its heartbreaking.what makes me sick is the fact, that the catholic church does not allow their priests to marry. jesus never told his apostels not to marry. he himself had women. that catholic church`s custom, the so called zölibat, is against human nature.
Why did they have to kill Dane? Meggie had suffered all her life and yet happiness always eludes her. Poor lady. The ending is so heart wrenching. Their unconditional love for one another is so strong and pure. Love doesn't get any better than that.
it just goes to show life is way too short you have to go for what you want when it presents itself easily said than done but this is a classic example.....
If anyone read the book you will see that Ralph was selfish and didn't even bother to come to the funeral as I recall. She later faced him and told him that Dane was her son. HE THEN had his heart attack. I hated that part of the book. However, in the series made him more humane.
i love this story goes to show god made us human what meggie and ralph had was real love, he gave them dane. ralph did what he felt compelled to do. but giving up his love for meggie was not one of them.
i love this story goes to show god made us human what meggie and ralph had was real love, he gave them dane. ralph did what he felt compelled to do. but giving up his love for meggie was not one of them.
I did not go back and read the previous comments, so forgive me if I am repeating a previous comment. Did anyone notice the symbolism of Father Ralph dropping the rosary beads on the ground as he embraces Meggie? It almost seems that the action was specifically designed to show that he finally chooses her over God. What do you think? Bill
@mtr2whls I noticed that too. :) I don't understand why he thought his love for meggie was keeping him away from God... I mean to love her and be as husband and wife is worshiping God too....sigh just breaks your heart to see love so beautiful be so hard
THis scene is so sad!It makes me feel bad whenever i watch it.Ralph is dying and understood at last that he never stopped loving Maggy but never made a choice for love and her especially.He loved her more than God but denied his love and his desire.The story of a tormented man and a wasted life.
It's hard to discuss this story, becausein the end, they both realised there mistakes, but it was too late. Dane was dead and Ralph died shortly after he learned that Dane was his son, but he falt that since he returned to Drogheda, 20 yeras later.
I'm sorry for 2 things: 1.That Meggie and Ralph did not remain together. 2.Meggie did not tell that from the beginning of Ralph that Dane is a "DeBricassart"
beautiful, touching, passionate!! i have never seen such a beautiful movie or mini-series that could compare to the thorn birds. it has touched me so deeply that even if i watched it a thousand times, it still has that effect on me. i love fr. raplh.. so true to himself even if such love was forbidden from the start.
That's such a touching scene - it's in that moment that Ralph acknowledges that of everything - God, her, and his own ambition - it's Meggie that means the most, that he loves the most. He's telling her that despite knowing the pain, true love is worth it. He came back to die, and all he wanted was her forgiveness for everything he put her through over the decades. And Meggie embraces her Ralph - he finally gave her what she always wanted - ALL of his love, all of him. Even in death.
how i love the thornbirds story...nothing like this today. im catholic, looks like father ralph was way ahead of his time, when it comes to banging his forbidden love...had i known i that I wouldve been a priest..hahah agreed?
I LEFT A COMMENT ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO! this is the best love story ive ever seen in my life , because it really touches me ! so deeply , because i always think that real love is something that we cannot control, it has to hurt , and it's not possessing! i had so many and great relationships in my life but i love one person who doesn't love me ! now i am with someone and i try to forget but i still fell something for this person!
richard chamberlain played the f----- shit out of this role. So natural. His struggle with temptation was done magnificently.OMG. I still have Thornbirds on a VHS tape
The essence of Gods teaching is to love the opposite sex. Nature's has given all living thing with the sex hormone. Religion celibacy is an obsolete practice, inhumane and against the nature itself.
The recent scandal over the handling of child abuse in the Catholic church has again focused attention on celibacy dilemma ....
This film shows that God; if he exists in his high Heaven, does not want us to love Him more than eachother, he just wants us to love eachother and to love him also is a bonus for him. He did not design us to be at the Church 24/7, and would never judge us if we were priest with a wife or a cardinal with a lover. But Ralf made that mistake in believing he had to love Him more than Meggie, but in truth he was lying...because he loved her more anyway. Good film.
Crap! Nothing like the book! The book made me cry. It wasn't a long goodbye. Meggie had turned bitter and Ralph was atchualy good looking. He died of sorrow for the death of his son.
i agree that we can discuss the situation for ever and in the end they both ended alone he died and she stayed alone..its terrible..but is the truth of human nature,we never discover our happiness until we lost it
this is one of the best mini series ever next to North and South. I remember watching this on tv in 1983 if I'm not mistaken and the last episode, it was in the news how businesses actually closed early to be able to watch it. Indeed the message is very powerful. The best is only bought at the cost of great pain. We know, we understand and still we do it.
No matter how many times i've watched this i've always had tears in my eyes at the end. Remember the scene in the church when Meggie was little, Richard playing Ralph has the face of an Angel and you can see the light in his face and then Meggie touches his cheek - it's a very loving moment and so innocent.... ( i know, i know it's a whole dif scene to this).....
I cried hard and loud when he "died". Yes, i know it's a movie BUT in that 465 minutes while watching I absolutely fell right in LOVE with Richard Chamberlain! Is this man ever going to get old.? He is still delicious. And a very intelligent man too. So Happy Birthday to father Ralph deBricassart.
