Antigone by Sophocles (1984 TV) Juliet Stevenson (part 9/11)

[shivanebangkok2008]

the chorus makes me laugh!!!

[Kirk00077]

At 6:00, did anyone else notice that guy blatantly doesn't know his lines?

[koenan1]

King Creon is a colorful character

[Tienzu1]

Creon changed his mind about the law out of fear of what the blind prophet said. That doesn't sound like a tragic hero to me.

[Tienzu1]

blind prophet 1 Creon 0

[sjsung]

6:10 guy on the top-left forgets his lines lol

[sjsung]

and again at 6:57 lol

[jamesms4]

Creon just insulted a Prophet of the gods. He is so fucked & not in the fun way.

[jamesms4]

Creon just insulted a Prophet of the god. He is so fucked.

[MStrat1106]

Awww I disagree--Sir John Gielgud is the best imaginable Tiresias, and has astounding presence in this scene. And yes, he has big speeches, but that was the Greek way; they spoke all the action of the play. And what a great cast; even the chorus has some luminaries!

[ShaWtyEH]

OMG it just won't end ,, waaahh the blind man talks and talks and talks damnn

[jewsten5]

I swear to god, Creon sh*t himself.

[jewsten5]

I swear to Zeus, Creon sh*t himself.

[j30ma]

i like part 9/11

[BehindTheSpiderEyes]

The chorus seems to speak in confusing circles. :/

[Relic104]

chorus=bitches

[CalebTheObjective]

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH this saved my ass for my class :D

[Stuhby]

FOR GONDOR!

[MrSlothinator5000]

the farting noise has stopped now :D

[flyersfan48rocks]

6:10 the guy in the back doesn't know his lines!!

[meycutie]

that chorus is gonna give me a heart attack

[00Avenger17]

@meycutie your lack of faith is disturbing

[TheSteezyCheese]

hmmm thought he burried the guy first then went to free antigone

[Rosealeee]

Chorus...seriously...stfu

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[SexiKittie]

DAMN THIS VIDEO IS LEGIT AND SOOOOOOOOOOOOO INTRIGUING! I LOVE IT! WELL DONE! I LOVE IT! and... There goes CREON GETTING ALL STUPID AGAIN!

[mlabot]

Perhaps they should have put the phrase in the King of Thebes handbook "Always paid heed to the advice of seers especially blind ones"

[00Avenger17]

@mlabot your mother was a hamster and your father smells like elderberries!

[goddess098]

creon looks like john mccain like no joke

[Naturally2Sexy]

John McCain/ Dr. Evil XD

[theshmooooenator]

He also looks like John McClain (Bruce Willis in the Die Hard series)

[briphr3zH11520]

wrd like a skinny yOunq version

[angels4acause1012]

i know if he wasnt soo filled with pride he would be happy and his family would still be living. but hey it was the prhofency.

[ErikTonning]

Eurydice: "We are bred to stoicism (!!) in this family." A few centuries off there. Wonderful acting, but what an annoying, clichéd, inaccurate, self-important, zeitgeisty, pathetic translation.

[barrywinehousexp]

The Hobbes touch, substituting 'City' for 'State' with Creon is done rather well, but the Anglicizing does pervert the play with a hackneyed tones (especially the choruses!).

[hellbirdsflight]

I for one find this to be an excellent modernisation of the original text. The translator and director have worked well to preserve the original intent and themes of the play, but have taken sufficient licence with certain specifics to ensure that a modern audience can still relate to the content.

Your improper use of the term 'zeitgeist' (among other things) forces me to question your qualifications as a theatre critic. In the future, keep your pretentious blatherings to yourself.

[xhagast]

Not knowing any better work I like this one just fine.

I love the character of Creon, how he evolved through the three plays from honest aide to Oedypus in Oedypus Rex to agent of Thebes in Oedypus in Colonnos to totalitarian king in this play. The scene with Tiresias is a masterpiece. These are GREAT actors.

[samneric85]

Well it was intended on being a more modernized film. There are more translations to this story that try to be modernized to help the person understand. If you don't like this translation, then don't watch it. Dur...

[thnksmarter]

@ErikTonning By the very definition of stoicism, hows does that make Eurydice inaccurate in statement?

[pepe4rock]

Sorry that english sounds a bit ridiculous

gives the movie an unauthentic touch

[moviefan005]

obyosly creon did not learn from mistake of oedipus... he didn't believed what Teresisas and look at him... poor fool Ceron following damed path of odeipus... go U!

[nuscholar1979]

Total collapse? Complete withdrawal? Wow, if current events were not so familiar in literature, I know not what!

[kaylanotebook]

i feel like slapping creon :D

[goddess098]

THANK YOU

we watched this in school and i was like ... imma dbow his ass he pissed me off

[00Avenger17]

@kaylanotebook slap his balls off!!