There isn't a single specific thing I can say for certain about any character or action or line of dialogue in this entire play but I know exactly what it's about.
I view the play this way: those who "don't understand it" are the ones who do, and those who "understand it" are the ones who don't. Sorry if that's unhelpful to those of you who are frustrated by this play.
Godot is anything people give meaning to. Anything that gives them a direction in this absurd world. Without Godot the only thing to do is suicide, however, even that isn't a good option because then we'd be alone. Also, it isn't implied that they do commit suicide afterwards. The implication is that Godot never comes and they continue to wait, together. Godot isn't going to save anyone; he isn't really there. Godot is what people invent to give meaning to their own existence. Good play.
What this play actually intends to exhibit is that the two protagonists, are Waiting for Godot to come and help or save them. They fill their time bickering and talking and making up situations to pass the time. Really, what Beckett is saying, is that we are all 'waiting', or should I say living, but for what? There is no Godot. No Heaven or Hell. Nothing. We fill our lives with the same meaningless banter as these two characters do. Like Beckett said, there is no message, there just is.
I find the play tedious. I'm grateful that I'm able to watch it here, my first experience with Godot. I'm an "older guy" and find the subject matter "quaint." (I felt like I had to watch, like a homework assignment.) My first experience with Beckett was "Happy Days," which I liked. I guess I'm more of an admirer of the Oscar Wilde canon. At least with Wilde I'm captivated. One man's pleasure is another man's poison?
the play is NOT about suicide. Anyone who reads suicide into this and then acts on it is misinterpreting the entire point. But if you want to top yourself, please don't do it in the name of Beckett...you only soil his name.
This was profound. I think everyone over 65 should hang themselves. Why wait on Godot? The world population is 7 billion. By, 2050, it is to be 10 billion. This is just crazy. Eugenics needs to be practiced, especially in China and India. I've had a good life, plenty of money and plenty of women. I need to pass on now. If only there was a Doctor Kevrokian to take me down easily. They put him in prison in Michigan. He was advanced, the truth.
@Adriat1c A good play has several interpretations. You have your, the majority opinion. I see it differently. Albert Camus said the last philosophical question is suicide. Even Shakespeare wondered should one "take arms against a sea of troubles and end them?" Only fear of death, as Bill later explained, keeps people from massive suicides. My sister and best friend each committed suicide. I will, too, eventually. I won't wait. Like Einstein, I will refuse medical treatment.....
@JayGatsbyOdysseus well Beckett also contemplates about suicide when Didi and Gogo talk about hanging themselves but they intentionally do not actually do it, they wait.
@JayGatsbyOdysseus Beckett said it wasn't supposed to mean God alone. There is no truth to the meaning of Godot because Beckett said he didn't even truly know. But taking Godot to mean God just because they are similar words is the wrong approach. I think it means the rope. The two characters think Godot is not coming but the rope comes everyday around Lucky's neck. The then I guess symbolizes death as the two characters want to hang themselves with it.
@JayGatsbyOdysseus What a truly stupid comment. Overpopulation is a discredited myth. Eugenics? Who decides who is worthy? Kevorkian was a ghoul who enjoyed killing people. You want population control? Then kill yourself.
@MrJackassPenguin Eventually, I will kill myself. I will not live into old age. If you do not believe there are too many people on Earth, then you are in denial.
@JayGatsbyOdysseus If you seriously think that this is what Beckett implied with his play you've seriously misunderstood, if, on the other hand, you're merely trying to be provocative, might I suggest you do it elsewhere? I'm sure there is ample place on the internet for the sort of neonazi bullshit you're promoting.
I'm considering making 1:43:24 to 1:44:56 my new audition monologue, I need to have good ones especially for college auditions. Does anyone else think that is a good one?
I saw this version on stage in Dublin in 1991, cast is Barry McGovern as Vladimir, Johnny Murphy as Estragon, Alan Stanford as Pozzo and Stephen Brennan as Lucky - acclaimed actors of the Dublin stage all. Some of you might have seen Johnny Murphy in the film of Roddy Doyle's "The Commitments." This video of the play was to mark the 20th anniversary of that production and the 80th anniversary of the Gate Theater.
