal with stupid bullshit like "the actor quit so I have to find a way to get rid of the character". The more things change, the more they stay the same
@@leonardotavaresdardenne9955 Even more, the actor allegedly left due to Major Creative Differences with Shakespeare. It's rumored that the scene in _Hamlet_ where Hamlet is directing the clowns in that visiting theater company is what you might today call a "subtweet" at the actor in question.
Falstaff was a liar, con, thief, a robber, and lied about killing The Rebel Knight Hotspurs in Scotland, when in fact Henry had killed him and left his body. GREAT Play and Great rendition by all actors! Thank You! ~Be Safe out there folks ~ Peace & Health to All.
Sir Oldcastle. Burnt and hanged outside Foyles bookshop in Charing Cross. A proto Protestant, once known by the King who was the original Falstaff character until the name was changed by Shakespeare.
I love the very last moment of this as the shadow on his back combined with the shadow on the corner of the wall, and he may as well be made of brick just then. At the very least, in that moment, he is now more darkness than anything.
0megs9, yes, Hal . . . oops, I mean King Henry is rather a jerk to his old friend, but I think England is better not having Falstaff as the king's adviser. Still, this is one of my favorite scenes from Shakespeare. So tragic yet so responsible,
It's a small detail, but Henry still at this point gave his old friend a chance. "Make less thy body hence and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing, know the grave dove gape for the thrice wider than for other men ... And as we hear you do reform yourselves we will, according to your strength and qualities, give you advance." Keeping company with a man such as Falstaff would be irresponsible for King Henry to do, but he held out hope that Falstaff could become a better man. That might have been right, because Falstaff's last words were to call out for God.
@@jamestown8398 What I think is so amazing about this bit of text is that it all could be read as joking and ribbing just like in the old tavern days, but concealed through the veil of royal manners and sadness at the inevitable reality of Hal's succession.
OMG I remember this scene! and little else . . I saw it sometime around 1975 and this scene really moved me. I've been meaning to re-watch this but haven't gotten to it yet . .
That's the mystery and the majesty of Shakespeare's language. Because even as you're trying to decipher certain words and phrases as they are spoken, the feeling behind the language, and the emotions evoked in the listeners are very clear. I'm no Shakespeare expert, but it always seems clear to me what he's trying to get across, especially when it's done in a top-notch production like this one. Reading the text is a bit more difficult, but once you pick up on the rhythm of the words, it becomes much clearer.
"Fly not to me with a fool born jest." Hal has the wherewithal to know that Falstaff's power is in his language, and that if he let's him speak, he might be convinced to let him in. Hal does the right thing for the State, but I'd rather pledge my life to Sir John than to Henry V.
A lot of the locations here aren't sets, they're just places that happen to exist. This scene in particular was filmed at Castell de Cordona. If you're into the kind of architecture in Dark Souls, a lot of the castles and churches across Europe and northern Asia have that look to them, and are still around today as places you can just walk into!
@MrBanana2000 I vividly remember getting 10 points deducted for using "till" that way on an English essay in my freshman year of high school. 1960. I got a 90. That stung.
One of my ancestors was at court with Henry. A Sir John Bagot…his descendants were minor nobles in the Staffordshire area and immigrated to the colonies in the late 1600’s. 17 generations later here I am
@@atlanteum from what I found out my branch of the family traced back to Isle of Wright in the Virginia colony circa the 1690's...from there they branched into NC (I grew up there) and that's all I know. Trying to learn more about my heritage is a side hobby of mine.
@@jamesbaggett7223 That's awesome, friend. I'm working on a story with roots going back to the first colonies, and the research has been fascinating. While one family's journey might be lost to history, another will have records of who said what to whom... and what they had for breakfast that morning! I hope you are able to unearth many years and details of your own story -
This got me thinking whether the very end of Withnail & I is influenced by this scene. I mean, Shakespeare is alluded to in the dialogue, I just never thought it might be there in the plot structure.