It is at the same time the most beautiful and sad love story I have ever seen, I felt in love with that fictionnal character Meggie, having a beautiful woman like that loving you that much is the dream of everyman
The soundtrack is incredible,one of Mancini's best & such a complex story exploring the threads of common sense, karmic parrallels in Fee & Meggie's relationship,The saddest of all, the crossed purposes in Meggie & Ralph's love for each other & how time heals, though for Meggie & Ralph, not without great sacrifice. A reminder of the masochistic tendencies of love, how some of us mirror the bird on that thorn..
Thanks so much for the link for the thornbirds link. I did find the song AnyWhere Your Heart Goes (Meggie's Theme) on the movie soundtrack It plays the music and there is someone singing it. Thanks again
It's a real tragedy that Ralph's leading ambitions in his whole life were fake ambitions. I think after he "confessed" this aloud, he became kind of pure and went to God himself.
But Meggie knew it, too. She know it since she was a young girl, that this man can never be hers. Maybe that was the reason for her loving as well....look at Romeo and Juliet.
Yes you're right. But the message in "Romeo and Juliet" is different. Romeo and Juliet loved each other (with the same intensity). In the "Thorn Birds" only Meggie is really in love; Ralph loves her, but not enough to give up his ambition.
Ralph was always happy because he did what he wanted. Meggie did not have what she wanted
@neweast1 first real concept of life ,love and death came from watching this . I have seen it when child and has stayed with me since . Your totally right and what you said came from someone who has missed plenty of opportunities but is working at changing that
This never happened in the book :(, in the end Ralph died thinking what he says on this scene, looking at Meggie and seeing there what he was thinking, knowing that she forgave him a long time ago and at last finding peace and forgiveness on Meggie's arms looking at Meggie's eyes till death took him away and never looking afar from those eyes that knew him better than he knew himself and that loved him till the end...
"...So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her. Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb...." (Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose)
Yeah the book made me cry so much, and the last scene with Ralph just broke my heart, I read it 7 years ago, and it's still one of my favourite books. Oh the pain in it, the passion. Their love was cruel. They were so infatuated with each other that they only wanted one -- to be together for eternity, but God and church stood between them, because Ralph ,made a vow to be faithful to God. And Meggie puts it that way, that if it wasn't for Ralph's other love, they'd be happily together.
But that makes me seriously wonder if they really would be happily in love. Their passion was intense, almost brutal. Basically as the saying goes, the single road leads from great love to hatred. I don't know, their relationship was a really complex one. On one hand i wnated them to be happily together, on the other hand I didn't.
Yes, it's one of my favorite books too. And it was indeed a complex relationship, the problem was Ralph's ambition more than anything, he always tried to grasp more than he could hold, even if he wasn't a priest he would have wanted more money, power, etc. Like the man Fee loved, he wanted to achieve in life things than in the end never count, what matters most is the love. He's the bird that only sings about love when he's dying because only in death he's wise enough to see what matters.
Isn't it the universal flaw of the humanity? We always bite more than we can chew. If you look at it this way, Ralph is a "typical" male or what we think can be identified as a typical man, career/ambition-driven, loves a girl but loses her to his overpowering ego. And she's, what we think, is a typical female. Wants to love and to be loved. She creates herself an idol from the early age, and lives with this fantasy of having this perfect creature, that is nothing but a fruit of her imagination
And because she's used to think of him as a perfect specimen of humanity it hurts her to find out that he's not,actually far from being perfect. I think she was so into her fantasy as a little girl that she failed to realise that in reality to be with him would be highly impossible. Yet she tried, and hurt herself and him too, but he was hurting before even falling in love with the grown-up Meggie. I think he realised before that that she will really fall in love with him and he would not be
Ralph could have gone away but choosed to stay in Drogheda because of Meggie, he could have asked Mary Carsson anything he wanted (she gave him a horse, a car, etc.), he could have asked for money, or to ask mary to move her conections... she was jealous enough of Meggie to help Ralph to go away so neither of them could have him, but Ralph wanted Meggie for himself, he didn't want to be forgotten, so it wasn't Meggie's fault to inevitably love him but his... for letting that love grow in her.
He only went away when he saw how dangerous for him Meggie's love was, he fooled himself into the belief that he was superior to human pasions, even Vittorio saw that aloofness as something very arrogant in Ralph, because it's human to feel desire and an humility to admit how deep your pasions are or how weak you're for them. He should have left Meggie as a child, let her go would have been so unselfish but he was selfish, Meggie was wiser because she loved him as a priest and then as a man.
Can't really say that it was his fault for falling in love with her, or that it was anyone's fault for falling in love. You can't tell yourself "no, I can't fall in love" because it doesn't happen because you want it to happen or not, it just does. Of course he could've went away and could've stayed away from Meggie. And if you remember he did and stayed away for some time. But I agree, it pained him to stay away for too long. And I don't think he made the love for him grow in Meggie,
I think she loved him regardless. And as I said even as little girl she admired him and fantasized about him. Because honestly, apart from Franc he was the only human being who genuinely cared about her, and when Franc was taken out of her life, she relied upon Ralph entirely and he "betrayed" her by not being able to marry her. But she knew he promised himself to the church. Yet he sinned, I'm not denying it, and he toyed with Meggie's heart cruelly. But he was only a man,a flawed man at that
And he was always portrayed as the one who should be blamed for everything, and Meggie was the one who struggled, the one that hurt, the one that was right about everything. Yet in all the truth she was no less at fault than Ralph. That's why I pitied Ralph, because at least he knew how wrong he was, or has come to realise that. Meggie on the other hand thought that she was the victim of fate and God too, that she was the one betrayed.