@SatchmoSings - this play was originally written in French - Beckett, who was Irish - then translated it into English. When he did that he gave Vladimir and Estragon a working class IRISH idiom while Pozzo's English is British - btw, point of interest: if you were Irish and watching this play in Dublin, you wouldn't be thinking that E + V had "accents." And while there are many ways to interpret the play, one is that it is to do with the relationship that existed between Ireland and England.
@lolla909 Actually no, French first, then English. Beckett studied French at college and by the time he wrote Godot had lived in Paris for ten years. Not that he wrote everything in French, but he did say that he liked writing in French as it helped him avoid getting caught up in "style."
@hernanm6 Cast is Barry McGovern as Vladimir, Johnny Murphy as Estragon, Alan Stanford as Pozzo and Stephen Brennan as Lucky - although Johnny Murphy is primarily a stage actor you might have seen him in the film of Roddy Doyle's "The Commitments."
@Clairehl1 Thank you very much! And yes, now I remember Johnny as Joey "The Lips" Fagan in "The Commitments". His performance in Godot is awsome. And Alan Stanford as Pozzo... well... I have not words...
@batavianism you weren't wrong to laugh at the absurdity of it. But you are wrong to use all caps. Nobody should do that. Think what you will about Beckett and this play. Just please learn to communicate effectively, without caps.
Did some English lit major break your sad little heart? Considering that your interests include "persuading people", you aren't very good at it. Calling it regurgitory crap is not in any way "precise", and the only masturbation going on is your self-righteous douchebaggery.
Words cannot express my gratitude for you uploading this masterpiece for the broader youtube community. This is by far the greatest version of the play.
I saw Godot in London, but I was sort of burning the candle at both ends and I actually nodded off in the middle of it. Tragic. Same thing happened at Beethoven's 9th, I gotta pay attention
Oh, fuck you. Saying it's the "greatest play ever made" isn't an opinion, it's a statement of fact. Saying "I think this is an excellent play" or "This is my favorite play" is opinion. Now go jerk yourself off to your english degree and grab me some fries while you're at it, wanker.
@stepkasmusic then gee, wonder where then, did you get that impression that this is one of the greatest plays "arguably" ever made. Take your hoity-toity, my play-is-better-than-yours ignorance somewhere else, if you can't appreciate a play so sublime about human "suffering" and futility.
I watched this because I'm studying it as a Modernist piece. Pretty impacting. I've never witnessed a plot where nothing happens. Vladimir seems like the only character with full awareness of what's going on (he's the only one who remembers anything). I feel fulfilled watching it :)
OUTSTANDING version of "Godot"--so much the better b/c of the actors' dialect. The most true-to-the-classic-Beckett that I have seen (among the 20+ live stagings I've seen.) Many many thanks to BarryJBelmont for making it available.
@paxtofettel "Waiting For Godot" is precisely the kind of regurgitatory crap that English Literature-types are so absolutely in love with; the rest of us recognize and enjoy unmasking this as the pseudo-intellectual shit that such people insist should be oohed and aahed over.
@SatchmoSings the last thing i want to do is get into a debate, but out of curiosity, what would you consider a great work? I am always interested in how some seem to immediately become attached to Beckett while other connect with it very little if at all.
@Br0therSeamus Go to "Amazon" and read all those that give this work a one-star review; they can and do explain it a lot better than I can with a mere 500 characters.
The review by Orrin C. Judd "brothersjudddotcom" is especially telling.
@SatchmoSings not belabor the point, but who would you identify as your favorite authors? I am actually doing a paper on the subject of texts which tend to garner such polar reactions. Thank you though, you have been very helpful
@Br0therSeamus Admittedly I do not read fiction very much; I read just about exclusively non-Fiction and if you would like a favorite author this way, I would recommend Robert Caro and also Louis Fischer.
In the fiction department I suppose I would like Mark Twain and Eric Blair.
Now, hold on; whether you're a fan of the play, that's neither here nor there, but give credit where credit is due. I think that the actors really made the most of the script.
@SatchmoSings this play utilises the vaudevillian style of cross-talking; a circus theatrical manner of speaking prevalant in the music halls of the 1950s (around the time Godot came out) - this is what makes it a tragicomedy.