@@tubekulose The Society for Creative Anachronism. It's a worlwide ''medieval reninactment'' group that was started in 1966, and the famous Sience Fiction author Marrion Zimmer Bradley co-founded and named it. There are chapters in most major cities around the world, and even some on US Aircraft carriers. About 1/3 get involved with the fighting side (Heavily padded armour, blunt wrapped rattan cane weapons, though full on blows) but most are more interested in the feasts and various other things, medieval cooking, recipes, caligraphy, history, crafts etc, the list is endless. There is probably a chapter near you, and an event happening soon :)
The brilliant Keith Baxter, who portrays Hal/Henry, died of a heart attack just last year (2023) at the age of 90 whilst swimming in Corsica. Remarkable life and career.
Id have loved to go to shakespeare and seen this, written for the masses to throw cabbage at, so pompus and up themselves, but here we are analyzing it as if it were a work of art, when it was merely the fast and the furious of its day.
So much more! It is not a simple betrayal of friendship, but a sacrifice. A moment if understanding that there were conditions so much higher than either of those two man, and it would be pointless to stand against it. You can see in the words of the King the pain but also the resolve. And as to Falstaff there is no anger, only sadness, but also understanding, a mixed of pride and sorrow. This scene is so much more than just a betrayal of friendship.
All this, and also the plain fact that while Falstaff is a good friend of good cheer, he would be a real cancer on the state if Hal took him with him. He’s shown throughout both plays to be shamelessly corrupt and dreams of how much more corrupt he can be with Hal as king. All things that someone could abide in a personal friend as a common man but not as a king.
Because rulership trumps friendship; as earlier in English history, the temporal duties of King Henry 2 came to conflict with the ecclesiastical duties of his quondam friend, now Archbishop of Canterbury adversary Thomas a Becket.
Unlike Shakespeare’s cowardly Falstaff, the man he is based on, Sir John Fastolf was a revered soldier who fought in the Hundred Years’ War. He served with distinction at Agincourt and used barrels of herrings to shield his troops in the Battle of Herrings. He also fought in the famous Battle of Patay in which the English lost to Joan of Arc and her army. Because of the defeat, he was stripped of his knighthood and accused of cowardice for escaping capture and death. But he was later cleared of the charge before he retired from military service to become a successful businessman.
All's well . . . . .
Fastolf's legacy continues. He died withotu issue and as he had as his executor William Waynefleet, Bishop of Winchester, a near neighbour to his Southwark manor, he left his estate for charitable purposes. this formed the original endowment to Magdalen College, Oxford.
Sir John Fastolf! Who had nearly fought the Dragon of Agnor, who had nearly stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol and who had personally wet himself at the Battle of Badon Hill. That Sir John Fastolf?.
Shakespeare definitely got the name from Sir John Fastolf, but the character is probably mostly based on John Oldcastle. A descendant of Oldcastle's persuaded Shakespeare to change the name.
I heard he covered the ground with pate and the French slipped and fell at the Battle of Patay. But that may be a red herring.
Orson Welles films just look different - the cinematography always stands out, the direction, the camera angles, the acting. He was a genius!
The way he captures the aura of Hal with the crowded knights obscuring him is so evocative
Orson' s ..Stage playing Experiences..His Voice ..Stout Appearance..
Also made amazing wine commercials
of course they look different he made movies before god created the Colors, dummy
And an oaf shilling for cheap wine at the end. To bad he lost all reputation...a penniless genius...a fitful tragedy
That moment just before King Hal turns, his recognition of what he just did to poor Falstaff, is real acting. The emotion is palpable
Real faking then
@@toastie8173 Would not a rose by any other name, smell so sweet?
@@toastie8173Yes you're a very enlightened thinker lol
Its so beautiful and subtle how Falstaff understands and takes pride in his 'son' and how Henry shows a moment of weakness before turning away..
Is this not all a father can hope for?