It's hard to discuss this story because in the end they both realised their mistakes when it was too late. Dane was death, then Ralph died and Meggie was alone, it doesn't matter who was right or wrong or who was the victim, in the end they never had a chance to be together or be happy and thats what it's so annoying, that no matter how much they loved each other they were never together as a couple or as a family and we can talk from here to the eternity and never change that :(
I agree with you, we cannot go back and redo the history. I think it's one of the messages that's conveyed by this story. And it would be annoying in the real life, if one loved another and they could never be together, but this is a book, and as much as I wanted them to be happily together, I liked the fact that it didn't have a happy ending. Just makes you realise how real a fictional story can actually be. And I agree, both of them made mistakes,both of them were wrong,
but that's what makes this story so great for me, it makes the characters so real and believable, and to be honest I'm not a fan of books where characters hardly have a flaw, it's not believable, because usually we tend to relate ourselves to the fictional characters.
But the benefit of it being a story is in the fact that it's verstile, it can be rewritten, it can be interpreted in different ways, it can be reconstructed. Fortunately, in books things can run the way we want them to
all it takes is a bit of imagination. i'm talking about fanfiction lol, I myself have reverted a lot of endings in different books, just for my own pleasure of course. That's the beauty of literary art, in my opinion, the fact that it can be retold over and over and remade in different ways.
Cginnish why do you think that child abusers are only Catholic priests? They can be caught hanging out at school, camps,parks. We cannot lock our children and it even happens in the children's home.People need to be aware of what is going on with their children. If Richard Chamberlain is gay I can accept that and I'm sure he is a passionate lover . Any adult having sex with kids is a child abuser.
Colleen McCullough stated that this TV show was a disaster and that she doesn't want it to be compared to her novel whatsoever! I red the book and I also think it is (much) better then the show, but I enjoyed watching it. I think music is GREAT!
You are right. But may I add: priests ARE allowed to marry and get as many children as they want. Only the Catholics are not allowed to, but the 100 or so Protestant churches always allow it, in fact they encourage it. Priest families have many children and they are all happy as far as I know them personally.
i forgot how sad that ending was....can someone past the kleenex. It has been so many years since I have seen the movie and I am so happy to say that I just ordered it yesterday so I can add it to my collection. Thanks for posting.
When I saw this on TV in the '80s, I immediately shut off the TV, once the music stopped, and sobbed for 20 minutes. I wasn't ready for the commercial world to destroy the sentiment and mood, made even more bittersweet by the memorable music.
Rachel Ward resembled Audrey Hepburn in this scene. Thanks for the memories!
I was named for the character Meggie. My mother fell in love with this story for the man she loved, my birth father couldn't be with her either and I think she never got over that. I'm grown now and when I first watched this all I felt was how beautiful a film it was but then the man that I loved went away and I never got to be with him either. Sometimes the past repeats itself, huh? Great film and wonderful book. Thanks for posting this. :)
I really envy you, that you were named after such a notable and amazing character s Meggie! I'll call my daughter meggie as well maybe someday in the future when I'm older!
Ouch! I LOVE The Thornbirds, especially this scene... But why did you have to cut it off so soon? Part of the impact of the ending comes from the final footage--the plane flying into the rose. Anyway, I still thank you and applaud you.
His ambition trumped both God and love.
petals49 3 weeks ago 2
its heartbreaking.what makes me sick is the fact, that the catholic church does not allow their priests to marry. jesus never told his apostels not to marry. he himself had women. that catholic church`s custom, the so called zölibat, is against human nature.
emasberg 1 month ago 4
Thats true love!
BigFatCode 1 month ago
this is one of my favorite series. I watched is a child and it never ceases to amaze and captivate me. truly a classic.
persiancl 1 month ago 2
me and my brother just watched it. as did years ago when very young kids ! now can remember and also wise enough to understand !! It ! love it !!!!!!
lour20091 2 months ago
How exciting! Just no words! Classic!
77gaira 2 months ago
Why did they have to kill Dane? Meggie had suffered all her life and yet happiness always eludes her. Poor lady. The ending is so heart wrenching. Their unconditional love for one another is so strong and pure. Love doesn't get any better than that.
VAANYA9 2 months ago
Blind ambition !
4807avh 2 months ago
it just goes to show life is way too short you have to go for what you want when it presents itself easily said than done but this is a classic example.....
neweast1 2 months ago
I can't believe it. It make me cry, come on!! Really? Yeah omg!!
panikargentina 3 months ago
anyone know where we can see the whole movie online?
schwantus 3 months ago
@schwantus just got it from HMV music store in UK hours of viewing !!! for 25 quid
lour20091 2 months ago
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neweast1 3 months ago
If anyone read the book you will see that Ralph was selfish and didn't even bother to come to the funeral as I recall. She later faced him and told him that Dane was her son. HE THEN had his heart attack. I hated that part of the book. However, in the series made him more humane.