@mreckleys People can cross-talk and still speak without swallowing their words; I fail to see what one has to do with the other; this is just a very feeble attempt on your part to attempt to justify this pretentious, pompous and just outrihgtly shitty play as "art."
@SatchmoSings Then pray tell what is art. Cross-talking is all about rapid speech that overlaps to create a sense of "continuity" between the double act; if you can't see/hear that, then too bad. Anyway, I've watched the entire thing, I can clearly hear what the characters. I don't see why your knickers are in a "pretentious, pompous and outrightly shitty" twist.
@mreckleys Look, chief, these actors swallow their words even when they're not cross-talking; if you consider poor enunciation to be something "artistic" I cannot argue with you; you obviously like it; I do not.
Also, the play is precisely the kind of regurgitory crap that masturbatory English Language Literature instructors and devotees "oooh" and "aaah" over; it sucks.
@SatchmoSings pretentious? pompous? how? When this was first acted out, the pretentious and pompous play-goers were the first to walk out of it. Indeed, it nearly incited riots because of its lack of plot, props, or discernible character development. It's received scathing criticism from viewers like you, who simply didn't understand it. It's also been heralded as the greatest play of all time. Opinions differ, but one thing is certain: this play is far from pretentious or pompous.
There isn't a single specific thing I can say for certain about any character or action or line of dialogue in this entire play but I know exactly what it's about.
LaMaisondeCasaHouse 1 day ago
Thanks but 'the greatest play ever made' is extremely arguable.
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I view the play this way: the characters are waiting, they're waiting for Godot...
fastn1 1 week ago
I view the play this way: those who "don't understand it" are the ones who do, and those who "understand it" are the ones who don't. Sorry if that's unhelpful to those of you who are frustrated by this play.
grahamlaur 1 week ago 2
Godot is anything people give meaning to. Anything that gives them a direction in this absurd world. Without Godot the only thing to do is suicide, however, even that isn't a good option because then we'd be alone. Also, it isn't implied that they do commit suicide afterwards. The implication is that Godot never comes and they continue to wait, together. Godot isn't going to save anyone; he isn't really there. Godot is what people invent to give meaning to their own existence. Good play.
MunLeanDearsu 2 weeks ago 8
Erm, what is all this about then?
silvercat18 3 weeks ago
What this play actually intends to exhibit is that the two protagonists, are Waiting for Godot to come and help or save them. They fill their time bickering and talking and making up situations to pass the time. Really, what Beckett is saying, is that we are all 'waiting', or should I say living, but for what? There is no Godot. No Heaven or Hell. Nothing. We fill our lives with the same meaningless banter as these two characters do. Like Beckett said, there is no message, there just is.
OnaHoliday 3 weeks ago 3
How the hell did I get here from Skrillex?
DENRUSAGUTTEN 3 weeks ago 5
@DENRUSAGUTTEN luck
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irrrockdahouse 3 weeks ago
I find the play tedious. I'm grateful that I'm able to watch it here, my first experience with Godot. I'm an "older guy" and find the subject matter "quaint." (I felt like I had to watch, like a homework assignment.) My first experience with Beckett was "Happy Days," which I liked. I guess I'm more of an admirer of the Oscar Wilde canon. At least with Wilde I'm captivated. One man's pleasure is another man's poison?
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OTRAHISTORIAMUSICA 1 month ago
the play is NOT about suicide. Anyone who reads suicide into this and then acts on it is misinterpreting the entire point. But if you want to top yourself, please don't do it in the name of Beckett...you only soil his name.
ishinadish 1 month ago
Are you waiting for Godot?
BlueLarkFly 1 month ago
Shall we stay at the same place for Messiah.......maybe we should always pray!
BlueLarkFly 1 month ago
@BlueLarkFly Or , keep the Oracle!
BlueLarkFly 1 month ago
If Beckett had always been so faithful all his mortal life on earth?
BlueLarkFly 1 month ago
Gogo and Didi are chosen,but why wasn't He a "good shepherd"?
BlueLarkFly 1 month ago
I'm doing this for my Drama assessment :)
Discredia 1 month ago
>as seen on /lit/
telelevision 1 month ago
This book was SOOOOOOO confusing.
untameablebeast 1 month ago
This was profound. I think everyone over 65 should hang themselves. Why wait on Godot? The world population is 7 billion. By, 2050, it is to be 10 billion. This is just crazy. Eugenics needs to be practiced, especially in China and India. I've had a good life, plenty of money and plenty of women. I need to pass on now. If only there was a Doctor Kevrokian to take me down easily. They put him in prison in Michigan. He was advanced, the truth.
