Shakespere was enlightened above his antisemite racist generation and perhaps you to give the ultimate answer to racism.cause all men nd women are equall.in love hate lust greed sorrow greef and desires..as if christians dont do buisness to make money..buy hypocretacly and antisemitacly relate the love of money to jews..yeah..and christians hate money..sure..as to victim..no nation/religion/faith on earth was presecuted like jews have been.unfortunate truth
no one no one can do it like Al Pacino ,, OMG i reallllllly love this part and i keep on repeating it over and over and over again just can't get enough <3
Al Pacino verkar vara en smula sprillig av sig. (Rätt så synd, då med tanke på att jag så innerligen såg fram emot denna scen. Och jag minns hur jag en gång i tiden sökte efter denna scen, då med Al Pacino. Men någon tjomme på ett filmbolag höll hårt i tyglarna. -Bra gjort tjomme! .Jag har blivit ledd vart?
Shylock's error is that he counts on the European justice system to work for him, even if all legislation is so obviously written against him. He should have been more stealthy and applied measures similar to those of Edmond Dante.
I'm studying this play for my JC and Shylock is the best thing since sliced bread.....but all my teachers think he's an asshole. THEY ARE WRONG! THEY HAVE LAUGHED AT HIS LOSSES, MOCKED HIS GAINS, THWARTED HIS BARGINS and so on :)
Pacino always makes the most pissed off speeches, lol. This was a good version of the play, although it did impose modern ideas on it, but Shakespeare is timeless after all, so every age can see itself in what he wrote.
Al is a marvelous actor but his Shylock - all his Shakespearean performances in fact - isn't very good. there's always too much angst and too little subtlety... not to mention the total lack of iambic pentametre.
@TheRestlesswind Romeo and Juliet was dated when SHAKESPEARE did it, that tale is so old it was a cliche even in his time...saved only by amazing writing. :)
But I must contest that Macbeth is dated--its essentially tale of ambition, and then in the later acts also turns into an almost-nihilstic look at life..."A walking shadow...It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying Nothing."
And who HASN'T felt the dragging of those words, "Tommorw...AND tomorrow...AND..."
Pacino saved this movie. I almost fell asleep listening to the wooden delivery of the dialogue by all the other actors. I mostly paid attention in the parts when Pacino was speaking.
He actually performed this just a tick better live. (I felt). He is an incredible stage actor, and despite his height compared to everyone else his power towered over all of them. So relaxed, I believed he was actually talking instead of reciting Shakespeare. His performance was shifting in and out of me watching Al Pacino interpret Shylock and actually watching Shylock. Incredible.
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its like watching tony montana doing shakespeare. god this moron cant act. shouting like an idiot. look at him. look at the end the way he points his fingers at them , like he a gansta or something. what a moron. stop acting and shouting , u loud mouth spitting retard.
"And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge, OK?! I never fucked anybody over in my life didn't have it coming to them. You got that? All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break them for no one!"
shylock shouldve gotten antonio's flesh. antonio was a douche. screw portia and her "loophole". she took it too far by saying that no blood can b shed and it has to be an exact pound.
Even now, that trick still run in the courtrooms. Whatever agreement you had must remain to its truest form without any subtext. Even the grammar can be a fatal weapon.
In Portia's part referring to the bond, the agreement only requires flesh. The bond, to its truest form, never required blood thus making Shylock'sdemand impossible (this is only to halt Shylock's hastiness to complete the bond). Shylock's attempt to harm Antonio was the key to his loss.
sylock should have gotten his bond, i mean Antonio is a nazi douchebag. and besides what kind of loophole is "he only said he can cut the flesh, he didnt sayanything about blood" when shylock wrote that he thought the lawyer wouldnt have been such a fucking retard.
@zahir13 Shakespeare makes Shylock wicked, I think, to make his point deeper. If Shylock was this super-virtuous, super-nice guy, it would be blatant that Shakespeare was saying JEWS ARE AWESOME IN ALL WAYS LEAVE THEM ALLOOONNNNEEE!!!! Instead, Shakespeare's saying, "Look, I'm not saying all Jews are nice...but here is a man, damaged by antisemitism and hardened by it. Jews are people just as we all are people - not all of us are nice, and not all of us are mean."
@mkleinstudio I see your point but compare Shakespeare to Marlowe's "Jew of Malta" Shylock is not wicked in fact he is a cut above the other characters who are all quite "vapid"- isn't quite the word --and he is the most interesting character in the play!
