Death sucks (no really)... ya... CHESS is awesome though.
I havent seen this but what type of Knight was he?
Does anyone remember Family Guy episode where DEATH spranged his ankle? And everyone started shooting each other and wouldnt die? or where Peter jumps off a building drunk and made a bet to one of his friends he would live? Anyone remember that episode? Ya... anyways...
Knight: Who are you? Death: I am death Knight: Have you come to get me? Death: I have already sins a long time walked by your side. Knight: I know that. Death: Are you ready? Knight: My body is ready... (or "scared" depending if he said "berädd" or "rädd", cant tell)... not myself. Death walks up to him. Knight: wait a moment. Death: Thats what you all say. But I dont leave anyone mercified. Knight: You play chess, isnt it so? Death: (nervously) - how do you know? Too few characters left...
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@beachhutblues That's not film noir you idiot! Film noir would be hardboiled detective stories, tales of boxers, and femme fatals. Examples include The Maltese Falcon, The Killers, The Big Sleep, etc. Get your film terminology right before you try to make fun of cinema. If you can't, then go back to your Michael Bay movies!
I absolutely love this film and think it is a great example of cinematic art. But even you would agree that the song performed within movie is slightly annoying and irritating. It does my nut in every time it comes on and I have to reduce the volume because the sound coming from the film is too high. Such a shame it was included within this spectacular display of the macabre.
now I know what is so weird in the dialogue: the man says "du" and not "Ni" to death. Like in German´s "du" vs "Sie".That is really interesting. But on the other hand they speak very non-formally, saying "ja" instead of "jag", which many others have already noted.
@EzeCoyote yes, so it was. But it is very rarely heard in black-and-white movies, and well, death is always someone I would say "Ni" to :P lol
it really shows how innovative and creative the director was, that he actually had them talk like people did in reality, and not use the old-fashioned and very formal way of speaking that was common in front of the camera at that time! :)
They' should'ev played pool. The Knight wins the game and Death says: ,,There is no difference on who won, you still pushed the black ball into the Hell's hole."
@AMpufnstuf it's quite common to pronounce "jag" as "ja" in non-formal speech. I think people mostly pronounce the 'g' when they want to put emphasis on the word or if they're trying to speak very clearly.
Black and white lends such a haunting quality to cinema, I prefer it colour any time. This is one of my all time favourite films.....I cannot find a single fault....but that's just how I see it.....faultless !
@Schizima i interpret the movie a little different, but thats the great thing about art, you can interpret it the way you like and the artist should never tell you its true intentions. i think that's how films should be made. give a visual impression and don't just try to deliver a message. leave it up to the viewer to decide what they see.
@Schizima It is the most hopefull and celebrative of love and life film ever made. Look at the end. Not the dance. Not the dead. What survives. Pure love and innocence. Read the Book of Revelation.
American movies are, generally, entertaining only for smaller/juvenile minds whom haven't gone significantly past those times when they were entertained by the rotating carousel above their cots. They do produce some good movies, but not 80 or 90% of the time. It's like bubble gum, nice to chew, lousy on nutrition. They have synonymised uninsightful 'shock and awe' sensational juvenile content with the entirety of the idea of 'entertainment'. Insight is supposed have nothing to do with it.
Transcript: Death appears. KNIGHT Who are you? DEATH I am death. KNIGHT Have you come to fetch me? DEATH I have long walked at your side. KNIGHT That I know. DEATH Are you ready? KNIGHT My body is, not myself. Death opens his cloak. KNIGHT Wait a moment! DEATH You all say that. But I leave no respite. KNIGHT You play chess, don't you? DEATH How do you know? KNIGHT From paintings and folk songs. DEATH Yes, I'm actually quite a skilful chess player.
KNIGHT Not more so than me! DEATH Why play chess with me? KNIGHT That's my affair! DEATH You're right. They sit down. KNIGHT The condition is I live as long as I resist you. If I conquer you, you free me. Death picks a pawn. KNIGHT You have black. DEATH It's most appropriate, isn't it? They begin to play.
Just watching this, you get such an eeire feel of the middle ages, The cliffs and sea next to each other, the music, the characters faces. Its all just perfect :)
The seven seals are the seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church. They were opened before Vatican II when all rites were changed to the name in the Spiritus Sanctus instead of the Spiritum Sanctum. The significance is the baptisms are now done in the name of the one who is coming, instead of the Spirit of the one who was, is, and ever shall be. In English, Holy Ghost is God, Holy Spirit is Baphomet. Trent verifies this- John is a saint of Masonry, Luciferianism. FATIMAMOVEMENT d o t c o m
@AntiFaithNY That's awesome to hear :) One of the most fun things about living in different places in Europe (+ America) is learning and realizing how similar our languages are, and that, despite what appears at the surface, we're all pretty similar with one another and share a common history. Our languages are a testimony of that.
Jag har länge undrat varför Antonius Block väljer att besvara Dödens fråga som han gör. Det låter nästan som att han vill svara "Min kropp är beredd..." men råkar ut för en freudiansk felsägning.
@AntiFaithNY It IS possible to appreciate Bergman more by learning Swedish, and appreciate more his actors, and not become a victim of horrible translations. Swedish is a beautiful and very expressive language. I studied for 2 years in Sweden and was, but no longer, pretty fluent. It is a treat. It is said that Stockholm is the Venice of the North, and I would say that Swedish is the Italian of the North minus the body language. The same, of even more, applied to Tarkovski's the Sacrifice.