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i love this story goes to show god made us human what meggie and ralph had was real love, he gave them dane. ralph did what he felt compelled to do. but giving up his love for meggie was not one of them.
higirlize 4 months ago
i love this story goes to show god made us human what meggie and ralph had was real love, he gave them dane. ralph did what he felt compelled to do. but giving up his love for meggie was not one of them.
higirlize 4 months ago
this i soo sad i am crying right now
chan28246 4 months ago
I did not go back and read the previous comments, so forgive me if I am repeating a previous comment. Did anyone notice the symbolism of Father Ralph dropping the rosary beads on the ground as he embraces Meggie? It almost seems that the action was specifically designed to show that he finally chooses her over God. What do you think? Bill
mtr2whls 4 months ago
@mtr2whls I noticed that too. :) I don't understand why he thought his love for meggie was keeping him away from God... I mean to love her and be as husband and wife is worshiping God too....sigh just breaks your heart to see love so beautiful be so hard
Simeitsa 2 months ago 2
remember this on tv when i was 8 or 9. Makes me cry watching it now!!
falmouth2011 4 months ago
THis scene is so sad!It makes me feel bad whenever i watch it.Ralph is dying and understood at last that he never stopped loving Maggy but never made a choice for love and her especially.He loved her more than God but denied his love and his desire.The story of a tormented man and a wasted life.
fisteberg 5 months ago
magnifica c est magnifique l amour de ses deux etres si pur si fort le detestin on ne doit pas souffrir en amour film a voir sans modération
MultiLaboulette 6 months ago
beautiful, ♥♪♥♪♪♥♪♥♪♥♪♪♥♪♥♪♥♪♪♥♪♥
alicze1 7 months ago
It's hard to discuss this story, becausein the end, they both realised there mistakes, but it was too late. Dane was dead and Ralph died shortly after he learned that Dane was his son, but he falt that since he returned to Drogheda, 20 yeras later.
I'm sorry for 2 things: 1.That Meggie and Ralph did not remain together. 2.Meggie did not tell that from the beginning of Ralph that Dane is a "DeBricassart"
meggiestefy 7 months ago
Oh my gosh, this was so sad.... I'm crying as I watch...
izzyshepp101 7 months ago
beautiful, touching, passionate!! i have never seen such a beautiful movie or mini-series that could compare to the thorn birds. it has touched me so deeply that even if i watched it a thousand times, it still has that effect on me. i love fr. raplh.. so true to himself even if such love was forbidden from the start.
annsky1974 7 months ago 3
I like the end of the miniseries so much.
It is so effective. I read the book and I enjoyed it....but the way the film ends is marvellous.
And the film ends with the same words as the book
pejeux 8 months ago 2
Such heart breaking beautiful final scene, in the end Ralph and Meggie finally realised how much they loved each other and even in death still do.
Spikeskitten 8 months ago
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I am an 21 old boy. And when I fist saw this, I was 17 and I cried like a little baby. I am not ashamed.
juresaiyan 8 months ago
That's such a touching scene - it's in that moment that Ralph acknowledges that of everything - God, her, and his own ambition - it's Meggie that means the most, that he loves the most. He's telling her that despite knowing the pain, true love is worth it. He came back to die, and all he wanted was her forgiveness for everything he put her through over the decades. And Meggie embraces her Ralph - he finally gave her what she always wanted - ALL of his love, all of him. Even in death.
Scrappy527 8 months ago 4
how i love the thornbirds story...nothing like this today. im catholic, looks like father ralph was way ahead of his time, when it comes to banging his forbidden love...had i known i that I wouldve been a priest..hahah agreed?
actuary33 8 months ago
Brilliant book. Classic tv show. But its time to remake it with an Australian cast -
Hugh Jackman would be perfect as Ralph with Abbie Cornish as Meggie
rees276 9 months ago
OMG, still crying after so many years
2XAJ7 9 months ago
It is one of the best scenes of history movies
garegin77 10 months ago
I LEFT A COMMENT ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO! this is the best love story ive ever seen in my life , because it really touches me ! so deeply , because i always think that real love is something that we cannot control, it has to hurt , and it's not possessing! i had so many and great relationships in my life but i love one person who doesn't love me ! now i am with someone and i try to forget but i still fell something for this person!
ranja23b 11 months ago 4
Amazing story!
0607Jelena 11 months ago
richard chamberlain played the f----- shit out of this role. So natural. His struggle with temptation was done magnificently.OMG. I still have Thornbirds on a VHS tape
vivrospetjon 1 year ago
What an end, what a movie, what a sad story, life is a bitch, period!
I just broke up with the love of my life and my pain is incredible, i hurt beyond belief watching this scene, i will always love my ex girlfriend!
ephiras 1 year ago
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So sweat, so sad, so beautiful.
marianeghina 1 year ago
The essence of Gods teaching is to love the opposite sex. Nature's has given all living thing with the sex hormone. Religion celibacy is an obsolete practice, inhumane and against the nature itself.
The recent scandal over the handling of child abuse in the Catholic church has again focused attention on celibacy dilemma ....
hendrohadi 1 year ago
This film shows that God; if he exists in his high Heaven, does not want us to love Him more than eachother, he just wants us to love eachother and to love him also is a bonus for him. He did not design us to be at the Church 24/7, and would never judge us if we were priest with a wife or a cardinal with a lover. But Ralf made that mistake in believing he had to love Him more than Meggie, but in truth he was lying...because he loved her more anyway. Good film.