@vivascargill yeah that's what i mean. he's not wicked, but he's imperfect - and that even makes the point stronger. it's very wise character development, on shakespeare's part. btw i love how people could possibly think marlowe is the true writer of shakespeare's plays. that's just ridiculous, if you look at Jew of Malta and Merchant of Venice.
@mkleinstudio I agree but "bitch" no "lawyer" and we know what Shakespeare thought of them (Henry VI) I am trying to think of what these people are--THEY are the mercantile ones--yes he is imperfect (my ducats) but human "my daughter"NB in the film a neat reference to the Godfather last scene--the door closing. Shakespeare probably meant to write a comedy but history has never really read it that way--and you are dead right about Marlowe v Shakspeare!!
@vivascargill lol i've always loved how it's basically a tragedy the whole way through, and then shakespeare stuck in that silly ring scene at the end to make it a comedy.
solarnio and salarino. They are friends of Antonio, who came to mock Shylock in the brothel they are standing in front of. This is where Shylock goes at them, after they mock him.
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I don't know why anyone would want to suck up to this social philosophy of "us vs. them, good people vs. bad people, Jedi vs. Sith, Republicans vs. Democrats, Na'vi vs. Humans." In this light Judaism is a horrible, horrible retardation. Christianity is at least somewhat implicit about this but still there is no excuse for this schizophrenia. Any work of art which tries to be in favor of one side or the other is plain retarded. Do not fall for it good people or you will be a playing card.
A long time ago when i was stupid and didn't know shit about this character or shakespeare i made the comment that Pacino totally missed the marker and even his accent was crap, but now knowing more about Shylock and even studying shakespeare for four months, i have to say this is possibly one of the best shakespeare performances ever simply because pacino has the balls to not follow the old shakespeare rules and win it
i think there needs to be a happy medium between al pacino and orson wells - al pacino's is a little too shouty and orson wells' is a little too sedate. it's the second half of al pacino's that's the best because it's still got the energy but it's more intense than shouty. what do you think? or do people not care? reading that back it seems a little pointless but it's just what came into my head when i watched them both :-S
i don't know... the character in this moment of the play has endured great, i mean huge, great loses, under his nose and behind his back... and if any of us were to be in the situation, even with well written language to tell the story, the expression of these loses only lifts the language for me
I like this version more, because I imagined Shylock being very angry at that point. I like Pacino's energy here, while Wells' tranquility... well, I just couldn't figure out how could he be so quiet in that situation.
¿Does he rely too much on shouting to give intensity to the acting? I don't think so. The most intense lines are not done by shouting (...if you poison us, do we not die...).
The line "I am a jew!" is my favourite. So great a passion there...
I have to say that Welles' version affects me so much more. Partly because he seems to speak more directly to the audience behind the camera, but mainly because he seems to invest infinitely more into the words. Compare the way the two actors do the phrases "I am a Jew", or "I shall better the instruction." With Pacino, they're just part of the rant, and don't stand out; with Welles, each one lands like a punch, a horrible realization, a new level of rage and hurt.
Actually, I think you've spotted what is wrong with the Welles' version--he is speaking to the camera, not taking part in a scene and speaking to the other characters in that scene.
This version makes clearer the drama of the situation, including the irony that Shylock himself is not a good man but that it hardly matters--he is still wronged, and persecution nurtures hate.
But there are no other characters in the Welles scene. I understand the arguments that his version may not work as well within the actual play, but I think it's obvious that Welles took the monologue out of context and reinterpreted it as an address of a reluctant avenger to the audience behind the camera.
We're studying monologues in my creative writing class, and I was thinking about suggesting this one to show. My teacher has been showing samples on YouTube, like the King Henry one and the Colonel Jessef (spelling?). I'm too shy to ask, but I always thought this one right here was a perfect example. I just dread creating one myself...not really the creating part, but the part where I have to present it in the voice of my character. I signed up for creative writing, not acting.
This is a very excellent speech. If you think you can read this with any sort of passionate voice, I would reccomend you do it. Not only that, but it is a fantastic monologue to analyze in its style, form, and the emotional response it provokes.
Thanks, I did it for my class and I got an A. Everyone really liked it. I'm just afraid of performing it you know, I'm not the type to act on stage in front of an audience.