@justfrancisko I understand a bit of Swedish since I speak some words of Danish - it's a very special, but fascinating language. I'm German and I just recently watched Bergman's "Smultronstället" - it was so marvellous in the German dubbing. Now I wanna see it in Swedish to improve my language skills. Hope it works.
@EmpiresEagle An idea is to watch in DVD and repeat over and over somespecial parts. I can watch this scene non-stop,a lot because of the Swedish.I believe that the Swedes cannot appreciate it because they are "inside". I'm from Brazil People say that the language is beautiful. I can't appreciate it. Anyway, just the sentence "Jar ar doeden" is so powerful and special in Swedish. In part because it really means "THE death" not just "death". It gives Death a sense of self, with personality.
Geee...My mind is open but not smart enough to understand what you are saying. Sorry. Let's move on. Just one thing Death is not synonimous with Devil as much as Life is not sinonimous with God. In fact death is work of God. An evil life, not death, is work of the Devil. My mind is set, not open, of this one. Good enough.
I am thinking on a possible interesting interpretation of why the Knight would say "my body is scared, not my self". Bergman took the idea of Death playing chess from a painting of an skeleton playing chess in a church in Taby, Sweden. What death means to a body is to become a skeleton, which is a REALLY scary idea,particularly like the skeleton in that painting.As to the imaterial self, death can be felt as not so scary or not at all depending on how one sees it. Cool Bergman. You caught me.
@openmindset I believe body and soul is one. And I don't think death can be described as "death can be felt as not so scary or not at all depending on how one sees it". How do you motivate that statement? Die much?
@ThisSpitefulSnake Your, or anyone's beliefs of what death and body-soul are don't matter. The Knight answer to Death's is the subject of the comment, which reflects his own beliefs. "my body is scared, not my self". My interest is in why the Knight would believe that his body was scared of death. It is my speculation the answer would make sense based on the body 1) being deformed by the effects of the plague, 2) decomposing, turning into a skeleton.I would be scared to death (pun intended)!!!
@ThisSpitefulSnake Let's start with this, anybody's guess is as good as anybody else's guess. Cool. But what the fuck is your guess?What is your explanation for the Knight responding "My body is scared, not myself", when Death asked if he was ready.? Why do you think he meant?.I know what you think. The issue is what the Knight thinks and why he said what he said about his body. I gave my "SPECULATION", which I think explains HIS beliefs. Do you have one? It would be great to know,
I believe that he is saying this to empower himself and to enforce his beliefs. This is very natural if you look to any religion or darwinistic society. He also tries to lure the devil who actually seems to react to the words, in spite of being the administrator of death. Satan should not care, he orders.
The problem is that Ingmar Bergman is so damn pretentious with his Seventh Seal. He just cant make a film half as good as Tarkovsky. If you guys want art, watch Tarkovsky films, not this piece of pseudo-intellect crap.
@tool619 You may like Tarkovsky as much as I do, but you sound like a person who dismisses art as soon as it represents an intellectuall challenge to you. By saying that I'm not trying to offend you, but there are people who thinks art and ideas don't go along for art is about feeling and expression. Far away from truth. You're missing a lot if you think so. This is a great movie.
@carmaj156 what's so intellectually challenging about The Seventh Seal, i mean how much can you actually say you have learned or taken away after watching it? is your mind blank ? Tarkovsky films have superb camerawork, and the dialogue is so much richer than here. Tell me about the knight's conversation with death. whats so deep about it?
@tool619 It seems that you're so focused in criticizing this movie that you don't even pay attention to the cinematography and art work, wich is also outstanding, including light work and composition. Now, about the dialogue, it's your problem if you're not able of willing to grasp any idea or symbolism from the script.
@carmaj156 Totally agree. A good film is SOOOOO much more, if at all, about intelectual challenges. Art is not abaout intelect, it is about feeling, intuition, mistery, symbolism, images (Tarkovsky!!!), everything that is NOT intelectual. Thank God Tarkovsky's films are not about rich dialogues. That would be SOOOO boring. Many times, I enjoy Tarkovsky's films best when I don't pay attention to the dialogues at all. tool619, you are missing a lot for being so ...small, even about great films.
@tool619 It is not intelectually challenging. It is challenging of your capacity for love. I mean yours carmaj156. It is a film about love. About a love that you don't have and possibly don't understand. It is very simple and wonderful in its simplicity. What you can have learned? Very little intellectually. A whole lot about love. Again, you have to know what Seventh Seal means and read the Book of Revelation were it is found. Yes, about love! Bergman's 1st film was "Lessons of Love".A comedy!
@tool619 Knight's conversation with Death is not deep per se, it is actually funny. It is the key of the film, though. Death opened an exception to the Knight, by giving him more time. The reason for that is what isdeep about the scene. But you have to know the reason, of course. The image of Death playing chess comes from a painting in a Swedish church, where the player is actually a skeleton. You want to learn something deep? Be deep yourself and give some thought to this image.
