Il Commendatore Scene -- Losey's DON GIOVANNI

[mw6324]

Check also Tadeo Giorgio's commendatore's scene ,it's one of the best

[123must]

beautiful !

thanks

[hamletastranger]

I absolutely love this opera! especially this scene - Don Giovanni, Mozart's anti-hero - perhaps the fist anti-hero of modernity - faced with recanting and betraying his true self choses hell!

[Archraveful]

12 people were being thrown by commendatore to hell

[bodiloto]

Ah,padron siam tutti sordi!

[shannon4life]

i wish there were captions.

[TushTushTush]

Crappy rip of a great movie

[Adagio1723]

Yes....but will it blend?

[Igrainedatintagel]

Raimondi is terrific!!! I think he is one of the best Don Giovanni, and also Scarpia in Tosca, all around the world.

[ant501UK]

Having got together a good cast and a big budget, Losey then makes little of the impact of the Commendatore by keeping the camera off him for most of his scene. After what is a very good initial apperance by the statue it all falls apart after that. I just don't get the pantomime "look behind you" aspect of the bowl of flames or some of the funny angles in this strange edit either.

[hugodraslik]

Wow, 5:55 - most singers only yell or scream here, but Raimondi actually sang an real A4! What a nice bass-baritone.

[rusLina1]

LA STATUA Don Giovanni a cenar teco minvitasti e son venuto! DON GIOVANNI Non lavrei giammai creduto; ma farò quel che potrò. Leporello, un altra cena fa che subito si porti! LEPORELLO Ah padron! Siam tutti morti. DON GIOVANNI Vanne dico!

[123must]

Losey è un grande regista e qui dimostra tutta la sua abilità. Non è il regista dell'opera teatrale ma di uno straordinario ( nel genere ) movie. E qui sta la differenza del tutto evidente.

Grazie

[jonydictado]

Who is the black haired man who doesn't sing anything in all the scene?

[rogerzilla]

The black-clothed valet, who has a silent part. He just ponces around and looks vaguely knowing throughout the film.

[jonydictado]

@rogerzilla I don't understand... so is it a character which only appears on the movie? I never saw him in any other commendatore scene interpretation

[rogerzilla]

@jonydictado Yes, he's an invention of Losey's. He shows no fear of the statue, although he does ensure he's well out of the way. It's as if he knows what's going to happen to the Don, and doesn't care.

[edraith]

Why Babbau is dressed up like Count Vlad Dracul in Coppola's Dracula?

LOL

[robertanico]

@edraith Is Coppola's Dracula whic is dressed up like Raimondi... this movie comes many years before the movie of Coppola.

[DieSonneSinkt]

Coppola 'borrowed' the idea from Lossey...

[DieSonneSinkt]

Losey*

[edraith]

And so Raimondi is the original Dracula :P

[Supermegaton]

This scene, although not verbatim, is already in the earliest versions of the Don Juan myth (Tirso de Molina). Together with Don Quixote, Don Juan is the grandest, most influential literary character in Spanish literature.

[blichilde]

Losey ,the director, said that Raimondi (Don Giovanni) had one of the most interesting faces he worked with. He appreciated him as actor very much.

Moreover, he is one of the best interpreter ( as singer) of DG, according to the great part of musical critics.

[tinChoithepig]

who is that man standing beside the table who didn't say (sing) anything?

[Pluginseb]

He's present during all the movie, an invention of Losey.

I think (but that's my personnal point of view) that he is some kind of a god's witness observing Don Giovanni to see if there's something to be saved, representing the judgment of god.

For info, it's Eric Adjani, brother of the Isabelle of the same name.

[SCarleTT123star]

adoro questa scena....ogni volta che la guardo mi viene la pelle d'oca...:))

[cantanteporsiempre]

Che voce quella del Comendatore!!!  Un vero basso

[deja2048]

one detail--don giovanni is backing into

the firey pit but cant honorably go flying

ass backwards into it. the transition is so

abrupt itslike a fake wrestler. don's panic should result in vertigo which pulls him

spinning into a forward plunge into the

fiery abyss. otherwise its not so much

campy as clumsy. losey is not that campy.

probably the director wanted to re-shoot.

the producer said 'again?' and so it was.

[deja2048]

this is the best overall don giovanni film

even if the status is no kurt moll and the

mic recording muddles the fidelity of the

studio recording, this is the consummate

modern movie version. madamina is

re-recorded well. this finale re-recording

is so poor you really have to substitute

the ramey moll finale for the sake of the

music. otherwise losey is mozart's best

friend in presenting don giovanni

[ChristianistheLawr]

This movie SUCKS. The director made it dull, boring and super serious. Where is the humor?

[pianoman1812]

There isn't really suposed to be any humor, this opera may have been labled an Opera Buffa, But there is nothing funny about it. Dying is not funny, I believe Wolfgang went mad after his father died and the argument in the Commendatore Scene was an argument modeld after and argument her had with Leopold, his, father, and so he believed his fathers death was his fault and he should've gone back to Salzburg. That is where I believe the insperation for this came.

[vampman87]

I take it you've seen Amadeus?

[jbfauconnier]

terrific

[doctorw2]

oh so beautiful.....

[49france]

thank for the vidéo.

It's my favorite scène of this movie.

(my perso préféré is Leporello).

[shakaama]

i love in the play and the movie adaptation of amadeus how the commendatore walks and the tympany hit as he walks in time to the music, adds a bit a drama to it I think.

wish this was better quality. it looks great.

[wachtelms]

The film is fantastic, in part because it is set in Venice. The audio of this video does not do justice to what you hear when you buy the DVD. Pons is spectacular, as is Dame Te Kanawa. This is likely Raimondi's greatest recording.

[blichilde]

It's set in Vicenza,not Venezia and Pons does not sing here.

[Goethefemme]

Hey! I didn't know Hammer Films did operas! Looks like their lighting, but the wigs are better. Is Barbara Steele in this somewhere? She ought to be from the make-up. God bless John Macurdy. I remember him from when I was a kid and haven't thought of him in years. A solid, reliable performer like John Alexander. Thanks for posting. I never saw this when it came out.

[krrissstty]

you know other films of Losey? This film-opera in style is the very same as his Modesty Blaise or Boom! As director called himself - High Camp or High Kitch. But this is Great Kitch !!!! ;)))

interesting compare with Hammer and other horrors...

[madbassskills]

The movie didn't do to much justice to the stage version I don't think.

[HopePoisoned]

ugh! look at the video with Samuel Ramey as Don Giovanni

[pipeoxide]

Ramey's great, but this is a film, not a live performance. Care to elaborate on the "ugh"?

[MrEinsteinum]

@HopePoisoned Ramey as Don Giovanni is the best performance i ve ever seen.

[Yasmund]

"Где стол был яств, там гроб стоит".

[beckerpwnsyou]

my favorite scene!!