Woah, this is so refreshing after always watching british actors perform shakespeare. They are so styalised and clean cut, too clean cut. they can show great emotion but its just not as human as what Pacino does here.
For some reason they have a set of rules there for playing shakespeare and they're too afraid to step out of them and try something new. I've just seen Patrick Stewart and David Suchet do the scene in Playing Shakespeare and it's WAAAY too simple. There's anger, but no passion. I also think the Brits seem to not like the smypatheic view of Shylock and try hard not to do it for some reason. Or at least that's what they said in the programming.
Jews weren't allowed to do any other work. Their only way to earn any income was lending money (for interest) since christian law forbid it for christians.
I agree, but that is part of the irony of the play. Shylock IS wicked, but that still doesn't make his persecution right. Antonio was just as wicked, albeit in a different way, and that doesn't justify what almost happened to him.
Yeah you're right... Shylock's vengeance is fueled originally by getting spat on..
Compare him to Iago from Othello.. Many would say Iago is the definition of all evil in literature. When really, Shylock has been made just as evil. This mainly has to do with the antisemitism going on in the victorian era as well..
@ODOMAN123 interesting comment but Iago plays on something that is already there in Othello--when Othello asks for "occullar proof" that is when we know he is lost--his great last speech is a little self-congratulatory. But it is the one Shakespeare play I find really painful to watch--Shylock I suspect was intended to be a COMIC character but history has never played it that way As I said in another comment Shylock is the most INTERESTING character Portia ug!
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joelharm 2 months ago
Shakespeare is a non Jew who really got the nature of the Jew; the vengeful Jew forever a victim he sees himself.
ImaginedWriter 2 months ago 3
@ImaginedWriter
Shakespere was enlightened above his antisemite racist generation and perhaps you to give the ultimate answer to racism.cause all men nd women are equall.in love hate lust greed sorrow greef and desires..as if christians dont do buisness to make money..buy hypocretacly and antisemitacly relate the love of money to jews..yeah..and christians hate money..sure..as to victim..no nation/religion/faith on earth was presecuted like jews have been.unfortunate truth
udiprg 1 month ago
I have to memorize this by tomorrow
TheConvenientMike 2 months ago 2
@TheConvenientMike so how did it work out?
POTATER1228 1 month ago
@POTATER1228 Pretty good, I got the best grade in the class.
TheConvenientMike 1 month ago
no one no one can do it like Al Pacino ,, OMG i reallllllly love this part and i keep on repeating it over and over and over again just can't get enough <3
TNB1603 2 months ago
what act and scene is this please???? line number would also be helpful!
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chelseasmile17 2 months ago
@chelseasmile17 Act 3 Scene 1.. about line line 54?
Animerockchic 1 month ago
I got chills!
identitycrisishere 3 months ago
this sounds like the same thing all the Jews today like to say… LOL
MrSpemat 3 months ago
@MrSpemat and you sound like all the asshole racists in the last 2000 years
udiprg 1 month ago
I've always dreamt of Playing Shylock....and at the end when he says
" Shall we not seek Revenge", instead of saying it out of frustration like Al Pacino, I would have adopted a much sinister tone....
"Shall we not seek Revenge?".....
Varoonmg 4 months ago
kikes are pityful people
Marius26879 4 months ago
Only Al Pacino can do this.
BerithV70 5 months ago
S'wonderful trigger!!!
Al Pacino's finest!!!
HopeWithPandora 5 months ago
Fuck Basannio, and fuck Antonio! I bury those cok-a-roches!!!
eon2569 6 months ago 20
@eon2569= Hoo hah.
vigo894 5 months ago
brilliant. 'nuff said.
ellixus 7 months ago
I'll use this as my audition piece, wish me luck, !
MGraceJB 7 months ago
Al Pacino is THE MAN
BuecherFuerAlle 7 months ago
Al Pacino verkar vara en smula sprillig av sig. (Rätt så synd, då med tanke på att jag så innerligen såg fram emot denna scen. Och jag minns hur jag en gång i tiden sökte efter denna scen, då med Al Pacino. Men någon tjomme på ett filmbolag höll hårt i tyglarna. -Bra gjort tjomme! .Jag har blivit ledd vart?
jenssoderberg 9 months ago
Shylock's error is that he counts on the European justice system to work for him, even if all legislation is so obviously written against him. He should have been more stealthy and applied measures similar to those of Edmond Dante.