Father? More like the kind of crappy friend we all had in our youth and dumped when we realized they'd eventually get us in trouble.
@@MelancoliaI Tell me you didn't understand the movie without telling me.
Enlighten me then, professor. Last time I checked I was allowed to have my own opinion.
@@MelancoliaI Flastaff was the only true friend the prince ever had. He had to turn his back on him out of duty…not because he wanted to.
@@joelowery999 In my humble opinion, John Falstaff is the greatest fictional character ever conceived. But Prince Hal did what he had to do
I love Falstaff's little smile at the end. They both knew this day would come.
That was a genius touch to this otherwise callous retort of Hal's tutor. This touched me.
Yeah, I hadn't expected that - in all the other versions I've seen, Falstaff is on the verge of tears.
Here, he looks like a proud teacher. I'm not sure I agree with it, but it's well done!!!
Lest you should be deluded about Falstaff’s wisdom of sorts, read in the play what comes after the king’s answer and accounts for Falstaff’s grin (Henry IV Part 2 act V scene 5).
@@michellaboureur7651 doesn’t matter - he still owes Master Shallow £1,000
@@ConcealedCarrier Indeed. He expects to be able to repay his debt thanks to the king’s favour because he’s under the illusion the rebuke he has received from him is but a pretence to please the crowd : He (the king) must seem thus to the world » « This that you heard (the rebuke) was but a color » Hence the grin…
In this scene Shakespeare proves that you can kill a man far more thoroughly with words than any physical weapon.
Hal, did bad to Falstaff by this speech
I feel very sad for him
Rıp Big Belly Man!
Except that he used five thousand pedantic words when a dozen would’ve sufficed. He wrote 32 plays…but the world only knows 4 or 5. When someone decides to showcase some of his lesser known works…it becomes immediately apparent why these pieces go un produced. He doth talketh too much!
@@-Luka-Brazi but what talk...
The world only knows (quite well) 4 or 5 plays.........written 400 years ago. Not bad. @@-Luka-Brazi
@@-Luka-Brazi Look who's talking about talking too much, especially while knowing nothing.
Having read the plays...I think this is how Prince Hal always viewed Falstaff. He knew from the start that this is how it was going to end.
Absolutely! He even acknowledges this in his first soliloquy
@@dgunit01 Hal was his father's son - a hypocrite. He subsumed his individuality in the pageantry and office of his inheritance.
"I am not a double man" - Falstaff, Henry IV, Part 1
Yet Falstaff offered many times to sacrifice himself to secure his kingdom.
I like to think that that always haunted him.
Yet for a few moments you can see how it pains him. Laurence was a master!
@@edydon Hal more so than Bolingbroke. Bolingbroke was stripped of his inheritance, his father’s, John of Gaunt, estates, after he was banished. And while Richard the second was away on campaign in Ireland. He initially landed with the hopes of regaining his and his father’s titles, and estate, which Richard seized to fund the aforementioned wars in Ireland, and John of Gaunt’s estates were second only the kings himself in terms of profitability. He was right to be angry about his state. But he landed and was so popularly received that he saw the chance and usurped and deposed the unpopular, corrupt Richard.
The difference is that he was not ever going to be king by birth. Whereas, Hal was born the crown prince and heir apparent. Hal’s fate was laid before him and he sought out the path of joining a band drunkards, with the forethought of a redemption arc. This is very schemy, but installing Falstaff, poins, bardolph, etc as dukes or earls or any position they were not fit to hold would be the kind of nepotism Richard the second committed. What was he to do forswear the crown for the sake of his friends? Even if he did genuinely care for them, the duties of a king come before the feelings of a man.
“How ill white hairs become the fool and jester.” One of my favorite lines,
Guess I'll have to start dying my hair...
you betray your age, old man ;) i see you.
@@kparker2430 I turn 400 next year :D
Sadly, I betray my age less than it betrays me.
RIP the great Keith Baxter, his performance as Hal here is so timeless and stunning
The genius of Orson Welles shines out of every frame. A great man.
very true !