JayGatsbyOdysseus 1 month ago
@JayGatsbyOdysseus the point of the play is never to commit suicide, always hope & wait.
Adriat1c 1 month ago
@Adriat1c A good play has several interpretations. You have your, the majority opinion. I see it differently. Albert Camus said the last philosophical question is suicide. Even Shakespeare wondered should one "take arms against a sea of troubles and end them?" Only fear of death, as Bill later explained, keeps people from massive suicides. My sister and best friend each committed suicide. I will, too, eventually. I won't wait. Like Einstein, I will refuse medical treatment.....
JayGatsbyOdysseus 1 month ago
@JayGatsbyOdysseus well Beckett also contemplates about suicide when Didi and Gogo talk about hanging themselves but they intentionally do not actually do it, they wait.
Adriat1c 1 month ago
@JayGatsbyOdysseus You know Godot isn't god right?
MrKeenes 4 weeks ago
@MrKeenes No, please inform me, clear up my myopia. What is Godot? I am being serious.
JayGatsbyOdysseus 4 weeks ago
@JayGatsbyOdysseus Beckett said it wasn't supposed to mean God alone. There is no truth to the meaning of Godot because Beckett said he didn't even truly know. But taking Godot to mean God just because they are similar words is the wrong approach. I think it means the rope. The two characters think Godot is not coming but the rope comes everyday around Lucky's neck. The then I guess symbolizes death as the two characters want to hang themselves with it.
MrKeenes 4 weeks ago
@JayGatsbyOdysseus What a truly stupid comment. Overpopulation is a discredited myth. Eugenics? Who decides who is worthy? Kevorkian was a ghoul who enjoyed killing people. You want population control? Then kill yourself.
MrJackassPenguin 2 weeks ago
@MrJackassPenguin Eventually, I will kill myself. I will not live into old age. If you do not believe there are too many people on Earth, then you are in denial.
JayGatsbyOdysseus 2 weeks ago
@JayGatsbyOdysseus If you seriously think that this is what Beckett implied with his play you've seriously misunderstood, if, on the other hand, you're merely trying to be provocative, might I suggest you do it elsewhere? I'm sure there is ample place on the internet for the sort of neonazi bullshit you're promoting.
kbt949 4 days ago
Simply unbelievable.
elishebaal 1 month ago
Best vid I ever seen!
1. Cause it's on Youtube
2. Not a pointless video
3. I DON'T NEED TO READ ANY BOOK!!!!!
deaddoom3493 1 month ago
39:40 Best. Thumbs up. Ever.
whatsthisidonteven 1 month ago 2
I actually enjoy both..book and video
miskyhusky 1 month ago
i was lazy to read the book as an assignment so why not watch the movie instead...
badmintonfool 1 month ago
This is the first trolling play.
LordAztahoth 1 month ago
DavidSSaab!!! yeah i think it's a great piece!!
shurick28 1 month ago
Thank you for this wonderful post! I've wanted to see "Waiting for Godot" for some time, and you were the one to enlighten me. Thanks!!!
shurick28 1 month ago
When his trousers fall down, I burst out laughing. It's so dark, stark and moody and then that happens out of the blue, just got me. =D
L0Lzombies 1 month ago
thank you
MooxLive 1 month ago
taking a break at 1:00:11 will return soon.
olivertopple 1 month ago
I'm considering making 1:43:24 to 1:44:56 my new audition monologue, I need to have good ones especially for college auditions. Does anyone else think that is a good one?
DavidSSabb 1 month ago
@DavidSSabb great idea. Probably the best monologue in the play - its sums the play up pretty well. Good luck with it.
jakobdonskov 1 month ago
@DavidSSabb what about tarantino's monologue from the start of reservoir dogs?
dandylionphotography 1 month ago
I'm so excited I found a full version of this online. This is one of my favorite plays, Beckett was a genius.
DavidSSabb 1 month ago 20
Riveting...