@tool619 half as good is being generous with Bergman. Tarkovsky is miles away, or rather has a cinema that makes all others, not just Bergman, look like kids toying with making films. Bergman himself knew and acknowledged it. Seventh Seal, though is not pseud-intellect crap. You can't understand it if you don't know what Seventh Seal means, meaning, if you haven't read the Book of Revelations. It is a Biblic Film!!!! Very simple about the prevalence of love over evil. About The Last Judgement!
no worries, it’s fine. sorry for earlier, i go off and tend to overreacting sometimes. there is a huge error in german translation as well! though both languages have lots of similarities. in ger. version it’s ''mein körper ist bereit, ich nicht'', which means ''my body is ready, not myself''. so i thought i was indeed wrong, then asked a friend from Sweden and he told me it meant ''my body is scared, but not me''. i’m gonna ask him about ''visorna'' today evening
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@nordic8alen the fact is that "my body is scared , but not me" is total non-sense. In addition, it does not answer Death's question, which was " Are you ready?". Death did not ask about being scared, but about being ready. There is a verb in Swedish "r(ae)dda", which means "befria", or libertar. If what was said, with unclear pronunciation, "min kropp ar redare", not "raedd", it would mean "my body is free (to go). That would make sense, meaning my body had its share and is ready to go.
@strumpdocka Besides, people did not know chess in the Middle Ages! The chess pieces are also very modern and skilfully carved. Bergman's intent? Maybe, Death and the Knight are shown as timeless archetypes, with Death representing mystic and unexplainable powers that the rationality of the Knight's search for objective truth. The chess playing only illustrates the contrast. Death's unbodily existence is tireless, while the exhausted Knights body, is ready to go. -Just wild speculation-.
Do a google search for the Isle of Lewis chess set - made in the 1100's in Norway. The pieces in the film may be modern (I can't see them very clearly), but they certainly did play chess in the middle ages in Skandinavia.
@StopmoNick wrong again. the pieces in the film seem modern, but these old pieces are amazing. No wonder it would not be an easy task to reproduce them. Plus, they didn't seem to have "black" pieces them, which would disallow the funny comment. A detail in relation to the painting of death playing chess in Taby, it wasn't really "Death", it was a skeleton, which might "symbolize" Death or not, don't know.
@tool619 it is indeed a VERY POOR Bergman film according to his standarts. It's so superficial and it does not really bother to take a closer look into the plague and death. Good thing is that it will introduce more people to Bergman and begin watching his other films.
@tool619 W S is a lovely, sensible, humane, beautifully "narrated", story about the shortness of life, their opportunities, and choices, and the unforgiveness of time and death for what has been been missed or wasted. It is NOT very deep psychologically, actually quite flat, with little or no significant insights. If TSS is about death and plague-you didn't get it- then W.S is about a ride cross country for an award. The superficiality is YOURS, not of the film's. Persona is a pain in the butt
@tool619 The Seventh Seal is one my three favorite films ever. Best than Bergman for me, only Tarkovski. In fact much better (Bergman's own opinion too). Apparently I pushed some butttons there. You started the arrogance and then cannot keep up with the consequences. At least we have some profound words in the end.
@tool619 My problem is that after discovering Tarkovski's films, I just can't watch anything else. It is like everything else is amateur. Very few exceptions: The Seventh Seal being one, and Dead Man by Jim Jarmush another. There is Wittgenstein by Derek Jarman, but this one requires familiarity with Wittgenstein's life and work. I just don't go to the movies anymore! No kidding.
@tool619 Have you ever thought about the name of film? Read the Book of Revelation, in the Bible. Neither the plague or death are the real issues. The issues are the people in the film, what they are and what they represent (that's Bergman right?). Including Block, a Knight finally realizing something worth his name after his lifelong search. Even the baby's name will become clear. If you don't read the B of R and understand what The Seventh Seal means, you are the superficial, not Bergman.
@tool619 What is the logic of stating that a Bergman film that is VERY POOR and so superficial would influence more people to watch other Bergman's films?
@HotPocketsBoy Tthere is one in which the Knight confesses in Church about the whole thing and describes his chess winning strategy. Only to find out that the listening priest was Death himself.
@openmindset yea i know i watched the whole thing. i was saying that i wished that practially the whole moive would be him and death talkin about life. the scens with Max and death are really the only scenes that got my attention. It interseing the dialog between them about his faith. but then 30 sec later am watchin some actor dancin on stage for no fuckin reason
@HotPocketsBoy Understood. The switch introduces the dancing couple who are the only ones that escape Death. The Knight is an angel that protects the couple while Death is distracted and delayed by the game. The Seventh Seal is part of the Book of Revelations. At its end, those like the simple loving couple are given "the authority to go to the trees of life and enter the city by its gates..."Outside, are the dogs, those who practice spiritism and for
HAHAAA " Du fick svart " XD
lillan567 1 week ago
"PLAY THE GAME"
I like NORAD better. "Do you want to play a game of chess?" - JOSHUA (super computer)
I would kick joshuas ass.
DarkPrinceNH5570 3 weeks ago
Death sucks (no really)... ya... CHESS is awesome though.
I havent seen this but what type of Knight was he?
Does anyone remember Family Guy episode where DEATH spranged his ankle? And everyone started shooting each other and wouldnt die? or where Peter jumps off a building drunk and made a bet to one of his friends he would live? Anyone remember that episode? Ya... anyways...
DarkPrinceNH5570 3 weeks ago
"Left hand, red"
berner 4 weeks ago
@berner HAHAHA
You dont even want to know.
DarkPrinceNH5570 3 weeks ago
I gave the subs but its in the wrong order, read from third down and then up
:P
bigfishbillyboy 1 month ago
Death chooses a hand.
Knight: you got black.
Death: It fits best that way, dont you think?
bigfishbillyboy 1 month ago
Knight: Hoho...I have seen you on paintings and heard about you in poetry.
Death: Yes, I am a pretty skilled chess player.
