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  • She's soo helplessly in love with him, it's quite beautiful. <3

  • an excellent film, Mrs Denvers send a chill down my spine.

  • @9876543217303 hae you seen him in "Wuthering Heights"? hes impossibly HANDSOME!!!!!!

  • Mrs Van H is like a little puff engine, or cannon. She's foul.

  • Yes. His nose lets him down.....it is the feature which makes him miss being entirely handsome

  • I feel as though I'd...I'd collected a whole shelf full of bottles...

  •  7 dislikes??? WHY?

  • @missdarcy321 because humanity's fucking retarded...

  • yeah he has an impressive array of names cutie, beautiful, wonderful, shall i go on?

  • Love the book!!

    

  • @9876543217303 yes, yes you must!

  • What,s wrong with 36 years old?

  • @isabellainnorway getting older's a fucking drag...not so much at all for all the lame reasons society thinks (our appearance etc.) but that you begin to really see and understand the way everything is in life...reality/humanity sucks...

  • He's singing!! Larry is singing!!

  • Laurence Olivier, Jeremy Brett and Allessio Boni are my favorite Maxim de Winters.

  • HOT PIECE.

  • Olivier was cast perfectly...aloof, gallant, sophisticated, and very elite. Old-fashioned masculinity that is intelligent and graceful. Missing these days.

  • It is a pity that Olivier was cast, he is too effeminate for the role. It wasn't until he grew old and didn't have the energy that he became a better actor.

  • "I've a very impressive array of first names." Haha, favorite line.

  • i love to watch this movie over and over. they dont make movies like this anymore from that era. you cant compare the movies we have now to back then . what we have now is hollywood trash!!!

  • @fullaschulas 0:31 and onward...Does it? Well, I'd concentrate on the view instead if I were you, much more worthwhile...it's amazing...they don't make anything great anymore :) now it's just about money to fool the masses momentarily, back then it was about making great things for the next generation...the world sucks balls now...I hate everything about it...It's horrible...

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  • I just love the way he opens up to her in this scene when he feels happy. And she is so perceptive, the way she tries to change the subject to pull him out of his mood when he gets suddenly sad. This has to be the sweetest movie, Joan is so adorable and sweet. He realizes that he needs her very soon . : )

  • i cannot believe how rude he is to her

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  • she has the perfect emotion for the part. kudo's to her

  • So.

    MEH.

  • So.

    CUTE.

  • This movie is absolutely adorable. I know absolutely nothing about it but I heard it was really good so I decided to watch it. Just like I never knew anything about Gone With the Wind and enjoyed it more than I probably would have had I knew what it was about. This is great so far :)

  • Another very good adaptation is the 1979 one, with the charming Jeremy Brett (who was trained as an actor by Laurence Olivier himself) as Maxim, Joana David as the girl and Anna Massey as Mrs Danvers. You can watch this adaptation thoroughly on You Tube, but it is impossible to buy it, it is not released, as many works of this actor . A shame! But if you want to get an idea of his acting career, you can watch the video "A Journey through Time", it's interesting and pleasant.

  • the sound in these old films seems so funny now.Like from a radio or something...there's something about the quality that's always attached to black and white films.

  • Joan Fontaine is so utterly charming in this film.

  • lol i laughed at the end he was singing at the shower room! poor boy lol! i love this book, i regret to read the last chapter i dont want to end the story lol!

  • I never fully liked Maxim in the movie or the book. He's too short with her and I remeber they never talked much in their marriage. I don't like how he treats her so much like a child - too pushy. I know she's supposed to be the opposite of Rebbecca, but he could treat her a bit better anyway. Despite this criticism, it's one of my all-time favorite books.

  • @MissMortViolette It is the curse of the Gothic novel from the time of Jane Eyre onward. The wounded hero who can't talk about his pain but is hypersensitive about every time the heroine inadvertently slaps his emotional sunburn. Guys are not supposed to complain about what bugs them. We are supposed to be stoical but it just makes for hell for the womenfolk.

    Max likes the heroine for her inverse qualities, but for he can't explain that to her. If he could, no story.

  • 07:00 - Well... that certainly plants a time-bomb in their relationship.

  • @TheSexiLexiSho "I love how in all the old movies guys would give girls their hankerchief when they cried :) what happened to all that now haha"

    They got tired of all the snot-covered handkerchiefs? And remember, antibiotics did no come into use until the early 40s, so untreated sinus infections were common. That can be a very bloody business, indeed.

  • Book is soo much better. Movies wayy too rushd for sure.

  • someone texted me the other day and told me i needed to look up this movie immediately cus i look and act EXACTLY the same as Joan Fontaine in this movie (albeit i am less attractive haha). Lol i couldnt believe my eyes when i saw this video hahaha we are exactly alike. jesus.