XXXPopeBenedictXVI 2 months ago
Stephen Fry could have been a good Pozzo in a modern version..
sma0k 2 months ago
I appreciated this play when I was younger, but the older I get, I appreciate it even more. This is a great version of it; thanks for uploading it.
Jan96106 2 months ago
I'm doing Beckett for my AP Lit&Comp project. It's difficult but so good after the third or fourth read.
darthjoey13 2 months ago
brillante
nuqleo 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
Doin this for a level cw. Eep.
lilsunshine29 2 months ago
Thanks for sharing!
HotVolume 2 months ago
awkward reply top comments are awkward
FredDFry 2 months ago 2
Beckett and Pirandello, the two greatest geniuses in the history of theater
rorschach282 2 months ago
Great production of a great writing but it took a thousand of them to get it this far
CreativeSheffield 3 months ago
NPW sent me here
willhofbauer 3 months ago
I saw this version on stage in Dublin in 1991, cast is Barry McGovern as Vladimir, Johnny Murphy as Estragon, Alan Stanford as Pozzo and Stephen Brennan as Lucky - acclaimed actors of the Dublin stage all. Some of you might have seen Johnny Murphy in the film of Roddy Doyle's "The Commitments." This video of the play was to mark the 20th anniversary of that production and the 80th anniversary of the Gate Theater.
Clairehl1 3 months ago
@SatchmoSings - this play was originally written in French - Beckett, who was Irish - then translated it into English. When he did that he gave Vladimir and Estragon a working class IRISH idiom while Pozzo's English is British - btw, point of interest: if you were Irish and watching this play in Dublin, you wouldn't be thinking that E + V had "accents." And while there are many ways to interpret the play, one is that it is to do with the relationship that existed between Ireland and England.
Clairehl1 3 months ago
@Clairehl1 actually it was written in english first then translated into french.
lolla909 3 months ago
@lolla909 Actually no, French first, then English. Beckett studied French at college and by the time he wrote Godot had lived in Paris for ten years. Not that he wrote everything in French, but he did say that he liked writing in French as it helped him avoid getting caught up in "style."
Clairehl1 3 months ago
@Clairehl1 that's funny cause in my text book it says that he wrote it in English first. lol
lolla909 3 months ago
@lolla909 Oh dear! Somewhat of a failure, and definitely not to your benefit! ^^
Mangofreakxx 2 months ago
@Mangofreakxx yes, it was written in french in '52 and then translated to english in '53... exam tonight ^-^
brandoncormier4 2 months ago
please! the name of the actors...!
hernanm6 3 months ago
@hernanm6 Cast is Barry McGovern as Vladimir, Johnny Murphy as Estragon, Alan Stanford as Pozzo and Stephen Brennan as Lucky - although Johnny Murphy is primarily a stage actor you might have seen him in the film of Roddy Doyle's "The Commitments."
Clairehl1 3 months ago
@Clairehl1 Thank you very much! And yes, now I remember Johnny as Joey "The Lips" Fagan in "The Commitments". His performance in Godot is awsome. And Alan Stanford as Pozzo... well... I have not words...
hernanm6 3 months ago
@hernanm6 ... and, of course, fantastic performances of Mr. Brennan and Mr. Mc Govern... Maybe the most powerful version of Beckett's masterpiece...
hernanm6 3 months ago
This was a terrible version of this play, and Lucky's 'Tirade' was done very badly by a terrible actor.
wgaule 3 months ago
@wgaule you are an idiot
israelsgyrl 3 months ago 2
@israelsgyrl Nobody cares what you think!
wgaule 3 months ago
@batavianism you weren't wrong to laugh at the absurdity of it. But you are wrong to use all caps. Nobody should do that. Think what you will about Beckett and this play. Just please learn to communicate effectively, without caps.
spamguy07 3 months ago 2
Did some English lit major break your sad little heart? Considering that your interests include "persuading people", you aren't very good at it. Calling it regurgitory crap is not in any way "precise", and the only masturbation going on is your self-righteous douchebaggery.
mreckleys 3 months ago
I'm running late, sorry lads.
craigpsimpson 3 months ago 2
What an amazing play, though I'm feeling sad now :(
girlwithaname 3 months ago
Well... Shall we go?
Yes... Let's go.