OurEvening 1 year ago 2
I cried during this scene.
bjnboy 1 year ago 11
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@bjnboy I cried too every time I watch this scene and Ralph died on Megie's arms it is really a very heart breaking.
virgie0714 1 year ago
@bjnboy : Oh, it still kills me to this day....just heartbreaking.
wiccanlove1 11 months ago
Damn I love this movie!!!
mikeys12 1 year ago 3
Fantastic book & movie
Perfect screenshots & Actor performances
The doubts of LOVE
1 000 *****
StellaCadente271 1 year ago
Crap! Nothing like the book! The book made me cry. It wasn't a long goodbye. Meggie had turned bitter and Ralph was atchualy good looking. He died of sorrow for the death of his son.
lolgal4 1 year ago
Meggie is so beautiful.
barbie5518 1 year ago
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bogissss 1 year ago
i agree that we can discuss the situation for ever and in the end they both ended alone he died and she stayed alone..its terrible..but is the truth of human nature,we never discover our happiness until we lost it
MrCharlotte876 1 year ago
of course this easier said than done
neweast1 1 year ago
Excelentes actores. El final es mejor que el del libro.
(And yes..., I do speak English perfectly, but I am fed up of the cultural imposition that everybody HAS TO talk in English)
Aaricia69 1 year ago
when we put the thorn in our breats we know and still we do it, still we do it.
we are all selfish to some extent is what I think he is saying....so sad
auntjojo1980 1 year ago
Wonderful video and movie
One of my fav' for ages
Master Achievement
Aureliano661 1 year ago
oh i forgot how sad the story was
kizzie926 1 year ago
... Hellllooo Woman...Good Bye Rosary Beads LoL!
luinagreine 1 year ago
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Aureliano661 1 year ago
this is one of the best mini series ever next to North and South. I remember watching this on tv in 1983 if I'm not mistaken and the last episode, it was in the news how businesses actually closed early to be able to watch it. Indeed the message is very powerful. The best is only bought at the cost of great pain. We know, we understand and still we do it.
pocorro 1 year ago 2
I'm trying to convert my sister to watch this series but so far she won't budge :) I absolutely LOVE it.
neske1975 1 year ago
No matter how many times i've watched this i've always had tears in my eyes at the end. Remember the scene in the church when Meggie was little, Richard playing Ralph has the face of an Angel and you can see the light in his face and then Meggie touches his cheek - it's a very loving moment and so innocent.... ( i know, i know it's a whole dif scene to this).....
yasminjananjum 1 year ago 2
ive been replaced from top spot. now i know how ralphie boy felt when everything went to hell in a hand basket.i now too have suffered losing
neweast1 1 year ago
it pisses me off how Dane dies, and then how Ralph dies. I mean, COME ON!! Give Meggie a damn break!!
loyalfalconflutist 1 year ago 15
@loyalfalconflutist life doesn't always give many breaks... often many heartbreaks... but this scene may have ummm.... jumped the shark..
irish89055 2 months ago
This was the saddest love story ever.
AquariusLowtide 1 year ago 3
I cried hard and loud when he "died". Yes, i know it's a movie BUT in that 465 minutes while watching I absolutely fell right in LOVE with Richard Chamberlain! Is this man ever going to get old.? He is still delicious. And a very intelligent man too. So Happy Birthday to father Ralph deBricassart.
sheila1945 1 year ago 3
this new site stinks
neweast1 1 year ago
It is at the same time the most beautiful and sad love story I have ever seen, I felt in love with that fictionnal character Meggie, having a beautiful woman like that loving you that much is the dream of everyman
spcfsu 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing this amazing video
The sad end of a wonderful LOVE STORY
Perfect actor perfomanes
Perfect screen shots
Perfect books
And real LOVE STORY
As distructing as real love can be
And an ever lasting strong LOVE between two simple human beeings
Sometimes the choice between ambition & love is idd hard to make for many of us...
THALASSA
66Flyingdutchwoman 2 years ago 4
The most important 'feeling' with our lifes...
I love it.... It's so treu...
Love,Marilyn
MissMarilyn1962 2 years ago
check out " a walk to remember" you will cry your little eyes like a big baby
mybuddy64 2 years ago
I watched this scene first in italian, my language. But with the original voices there's no comparaison.
pejeux 2 years ago
so traurig :' (
Jommy8719596 2 years ago
I actually thought that Richard and Rachel were together when this was done because the chemistry was so incredible.
vodkagal28 2 years ago 4
He is an Aries and I believe she is a Scorpio. This means they are very incompatible.
Atromitos888 2 years ago
Plus Richard's gay. That also might've had SOMETHING to do with it.
vodkagal28 2 years ago
LOL!!!
amjns43 2 years ago
her sunsign is Virgo
siadragonfly3 2 years ago
whos compatible with scorpio
neweast1 2 years ago
Pisces & Cancer
siadragonfly3 2 years ago
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neweast1 2 years ago
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neweast1 2 years ago
nobody buddy, you are the way you are. the actions are the most important things, not the day when you born
Sesgada 2 years ago
@Sesgada your right , got to find someone , someday sometime and way
neweast1 2 years ago
of course!!! I got too. I don't know when, but we'll do it. Take care.
Sesgada 2 years ago
@neweast1 - You mean the sneakiest of all signs of the Zodiac? I know I married one! Never Again!!!
castalia60able 2 years ago
i knew we were soppuse to be a little crazy, innovative,and fun in the sack but never heard about sneakiest.if any thing im to truthful and loyal.
neweast1 2 years ago
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neweast1 2 years ago
are you male or female im guessing latter
neweast1 2 years ago
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neweast1 2 years ago
No, she actually met her husband on the set of this movie. She married Bryan Brown, who played Luke.
hindrluvr 2 years ago
yeah, I know.Together for over 20+ years. Good for them!!
vodkagal28 2 years ago
pas de spoil merci, je compte les regarder. un jour, quand le plaisir des divx reviendra
nchq 2 years ago
Teaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrsssss!!!