  • the handwriting was so difficult to read! >.<

  • I was going to watch the modern version of Rebecca and then i found this one and I'm glad i did! this is such a great film!

  • I have read the book and i loved it and i agree with Ktdesignbox. i love the manners and the old times

  • i love how hitchcock portrays women like mrs van hopper; cracks me up every time, esp when in real life someone acts like that

  • 'Stop biting your nails.' UGH, he's infuriating. Stop talking to her like she's a child. Yeah, she does act pretty childish but still... *mad*

  • @asmileisspecial

    Well, he is a lot older than she is and in a way she is like a child compared to him. She hasn't matured through the story yet either.

  • I know Mrs. Van Hopper is a piece of work, but she runs away with the movie until her last scene. She's hysterical! By the way, Lawrence Olivier is a piece...period!

  • I know Mrs. Van Hopper is a piece of work, but she runs away with the movie until her last scene. She's hysterical!

  • MY BAD! "Rebecca" was the first name of Max's first wife, the dead, evil one. Joan Fontaine's character isn't given a first name in this film....am I right? Please let me know if her first name is ever mentioned in this film.

  • @Abbeysums No, that's right. Just as in the novel, Mrs. de Winter #2 isn't given a name.

  • @Abbeysums Daphne du Maurier deliberately left out the name of the second Mrs. de Winter because the character of Rebecca was so strong andf pervasive she wanted to underline her presence even after death. I always pictured, from the description in the book, that Rebecca looked like Hedy Lamarr.

  • @TheSkylur44 Daphne is writing this tale as a memoir, as though SHE is the second Mrs. De Winter...whose name of course, is Daphne. There is a bit in the book where she speaks of her father, and states that her father gave her that unusual name. I recall reading a magazine article about Du Maurier which said that the idea of Manderlay was taken from another great estate which she was familiar with from childhood.

  • @xbeemer123 how funny??-- are you calling the second mrs. DeWinter---- Dauphne?

    If so...that is exactly what i name her. for certain reasons. most importantly to give tribute to the author. xoxo

  • @xbeemer123 how funny??-- are you calling the second mrs. DeWinter---- Daphne?

    If so...that is exactly what i name her. for certain reasons. most importantly to give tribute to the author. xoxo

    although....i think i spelled it as Dauphne.... I don't know if that IS how you spell it?

  • @xbeemer123 That is true; she was driving through Cornwall and came upon this estate and had to have it; although she rented it and lived in it for many years they never sold it to her, but that is what started her thinking of Rebecca.

  • Rebecca is so kind and so sensitive...no wonder Max falls so deeply in love with her.

  • id love to fuck mrs van hopper,,, sexy fat bitch!! oh iam extremely sorry if ive offended anyone my darlings! `here` have a cigarette !

  • I've read the book Rebecca and I like how the lines are word for word from the book. Sometimes movies ruin the book, but from what I can tell, this one won't. :)

  • What an marvellous dialogues.

  • I'm glad I wasn't the only one, who thought he looked like the main lead in the Princess Bride! - thanks for posting!!

  • Laurence Olivier is sooo sexy in this role!

  • @mlyn1982 sometimes you know those little bottles contain demons, that have a way of popping out at you just as you're trying most desperately to forget...

  • @mlyn1982 I love Laurence Olivier, he's my guy, days gone by...society just simply can't produce people like this any longer...pretty crazy...

  • She's absolutely adorable!

  • Hey BronyteP Thank you for this. I have watched a million times. I am still looking for Jane Eyre. Can only find it in French. I have found it in English, but have forgotten how I got it. Thank you again.

  • Joan Fontaine is so innocent, I wish more movies today could be like this. Laurence Oliver is so beautiful in this film.

  • He's rather bossy isn't he?

  • @aDieuSeul Yes he is, but he really loves her. But, just like a man, he has no idea how to tell her that. Then again, if he did, we would not have this wonderful movie.

  • Highly recommended: Rebecca -I watched this movie on dvd over and over again. Joan Fontaine's a real great actress. I only found out lately that this movie won an Oscar Best Picture and is the only movie of Alfred Hitchcock that won an Oscar Best Picture. Original story by Daphne du Maurier.

  • "Retched stuff!....give me a chocolate quick!

    Gotta love Mrs. Van Hopper!

  • Mr. Dewitt reminds me of farm boy in The Princess Bride.

    LOL 6:15-- I prefer the young ones, easier to impress!

  • @MrEllenwork omgosh the princess bride, i have been trying to remerber the name of that film for ages! it was a childhood favorite

  • Mr. Dewitt reminds me of farm boy in The Princess Bride.