Knight: Jet you cannot be more skilled than me.
Death: why do you want to play chess with me?
Knight: That is my own thing (in swedish it means "my own business).
Death: You are right.
-They both sit down
Knight: The condition is that I am going to live as long as I will struggle against you. If I play you matt (check mate), then you will let me go.
bigfishbillyboy 1 month ago
bigfishbillyboy 1 month ago
I wish someone would english sub this.
Boondoggleman2008 1 month ago
TROEP
biens14 1 month ago
@biens14 dumpert?
theInfamous3 1 month ago
Me, about to once again hopelessly challenge my computer to a game of chess. I think it's cheating. And yes, the computer is death.
mrpwesterberg 1 month ago
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breakingdownfilms 1 month ago
So this is Father Merrin's first encounter with the supernatural?
Thedoctor19000 1 month ago
I feel so fucking intelligent while watching this.
Viskproductions 2 months ago
@Viskproductions
LMAOOO
alberteinsteinsmuse 1 month ago
In the darkness where you say you are, there is none to listen to your lament. You are reflected in your own indifference.
saurabhCherished 2 months ago
This version of Death is truely the greatest and the creepiest
MascotOfAGeneration 2 months ago 2
@MascotOfAGeneration agree. the best death up to date
Gaprielll 2 months ago
I love Death's voice so much.
therealcritic28 2 months ago
Oh my god 50% off creepy black robes look!
*runs away*
nikanj 2 months ago
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How to make film noir...
1. Fit a graduated grey filter over your cameras lens.
2. Process your film for maximum contrast.
3. Make it in any language as long as its not English.
4. Always have a script that makes no sense, has no beginning, no middle, and no end.
5. Include as much sex as possible, with both parties involved either looking as bored as possible, or eating food off of each others bodies.
6. Talk about Nazi's at the press launch.
7. Always have a dwarf or albino in your film.
beachhutblues 2 months ago
@beachhutblues That's not film noir you idiot! Film noir would be hardboiled detective stories, tales of boxers, and femme fatals. Examples include The Maltese Falcon, The Killers, The Big Sleep, etc. Get your film terminology right before you try to make fun of cinema. If you can't, then go back to your Michael Bay movies!
Nelsonhojax15 2 months ago 3
@Nelsonhojax15
Whose Michael Bay?
beachhutblues 2 months ago
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@beachhutblues
I don't normally make comments like this, but what the fuck are you talking about?
falrapax 2 months ago
I absolutely love this film and think it is a great example of cinematic art. But even you would agree that the song performed within movie is slightly annoying and irritating. It does my nut in every time it comes on and I have to reduce the volume because the sound coming from the film is too high. Such a shame it was included within this spectacular display of the macabre.
AWonderingWarrior 2 months ago
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AWonderingWarrior 2 months ago
0:27 random heeest
peddobear3000 2 months ago
ESBERN!
EndureFocusEngageDie 2 months ago 2
"Min kropp är redo"
Reggie: MY BODY IS READY!
Rimmer7 3 months ago
THIS and Wild Strawberies are the 2 BEST European films of ALL TIME..
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If Johan Hegg from Amon Amarth played against death he'd flip that damn chess table like a boss. （╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
kalidesu 3 months ago
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kalidesu 3 months ago
Jag älskar den här filmen. <3
HarryplusHermione 3 months ago
now I know what is so weird in the dialogue: the man says "du" and not "Ni" to death. Like in German´s "du" vs "Sie".That is really interesting. But on the other hand they speak very non-formally, saying "ja" instead of "jag", which many others have already noted.
mirielsbokblogg 4 months ago
@mirielsbokblogg Old as the movie is, around this time people stopped being formal about titles and the likes.
EzeCoyote 3 months ago
@EzeCoyote yes, so it was. But it is very rarely heard in black-and-white movies, and well, death is always someone I would say "Ni" to :P lol
it really shows how innovative and creative the director was, that he actually had them talk like people did in reality, and not use the old-fashioned and very formal way of speaking that was common in front of the camera at that time! :)
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@mirielsbokblogg The knight says "du" instead of "ni" because he doesn't respect death.
mjonas10 2 months ago
They' should'ev played pool. The Knight wins the game and Death says: ,,There is no difference on who won, you still pushed the black ball into the Hell's hole."
SvPantalejmon 4 months ago
So motto it be.
19550426able 4 months ago
Does anyone have a link to this movie with English Subtitles? I really want to watch movie but cant find a proper link =/
TheWheelerOne1 4 months ago
Just curious if anyone from scandinavia knows why death pronounces it jeg like norwegian with the silent g instead of the typical swedish jag?
AMpufnstuf 4 months ago
@AMpufnstuf it's quite common to pronounce "jag" as "ja" in non-formal speech. I think people mostly pronounce the 'g' when they want to put emphasis on the word or if they're trying to speak very clearly.
teooo 4 months ago
@teooo he doesn't say ja though, he says jei like in norwegian jeg. just thought it sounded funny in a swedish film
AMpufnstuf 4 months ago
@AMpufnstuf He says "Ja e döden" ("Jag är döden"="I am death"). Because he says it quickly it sounds a bit like "Jae döden".
Death's next line is: "Ja(g) har redan länge gått vid din sida" (The g isn't pronounced. "I have already walked by your side for a long time.)