MacJavelin 9 months ago
I'm studying this play for my JC and Shylock is the best thing since sliced bread.....but all my teachers think he's an asshole. THEY ARE WRONG! THEY HAVE LAUGHED AT HIS LOSSES, MOCKED HIS GAINS, THWARTED HIS BARGINS and so on :)
Animerockchic 9 months ago 2
@Animerockchic
Teachers do that to everyone. Have you seen the U.S. education system lately?
gamenode 7 months ago
@gamenode im irish so i wouldn't know, but in my exam i got to write 2 pages on this amazing character so i'm happy :)
Animerockchic 7 months ago
@Animerockchic I agree. Antonio is the "real" antagonist of this play.
eon2569 5 months ago
amazing
gondule 9 months ago
Pacino always makes the most pissed off speeches, lol. This was a good version of the play, although it did impose modern ideas on it, but Shakespeare is timeless after all, so every age can see itself in what he wrote.
ravenouscolonelhart 10 months ago 3
I can't believe this guy did scar face as well he's such a legend
Token825 11 months ago
@Token825 They had to do over seventy takes of this scene, because Pacino kept accidentally calling the other guys "caha-roaches".
Salguine 7 months ago 6
@MrMousket
because he's effin' ANGRY!!
zof31091 11 months ago
this speech I have to recite tomorrow at my school's english week!
Im so nervous. I have watch this like 20 times to try to recite it as mad as Shylock is in this video.
PriinzSlautner 1 year ago
@PriinzSlautner How'd you recitation go?
zarthered 11 months ago
@zarthered I just forgot the line of summer and winter D=
but then it went great! :D
PriinzSlautner 6 months ago
Revenge comes in many ways.
tenorismo 1 year ago
I was allways on Shylock's side...
MrSnake4ever1 1 year ago
Al is a marvelous actor but his Shylock - all his Shakespearean performances in fact - isn't very good. there's always too much angst and too little subtlety... not to mention the total lack of iambic pentametre.
JinrohDFLL 1 year ago
@JinrohDFLL
Bollocks.
Vuurvogel2 9 months ago
@MrMousket because he is better than us.
ParthianImmortal 1 year ago
@MrMousket /watch?v=9BOG4p1-H2Q
t1mTV 1 year ago
is your first language english ? you sound like a little bitch . you repeat the same line over and over ! you are a waste of air !
martinhymanson 1 year ago
ohh shut up ya damned shylock kyke!
t1mTV 1 year ago
@t1mTV , make me , bitch !
martinhymanson 1 year ago
@martinhymanson why do kykes have big noses? air is free.
t1mTV 1 year ago
@t1mTV you are a worthless moron .
martinhymanson 1 year ago
@martinhymanson why do jews pick their massively over sized noses? its cheaper than using a tissue.
t1mTV 1 year ago
@t1mTV shut up bitch
mouldywort 1 year ago
@mouldywort what are you gonna do about it kyke?
t1mTV 1 year ago
@t1mTV give the good news to your mom ! idf payroll early this week !
martinhymanson 1 year ago
@martinhymanson the idf are a bunch of ass fucking kykes.
t1mTV 1 year ago
@t1mTV your mother likes them, you filthy monkey !
martinhymanson 1 year ago
@martinhymanson there you go, lying again. when will you kykes ever learn?
t1mTV 1 year ago
@t1mTV learn how to spell kike ,you filthy lice ridden animal ! america is ten times the size of your country !
martinhymanson 1 year ago
@martinhymanson u mad bro?
t1mTV 1 year ago
@t1mTV you are not my bro , you are animal !
martinhymanson 1 year ago
@martinhymanson bro, u mad!
t1mTV 1 year ago
@t1mTV are you a parrot , you sound like a idiot ! please my question , animal !
martinhymanson 1 year ago
@martinhymanson u mad, u mad! the kyke is mad!
t1mTV 1 year ago
@t1mTV was he a frost bitten canadian like you !
martinhymanson 1 year ago
@t1mTV what was jesus ! please tell me ! you are calling jesus a hook nosed kike ! you are a disgrace to the world , your country , and your family !
martinhymanson 1 year ago
@martinhymanson u mad bro?
t1mTV 1 year ago
@t1mTV your lord is a kike ! moron pig !
martinhymanson 1 year ago
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DID ANYONE HERE MEET HIM ON DEC 12 2010 AFTER THE PLAY AND TOOK A PICTURE OR FILMED???