Absolutely
Agreed
When your high school drinking buddy shows up at your office
Or your drug dealer…
@@hughmac13 That would be apparent.
😂🤣😂🤣
You had a drinking buddy in high school?
😆🏆
Welles’ said this was his finest and favourite film.
Arena: The Orson Welles Story (1982) Worth a watch for filmmakers.
Really!!
Could be. I still like The Trial tho.
Bro he said “ go ahead and dig thyself a grave thrice wider than required for other men” that is COLD lmao
I thought he was saying he’s halfway in the grave with that kind of reckless talk, like a threat
@@thenoblepoptart oh, LMAO I took it as a fat joke
@@nickwest_acousticno, you’re right. It’s an insult about his weight. Most of Shakespeare’s dialogue is roasts tbh. It’s characters roasting each other, the environment, or the world around the two.
@@nickwest_acousticIt would not have been out of place in Garfield. (In fact, a 1980s TV special DID have the computer bathroom scale call Garf “Judging by your weight… you must be Orson Wells!”😂
Orson Welles’s crowning achievement, as actor and director!
It’s a good un, but he made quite a few good uns.
The movie is Chimes at Midnight for those asking.
Thank you.
"Chimes at midnight" 1965
This is one of the great scenes in all drama: the pain of becoming an adult. How we must turn away from frivolity, dear, loving even, though it may be. We also know that Sir John never reformed himself. That must have broke Harry’s heart, though Henry would never allow himself to show it.
Must we? Falstaff never did
thats certainly one interpretation. id argue its an indictment of that very behavior you describe as a necessity. I agree its one of the greatest scenes in all of literature, but I think of Fallstaff of the real hero of the play not Harry
I think Henry knew Fallstaff would never reform himself, even if he hoped he would merely because of his desire to see his friend again he knew Fallstaf's nature well enough.
After nearly 40 years wait I have finally seen the whole of this film. There are two other scenes which in my view are up there with this one: John Gielgud as dying Henry IV giving his deathbed blessing to Hal, and Hal's fight with Hotspur (Norman Rodway) and what they say to each other after Hotspur is vanquished. Orson Welles was the greatest filmer of Shakespeare in history.
Is the greatest.
Olivier can't compare.
What an extraordinary force and presence is Orson Welles. Kenneth Tynan wrote a piece in which he touches on certain limitations of Welles as an actor but bore witness to how this was almost irrelevant in the context of an immense intellectual and personal charisma that shown out of him. It created its own category of performance that no one could rival. Gielgud said that as actors, 'we would have worked for nothing if we could still have worked with and for him'. Welles' Falstaff here is vulnerable in rejection but then, ultimately dignified in that final smile of pride in Hal.
Love is the death of duty. This is how a young man takes responsibility.
What?
One of the greatest movie scenes of all time.
It's arguably the greatest Shakespeare movie ever, but I have never even heard of it being broadcast on television, and I'm in my 50's!
It was shown, I recall it in the 1980s.
BBC does air them from time to time
I think this is one of the most poignant scenes in any of the plays.
I still get the knot in my throat.
isn't there a retort? "ha! Banishment? Give me death, for banishment hath more terror in it's look, much more than death".
Falstaff as Romeo. "Be merciful, say death".
@@kennethwayne6857 THANK YOU!!!! :D
The Friar is expecting relief and joy from Romeo, but Romeo gives him the opposite, exclaiming,
"Ha, banishment! be merciful, say "death";
For exile hath more terror in his look,
Much more than death: do not say 'banishment'"(3.3. 12-14)."
For a moment, the old man smiled in pride at the boy child he once knew, become man and king, standing tall. Sadness and happiness mixing together in his heart, he walked away, pondering, pondering, can I be redeemed.
This is not bad. Did you write this?
@williamcole960 Yes, I turned away from my sinful life and Jesus Christ was the only reason I was able to do it. There is always hope even for the most hardened of sinners.