Jiiimbooh 4 months ago
@Jiiimbooh Thank you, didn't think of it that way. Great film by the way, but I'm sure everyone here already knows
AMpufnstuf 4 months ago
@AMpufnstuf I think it sounds like that because "jag är" becomes "ja e" which sort of flows together and sounds like "jei"
teooo 4 months ago
death is so badass
likitty20 4 months ago
Keep pressing 5 for jizz in my pants
MrInternetDude 4 months ago
Knights templar there? Red cross, rosicrusians ... wonder if IB was part of all that ...
VJBixMix 4 months ago
"Hur vet du det?"
"AaAaah 0:45"
spanis1212 5 months ago 30
@spanis1212 lol'd
H3dneR 1 month ago
Black and white lends such a haunting quality to cinema, I prefer it colour any time. This is one of my all time favourite films.....I cannot find a single fault....but that's just how I see it.....faultless !
NostalgicNorthland 5 months ago
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the best film i've ever seen
UvaAmara 5 months ago
Who the Hell are you! Oh No! You're Death! Well, you're not going to take me -- wanta play a game of Chess instead?
cranberry6pointOh 5 months ago
You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.
SouthernCalEd 6 months ago 17
Thanks for putting this up, I've been looking for scenes of this for a while. :)
LLawliet435 6 months ago
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did he won ?
xAnalphabetx 6 months ago
The only movie that left a feel of deep fear in my heart, and a glimmer of hope in my soul.
darkfiete 6 months ago
@darkfiete It is the most hopeless and nihilistic film ever made. Imagine something like this in modern cinema. It's not possible.
Schizima 6 months ago
@Schizima i interpret the movie a little different, but thats the great thing about art, you can interpret it the way you like and the artist should never tell you its true intentions. i think that's how films should be made. give a visual impression and don't just try to deliver a message. leave it up to the viewer to decide what they see.
darkfiete 6 months ago
@Schizima It is the most hopefull and celebrative of love and life film ever made. Look at the end. Not the dance. Not the dead. What survives. Pure love and innocence. Read the Book of Revelation.
justfrancisko 5 months ago
@darkfiete That is Bergman in a nutshell. and the hope comes always as the purity of an innocent soul.
justfrancisko 5 months ago
American movies are, generally, entertaining only for smaller/juvenile minds whom haven't gone significantly past those times when they were entertained by the rotating carousel above their cots. They do produce some good movies, but not 80 or 90% of the time. It's like bubble gum, nice to chew, lousy on nutrition. They have synonymised uninsightful 'shock and awe' sensational juvenile content with the entirety of the idea of 'entertainment'. Insight is supposed have nothing to do with it.
according2ed 6 months ago
BlackMagnumFilms 6 months ago
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BlackMagnumFilms 6 months ago
BlackMagnumFilms 6 months ago
swedish is lovely language
mosilflutil10 6 months ago
Hahaha, va i helvete xD
ExtraJordgubb 6 months ago
Learned about this movie from an Agalloch song. So awesome.
Deoxysdog 6 months ago
12 people lost a game of chess to Death.
StateMachine92 7 months ago
@StateMachine92
an innocent couple and their baby were saved by it
justfrancisko 5 months ago
Bergman was an amazing director, easily my favorite. I love the sound of Swedish for some reason as well.
shadaliciousbaby 7 months ago
12 people should get a lethal injection for being subhumans and idiots.
AveEvropa 7 months ago
Nuförtiden så skulle det väl bli en match i Call of Duty.
barcafredde 7 months ago
@barcafredde
Haha:D
-Du spelar Call of Duty, inte sant?
-Hur vet du det?
-Åh, jag har ju sett det på Youtube...
AmericanIdiotWannabe 6 months ago
How can anyone bother with clicking the Dislike button This is pure and beautiful art, and Bergman is the best. They're really lost.
spacegravity 8 months ago
"Spelar jag dig matt följer du mig"
Vad menar han egentligen? Jag vet vad schack-matt är, men hur ska döden kunna följa honom?
EnhetA101 8 months ago
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@EnhetA101 Han säger inte "Spelar jag dig matt följer du mig", han säger "Spelar jag dig matt friger du mig"
LordAckweld 8 months ago
@EnhetA101 Han säger "friar", inte "följer".
blubbson 8 months ago
@blubbson
Ah, tack =)
EnhetA101 7 months ago
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Teshnor 7 months ago
@EnhetA101 frigjør, ikke følja.
Joehands0me 7 months ago
I am death. I have been by your side for a long time. Are you prepared?
imsohappy 9 months ago
why did the chessboard appear so quickly beside the knight? fail.
lambino34 9 months ago
@lambino34 You notice the chessboard and didnt notice death? :O
TAU07 9 months ago
@TAU07 no I meant before death sat down beside him
lambino34 9 months ago
Vart e loket?
napischu 9 months ago
Fatima movement comment below is bs. Read the book of revelations last part of the bible.
poli4007 9 months ago
Just watching this, you get such an eeire feel of the middle ages, The cliffs and sea next to each other, the music, the characters faces. Its all just perfect :)
xaxie1 10 months ago
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BabexyyLoyceaa153 10 months ago
Was this movie made today, we would get an american remake the next year...
Deavi783 10 months ago
11 michael bay fans are stupid.
SuperCinemaLover 10 months ago 2
chess with death, that's so bad ass
stefanoksztaltny 10 months ago 45
@stefanoksztaltny
Totally! :D
xaxie1 3 months ago
Simply Masterpiece...