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TheThais3000 1 year ago
@TheRestlesswind Romeo and Juliet was dated when SHAKESPEARE did it, that tale is so old it was a cliche even in his time...saved only by amazing writing. :)
But I must contest that Macbeth is dated--its essentially tale of ambition, and then in the later acts also turns into an almost-nihilstic look at life..."A walking shadow...It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying Nothing."
And who HASN'T felt the dragging of those words, "Tommorw...AND tomorrow...AND..."
obiwanobiwan13 1 year ago
Pacino saved this movie. I almost fell asleep listening to the wooden delivery of the dialogue by all the other actors. I mostly paid attention in the parts when Pacino was speaking.
kevinrocks2323 1 year ago
the villany you teach me i shall execute...and it shall go hard. unbelievable delivery
rlipil 1 year ago
this makes me wanna watch the movie itself!! :)) splendid speech al pacino!
denissejan 1 year ago
stunning!! I have heard Peter O'Toole's performance was splendid but this is Pacino at the peak of his genius
vivascargill 1 year ago
Hath not a Jew eyes....amazing execution of a heartouching speech. =)
pghuman100 1 year ago
He actually performed this just a tick better live. (I felt). He is an incredible stage actor, and despite his height compared to everyone else his power towered over all of them. So relaxed, I believed he was actually talking instead of reciting Shakespeare. His performance was shifting in and out of me watching Al Pacino interpret Shylock and actually watching Shylock. Incredible.
usodstallion 1 year ago
he is a maverick in cinema history
guru00101 1 year ago
he is a maverick
guru00101 1 year ago
Al Pacino has more passion than any other living actor
iaintmadatcha 1 year ago
He's a true Shakespeare fan, and a great actor.
MsTrueBlueBlood 1 year ago 24
@MsTrueBlueBlood check out his documentary Looking For Richard, I hear it's pretty amazing.
moviehypno23 11 months ago
Im performing a monologue as shylock next week :)
lacrossegoalie30 1 year ago
does Shylock ask for his "pound of flesh" ???
opendtuning 1 year ago
Pacino hasn't been able to act for years. This is comical.
penchanskii 1 year ago
what movie is this?
Superboy316KING 1 year ago
...wow ala diego ang monoloque eh...
airbianixuz 1 year ago
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its like watching tony montana doing shakespeare. god this moron cant act. shouting like an idiot. look at him. look at the end the way he points his fingers at them , like he a gansta or something. what a moron. stop acting and shouting , u loud mouth spitting retard.
kimaste 1 year ago
@kimaste stop wasting your time
rayanneflowers 1 year ago
@kimasteJesus your a toy. fuck off and watch some 'robotech'! pft faggot
LP640Murcielago 1 year ago
When I grow up im ganno be like him count on that...
sandking9000 1 year ago
man...we were to perform this on stage in 2 days.... wish me luck!!
-thanks....
nice video
8506410 1 year ago
Is that Sylvester Stallone??
DixiePride18 1 year ago
@DixiePride18 It's Al Pacino ... something about angry italian and wronged shakespearean characters are just fantastic.
PostalTubeAlex 1 year ago
I was skeptical at the start of the video...but he has won me over by the end. An effective performance.
tangoseven70 1 year ago
TONY MONTANA
pingadomulatinha 1 year ago
See, this performance just seems like a lot of frantic hand-waving - nothing behind the eyes.
TheFilmist 1 year ago
This version does not make you sympathize with Shylock at all.
toby099 1 year ago
@toby099 I absolutely disagree. He's furious, and why shouldn't he be? There's only so much bullshit a person can take.
trickgyver 1 year ago
@toby099 watch the entirety of the film first. pacino dominated it all throughout.
rayanneflowers 1 year ago
I'm going to do this on school next week, I'm nervous right now. Wish me luck.
YvanPaolo 1 year ago
Best performance of this monologue I've seen.
allisonforfornsed 1 year ago
REALLY GOOD.
savedpianist 1 year ago
Al Pacino=Legend....favorite part of this play
SimplyFabulouzTV 1 year ago
amazing scene and actor <3
Rugi800 1 year ago
Wow, christianity gets it up the ass.