(They don't move)
saccccon 3 months ago 3
@saccccon
Ah yes.. It's quite sublime isn't it?
askjiir 3 months ago
the lonelyness, the emptyness, the meaninglessness....
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Words cannot express my gratitude for you uploading this masterpiece for the broader youtube community. This is by far the greatest version of the play.
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askjiir 3 months ago
I saw Godot in London, but I was sort of burning the candle at both ends and I actually nodded off in the middle of it. Tragic. Same thing happened at Beethoven's 9th, I gotta pay attention
Wrothchild 3 months ago
Thank you, this has been added to our playlists here and on facebook...
PoetryETrain 3 months ago
It bothers me how anyone can call this the greatest play ever made. Have they never seen Hamlet? Really?
stepkasmusic 4 months ago
@stepkasmusic ...I think they (and me) mean that it's the greatest play ever made OF Waiting For Godot.
gukgung 3 months ago
@stepkasmusic It bothers me that anyone can express their opinion. Have they never heard my opinion? Really?
foobargorch 3 months ago
@foobargorch
Oh, fuck you. Saying it's the "greatest play ever made" isn't an opinion, it's a statement of fact. Saying "I think this is an excellent play" or "This is my favorite play" is opinion. Now go jerk yourself off to your english degree and grab me some fries while you're at it, wanker.
stepkasmusic 3 months ago
@stepkasmusic "arguably" is the working word in the description, fool.
spamguy07 3 months ago
@spamguy07
I never said anything about the description, you simpleton.
stepkasmusic 3 months ago
@stepkasmusic then gee, wonder where then, did you get that impression that this is one of the greatest plays "arguably" ever made. Take your hoity-toity, my play-is-better-than-yours ignorance somewhere else, if you can't appreciate a play so sublime about human "suffering" and futility.
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@stepkasmusic Because people have opinions.
Valoe7 3 months ago
who is the director?
ayelenbro 4 months ago
fell in love with it from the first lines :)
25iulia 4 months ago
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Ouwen8 4 months ago
why do I feel like I'm in Purgatory??
christhornton92 4 months ago 2
Probably the greatest play of the 20th century. :-)
I read this when I was 18 and fell in love with it immediately, "for reasons unknown, qua, qua, qua, qua."
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dronecaster 4 months ago
I watched this because I'm studying it as a Modernist piece. Pretty impacting. I've never witnessed a plot where nothing happens. Vladimir seems like the only character with full awareness of what's going on (he's the only one who remembers anything). I feel fulfilled watching it :)
Karrthus 4 months ago
Fuck me is this excellent.
TheParanoidAndroid1 4 months ago
Nicely done. Very brisk and straightforward reading of the play. Thanks very much for posting it.
Freud0314 4 months ago
OUTSTANDING version of "Godot"--so much the better b/c of the actors' dialect. The most true-to-the-classic-Beckett that I have seen (among the 20+ live stagings I've seen.) Many many thanks to BarryJBelmont for making it available.
cjckcjck1950 5 months ago
The actors suck; they speak too fast and unintelligibly, not that there's really anything worth hearing.
SatchmoSings 6 months ago
@SatchmoSings good troll bro
asianant67 5 months ago
@asianant67 Thank you.
SatchmoSings 5 months ago
@SatchmoSings U mad bro?
paxtofettel 4 months ago
@paxtofettel "Waiting For Godot" is precisely the kind of regurgitatory crap that English Literature-types are so absolutely in love with; the rest of us recognize and enjoy unmasking this as the pseudo-intellectual shit that such people insist should be oohed and aahed over.
It's fallacious garbage by a totally shit writer.
SatchmoSings 4 months ago
@SatchmoSings Cool story bro
paxtofettel 4 months ago
@SatchmoSings Then why did you specifically search out this video?
I don't like rap music. I'm not gonna look for Soulja Boy's new music video, now am I?
Izzy41630 4 months ago
@SatchmoSings the last thing i want to do is get into a debate, but out of curiosity, what would you consider a great work? I am always interested in how some seem to immediately become attached to Beckett while other connect with it very little if at all.
Br0therSeamus 4 months ago
@Br0therSeamus Go to "Amazon" and read all those that give this work a one-star review; they can and do explain it a lot better than I can with a mere 500 characters.
