Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1998) - "It's Too Late" scene

[131986zm]

this scene is bittersweet for me.

i hate that angel hurt her sooooooooooo badly

but the bastard had it coming.

what did you expect of her.

but i relent in the end and my heart breaks for tess, always tess.

great acting

[bluerosesteph]

It breaks my heart every single time.... saddest scene i've seen no exageration

[rees276]

Justine Waddell is my favourite Tess. She looks so delicate and vulnerable - and she is heartbreaking in these final scenes. eddie Redmayne is the only actor who

has given Angel any redeeming features on screen though. I felt sorry for him at the end of the recent BBC version, but Peter Firth and Oliver Milburn played him the way I found him in the novel - arrogant, self-righteous, smug, selfish, cruel...

[zephyriffic]

Just finished the book again - for the second time

[elizabethgaskelfan]

excuses excuses.

[bluerosesteph]

One of the saddest scenes I have ever seen on film... brilliant

[runningisdeath]

Omg, do you see the way he opens his arms for a hug when she first comes down!? He's all like "Hey babe, I know I like left you on our wedding night and practically called you a whore, but... didn't you miss me?"

[cullen414twilight]

i read the responses to this version of the tess...i look & look to you see what you guys see when you guys say you guys can see the emotions spilling out this scene all i see is confusion...Im sorry but this tess sucks throughout the whole movie instead of love she just looks confuse ALL ThE TiME! 2008 version is the best...go ahead talk about username or how i dont know what im talking heard it all before.

[Muirmaiden]

@cullen414twilight , I like the 2008 version as well, just not as much as this one. All three films of "Tess" are good in their own way. I just happen to like this one the most. To each their own.

[licklelaurz]

when i read the book it said that alec controlled the way she dressed and that he wanted her to be his object and sexier

[licklelaurz]

i think shes dressed all wrong she is supposed to be sexier like in the newer version!

[Muirmaiden]

@licklelaurz , the way Tess is dressed in this version - and in the 1979 Polanski film for that matter - fits the description of her attire in the novel.

[OuttaEgypt]

There is no way that the 2008 version of this scene was better. Justine did a tremendous job with this scene, the way her eyes well up with tears, all the emotions you can read in her face. Superb stuff. Arterton's performance was decent throughout most the show but parts of her acting did make me cringe, such as in this scene where it was very forced and unconvincing. It lacked power.

This is definitely the superior version. Nothing comes close to even touching it.

[rachray83]

@OuttaEgypt I disagree. The 2008 version of this scene was better. this scene was a little too calm. She says "I hate him" the same way she says the rest fo the lines. To me the 98 version, the actors seem like they are acting like the characters, where in the 2008 version the actors are living the lives of the characters, they became them. The 98 version makes me feel like I'm watching a play

[fagusmil]

@rachray83 The 98 version looks like it's 68, boring and slow... 2008 is much better and convincing...

[Chatita2]

This is the best Period Drama ever made, and by far the best of the three (?) versions of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. To top it of, Justine Waddell is an incredible actress! The last scene in this version even made my 22-year old son cry!

[dawnrazor7]

oh dear this is quite emotional!!

[Alittlebitpeachy]

This Angel is a really bad actor.

She's amazing, but I don't think he's very good at all.

[missbabyice]

Really like this Angel. 2008 one was all scrawny and wet.

[legoeggo8]

who plays angel?

[Muirmaiden]

@legoeggo8, Oliver Milburn.

[misschantelle1000]

this this acting is class

[lotus2]

EEEE!! I love this version!! Justine plays it fabuosly!!!!

[rugbychick0618]

This scene is so powerful and truelly a masterpiece.

[rugbychick0618]

This scene is so powerful and truelly a masterpiece.

[emptyxsilence]

i like the new one way better, i think gemma plays tess alot better. in this tess is still vulnerable, and in the new version she is alot stronger. and she has grown more as a person.

[KissesFromHeaven07]

The new version and the olds all seem sad to me, though I haven't seen all the versions, the story( I read a summary) is sad in itself to me.........This poor girl has been through all these emotionally rollercoasters and it's just sad.

[theriddleofthesphynx]

far better acting than in the 2008 mockery of the movie

[LibbyMaeBrown]

This is the best scene in the whole movie... I cried like a freaking baby, and I never do that! The way she's says "It's too late..."

Poor Tess. Angel broke her heart.

Alec was a bastard, but Angel was even worse. What a bloody selfish hypocrite! I love the book and this adaption, but they always make me so angry and depressed.

[stilladeline]

@LibbyMaeBrown Yes, and how ironic that his name is "Angel".

[pinkdiamonde]

Yes. Eddie is beautiful but surprisingly his Angel wasn't likable to me. I might even say he was irritating a lot of the time.

[Pythonette]

Eddie is lovely when he lets his hair grow (as in the times he's played one of the "Essex boys"), but, Oliver is the only Angel I would choose if I couldn't have an Alec, who is usually played by a hottie (except in this case, as Flemyng just doesn't turn me on).