Klaffveinz 1 year ago
HELL YEAH!! LOVED IT
NUTTA1997 1 year ago
"And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge, OK?! I never fucked anybody over in my life didn't have it coming to them. You got that? All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break them for no one!"
XD
SanGuevara 1 year ago
shylock shouldve gotten antonio's flesh. antonio was a douche. screw portia and her "loophole". she took it too far by saying that no blood can b shed and it has to be an exact pound.
bobbylee1557 1 year ago
@bobbylee1557
Even now, that trick still run in the courtrooms. Whatever agreement you had must remain to its truest form without any subtext. Even the grammar can be a fatal weapon.
In Portia's part referring to the bond, the agreement only requires flesh. The bond, to its truest form, never required blood thus making Shylock'sdemand impossible (this is only to halt Shylock's hastiness to complete the bond). Shylock's attempt to harm Antonio was the key to his loss.
isnukwin 1 year ago
Al Pacino as Shylock was the beyust.
otakuxangel 1 year ago 2
@otakuxangel hellz yeah!
mkleinstudio 1 year ago
sylock should have gotten his bond, i mean Antonio is a nazi douchebag. and besides what kind of loophole is "he only said he can cut the flesh, he didnt sayanything about blood" when shylock wrote that he thought the lawyer wouldnt have been such a fucking retard.
wikum911 1 year ago 24
@wikum911 portia's a bitchhhhh. i loathe her
mkleinstudio 1 year ago
And this makes his point so much more convincing.
mkleinstudio 1 year ago
@zahir13 Shakespeare makes Shylock wicked, I think, to make his point deeper. If Shylock was this super-virtuous, super-nice guy, it would be blatant that Shakespeare was saying JEWS ARE AWESOME IN ALL WAYS LEAVE THEM ALLOOONNNNEEE!!!! Instead, Shakespeare's saying, "Look, I'm not saying all Jews are nice...but here is a man, damaged by antisemitism and hardened by it. Jews are people just as we all are people - not all of us are nice, and not all of us are mean."
mkleinstudio 1 year ago 2
@mkleinstudio I see your point but compare Shakespeare to Marlowe's "Jew of Malta" Shylock is not wicked in fact he is a cut above the other characters who are all quite "vapid"- isn't quite the word --and he is the most interesting character in the play!
vivascargill 1 year ago
@vivascargill yeah that's what i mean. he's not wicked, but he's imperfect - and that even makes the point stronger. it's very wise character development, on shakespeare's part. btw i love how people could possibly think marlowe is the true writer of shakespeare's plays. that's just ridiculous, if you look at Jew of Malta and Merchant of Venice.
mkleinstudio 1 year ago
@mkleinstudio I agree but "bitch" no "lawyer" and we know what Shakespeare thought of them (Henry VI) I am trying to think of what these people are--THEY are the mercantile ones--yes he is imperfect (my ducats) but human "my daughter"NB in the film a neat reference to the Godfather last scene--the door closing. Shakespeare probably meant to write a comedy but history has never really read it that way--and you are dead right about Marlowe v Shakspeare!!
vivascargill 1 year ago
@vivascargill lol i've always loved how it's basically a tragedy the whole way through, and then shakespeare stuck in that silly ring scene at the end to make it a comedy.
mkleinstudio 1 year ago 6
@mkleinstudio lool
that is so true
Rugi800 1 year ago
@vivascargill ps portia is a bitch xD hate her guttsss
mkleinstudio 1 year ago
@mkleinstudio wow. it's like you're the one who should be writing my paper tonight. lol.
MyStarsYourNight 1 year ago
@MyStarsYourNight Hahaha a paper? That's a downer. I feel for ya. I'm a little obsessed with MoV, I admit. Just a tad.
mkleinstudio 1 year ago
"I'm going to make Antonio an offer he can't refuse."
umax333 1 year ago
I memorized Shylock's dialogue by heart... so good...
piesamonte 1 year ago
This is one of my favorite monlogues *claps*
Shakira404 1 year ago
This acting is incredible.
vermiformproductions 1 year ago
who are the dudes that shylock is having a go at
hassan2341231 1 year ago
@hassan2341231
solarnio and salarino. They are friends of Antonio, who came to mock Shylock in the brothel they are standing in front of. This is where Shylock goes at them, after they mock him.
heartofaminstrel 1 year ago
friends of antonio/other merchants
ODOMAN123 1 year ago
I couldn`t disagree no more. This man really is great ! He project the pronunciations well, good & clearly. (:
ktinEsta 1 year ago
Go Shylock.