  • @MrEllenwork I thought the same thing!

  • will miss van hopper ever return to MONTE..... that blabbermouth

  • You're absolutely right about the acting. Nowadays the camera is always moving so there aren't as many long monologues, and there is more body language.

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  • 4:15-4:35 is one of my favorite parts. :)

  • I love the movie, even though it wasn't how I imagined it from the book...

  • This movie is very interesting but the girl's character irritates me. All faltering and shy and uncertain all the time ... she really needs to get some personality.

  • @xmidnightschildx Really? I find those qualities quite endearing, and so does Maxim, evidently. But then, to each his own, we all like/dislike different things in people.

  • yes men knew were they stood then men were men women were women,,and yes i agree with you whats wrong with good manners they should bring it, back to many parents have forgot to teach the kids now adays,,and iam avery independent women,,but i do belive ,in guys opening my door,,and having goos manners,,

  • I don't think you can really compare today's acting with acting in the forties. Sure it's different stylistically, but there will always be excellent actors (such as laurence olivier) and bad ones!

  • @plummer1a66

    I do agree with you to some extent. Actors nowadays are more emotional and more extreme. There just something so different about the acting now and then. But the acting was so wonderful back then. So elegant and classy.

  • Can someone pleas tell me what it stand in the letter, it is hard to read, she sucks att typing xD And i need it in a rewiev in school so would you be kind to type it exactli as she wrote it? :)

  • @TheSwedishJumper Mrs. Van Hopper wrote

    Dear Mr. de Winter, Why don't you return my calls you NAUGHTY man! As soon as I get over this nasty cold I PROMISE to keep you from being bored in Monte. Because I know that's just what you must be - bored, bored, bored!  In fond friendship, Edythe Van Hopper

  • Did Mrs Van Hopper have a crush on Maxim?

  • It has nothing to do with us 'modern girls' or 'this generation', it's not as if before the 21st century human beings reproduced using the process of photosynthesis. Sex, prostitution and sodomy always existed. Moreover, when was the last time anyone saw a group of 'modern boys' slapping each other on the back about being the first one to fall in love and settle down. The problem is most males would have sex with ANYONE at ANYTIME, so if your willing to accept anything; dont expect the best.

  • @Logics0enemy

    good come back... except photosynthesis is not how plants reproduce. it's how they make their food xD

  • @rockogem Im well aware that plants reproduce through pollination, or asexually by using rhizoids or fragmentation. But i chose to say photosynthesis to reinforce the absurdity of the comment i was replying to.

  • The part where they're dancing is sooooo sweet!!! :D

  • haha i love how they follow this even the script directly by the book

  • i love the young actress for the Second Mrs. De Winter, she's so sweet! :)

  • One of the best parts is when they're dancing....sigh

  • Sir Lawrence is absolute eye candy!

  • i love this movie .... i the book called rebecca ..

  • "Wretched stuff! Give me a chocolate, QUICK!"

  • Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was suppose to read the book for my book club and I just couldn't find the time.

  • I'd take a job at McDonald's before working for Mrs. Van Hopper!!!!!!!

  • HA! lol. I know. she is just so obnoxious and completely full of herself.

  • lol!

    "are you keen on tennis?"

    "no not particulary-"

    "good. then lets go for a drive."

  • @BlackButterflyxo that was epic! he just grabbed her racket and tossed it in the flower pot!

  • hahaha i know!

  • "That was wretched..give me chocolate quick!!"

    LOL!

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  • booo.

    Another thing. Maybe i'm dense, but we're supposed to get that Maxin sent her those flowers along with the note at 7;30?

  • this is the movie version. movie versions are usually much different than the actual book.

  • I think the car scene is very romantic. Olivier is so handsome

  • oh i know he was a fox lol  ..... no wonder she was panting over him when she saw him lol

  • Olivier looks Italian in that sketch.

  • I LOVED the book!!! <3

  • I can't wait to read the book ...

  • The book is wonderful!

  • Well, not all of us are "modern girls". I love the old times and manners even if people tends to look at me as a freak.

  • @ktdesignbox ravens fly in swarm but the eagle flies alone, keep that in mind

  • @ktdesignbox

    I wonder if you still thought that if your father in 1940 wanted to marry you with a rich elderly man and threaten not to see you again if you marry the one you love...

  • The good old times. The girl in this movie seems so nice and innocent. The skanky bitches nowadays would open their gaping assholes for you on the first date after an intoxicating night of drunken dancing and debauchery.

  • It escaped you that I am condemning "the whore culture" as a whole; guys are as much at fault as the chicks.