Enduroforever 10 months ago
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The seven seals are the seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church. They were opened before Vatican II when all rites were changed to the name in the Spiritus Sanctus instead of the Spiritum Sanctum. The significance is the baptisms are now done in the name of the one who is coming, instead of the Spirit of the one who was, is, and ever shall be. In English, Holy Ghost is God, Holy Spirit is Baphomet. Trent verifies this- John is a saint of Masonry, Luciferianism. FATIMAMOVEMENT d o t c o m
fatimamovement 10 months ago
Vem e du?
"Jag e dödN"
chumppe 11 months ago 36
@chumppe
-Jag har länge stått vid din sida.
-Däh veeht jaah (:D
AmericanIdiotWannabe 6 months ago
@chumppe "dödN^" skare va!
jesperchristensson 3 months ago
DE VET JA
Zeredek 11 months ago
kan någon spoila och säga vem som vann.. kan inte vänta på svar!
Kevinbjursell 11 months ago 3
@Kevinbjursell it was not about winning, it was about distracting and gaining time in order to save theinnocent couple and their baby.
justfrancisko 5 months ago
Oh thanks for the subtitles.
meb1982 11 months ago 3
lol
ClubDominoEnglish 11 months ago
@AntiFaithNY That's awesome to hear :) One of the most fun things about living in different places in Europe (+ America) is learning and realizing how similar our languages are, and that, despite what appears at the surface, we're all pretty similar with one another and share a common history. Our languages are a testimony of that.
mastgrr 1 year ago
Jag har länge undrat varför Antonius Block väljer att besvara Dödens fråga som han gör. Det låter nästan som att han vill svara "Min kropp är beredd..." men råkar ut för en freudiansk felsägning.
KrappiTheClown 1 year ago
@KrappiTheClown My take after quite a lot of tought. The plague destroys the body, which is therefore (redd)scared, inte jag sjalv (my soul).
justfrancisko 5 months ago
Max von Swallow has quite an extraordinary face :)
xaxie1 1 year ago
@AntiFaithNY It IS possible to appreciate Bergman more by learning Swedish, and appreciate more his actors, and not become a victim of horrible translations. Swedish is a beautiful and very expressive language. I studied for 2 years in Sweden and was, but no longer, pretty fluent. It is a treat. It is said that Stockholm is the Venice of the North, and I would say that Swedish is the Italian of the North minus the body language. The same, of even more, applied to Tarkovski's the Sacrifice.
justfrancisko 1 year ago
@justfrancisko I understand a bit of Swedish since I speak some words of Danish - it's a very special, but fascinating language. I'm German and I just recently watched Bergman's "Smultronstället" - it was so marvellous in the German dubbing. Now I wanna see it in Swedish to improve my language skills. Hope it works.
EmpiresEagle 1 year ago
@EmpiresEagle An idea is to watch in DVD and repeat over and over somespecial parts. I can watch this scene non-stop,a lot because of the Swedish.I believe that the Swedes cannot appreciate it because they are "inside". I'm from Brazil People say that the language is beautiful. I can't appreciate it. Anyway, just the sentence "Jar ar doeden" is so powerful and special in Swedish. In part because it really means "THE death" not just "death". It gives Death a sense of self, with personality.
openmindset 1 year ago
Geee...My mind is open but not smart enough to understand what you are saying. Sorry. Let's move on. Just one thing Death is not synonimous with Devil as much as Life is not sinonimous with God. In fact death is work of God. An evil life, not death, is work of the Devil. My mind is set, not open, of this one. Good enough.
openmindset 1 year ago
@openmindset Just as "synomimous," and "sinonimous" are not synonymous with "synonymous."
YYYYYEEEEAAAAHHHHH!
WithSomeSpareTime 11 months ago
@WithSomeSpareTime Oh my Devil, really, reelly, rellie funnie.heelarius sinonimmouss of get a life, with so much time to spare.
openmindset 11 months ago
@openmindset Haha, thanks man. I knew it was funny.
WithSomeSpareTime 11 months ago
@WithSomeSpareTime Varsogod. I alla fall, spelar du shack?
openmindset 11 months ago
Masterpiece world.
ateniense7 1 year ago
I am thinking on a possible interesting interpretation of why the Knight would say "my body is scared, not my self". Bergman took the idea of Death playing chess from a painting of an skeleton playing chess in a church in Taby, Sweden. What death means to a body is to become a skeleton, which is a REALLY scary idea,particularly like the skeleton in that painting.As to the imaterial self, death can be felt as not so scary or not at all depending on how one sees it. Cool Bergman. You caught me.
openmindset 1 year ago
@openmindset I believe body and soul is one. And I don't think death can be described as "death can be felt as not so scary or not at all depending on how one sees it". How do you motivate that statement? Die much?
ThisSpitefulSnake 1 year ago
@ThisSpitefulSnake Your, or anyone's beliefs of what death and body-soul are don't matter. The Knight answer to Death's is the subject of the comment, which reflects his own beliefs. "my body is scared, not my self". My interest is in why the Knight would believe that his body was scared of death. It is my speculation the answer would make sense based on the body 1) being deformed by the effects of the plague, 2) decomposing, turning into a skeleton.I would be scared to death (pun intended)!!!
openmindset 1 year ago
@openmindset well, your guess is as good as mine.
