Hamlet "Frailty thy name is woman"- Richard Burton (1964)

[OfficialLukeDale]

HOW on this earth, can someone have the audacity to press the dislike button on any video involving Richard Burton.. never mind when he's doing Hamlet. God save humanity.

[MrRobertJameson]

@OfficialLukeDale Because he was a talentless wooden film actor who copied Olivier?

[kiranflys]

Hamlet and Shakespeare are betrayed here!!! Alas...

[pickupartistwannabe]

r.i.p. to such a great performer. 

[JBCVids]

Okay, maybe not the strongest in terms emotion,meaning and emphasis. But my goodness, his voice is so technically strong.

[BSFBOPE]

not a good performance...this guy only acted well in Becket and night of the Iguana

[drabgabby]

For everyone commenting that he has a gravely voice... he is supposed to be a grizzled thirty year old, not a 16 emo kid who sounds like a beaver. Yeesh.

[JuanMacready]

@drabgabby Hamlet was supposed to be about 20. Burton was 38/39 and looked at least 45.

[drabgabby]

@JuanMacready You could say that, but you'd be wrong.

[ruteparedes]

1 second ago

@JuanMacready Hamlet is a nervous wreck. He is a distraught, broken man and the sweet gilded ease of youth has all but been driven out of him by his father's death, his mother's duplicitousness which he knows sees in all women, the suspicion of foul play and crime, the overriding anguish of feeling himself surrounded by traitors where he once saw friends and family. To play Hamlet is to run the gamut of human emotions, not pandering to a certain"look".

[JuanMacready]

@ruteparedes The talentless overacting ham Burton looked far too old for the part and he only copied Olivier.

[ruteparedes]

@JuanMacready it is one thing to have an opinion on Mr. Burton's acting based on his talent or lack thereof. Quite another to just invoke age as a reason for Mr. Burton to be playing this particular part or not, as you did in your first comment. I maintain that Hamlet is first and foremost a portrait of the human condition. True, the character was written as a young Danish prince but youth is more than an an unwrinkled brow, it's to do with vitality and strength.

[PathosDistanz]

@JuanMacready Olivier is the most overrated actor of the 20th century. His Hamlet is melodramatic, like a mannered hairdresser. Nothing beats the Russian version of Hamlet. Now there's fire. Smoktunovsky.

[operalament]

this is an attrocious reading.

[92af]

Richard Burton was a ridiculous actor

[CryDevil93]

People don't understand that this is a theatrical play and when you film it, it takes away the true nature of the play. When you watch it in a theater , you connect with the actor and the lines. But when you watch a movie you can't feel the real passion and true emotion of the actors. In this case especially Hamlet is made as a play not a movie! And it's supposed to be acted differently than today's TV shows and movies with so called "actors" . .

[highway61grant]

a truly great actor. my favourite.

[Mrs21thcenturyartist]

richard was so handsome and talented. His voice was amazing and i love his accent!!!

[PeterFirthFan]

He had a horrid chain smoker's voice.

[DeepCut89]

@PeterFirthFan horrid chain smoker's voice? His voice was that of a true welshman's. douche.

[JuanMacready]

@DeepCut89 Burton smoked 100 cigarettes a day and he sounded nothing like a Welshamn. I wish he had died of LUNG CANCER like Stanley Baker.

[rem2267]

@JuanMacready - You're a fucking asshole.

If you're saying that you wish he had died of LUNG CANCER because he sounded nothing like a Welshman (which you managed to misspell), should other people, then, wish YOU to die of lung cancer because you're a pathetic PRICK, a FUCKING CREEP, and an UGLY (no doubt) PIECE OF SHIT? And why are you throwing Stanley Baker under the bus?

I hope you are between the ages of 2 and 10, you juvenile asswipe.

[katycoyote]

@rem2267 O DEAR JEALOUS???? agreat actor..what have you done lately

[rem2267]

@katycoyote Sorry, but I gotta callem like I seezum.

[7Millersshadow]

@rem2267 thank you. There will always be vile trolls under the bridge. Of course, they have nothing for credentials accept bitter and wicked pronouncements. As if this guy is the arbiter of what constitutes a soulful dramatic reading. Just another hater, with nothing impressive or intelligent to share. It is called "PROJECTION"

[ruteparedes]

@JuanMacready you Sir are a seriously disturbed person and I can only hope you receive the same kind treatment at the hands of others that you see fit to dispense yourself.

[Mrs21thcenturyartist]

fuck u peterfirthfan!!

[PeterFirthFan]

The King of Overacting.

[Elanel]

You have to consider the time he was in. Back then, if you weren't hamming it up, you were underacting.

[vinciano]

Is r aim to criticize him?

[chrissy1095]

Thanks for posting this. He was truly geat.