How beautiful
mourningofrahaza 2 years ago 2
The soundtrack is incredible,one of Mancini's best & such a complex story exploring the threads of common sense, karmic parrallels in Fee & Meggie's relationship,The saddest of all, the crossed purposes in Meggie & Ralph's love for each other & how time heals, though for Meggie & Ralph, not without great sacrifice. A reminder of the masochistic tendencies of love, how some of us mirror the bird on that thorn..
siadragonfly3 2 years ago 3
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siadragonfly3 2 years ago
Thanks so much for the link for the thornbirds link. I did find the song AnyWhere Your Heart Goes (Meggie's Theme) on the movie soundtrack It plays the music and there is someone singing it. Thanks again
angelcass03 2 years ago
It's a real tragedy that Ralph's leading ambitions in his whole life were fake ambitions. I think after he "confessed" this aloud, he became kind of pure and went to God himself.
But Meggie knew it, too. She know it since she was a young girl, that this man can never be hers. Maybe that was the reason for her loving as well....look at Romeo and Juliet.
aknagy 2 years ago 4
Yes you're right. But the message in "Romeo and Juliet" is different. Romeo and Juliet loved each other (with the same intensity). In the "Thorn Birds" only Meggie is really in love; Ralph loves her, but not enough to give up his ambition.
Ralph was always happy because he did what he wanted. Meggie did not have what she wanted
pejeux 2 years ago
crappy makeup... : (
OH I KNOW thumbe me down...go ahead!!!!
RdtheLiterature 2 years ago 4
it goes to show life is way too short you have to go for what you want when it presents itself.
neweast1 2 years ago 20
@neweast1 first real concept of life ,love and death came from watching this . I have seen it when child and has stayed with me since . Your totally right and what you said came from someone who has missed plenty of opportunities but is working at changing that
dudeyfeb88coach 5 months ago
@dudeyfeb88coach It shows that you cannot miss the opportunity of love or your life will be wasted and painful.
fisteberg 5 months ago
it's about love..and sometimes, it is not the neat little package one believes it to be. It's about being human!
RachTrinity 2 years ago 4
ralph is a typical man, wants his cake and eat it
sunnybunnysuzy 2 years ago 3
I'm sorry, each time I've tried to reply another comment my responses are posted like this (it's sooo annoying) >:( so I apologize for my answers.
Elyannia 3 years ago
This never happened in the book :(, in the end Ralph died thinking what he says on this scene, looking at Meggie and seeing there what he was thinking, knowing that she forgave him a long time ago and at last finding peace and forgiveness on Meggie's arms looking at Meggie's eyes till death took him away and never looking afar from those eyes that knew him better than he knew himself and that loved him till the end...
Elyannia 3 years ago
still it's sad and both scenes are devastating :(, feels like the end of Wuthering Heights, everyone is happy least the main characters
Elyannia 3 years ago
"...So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her. Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb...." (Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose)
Elyannia 3 years ago
Yeah the book made me cry so much, and the last scene with Ralph just broke my heart, I read it 7 years ago, and it's still one of my favourite books. Oh the pain in it, the passion. Their love was cruel. They were so infatuated with each other that they only wanted one -- to be together for eternity, but God and church stood between them, because Ralph ,made a vow to be faithful to God. And Meggie puts it that way, that if it wasn't for Ralph's other love, they'd be happily together.
pssst78 3 years ago
But that makes me seriously wonder if they really would be happily in love. Their passion was intense, almost brutal. Basically as the saying goes, the single road leads from great love to hatred. I don't know, their relationship was a really complex one. On one hand i wnated them to be happily together, on the other hand I didn't.
pssst78 3 years ago
Yes, it's one of my favorite books too. And it was indeed a complex relationship, the problem was Ralph's ambition more than anything, he always tried to grasp more than he could hold, even if he wasn't a priest he would have wanted more money, power, etc. Like the man Fee loved, he wanted to achieve in life things than in the end never count, what matters most is the love. He's the bird that only sings about love when he's dying because only in death he's wise enough to see what matters.
Elyannia 3 years ago 3
Isn't it the universal flaw of the humanity? We always bite more than we can chew. If you look at it this way, Ralph is a "typical" male or what we think can be identified as a typical man, career/ambition-driven, loves a girl but loses her to his overpowering ego. And she's, what we think, is a typical female. Wants to love and to be loved. She creates herself an idol from the early age, and lives with this fantasy of having this perfect creature, that is nothing but a fruit of her imagination
pssst78 3 years ago
And because she's used to think of him as a perfect specimen of humanity it hurts her to find out that he's not,actually far from being perfect. I think she was so into her fantasy as a little girl that she failed to realise that in reality to be with him would be highly impossible. Yet she tried, and hurt herself and him too, but he was hurting before even falling in love with the grown-up Meggie. I think he realised before that that she will really fall in love with him and he would not be
pssst78 3 years ago
able to give to her what she wanted.
pssst78 3 years ago
Ralph could have gone away but choosed to stay in Drogheda because of Meggie, he could have asked Mary Carsson anything he wanted (she gave him a horse, a car, etc.), he could have asked for money, or to ask mary to move her conections... she was jealous enough of Meggie to help Ralph to go away so neither of them could have him, but Ralph wanted Meggie for himself, he didn't want to be forgotten, so it wasn't Meggie's fault to inevitably love him but his... for letting that love grow in her.