slovan 1 year ago 2
gotta love people walking in the background behind Shylock like "who cares silly christians and jews, life goes on, atheism rules"
IDromikk 1 year ago
The greatest AL "FUCKING" PACINO
ravl11 2 years ago 2
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I don't know why anyone would want to suck up to this social philosophy of "us vs. them, good people vs. bad people, Jedi vs. Sith, Republicans vs. Democrats, Na'vi vs. Humans." In this light Judaism is a horrible, horrible retardation. Christianity is at least somewhat implicit about this but still there is no excuse for this schizophrenia. Any work of art which tries to be in favor of one side or the other is plain retarded. Do not fall for it good people or you will be a playing card.
mrglenke 2 years ago
A long time ago when i was stupid and didn't know shit about this character or shakespeare i made the comment that Pacino totally missed the marker and even his accent was crap, but now knowing more about Shylock and even studying shakespeare for four months, i have to say this is possibly one of the best shakespeare performances ever simply because pacino has the balls to not follow the old shakespeare rules and win it
Knoxvicious 2 years ago 6
where is the original motivation of shylock declared in his statement in act i scene iii
SHYLOCK
[Aside] How like a fawning publican he looks!
I hate him for he is a CHRISTIAN,
But more for that in low simplicity
He lends out money gratis and brings down
The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
If I can catch him once upon the hip,
I will feed fat the ANCIENT GRUDGE I BEAR HIM.
tamerghonym 2 years ago
amazing...just amazing
Lionel0008 2 years ago
This guy was perfect to play Shylock i mean that is some really good acting no kidden. Great directing to.
ltinymonkyl 2 years ago 6
it's hard to act!!
jessicaevangelio 2 years ago
An Amazing actor!!!!
jamila105 2 years ago 32
@jamila105 he was good but how good could a worthy human play as JEW?
theidy1 1 year ago
@theidy1 By being a good actor. Same way a worthy human could play a vile piece of shit like you.
Salguine 1 year ago 2
@jamila105 I believe that this is Al Pacino, and yes he is amazing.
TrackStar407 1 year ago
@TrackStar407 LOL i know hun, i was just saying that he is an amazing actor.
jamila105 1 year ago
al pacino!
BluberriRazberri 2 years ago 4
inside the Scene look the audience: just watching ,confuse and without comment. that's the point of monologue to amaze the audience.
12114537g 2 years ago 2
i think there needs to be a happy medium between al pacino and orson wells - al pacino's is a little too shouty and orson wells' is a little too sedate. it's the second half of al pacino's that's the best because it's still got the energy but it's more intense than shouty. what do you think? or do people not care? reading that back it seems a little pointless but it's just what came into my head when i watched them both :-S
love x
niceass63 2 years ago 2
i don't know... the character in this moment of the play has endured great, i mean huge, great loses, under his nose and behind his back... and if any of us were to be in the situation, even with well written language to tell the story, the expression of these loses only lifts the language for me
warriorforchrist 2 years ago
I like this version more, because I imagined Shylock being very angry at that point. I like Pacino's energy here, while Wells' tranquility... well, I just couldn't figure out how could he be so quiet in that situation.
¿Does he rely too much on shouting to give intensity to the acting? I don't think so. The most intense lines are not done by shouting (...if you poison us, do we not die...).
The line "I am a jew!" is my favourite. So great a passion there...
Ennio444 2 years ago 3
I agree with you completely.
cascab67 2 years ago
I have to say that Welles' version affects me so much more. Partly because he seems to speak more directly to the audience behind the camera, but mainly because he seems to invest infinitely more into the words. Compare the way the two actors do the phrases "I am a Jew", or "I shall better the instruction." With Pacino, they're just part of the rant, and don't stand out; with Welles, each one lands like a punch, a horrible realization, a new level of rage and hurt.
ixat00 1 year ago
Actually, I think you've spotted what is wrong with the Welles' version--he is speaking to the camera, not taking part in a scene and speaking to the other characters in that scene.