ThisSpitefulSnake 1 year ago
@ThisSpitefulSnake Let's start with this, anybody's guess is as good as anybody else's guess. Cool. But what the fuck is your guess?What is your explanation for the Knight responding "My body is scared, not myself", when Death asked if he was ready.? Why do you think he meant?.I know what you think. The issue is what the Knight thinks and why he said what he said about his body. I gave my "SPECULATION", which I think explains HIS beliefs. Do you have one? It would be great to know,
openmindset 1 year ago
It seems your mind may not be so open after all.
I believe that he is saying this to empower himself and to enforce his beliefs. This is very natural if you look to any religion or darwinistic society. He also tries to lure the devil who actually seems to react to the words, in spite of being the administrator of death. Satan should not care, he orders.
ThisSpitefulSnake 1 year ago
The problem is that Ingmar Bergman is so damn pretentious with his Seventh Seal. He just cant make a film half as good as Tarkovsky. If you guys want art, watch Tarkovsky films, not this piece of pseudo-intellect crap.
tool619 1 year ago
@tool619 You may like Tarkovsky as much as I do, but you sound like a person who dismisses art as soon as it represents an intellectuall challenge to you. By saying that I'm not trying to offend you, but there are people who thinks art and ideas don't go along for art is about feeling and expression. Far away from truth. You're missing a lot if you think so. This is a great movie.
carmaj156 1 year ago
@carmaj156 what's so intellectually challenging about The Seventh Seal, i mean how much can you actually say you have learned or taken away after watching it? is your mind blank ? Tarkovsky films have superb camerawork, and the dialogue is so much richer than here. Tell me about the knight's conversation with death. whats so deep about it?
tool619 1 year ago
@tool619 It seems that you're so focused in criticizing this movie that you don't even pay attention to the cinematography and art work, wich is also outstanding, including light work and composition. Now, about the dialogue, it's your problem if you're not able of willing to grasp any idea or symbolism from the script.
carmaj156 1 year ago
@carmaj156 Totally agree. A good film is SOOOOO much more, if at all, about intelectual challenges. Art is not abaout intelect, it is about feeling, intuition, mistery, symbolism, images (Tarkovsky!!!), everything that is NOT intelectual. Thank God Tarkovsky's films are not about rich dialogues. That would be SOOOO boring. Many times, I enjoy Tarkovsky's films best when I don't pay attention to the dialogues at all. tool619, you are missing a lot for being so ...small, even about great films.
openmindset 1 year ago
@tool619 It is not intelectually challenging. It is challenging of your capacity for love. I mean yours carmaj156. It is a film about love. About a love that you don't have and possibly don't understand. It is very simple and wonderful in its simplicity. What you can have learned? Very little intellectually. A whole lot about love. Again, you have to know what Seventh Seal means and read the Book of Revelation were it is found. Yes, about love! Bergman's 1st film was "Lessons of Love".A comedy!
openmindset 1 year ago
@tool619 Knight's conversation with Death is not deep per se, it is actually funny. It is the key of the film, though. Death opened an exception to the Knight, by giving him more time. The reason for that is what isdeep about the scene. But you have to know the reason, of course. The image of Death playing chess comes from a painting in a Swedish church, where the player is actually a skeleton. You want to learn something deep? Be deep yourself and give some thought to this image.
openmindset 1 year ago
@tool619 half as good is being generous with Bergman. Tarkovsky is miles away, or rather has a cinema that makes all others, not just Bergman, look like kids toying with making films. Bergman himself knew and acknowledged it. Seventh Seal, though is not pseud-intellect crap. You can't understand it if you don't know what Seventh Seal means, meaning, if you haven't read the Book of Revelations. It is a Biblic Film!!!! Very simple about the prevalence of love over evil. About The Last Judgement!
openmindset 1 year ago
Kommer du för att hämta mej?
AnPeSv 1 year ago
Hahaha
"jag är döden"
Jag kommer skratta åt det tills jag dör och han kommer och hämtar mej på riktigt hehe
MrsDizeaze 1 year ago
no worries, it’s fine. sorry for earlier, i go off and tend to overreacting sometimes. there is a huge error in german translation as well! though both languages have lots of similarities. in ger. version it’s ''mein körper ist bereit, ich nicht'', which means ''my body is ready, not myself''. so i thought i was indeed wrong, then asked a friend from Sweden and he told me it meant ''my body is scared, but not me''. i’m gonna ask him about ''visorna'' today evening
nordic8alen 1 year ago 2
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@nordic8alen the fact is that "my body is scared , but not me" is total non-sense. In addition, it does not answer Death's question, which was " Are you ready?". Death did not ask about being scared, but about being ready. There is a verb in Swedish "r(ae)dda", which means "befria", or libertar. If what was said, with unclear pronunciation, "min kropp ar redare", not "raedd", it would mean "my body is free (to go). That would make sense, meaning my body had its share and is ready to go.
openmindset 1 year ago
@openmindset My body is so sad! Not myself.
poli4007 1 year ago
grymmmmmmm
supergicko 1 year ago
death and taxes
lizardstrikes 1 year ago 2
vart kom schakspelet ifrån?
strumpdocka 1 year ago 6
@strumpdocka Besides, people did not know chess in the Middle Ages! The chess pieces are also very modern and skilfully carved. Bergman's intent? Maybe, Death and the Knight are shown as timeless archetypes, with Death representing mystic and unexplainable powers that the rationality of the Knight's search for objective truth. The chess playing only illustrates the contrast. Death's unbodily existence is tireless, while the exhausted Knights body, is ready to go. -Just wild speculation-.
justfrancisko 1 year ago
@justfrancisko
Do a google search for the Isle of Lewis chess set - made in the 1100's in Norway. The pieces in the film may be modern (I can't see them very clearly), but they certainly did play chess in the middle ages in Skandinavia.
