Ian McKellen King Lear Part 2

[iAsian92]

What?AUDIO IS REMOVED!?

REMOVED!?!

IT'S SHAKESPEARE. HE'S DEAD. 

[GaryK425]

Remove this video because without the audio it is as equally pointless as your life.

[LambChowder1]

@GaryK425 the fuck?

[DELLWOODBARKER]

I do think as mathchart does...the music is horrible in this case....

[hollowmonkeybones]

He's brilliant...They're all pretty great!

[leoma1985]

oh my goodness, you can't get better shakespear from anyone but ian mckellen. i love the way that cordelia is able to feed off him. is there somewhere that i can see the whole production, i wouldn't mind buying a dvd...

[t8769]

Fuck off maiomika

[NomineRaven]

OMG. McKellen is a living legend.

[TwistingWays]

Cordelia is so beautiful in this production. And Goneril's voice creeps me out XD I love it.

[TwistingWays]

I think this is sadder than Hamlet. Hamlet might be long, but I almost started crying during the first part of this when Lear is talking about the Thankless Child.

[TwistingWays]

I just started reading this. And this production looks amazing. Isn't it on PBS?

[jmercer79]

I saw him live playing Lear, but didn't think he was a patch on Ian Holm's Lear in Richard Eyre's production at the National.

[mathchart]

Why the music? It takes away from the drama.

[stephen1988LFC]

Ian Is A Fucking Legend

[maiomika]

please do not swear, it disrespects you and me. thank you very much for your concideration

[Ariashal]

I was given the most amazing fortune of seeing him perform live. It was like watching a miracle worker.

[Ponchochickendoc]

Ian Mckellen is my Shakespeare hero.

[hamsterpatuti]

out,vile jelly! where is thy lust now?

[xpo50]

I love that line, i sya it whenever I put jam on bread

[musicaldudepeter]

that would be "lustre"

[hamsterpatuti]

out, vile jelly! where is thy lust now?

[Milky111wtf]

Lol, you put LOTR music in this? Just cuz it's Ian McKellen?

[judithah41]

Your films are awesome. I teach King Lear in high school and invite students to view your work. Thanks much.

[ilaconix]

This is wonderful. It moved me to tears. I thought Michael Hordern was great but Ian McKellen is the best King Lear I've seen.

[ThingsWeSaidToday]

does anyone know where you can find the full Ian McKellen version online?

[skippyd89]

And a little Beethoven, too--Moonlight Sonata. The excerpt was beautifully done, but I feel the added music overpowered the inherent music of Shakespeare's words. A previous postered mentioned the Kevin Kline Lear (Did you catch his Cyrano on PBS recently?) I missed Kline as Lear, but did see Christopher Plummer's--an excellent Lear. I eagerly await McKellen on PBS.

[djh126]

This is amazing, powerful stuff. I saw Kevin Kline do Lear on B'way last year, and McKellen puts him to shame. Kline was ok, but a lightweight compared to McK. It's so full of emotion - even those abbreviated scenes brought me to tears. PBS will be running the complete McKellen version on March 25, according to the NYTimes. Don't miss this.

[AlbinoW08]

i hate this play...have to study it in school!

[ukulazy]

don't look it up on youtube then.

[musicaldudepeter]

WHO'S THAT BEING HANGED? is it cordelia?

[ChickenGoujons]

It's the fool. In the play Lear says, "my poor fool is hanged". Some people take that to mean a term of endearment for Cordelia, some people think that it's a referance to Cordelia and that the fool and Cordelia were actually the same person and some just take it to mean that the fool was hanged too. Obviously this director took the last option.

It's one of the most distressing bits of the play. Really horrific.

[elleoneiram]

this looks amazing

[thedoctor1812]

It was, completely - I went to see it in London back in January, blew my mind.

[musicaldudepeter]

How was this footage filmed? Was this for advertisement purposes or was the stage production professionally filmed? Thank you.

[andataeritorno]

does anyone know what songs they are in the video? please help!!!

[OOOuise]

lord of the rings music at the end.. from the return of the king.. not sure which song!.. :)

[DarcyBrow]

"The Two Towers", actually ; )

[playornotplay]

THX for uploading!!! thats a great one.

but where is part one?