@@redchariots5428 hahahah ok well you totally ruined it there
@williamcole960 Jesus saved me from despair and sorrow, i couldn't forgive myself I was too ashamed of what I'd done in the past. I had no hope, He gave me hope. I asked him to forgive me, His mercy is infinite.
@@williamcole960you’re a ponce
One of the cruelest scenes in Shakespeare
Top 5 anime betrayals
HAHAHAHAHA
@@williamcole960i mean after watching this film this isnt even the betrayal.
The line "I do. I will" hit so hard
without back ground music!!!!!
Beautiful
This rejection was not intended to kill off Falstaff, Shakespeare planned him to appear in HENRY V, as you learn from what the Chorus says at the end of HENRY IV Part 2. Apparently the actor identified with the role left the Company before HENRY V was performed, so Falstaff only "appears" in an off-stage death scene.
I can't beleive even SHAKESPEARE had to deal with stupid bullshit like "the actor quit so I have to find a way to get rid of the character". The more things change, the more they stay the same
@@leonardotavaresdardenne9955 Thats show business for you
@@leonardotavaresdardenne9955 Even more, the actor allegedly left due to Major Creative Differences with Shakespeare. It's rumored that the scene in _Hamlet_ where Hamlet is directing the clowns in that visiting theater company is what you might today call a "subtweet" at the actor in question.
What a supremely well-acted scene. Simply heartbreaking.
Falstaff was a liar, con, thief, a robber, and lied about killing The Rebel Knight Hotspurs in Scotland, when in fact Henry had killed him and left his body. GREAT Play and Great rendition by all actors! Thank You! ~Be Safe out there folks ~ Peace & Health to All.
Orson Welles is the greatest actor of all time.
The way he embodies the character, and Welles himself seems hardly at all present reminds me of Daniel Day Lewis.
No. DDL is. But being 2nd is not bad.
This is heartbreaking
Welles’ unsung masterpiece.
I think it's sung.
Sir Oldcastle. Burnt and hanged outside Foyles bookshop in Charing Cross. A proto Protestant, once known by the King who was the original Falstaff character until the name was changed by Shakespeare.
When your uncle from Boston shows up without the beer.
his shaking voice is just so filled with emotions, itself telling of his inner battle. sad
WOW My mouth fell open, such great acting, wonderful
Wow! Never saw this before. Orson was extraordinary in the dictionary sense of the word.
but being awake i do despise my dream.....
@StrongEnvelope10 I did not know that. Thank you
I love the very last moment of this as the shadow on his back combined with the shadow on the corner of the wall, and he may as well be made of brick just then. At the very least, in that moment, he is now more darkness than anything.
0megs9, yes, Hal . . . oops, I mean King Henry is rather a jerk to his old friend, but I think England is better not having Falstaff as the king's adviser. Still, this is one of my favorite scenes from Shakespeare. So tragic yet so responsible,
so moving
It's a small detail, but Henry still at this point gave his old friend a chance. "Make less thy body hence and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing, know the grave dove gape for the thrice wider than for other men ... And as we hear you do reform yourselves we will, according to your strength and qualities, give you advance."
Keeping company with a man such as Falstaff would be irresponsible for King Henry to do, but he held out hope that Falstaff could become a better man. That might have been right, because Falstaff's last words were to call out for God.
@@jamestown8398 What I think is so amazing about this bit of text is that it all could be read as joking and ribbing just like in the old tavern days, but concealed through the veil of royal manners and sadness at the inevitable reality of Hal's succession.
Chimes at Midnight (1965) Wells both acted and directed this masterpiece
OMG I remember this scene! and little else . . I saw it sometime around 1975 and this scene really moved me. I've been meaning to re-watch this but haven't gotten to it yet . .
What is it?
Only Orson could make a man as big as himself appear so small.
UA-cam algorithm: Want a 70 year old movie clip uploaded 13 years ago?