[Muirmaiden]

@pinkdiamonde, I think Eddie is better suited to earlier period drama (The Other Boleyn Girl, Elizabeth: The Golden Age), I enjoyed his performances and believed in the characters he played - I felt he was miscast as Angel in the 2008 BBC adaptation of Tess - whether it was the way he was directed, his interpretation of the role or a combination of the two, he just didn't work as Angel for me - when he emoted he was good, but when it came to the dialogue he came across as dim-witted, IMO.

[idilali]

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[pinkdiamonde]

Wow. I've only watched the new version and this is SO different. I can see why they say this is the better version. In the same scene in the other one, Tess was yelling and Angel didn't say much of anything, lol. I like this one better. So much more emotion but subtley played.

[inbloombtfl]

Hi. I completely agree.  Not to mention this version of the scene is pretty much verbatim to the book. None of that "I'm already dead" stuff. Too melodramatic for me.

[Elanester]

LoL....put yourself in her postition and tell me if you wouldnt feel melodramatic lol...I like the 'already dead' part because it shows she's not there because she wants to...She's dead, she doesn't feel anything...and that is why she can stand be near that man...If she felt 'alive' I doubt she would be there...

This version is very good..I like that they actually have a conversation...But the newer version has that feeling of dispair the characters were probably feeling...

[CancerousPiesRTasty]

*sigh* i love justine waddell. she's so great.

[graciev07]

This movie is so depressing, how both these men were so bad with her. One abused her innocence and then the other abandons hers because she made a mistake. I know he loved her, but she went through so much. :(

[trinigir14]

so sad!

[olivia1ohh3]

yeah could you upload the movie please??!!

[yelenavalek]

yes please upload the movie.. im confused

[brunetchicks7]

Is it just me, or does Tess look a lot like Scarlett from Gone with the Wind?

[basgirls]

I believe someone had mention that before

[yelenavalek]

AMEN! the min she walked down i was like omg she looks like Scarlett!

[chalatenango234]

could you upload movie

[Muirmaiden]

It's all in her eyes and in her facial expression. Acting doesn't have to be about tone of voice.

[cndwindy]

This version was too long and I didn't really feel the anguish from Tess here. IMO, the one from the BBC series was better.

[drag0ns11]

if she hadnt killed alec then they couldve run away and she wouldnt have been killed..i feel so sick with grief for tess.i probably wouldve killed alec too though...

[Muirmaiden]

This version is "wooden"? Milburn emotes far more than Redmayne did in the entire miniseries! Yes, Arterton did a great job in the latest version, but Waddell is good in her own right. The "too late" scene in the BBC mini was way too rushed.

[drag0ns11]

ok i agree with you about this not being wooden and that it was brilliantly done but i absolutely love eddie redmayne andi think he did brilliantly in his own way.

[SerenityAlways]

I agree. Waddell makes you feel like Tess has been driven a bit mad by her grief and circumstance in a more subtle, and tragic way.

[hobojon]

I think Gemma Arterton rocked this scene in the latest version, whereas this one is so subdued and almost wooden Arterton and Redmayne brought out the anguish and frustration of their long separation.

[stargirlsusan]

in my opinion the other version was better

[AirRochester]

I didn't want her to die!

why..

why has he left her anyway..

she couldn't help it!!!!

why

nooooo.. and then they are finaly togheter

and then

she dies..

boehoee!!

[byrnes22]

i dont know if this version is better than the polanski film but this moment is perfection. i saw the 2008 version and it's fine but it cant even compare to this clip. she's wonderful.

[jolielaide75]

I wholeheartedly agree with you on this. I've read the book too many times to count and I've seen all of the versions and this one is far and away the best of the three. It's the version that's truest to the book and Justine Wadell is Tess personified.

[xmissriddlex]

shes pretty, good actress.

[ncmmorris]

he was in the tv version of david copperfield wasnt he?

as steerforth?

i dont like him as angel

[ToDrunkToDance]

OMG, When my sister told me what happened in the end of the new version of this.

I was like "WTF!"

Why did he leave her? =[

Why did she have to die, god sake, why did she end up being a mistress. My god I hate television, I cant watch the rest of them knowing that she dies and he runs of with her sister, and that its his fault because he couldnt just stay with her.

They loved each other?

She didnt deserve it =[[!

I really really was proper upset! How sad is that!?

I didnt want her to die!!!!

[TheMusicDork]

thats not what happened lol.

they get back together at the end coz she kills alec lol.

then her and angel run away from the police but they catch her and put her in prison.

then i think she dies lol.

but what you heared wasnt the end, that was like in between the middle and the end.

it was SOO SAD, i cried.

[feisprincess]

Yes, you are right.

And Angel is with Liza-Lu after Tess dies because she askes him to marry her sister.

I think they hang her for murder, but the book doesn't actually specify.

[jlr108]

Yes they do hang her. The bell tolling at the end is done by the prison authorities to signify that the execution is taking or has taken place.

[MontereyMatt]

Justine Waddell was so beautiful in this, but I have to admit Polanski's version had the better direction, music, and acting (by the secondary actors).