Elyannia 3 years ago
He only went away when he saw how dangerous for him Meggie's love was, he fooled himself into the belief that he was superior to human pasions, even Vittorio saw that aloofness as something very arrogant in Ralph, because it's human to feel desire and an humility to admit how deep your pasions are or how weak you're for them. He should have left Meggie as a child, let her go would have been so unselfish but he was selfish, Meggie was wiser because she loved him as a priest and then as a man.
Elyannia 3 years ago 3
Can't really say that it was his fault for falling in love with her, or that it was anyone's fault for falling in love. You can't tell yourself "no, I can't fall in love" because it doesn't happen because you want it to happen or not, it just does. Of course he could've went away and could've stayed away from Meggie. And if you remember he did and stayed away for some time. But I agree, it pained him to stay away for too long. And I don't think he made the love for him grow in Meggie,
pssst78 3 years ago
I think she loved him regardless. And as I said even as little girl she admired him and fantasized about him. Because honestly, apart from Franc he was the only human being who genuinely cared about her, and when Franc was taken out of her life, she relied upon Ralph entirely and he "betrayed" her by not being able to marry her. But she knew he promised himself to the church. Yet he sinned, I'm not denying it, and he toyed with Meggie's heart cruelly. But he was only a man,a flawed man at that
pssst78 3 years ago
And he was always portrayed as the one who should be blamed for everything, and Meggie was the one who struggled, the one that hurt, the one that was right about everything. Yet in all the truth she was no less at fault than Ralph. That's why I pitied Ralph, because at least he knew how wrong he was, or has come to realise that. Meggie on the other hand thought that she was the victim of fate and God too, that she was the one betrayed.
pssst78 3 years ago
It's hard to discuss this story because in the end they both realised their mistakes when it was too late. Dane was death, then Ralph died and Meggie was alone, it doesn't matter who was right or wrong or who was the victim, in the end they never had a chance to be together or be happy and thats what it's so annoying, that no matter how much they loved each other they were never together as a couple or as a family and we can talk from here to the eternity and never change that :(
Elyannia 3 years ago 46
I agree with you, we cannot go back and redo the history. I think it's one of the messages that's conveyed by this story. And it would be annoying in the real life, if one loved another and they could never be together, but this is a book, and as much as I wanted them to be happily together, I liked the fact that it didn't have a happy ending. Just makes you realise how real a fictional story can actually be. And I agree, both of them made mistakes,both of them were wrong,
pssst78 3 years ago
but that's what makes this story so great for me, it makes the characters so real and believable, and to be honest I'm not a fan of books where characters hardly have a flaw, it's not believable, because usually we tend to relate ourselves to the fictional characters.
But the benefit of it being a story is in the fact that it's verstile, it can be rewritten, it can be interpreted in different ways, it can be reconstructed. Fortunately, in books things can run the way we want them to
pssst78 3 years ago
all it takes is a bit of imagination. i'm talking about fanfiction lol, I myself have reverted a lot of endings in different books, just for my own pleasure of course. That's the beauty of literary art, in my opinion, the fact that it can be retold over and over and remade in different ways.
pssst78 3 years ago
@Elyannia
Ralph realizes his mistake
Meggy has always been waiting for him
Master achievement
Astonishing love affair
Wonderful screen shots
Perfect actors performances
Beautiful music
The book is good too
:)))***
Flyingdutchwoman66 1 year ago 3
@Elyannia totalno si u pravu.......thia is not happy story.....bolje je voleti i umreti zbog ljubavi,nego nikad ne osetiti to.............
TheRuzatrn 1 year ago
@Elyannia Yes, but this is fiction. So, you can rewrite this at any point in the story, in your mind and put them together.
EmpressOfWyoming58 1 year ago 2
@Elyannia :)
XpresloX 7 months ago
@Elyannia fortunately she embraces him before he expells gaz and his body makes strange noises...that would have been a real challenge for love lol
poglay 5 months ago
um dos filmes mais lindos de amor . por parte dela claro.
lucytchai 3 years ago
Ca c'est de l'amour c'est triste
Casandre62 3 years ago
ughh i love this movie. damn
paramoose83 3 years ago
Olyan megható!!!!!!!!!!!!!:( Maggie és Ralph olyan aranyosak és szépek együtt most zokogok ezen a videón :(
Andi5200 3 years ago
shut up stupid.... anyway how can anyone watch this whole movie and not be touched.
chasinfranklins 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
I am reporting this filth to youtube...
Hammersley1967 3 years ago
I too have carried this cross for a long time...
I know what it is to NOT make a choice.
TainoRebelde 3 years ago
This story is one of the best stories I have ever seen. The only thing I find is that it has a sad ending. This made me cry.
Thank you for sharing this video.
Lismetdetu 3 years ago
SECONDARY EXPLOSION!
aerobique 3 years ago
I cry everytime I watch this part.
I yell @ the tv when she doesn't tell Ralph bout Dane.
