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

[cocoakiwi1]

DIE CREON DIE!

[TheBeardedThinker]

so friggin awesome

[lothlorien182]

heh. Bernard Hill.

[TheKravojed]

tnx

[Daroga1]

"Today it has happened here, with our own eyes, we have seen an old man, through suffering, become wise"

[30Zoidberg]

thnkx 4 posting tho :)

[30Zoidberg]

thank fuck its over. worst thing i have ever seen. made my head hurt and ears ache.

[6netfire]

Sublime.

[BeeneyBoy3]

Love the fact that the views decrease with each part of this play....

[Boofie19]

Thank you for putting this up! This has helped me a huge amount, Philosophy students, holla! :)

[ameeliavirginia]

WHEN WILL THIS END

[Reloaded622]

thanks man, helped a lot on my test. 

[0muslim4ever0]

thank you for the play so it all

it really helped me to understand the story

[conieo96]

This helped me understand the play so much more!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!! :D

[Horicert]

Creon is a dumbass motherfucker.

[koenan1]

@Horicert You're getting Creon confused with Oedipus.

[sftommy01]

Currently reading all of the extant Sophocles for fun and this is the first production of a play I've watched since starting.  The lines that popped out in reading are just as vivid in the live performance, and a few I didn't pickup on reading I find appreciation aloud. Glad to see students still cram to get some semblance of Sophocles!

[itay3bg]

What about Ismene?

[Elanel]

@itay3bg She lives, and presumably becomes queen one day, as Creon's wife and children are dead.

[volcomstonne21]

Thank god I'm done watching this shit, now I have to write a 6 page paper. It's due in 6 hours -____________-

[HighPriestFuneral]

@volcomstonne21 Tch...

[BillyWingFTW]

this city's royalties are all sorts of fucked up

[yourmomlovesmehard]

thumbs up if this is gay homework or for connections academy that you have to do :/

[HighPriestFuneral]

@yourmomlovesmehard Pathetic...

[peasrgood666]

thank god its over but yea, this is the bible to this play. id b lost without it

[cronhole]

homework sorted :)

[HarleyQuinzelle]

Absolutely AMAZING!!!

[sinister1000]

Thanx for posting this video it was extremely useful and it has given me a deeper understanding of what the whole thing is all about :)



[bobcatsrock69]

HI MR LAPLANTE!!!!!

[tincfest]

THANKS SO MUCH!

got an exam on Antigone tomorrow, this was great confimration of my revision, cheers matey :)))

[yhemysun]

thanks to the video, now I can read the book for more understanding

[SCWguqin]

After watching this, my main criticism is that Creon is too vicious. In the play he is certainly prideful, and stubborn, and enjoys being in power--but this version makes him cartoonishly villainous. The totalitarian imagery may be engaging for 20th-century audiences but is distracting from the actual substance of the play. Creon and Antigone seem more evenly matched in Sophocles: the conflict is not between what is ("obviously") right and what a raging tyrant decrees, but between

[SCWguqin]

family and political obligation. Each party of course reads the conflict according to his or her own priorities. Creon does deserve the criticism he gets from other characters, but the reader is left in no less doubt about Antigone's self-aggrandizement, morbidity, and disregard for her sister.

[123arry321]

@SCWguqin I agree. This interpretation clearly favoured Antigone. It was consistent throughout though. I think a different interpretation- the one you are proposing- is also valid.

[deargdoomster]

@SCWguqin

Your view is interesting, but I beg to differ.

As seen in this production, the director clearly doesn't leave Antigone's cruelty towards Ismene unnoticed. But, he portrays it as an act: Antigone doesn't really despise Ismene, as by the time she has been condemned Ismene has found the courage to also stand against Creon and his unjust decree, and be ready to face the consequences herself. In my opinion, Antigone is satisfied by her sister's newly acquired strength

[deargdoomster]

@SCWguqin

and now tries to PROTECT her ("My death is enough - you must live").

There are many themes in Antigone, but in my opinion the main are three: the measure of human wisdom to tell right from wrong, the strength to do what's right and the readiness to do it in due time.

That's the way the play is named after Antigone: she can tell right from wrong, she's strong enough to do the right thing and she knows when it's time to do it.

[deargdoomster]

@SCWguqin

Ismene can also tell right from wrong, but she's not strong enough to do what's right, and when she is, it's too late.

Creon on the other hand, like Antigone, is a character of action. He acts immediately, but is betrayed by terrible judgement. When he realizes what the right thing to do is, he doesn't hesitate to do it... but by then it's also too late.

(A final thought) By our modern sensitivity, I think the play could easily be named after Creon instead of Antigone

[deargdoomster]

@SCWguqin

- he is, actually, the most tragic of all the characters in the play: a man who is at first firm in his cruel orders, but by the end of the story lies broken and with bitter remorse, useful only to the watchful eye, but not at all to himself.

Thanks so much for this series of videos!

I wish the BBC productions of the Theban plays would one day be released on dvd.

[Ke1raak]

of course it's cartoonish... the actor has interpreted creon as a childish figure

[Elanel]

@Ke1raak Because, in certain ways, he is. It says it, like, a million times in the script. "Now you're talking like someone far too young. Don't you realize that?" -Haeman

[MagentaSodaPop]

thanx :)

[ena1490]

Thanks for posting this, I'm reading it for my humanities class and this helped a lot

[jazzbabe55]

I had to read Antigone for my Western Civ class. thanx for posting it helped alot :)

[Ke1raak]

@jazzbabe55 how does Antigone in any way represent a basis for the study of Western Civ?

[jazzbabe55]

i have no idea but it was one of the assigned readings i had to do in the class.

[Tienzu1]

@Ke1raak a woman stands up to a man, its similar to the woman's rights movements in the united states

[123arry321]

@Ke1raak are u being rhetorical? concepts such as statehood, religion, duty to the state, tyrancy v democracy etc etc....

[mel577]

Thank you so much for posting. Excellent version. I'm reading the play right now for my Literature class in college and these videos have helped me a lot.

[TheTubeMouse]

I loved this production when I first saw it but they've not shown it on tv since then. I thought the riot police costumes of the guards was interesting given that this was done during the eighties, the era of Thatcherism, miners' strikes, inner city riots etc. Juliet Stevenson was great. I would recommend looking at the Jean Anouilh version with Genevieve Bujold which is also excellent. It's much more sympathetic to Creon's position.

[pyromohanzed]

Catharsis

[2009lovestory]

thanks.

[MizzDamnhot]

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[00Avenger17]

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[proberson07]

@MizzDamnhot i know right! i was thinking the same thing. great post!

[annchovies]

finally over this fuckin movie

[Grayfox82]

that duo at 3:42 i noticed, that their voice levels are uneven, the guy on the right was alot higher. It was kind of funny.

[Anzelone18]

at 3:35 tell me the guy on the left doesn't look like Bill Murray

Thanks

[jcucor]

Thanks for posting - I loved it!

[yessyesyes]

Thank you so so so much for this!!!

[pepe4rock]

that sucks in english!!

[azcatrac]

ty so much XD

[moviefan005]

by no doubt great tredigies by sophocles... thanks!

[myfairlady83]

Thank you for videos!!!!!!!!

[nuscholar1979]

Great play. Thanks for posting it. As I watch, I cannot help but think of our modern era. Hauntingly timeless work.

[starcloudz]

Great stuff. Thanks very much indeed *****

[thalassaouranos]

Thank you so much for these videos. I had seen all three plays on TV back then and I could never forget how wonderful they were.

I always hoped I could see them again...

Thank you!