Me: Yeah, okay.
I can't get enough of this scene.
you dont understand a third of whats being said here
@@johndoe-fq7ez what makes you say that?
@@uwu-di1cu I dont so i assume he doesnt
That's the mystery and the majesty of Shakespeare's language. Because even as you're trying to decipher certain words and phrases as they are spoken, the feeling behind the language, and the emotions evoked in the listeners are very clear. I'm no Shakespeare expert, but it always seems clear to me what he's trying to get across, especially when it's done in a top-notch production like this one. Reading the text is a bit more difficult, but once you pick up on the rhythm of the words, it becomes much clearer.
@@johndoe-fq7ez As Shakespeare goes this is pretty elementary stuff to understand. What is it you consider to be complex about this scene?
The ultimate ghosting
"Fly not to me with a fool born jest." Hal has the wherewithal to know that Falstaff's power is in his language, and that if he let's him speak, he might be convinced to let him in. Hal does the right thing for the State, but I'd rather pledge my life to Sir John than to Henry V.
this is shot better than practically every film made in the past 10 years
This scene looks so epic (reminded me of Souls games)!
I like these kind of classic, gritty fantasy films.
A lot of the locations here aren't sets, they're just places that happen to exist. This scene in particular was filmed at Castell de Cordona. If you're into the kind of architecture in Dark Souls, a lot of the castles and churches across Europe and northern Asia have that look to them, and are still around today as places you can just walk into!
Falstaff murió de pena, tras ver cómo le trataba su amado Hal. Lloró cada vez que veo esta escena.
I never heard of this, wonderful to find.
One of Welles very best. Great battle scene
I can't wait till this hits theaters!!!
What does "till" mean?
@@JiveDadsonuntil
@MrBanana2000 I vividly remember getting 10 points deducted for using "till" that way on an English essay in my freshman year of high school. 1960. I got a 90. That stung.
@@JiveDadson Merriam-Webster, "till," definition #2.
@@JiveDadson Well, it's healthy you're able to let things go after 60 years.
What an incredible disaster for the French,English long bow,and mud soaked terrain did them in.
I was unaware of this film, but now I'm definitely going to watch it tonight.
One of my ancestors was at court with Henry. A Sir John Bagot…his descendants were minor nobles in the Staffordshire area and immigrated to the colonies in the late 1600’s. 17 generations later here I am
What a bagot lmao
@@blastermaster7261 🤷🏻♂️
We welcome you to our shores..!
Do you know in which colony they landed?
@@atlanteum from what I found out my branch of the family traced back to Isle of Wright in the Virginia colony circa the 1690's...from there they branched into NC (I grew up there) and that's all I know. Trying to learn more about my heritage is a side hobby of mine.
@@jamesbaggett7223 That's awesome, friend. I'm working on a story with roots going back to the first colonies, and the research has been fascinating. While one family's journey might be lost to history, another will have records of who said what to whom... and what they had for breakfast that morning! I hope you are able to unearth many years and details of your own story -
A heartbreaking scene😢
He had it coming.
That was art.
Chef-d'oeuvre absolu.
This got me thinking whether the very end of Withnail & I is influenced by this scene. I mean, Shakespeare is alluded to in the dialogue, I just never thought it might be there in the plot structure.
Jack Black's killing it!
From such films, the SCA was born...
Huzzah!
Ski-Club Arlberg?
Sorry Crazy Alberts?
@@tubekulose The Society for Creative Anachronism. It's a worlwide ''medieval reninactment'' group that was started in 1966, and the famous Sience Fiction author Marrion Zimmer Bradley co-founded and named it. There are chapters in most major cities around the world, and even some on US Aircraft carriers. About 1/3 get involved with the fighting side (Heavily padded armour, blunt wrapped rattan cane weapons, though full on blows) but most are more interested in the feasts and various other things, medieval cooking, recipes, caligraphy, history, crafts etc, the list is endless. There is probably a chapter near you, and an event happening soon :)
Presume not I am the thing I was….one of my favorite lines.