The review by Orrin C. Judd "brothersjudddotcom" is especially telling.
SatchmoSings 4 months ago
@SatchmoSings not belabor the point, but who would you identify as your favorite authors? I am actually doing a paper on the subject of texts which tend to garner such polar reactions. Thank you though, you have been very helpful
Br0therSeamus 4 months ago
@Br0therSeamus Admittedly I do not read fiction very much; I read just about exclusively non-Fiction and if you would like a favorite author this way, I would recommend Robert Caro and also Louis Fischer.
In the fiction department I suppose I would like Mark Twain and Eric Blair.
SatchmoSings 4 months ago
@SatchmoSings
Now, hold on; whether you're a fan of the play, that's neither here nor there, but give credit where credit is due. I think that the actors really made the most of the script.
stepkasmusic 4 months ago
@stepkasmusic They speak so quickly, swallowing their words; it's hard to follow the dialogue.
SatchmoSings 3 months ago
@SatchmoSings this play utilises the vaudevillian style of cross-talking; a circus theatrical manner of speaking prevalant in the music halls of the 1950s (around the time Godot came out) - this is what makes it a tragicomedy.
mreckleys 3 months ago
@mreckleys People can cross-talk and still speak without swallowing their words; I fail to see what one has to do with the other; this is just a very feeble attempt on your part to attempt to justify this pretentious, pompous and just outrihgtly shitty play as "art."
@stepkasmusic
SatchmoSings 3 months ago
@SatchmoSings Then pray tell what is art. Cross-talking is all about rapid speech that overlaps to create a sense of "continuity" between the double act; if you can't see/hear that, then too bad. Anyway, I've watched the entire thing, I can clearly hear what the characters. I don't see why your knickers are in a "pretentious, pompous and outrightly shitty" twist.
mreckleys 3 months ago
@mreckleys *and can clearly hear what the characters are saying
mreckleys 3 months ago
@mreckleys Look, chief, these actors swallow their words even when they're not cross-talking; if you consider poor enunciation to be something "artistic" I cannot argue with you; you obviously like it; I do not.
Also, the play is precisely the kind of regurgitory crap that masturbatory English Language Literature instructors and devotees "oooh" and "aaah" over; it sucks.
SatchmoSings 3 months ago
@SatchmoSings What a miserable shit, you are
Coop720 3 months ago 3
@SatchmoSings pretentious? pompous? how? When this was first acted out, the pretentious and pompous play-goers were the first to walk out of it. Indeed, it nearly incited riots because of its lack of plot, props, or discernible character development. It's received scathing criticism from viewers like you, who simply didn't understand it. It's also been heralded as the greatest play of all time. Opinions differ, but one thing is certain: this play is far from pretentious or pompous.
spamguy07 3 months ago
Thank you.
WilhelmDrake 7 months ago
Life-changing masterpiece!
LovingByProxy 8 months ago
Nothing to be done.
MaxMcfax 8 months ago 33
@MaxMcfax I'm beginning to come round to that opinion
Br0therSeamus 4 months ago 2
@MaxMcfax I'm beginning to come 'round to that opinion.
BarryJBelmont 3 months ago
concurrently simultainiously for reasons unknown but time will tell
blueguitarist 8 months ago
Lets go
We can't.
Why not?
We're waiting for Godot.
Oh yes.
Akco007 9 months ago 34
Awesome stuff, im giving it one last watch this evening before my exam on it tomorrow for my English degree
MrMattvj 9 months ago
@MrMattvj Ah yes, the regurgitative English exam on "Waiting For Godot."
A bunch of "in jokes" that weren't funny the first time all lauded over by the most vile of pseudo-intellectuals.
SatchmoSings 6 months ago
Thank you for this!
SuperGuy9002 9 months ago
A phenomenal performance. Could existentialist thought be more exquisitely portrayed?
theoneandtheveryonly 10 months ago
@theoneandtheveryonly shut up
TronaldDumpInc 9 months ago
@TronaldDumpInc could you kindly rephrase your previous statement, as I find it has no meaning? What is the point you are trying to make?
theoneandtheveryonly 9 months ago
Is this a BBC production??
candyfloss022018 10 months ago
Extraordinary.
theoneandtheveryonly 10 months ago