This version makes clearer the drama of the situation, including the irony that Shylock himself is not a good man but that it hardly matters--he is still wronged, and persecution nurtures hate.
zahir13 1 year ago
But there are no other characters in the Welles scene. I understand the arguments that his version may not work as well within the actual play, but I think it's obvious that Welles took the monologue out of context and reinterpreted it as an address of a reluctant avenger to the audience behind the camera.
ixat00 1 year ago
Bravo
rkdgnsaos 2 years ago
well done
seamonster403 2 years ago
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Not bad, but Pacino relies far too much on shouting to give the performance intensity.
Watch Orson Welles to see this done properly.
garethac81 2 years ago
Nothing has changed...
oramikleepunk 2 years ago 4
this one's great.. thumbs up for him!
rgquejada 2 years ago 37
He sounds like former CEO of Lehman Brothers Richard Fuld or Barney Frank. At least Alan Greenspan admited that he made mistakes.
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ss90ss444 2 years ago
We're studying monologues in my creative writing class, and I was thinking about suggesting this one to show. My teacher has been showing samples on YouTube, like the King Henry one and the Colonel Jessef (spelling?). I'm too shy to ask, but I always thought this one right here was a perfect example. I just dread creating one myself...not really the creating part, but the part where I have to present it in the voice of my character. I signed up for creative writing, not acting.
kmacmuzikmafia27 2 years ago
This is a very excellent speech. If you think you can read this with any sort of passionate voice, I would reccomend you do it. Not only that, but it is a fantastic monologue to analyze in its style, form, and the emotional response it provokes.
Good luck!
RyuTakeshi 2 years ago
Thanks, I did it for my class and I got an A. Everyone really liked it. I'm just afraid of performing it you know, I'm not the type to act on stage in front of an audience.
kmacmuzikmafia27 2 years ago
Poor Shylock.
Traffordsgoogle 2 years ago 4
Woah, this is so refreshing after always watching british actors perform shakespeare. They are so styalised and clean cut, too clean cut. they can show great emotion but its just not as human as what Pacino does here.
spacecowboy95 2 years ago 3
omg, I know...
For some reason they have a set of rules there for playing shakespeare and they're too afraid to step out of them and try something new. I've just seen Patrick Stewart and David Suchet do the scene in Playing Shakespeare and it's WAAAY too simple. There's anger, but no passion. I also think the Brits seem to not like the smypatheic view of Shylock and try hard not to do it for some reason. Or at least that's what they said in the programming.
Knoxvicious 2 years ago
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fuckin' money lenders
CaptainCannon 2 years ago
Jews weren't allowed to do any other work. Their only way to earn any income was lending money (for interest) since christian law forbid it for christians.
wittyvegan 2 years ago
Al Pacino does this monologue in a way that is more realistic than anyone else I've seen perform it.
micron002 2 years ago 7
Yell. Yell. Yell. Yell. Yell. Yell.
wm7734 2 years ago
It's called: Showing emotions.
wittyvegan 2 years ago 2
Yeah, I guess you could yell to express any emotion. But you wouldn't be acting, now would you. You'd simply be yelling.
wm7734 2 years ago
What would be the right way to show emotion in this situation?
wittyvegan 2 years ago
nice portrayal. :)
thenatrinatri 2 years ago
We know this story. Shylock was a wicked man who wanted to kill a man and used the legal system to do so.
TheTrueDavid 2 years ago
As far as I'm convinced, Bassanio and Portia are the only characters who aren't "wicked".
micron002 2 years ago
I agree, but that is part of the irony of the play. Shylock IS wicked, but that still doesn't make his persecution right. Antonio was just as wicked, albeit in a different way, and that doesn't justify what almost happened to him.
zahir13 1 year ago 5
Yeah you're right... Shylock's vengeance is fueled originally by getting spat on..
Compare him to Iago from Othello.. Many would say Iago is the definition of all evil in literature. When really, Shylock has been made just as evil. This mainly has to do with the antisemitism going on in the victorian era as well..
ODOMAN123 1 year ago
@ODOMAN123 interesting comment but Iago plays on something that is already there in Othello--when Othello asks for "occullar proof" that is when we know he is lost--his great last speech is a little self-congratulatory. But it is the one Shakespeare play I find really painful to watch--Shylock I suspect was intended to be a COMIC character but history has never played it that way As I said in another comment Shylock is the most INTERESTING character Portia ug!
vivascargill 1 year ago
Shylock wasn't wicked. He was resentful.
And who can blame him for being resentful after being treated a "untermensch" for all his life.
wittyvegan 2 years ago 3
sad
earthspitter 2 years ago