It's alot like how I feel about my old lowlife weed friends from my early 20s.
C’mon man, they do not know what they do.
Just imagine the care that went into this scene.
Before green screen or "fuck it, we will fix it in post"
The best Orson Wells performance 😅
It's such a pity that you do not give any information, Ian!
Such an overwhealming scene of acting, but I know nothing.
"Have we not heard the chimes at Midnight?"
Keith Baxter was never ever better than in this movie.
That was some beautiful acting!
Chimes at Midnight is an amazing film, my favorite Shakespeare interpretation
Is this from Chimes at Midnight? Always wanted to see that but can't find it anywhere.
+weallbfree Yes. rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2890404
Amazon DVD sales.
Hbo max
Sooo, did you like it?
As for my comment, “REPLY NOT TO ME WITH A FOOL-BORN JEST!”
The brilliant Keith Baxter, who portrays Hal/Henry, died of a heart attack just last year (2023) at the age of 90 whilst swimming in Corsica. Remarkable life and career.
When Steve Wozniak shows up at a Board Meeting.
A very underrated movie, in my opinion.
Id have loved to go to shakespeare and seen this, written for the masses to throw cabbage at, so pompus and up themselves, but here we are analyzing it as if it were a work of art, when it was merely the fast and the furious of its day.
It was more like breaking bad, popular and maybe a little base but still a great story for the ages
LOL, if that's not a work of art I don't know what is.
The old guy looks like a cross between Orson Welles and Burl Ives.
Movie name: Chimes at Midnight
English… what an amazingly beautiful language.
Aw look at you I watched your a few videos because I'm interested in buddhism
Powerful portrait of what happened between myself and a couple of my HS buddies.
I sayeth to thee, DO behold the rocks that I got. No longer shall you address my person as Jennie from the block.
Betrayal of friendship Is there more to say?
One of Welles's favourite themes -- one he returns to in practically all of his films.
So much more! It is not a simple betrayal of friendship, but a sacrifice. A moment if understanding that there were conditions so much higher than either of those two man, and it would be pointless to stand against it. You can see in the words of the King the pain but also the resolve. And as to Falstaff there is no anger, only sadness, but also understanding, a mixed of pride and sorrow. This scene is so much more than just a betrayal of friendship.
All this, and also the plain fact that while Falstaff is a good friend of good cheer, he would be a real cancer on the state if Hal took him with him. He’s shown throughout both plays to be shamelessly corrupt and dreams of how much more corrupt he can be with Hal as king. All things that someone could abide in a personal friend as a common man but not as a king.
Because rulership trumps friendship; as earlier in English history, the temporal duties of King Henry 2 came to conflict with the ecclesiastical duties of his quondam friend, now Archbishop of Canterbury adversary Thomas a Becket.
Not a real friendship, a pattern of mutual exploitation that no longer served the new sovereign. Falstaff deserved no better.
Fantastic camera angle work. 👍
1:07 THAT'S NICK MULLEN
my own private idaho
Reeves best performance.
My own private Idaho is a poor remake
What's the name of the movie...????
Chimes at Midnight
He only wanted a hug.
He dealt with him like a snake, damn.
What is this movie
It is a very common feeling when you reach the era of Great-Grand parent.🤔
I don't know why saw a recommendation for a video from 13 years ago with only 180k views, but I knew I had to click on it
0:30 oh my god atun shei films?
Lmao what a niche but accurate comment, on a random Orson Welles video of all places
So this is what paul atreides is upto these days.
When I banish plump jack then the whole world, I just had a good tug now I’m going to nap
I don't believe Falstaff ever really loved Hal, he was just a bag of money for him
you would know as some folks in your life are just bags of money. Thank you for being so transparent.
Superb!
But Harry i got a case of your favourite ale!
Well why didn’t you say so in the first place!
Party on the Dance Floor!🤴🏻