StopmoNick 1 year ago 2
@StopmoNick wrong again. the pieces in the film seem modern, but these old pieces are amazing. No wonder it would not be an easy task to reproduce them. Plus, they didn't seem to have "black" pieces them, which would disallow the funny comment. A detail in relation to the painting of death playing chess in Taby, it wasn't really "Death", it was a skeleton, which might "symbolize" Death or not, don't know.
openmindset 1 year ago
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One of Bergman's weakest films. 3.5 / 5
tool619 1 year ago
@tool619 it is indeed a VERY POOR Bergman film according to his standarts. It's so superficial and it does not really bother to take a closer look into the plague and death. Good thing is that it will introduce more people to Bergman and begin watching his other films.
tool619 1 year ago
@tool619
What would you recommend then? I only watched TSS (I downloaded Persona, which I'll watch after I finish Twin Peaks again).
fgsfjal 1 year ago
@fgsfjal Persona and Wild Strawberries.
tool619 1 year ago
@tool619 W S is a lovely, sensible, humane, beautifully "narrated", story about the shortness of life, their opportunities, and choices, and the unforgiveness of time and death for what has been been missed or wasted. It is NOT very deep psychologically, actually quite flat, with little or no significant insights. If TSS is about death and plague-you didn't get it- then W.S is about a ride cross country for an award. The superficiality is YOURS, not of the film's. Persona is a pain in the butt
openmindset 1 year ago
@openmindset so apparently you dislike Bergman's work. GO AND FUCK YOURSELF COCKSUCKER!!!
tool619 1 year ago
@tool619 The Seventh Seal is one my three favorite films ever. Best than Bergman for me, only Tarkovski. In fact much better (Bergman's own opinion too). Apparently I pushed some butttons there. You started the arrogance and then cannot keep up with the consequences. At least we have some profound words in the end.
openmindset 1 year ago
@openmindset I like Andrei Tarkovsky too! His Andrei Rublev and Stalker are in my top 10 list.
tool619 1 year ago 3
@tool619 My problem is that after discovering Tarkovski's films, I just can't watch anything else. It is like everything else is amateur. Very few exceptions: The Seventh Seal being one, and Dead Man by Jim Jarmush another. There is Wittgenstein by Derek Jarman, but this one requires familiarity with Wittgenstein's life and work. I just don't go to the movies anymore! No kidding.
poli4007 1 year ago
@tool619 Have you ever thought about the name of film? Read the Book of Revelation, in the Bible. Neither the plague or death are the real issues. The issues are the people in the film, what they are and what they represent (that's Bergman right?). Including Block, a Knight finally realizing something worth his name after his lifelong search. Even the baby's name will become clear. If you don't read the B of R and understand what The Seventh Seal means, you are the superficial, not Bergman.
openmindset 1 year ago
@tool619 What is the logic of stating that a Bergman film that is VERY POOR and so superficial would influence more people to watch other Bergman's films?
openmindset 1 year ago
Fyfan va dåliga skådespelare det var på den tiden :'D
vESTINMIXIFY 1 year ago
@vESTINMIXIFY Idiot du vet uppenbarligen inget om skådespeleri.
saltkrakan1994 1 year ago 2
Den är gammal som gatan ;D
Bilen1az 1 year ago
this movie os old like the street
Bilen1az 1 year ago
ja e död'n
XSkallagrimsonX 1 year ago 14
jag kom också på en ny: jag är röven
NoRoProduction 1 year ago
fan det påminner mig om comhem reklamen
apan727 1 year ago 3
@apan727 det är ju klart xD
judai01 1 year ago
@judai01 kom precis på en ny : jag är bögen
apan727 1 year ago 2
@apan727 sorgligt.....när det borde vara tvärt om...
jonteponte91 1 year ago
Yeah, Max Von Sydow is an acting legend. I love the old movies, when there was greater reliance on acting, rather than cinematography.
yogiOK 1 year ago
One of the best movie's I've seen with a philosophical view on life - and death.
Cambell777 1 year ago
The thing I don't understand is that he challenges him to chess, and in the next scene, hes escaped him and on a horse, not in any hurry
xaxie1 1 year ago
@xaxie1 they were gonna continue the game at the Inn
HotPocketsBoy 1 year ago
takes big balls to watch this movie, but I love it!!
kingledude13 1 year ago 3
good movie i just wish there were more scenes with death in it the conversations between him and the knight were fascinatiing
HotPocketsBoy 1 year ago 2
@HotPocketsBoy Tthere is one in which the Knight confesses in Church about the whole thing and describes his chess winning strategy. Only to find out that the listening priest was Death himself.
openmindset 1 year ago
@openmindset yea i know i watched the whole thing. i was saying that i wished that practially the whole moive would be him and death talkin about life. the scens with Max and death are really the only scenes that got my attention. It interseing the dialog between them about his faith. but then 30 sec later am watchin some actor dancin on stage for no fuckin reason
HotPocketsBoy 1 year ago
@HotPocketsBoy Understood. The switch introduces the dancing couple who are the only ones that escape Death. The Knight is an angel that protects the couple while Death is distracted and delayed by the game. The Seventh Seal is part of the Book of Revelations. At its end, those like the simple loving couple are given "the authority to go to the trees of life and enter the city by its gates..."Outside, are the dogs, those who practice spiritism and for