BarryManilowFan4eva 3 years ago
i cry also when i watch this part i met Richard chamberlain twice and took photos with him i like Ralph
scott200120022003 3 years ago
True loves never ends with a Happy end. true loves are just for the dreams, because in this damm world, there is no place for love. :(
my heart hurts at everytime when i watch this movie and still I love it
StReEtExPeRt 3 years ago
....we all have our battles
and love seems to always be at the top of the list...
thank goodness for "forgiveness"....for it is what
love is made of...that and hope...
blessings,
x
suziestew 3 years ago
Never break the heart that Truly loves. "AND STILL WE DO IT" and "STILL WE DO IT"
jensterxx 3 years ago 3
Cginnish why do you think that child abusers are only Catholic priests? They can be caught hanging out at school, camps,parks. We cannot lock our children and it even happens in the children's home.People need to be aware of what is going on with their children. If Richard Chamberlain is gay I can accept that and I'm sure he is a passionate lover . Any adult having sex with kids is a child abuser.
jensterxx 3 years ago
Colleen McCullough stated that this TV show was a disaster and that she doesn't want it to be compared to her novel whatsoever! I red the book and I also think it is (much) better then the show, but I enjoyed watching it. I think music is GREAT!
NecuZwakuHocuKusur 3 years ago
the movie is too bad , but the novel is perfect , me too i read the novel before seeing the movie but i prefered the novel
princessprudencia 3 years ago
I cry too, I was read the book, before I watched this video
FoziAifosz 3 years ago 2
it is so beautiful...
i cry...
mb2233sk 3 years ago 2
The heart never forgets....
tinenefs 3 years ago 3
i love thorn birds a lot..the best love story for me..i have a collection of this..
bencharjie15 3 years ago
Thank you! Thank yoy very much for this film!
piafedith 3 years ago
Good Ending.
You know if priests were allowed to marry, you wouldn't see gays and child abusers if our church.
If you read the scripture there is no passage that does not allow priest to be married.
Only the clergy disallows this, not GOD.
cginnish 3 years ago 14
True. Not to mention that the clergy wrote the bible as well.
MaximisedInsight 3 years ago
@cginnish
You are right. But may I add: priests ARE allowed to marry and get as many children as they want. Only the Catholics are not allowed to, but the 100 or so Protestant churches always allow it, in fact they encourage it. Priest families have many children and they are all happy as far as I know them personally.
prilstrudel 1 year ago
@cginnish I agree 100%
auntjojo1980 1 year ago
i forgot how sad that ending was....can someone past the kleenex. It has been so many years since I have seen the movie and I am so happy to say that I just ordered it yesterday so I can add it to my collection. Thanks for posting.
amichelina 3 years ago
My favorite mini-series of all time.Thanks for posting it.
IRENEJACOBI2 3 years ago
I cry :((( the death is so cruel
Zuya999 3 years ago
oh, that was a beautiful movie and I loved Meggie, but I'm sorry but I couldn't stand the girl who played Justine that much.
LexieCasteel 3 years ago
i cry so much
gevaliaka 3 years ago
le temps passe mais les souvenirs restent!
dédicace aux gasy qui passent par là.
great story!!!
botary 3 years ago
This is a really nice story ... I saw yesterday for the first time, The Thorn Birds, I really enjoyed
Albakiara86 3 years ago
It ends too abruptly.
When I saw this on TV in the '80s, I immediately shut off the TV, once the music stopped, and sobbed for 20 minutes. I wasn't ready for the commercial world to destroy the sentiment and mood, made even more bittersweet by the memorable music.
Rachel Ward resembled Audrey Hepburn in this scene. Thanks for the memories!
anonyMoses 4 years ago 6
I was named for the character Meggie. My mother fell in love with this story for the man she loved, my birth father couldn't be with her either and I think she never got over that. I'm grown now and when I first watched this all I felt was how beautiful a film it was but then the man that I loved went away and I never got to be with him either. Sometimes the past repeats itself, huh? Great film and wonderful book. Thanks for posting this. :)
LadyFagen 4 years ago 4
I really envy you, that you were named after such a notable and amazing character s Meggie! I'll call my daughter meggie as well maybe someday in the future when I'm older!
jooners89 3 years ago
che dolore..............ogni volta soffro
lupisina 4 years ago
Very wonderfull!!! The wonderfull story of world !!!
szabina333 4 years ago 4
All of the love, the tears, the hurt...it all comes down to one thing. Ralph had no balls.
nancyfanai 4 years ago
I GOT 2 DVD THE COMPLETE SERIES AT TARGET FOR 20$ i ordered the complete serie on video and payed 80. wonderfull tv series
jumaris28 4 years ago
Regret is an evil bitch lol
ZombieSupermodel 4 years ago
I totally agree with you. Regret is a bitch.
amstall85 3 years ago 2
Ouch! I LOVE The Thornbirds, especially this scene... But why did you have to cut it off so soon? Part of the impact of the ending comes from the final footage--the plane flying into the rose. Anyway, I still thank you and applaud you.
Chiffon56 4 years ago
My favorite of mini-series....the love that could never be.
babsy1940 4 years ago
a shame to cut it off there, without the music and ending scene of the aircraft flying by...
irish89055 4 years ago 2
I only found this on you tube...it doesn't feature on my dvd. where can I get it from?
kahlani 4 years ago
Try your video club.The series are called "The thorn birds",and they're based on the book of Coleen McColough.
Hopale 4 years ago
Seen it soooooooo many times and it still makes me well up... Sad but beautiful...
neske1975 4 years ago