[celi1020]

my heart broke, "BUT ist's too late."

[myzaichev]

Wow, they really stuck to the book.

Except I'm not so sure Angel ever blatantly voiced Hardy's main theme like that...

[AlohaRose]

which bit do you mean?

[homeric85]

Anyone has the last scene?

[dramaticteaspoon]

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooo!!! it's so sad. i hate this book! i HATE this movie! it just makes you cry...

[deedeedmr]

lol. I second that. I had to read it for AP eng. back in high school. I watched it then too. so so so depressing, but I love Angel. He's beautiful.

[tortoise69]

The guy's a good actor, she's a bit OTT.

[woodstock1330]

I think Oliver is absolutely beautiful as Angel..! Something about the hair... *swoon*

[deedeedmr]

...and the jawline and the dimple.

[VreeFisions]

...and the voice.

[jesbear6]

what about the eyes...

[piticutzza]

amazing story indeed:|

[LONDONER01]

I really shouldn't be watching this as I am in the middle of reading the book and it's kind of spoiling it now!

[phantomwaltz]

Wow.. she's a wonderful actress. You can so tell that she's about to break into pieces, and she looks like she's going mad.. kind of scary actually

[GoldenAwakening]

*break into tears* I love this book...

[KUCHUKOO]

Both actors performed really well in this scene... she did a better job here than Natasha Kinski

[literarygenius09]

This is just beautiful. The acting is first rate. I want to marry Angel.

[literarygenius09]

But he was a git for leaving poor Tess.

[mehandas]

This is hoorible. I just finished the book today. This isn't my tess , this isn't my angel. And this was not how it happened....

[stillwaterguy04]

I would love to have seen this same production with one change: a different actress playing Tess

[themustardrebellion]

Agreed. I think Michelle Trachtenberg would actually make a good Tess.

[AlohaRose]

oh my god!

can't believe that, I think Justine Waddell is AMAZING in this, she really made the movie,

and michelle trachtenberg is one of the worse actresses I've ever seen lol

meh, each to their own I suppose, but :O

[poddykate]

I love this film.... i showed my frineds this film and they all thought it was rubbish at the begining but by the end they were all cryin! even the boys...lol this is a fabulous film!

[middlecreek]

where did you get a copy?

[poddykate]

well, my mum gave me my copy and i don't know where she actually got the copy from but i know that you can get it off amazon. xx

[mayflowersoapqueen]

Alec and Angel totally drove Tess mad. You can tell how fragile she is in this scene. If only Angel had gotten over it sooner, then they could have been happy, but NO... he had to be stupid and poor Tess had to pay the price. Great scene though.

[poddykate]

omg. i love angel and tess deserves to be with him. It's so.... bloody emotional!

[MidnighWolf]

Every time, every bloody time it gets me!

If only Angel had forgiven her straight away and not left it sevral years!

Ah! Hardy really plays with his characters lives!

[lill2441]

its get to me too. If only he had gotten over it sooner, if only if only...

[phantomwaltz]

but if she had told him about not being a virgin before the marriage, things might not have gone so downhill.

but yeah the guys were both b*stards. tess was too gullible and easily swayed also

[music2themax4me]

i really want to see it!! what happens?! why did some ppl call angel a weak stupid man??

[crayzee652]

do you know any other parts to the story or did you just happen to come across this clip?

i'll try 2 not make this too long-winded lol.. erm.. basically angel and tess got married but then she told him about her past -

[crayzee652]

that alec raped her [or she might have just told him that she had sexual relations with him or whatever ppl frm that time wud hav sed] n that she had his baby. then the baby died etc. anyway angel left her after hearing this, so i guess that's y ppl r callin him weak n stupid.

[crayzee652]

oh and also whats worse is that he's bein hypocritical coz he told her, after they got married, that he had somethin 2 confess n it was that he'd had some relationship with some woman. n coz he confessed that thats why Tess felt she cud tell him about Alec n the baby... and she forgave him for his relationship but he couldn't forgive her.

so yeh therefore angel is in some senses a weak stupid man.. and not very angelic.

[by the way i hope u understood all of that!]

[music2themax4me]

wow!! THANKS!!! and what a hypocrite! she should've been maaaaaaad when he left! and she still loves him, wow...

[cumjunkie2]

you can just feel the love from angel this scene makes me cry

the actors are superb. i love oliver he is so gorgeous. his

white skined body turns me on.

[annacloudhidden]

oliver milburn turned in an achingly sensitive performance in this movie. why isn't he getting any more good parts?

[snufkindarling]

Oh my god! Oliver Milburn with blonde hair, how weird!

[BabyBlueSunshine]

i hated this film. But we're doing this clip in english and so it was really useful thanks.

[empressofshadows]

omg this clip made me almost cry

and i don't even know the story :S

[8rin]

love it!

[narodniarkaSVK]

waaa gr8! that was my favourite movie, when i was 11:)) now i remember it, thanks very much:) if u have soundtrack of tess, can u pls send it? by icq, or email?:))

[Tessiebud]

Awesome video!