  • I don't see why you were given thumbs down for this, you weren't far wrong!

  • Not ALL women are like that....goodness. You're hanging around the wrong ones!

  • well said !!!

  • Amen.

  • @schizophrantic

    Times have changed for both sexes. Women with birth control and feminism have become bitchy, and men responded by treating women like skanks.

  • It's easy to see why Vivien Leigh was very much in love with Sir Laurence....and remained so until her death. In their heyday, they were a stunning couple.

  • Flash backs & with Vivien Leigh---Oh, wouldn't that have been something--well worth watching over and over again. (more so around this time, rather than then IMO)

  • they said vivian leigh would of been rebecca, or the image of her. lol

  • What a mean lady her companion is.

  • hes hott:) book and movie are greatt

  • @lalagurrl1994 i agree with every single statement you just said.

  • maxim is so forward. he just like insists on everything

  • I know right?

    When I read the book,

    I was so surprised to see how forward and blunt he was!

    hahah

  • "That's good, we'll go for a drive." the way he says it makes me swoon!

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  • hitchcock was known for always having a sense of humor, even in serious movies. like max singing in the shower, i laughed so hard when i heard that

  • oh gawd.....sir laurence was so breathtakingly wonderful. the things that man did with his voice were extraordinary.

    i would quit my job, my tennis lessons and any other lessons for olivier to do that adorable tappy thing on my forehead.

  • i see and yes tis true

  • Rebecca is his first wife who is dead who is never seen. Joan Fontaine plays Mrs De Winter. But yes, Vivien Leigh would have been a good Rebecca.

  • I love their dancing scene too, everything is gorgeous: the music, their costumes, the whole atmosphere of the sequence is magical and enchanting... And they both look so good, she's so beautiful and he's so handsome. They look very sweet here, her closing her eyes and relishing the moment, and him smiling at that... So romantic and cute!

  • "wretched stuff, get me a chocolate quick" that really cracked me up lol

  • I'd quit my job for that guy!

  • yeah whats up with that I had the same thought somthing about him....just makes you want to .....hummmmmm ;)

  • hahaha I love the part when they're dancing

  • me too! How she dances with her eyes closed.

    I love the sketch part too. He's not even fazed. ^_^ That part was awesome,

  • Lol my friends daughter is named Manderly!!! This is a great movie u dont see Rebecca but her presence is strong I like that she was Fierce

  • I have always imagined

    that the "Beautiful Rebecca DeWinter" could easily have been

    the beautiful Rita Hayworth.

  • I couldn't disagree more that most acting is better today than in 1940. This is a faultless film, the characterisations are superb, the script crackles and sparks, the structure and suspense is handled by the master himself. Lord Olivier and Joan Fontaine are each as beautiful to look at as to listen to. These are upper class English and Americans in a period when dress, etiquette, manners and emotions were strictly codified by those in Society. The TV remakes just didn't get those right.

  • @duncann

    I have to disagree that today's acting is better than 1940. In old films, actors had to reveal their emotions facially and speak at the same time. There was very little bodily gesture. Today, actors are more dramatic, walking or moving or waving their hands around more. Less facial communication and less long dialogues today.

  • oh no!!!!

    what's gonna happen!!!!!!

  • oh my goodess i absolutely love the music...i find it very cheesy...but that is my opinion.... lol

  • There's something in the way Edythe Van Hopper pronounces her vowels that makes me want to slap her. Hard.

    4:03 "In Fond friendship" LOL She might as well have signed it Your Adoring Ancient Mantrap.

  • lol totally agreed! I couldn't stand her in the first part either. She's practically sitting in his lap, and she blames...uh...whatever-her-nam­e-is of being forward. ^^

  • Too bad you can't appreciate real art.

  • i agree but its not all that bad. the fast talking picture i love but have a tough time watching is double indeminity. edward g robinson must have been super duper coffee caffinee. see how fast that dude talked in that movie? 10 times faster then martin scorsese.

  • I have to say I agree. I think they talked fast back then in the movies to give it a more real feeling. Like real Life.

  • Max is kind of a buzz kill. But I love this movie it's fantastic!

  • Your comment made me laugh so hard.

  • Ha ha, that note Van Hopper wrote was freaking hilarious!

    I don't think I could work for her for 5 minutes, she's so annoying!

  • does anyone know what toon she is singing when she is arranging the flowers???

  • Joan and Laurence had great chemistry in this. But I can't help notice how Maxim tells her what to do, typical in those days. But never the less, Joan was beautiful in this, you can't help but fall for her.

  • AAAHH! she just looked like a guy at my school!

  • he plays his part so beautifully... just great... i love his role and part, he is a great actor!