Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (1963 TV - Ingrid Bergman) part 7 of 7

[localeni]

and great music too...

[localeni]

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[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

I suppose that when poets lack proper subjects for their plays no skill in composing poetic verses can remedy this defect; so Monsieur Ibsen should have composed plays about Old Norse heroines like Hervor and her cursed blade Tyrfing instead of such tales about spoiled bourgeois women who being confused by being over intelligent and bored by life; look on the female key roles in the plays of Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Euripides or Sophocles like Cordelia or Antigone!

[aSMARTblonde13]

wonderful play! i read it yesterday, and freaked out when she shot herself. the only critique i have on the movie is that in the original she shot herself in the head.

[MSam2]

Good god! But people don't do such things!

[00Avenger17]

why does she think its so "beautiful" im struggling to understand...

[anneywhere]

@00Avenger17 it's beautiful because it takes courage. and also because for once in her life, it has been dictated by her, and not by her society or anything.

[00Avenger17]

@anneywhere makes sense =) i came to the same conclusion after posting this =P

[theclassicalgirl]

I really want to thank you very much for posting this , it was really interesting !

henrik ibsen is just brilliant.

[aSMARTblonde13]

@theclassicalgirl

agreed. what a genius when it comes to playwriting.

[Eurafrican]

i really like ingrid bergman's hedda... strange and cunning, very victorian almost the aboutface of her performance in gaslight one of my favourite golden hollywood films.

thanx so much for posting!

[gm0618]

Read the Play***

[BlockBurnerENT]

i would love to see the whole movie

[Meldomene1]

Why does it look like she shot herself in the chest? Didn't she just show her dissapointment at Judge Brack saying that Lovborg shot himself in the chest. They just took away a key part of her death. Shooting herself in the head has much more meaning behind it than in the chest. This is really the only thing that dissapointed me about this version.

[Rookiewill]

@Meldomene1

She shot herself in the chest becaue she saw that as a "beautiful way of dying"

She was upset at Loveborgs death as he only accidently shot himself in the stomach. She had wanted him to die a beatiful death as she told him but instead clumsily got killed instead

[Meldomene1]

@Rookiewill I know why she did it. I just don't agree with the director changing where she shoots herself. The original script has her shooting herself in the head which, as I mentioned, is much more powerful than shooting herself in the stomach. Shooting yourself in the head is a much more instant death than shooting yourself in the stomach which is slower and more painful. There's a reason Ibsen wrote it the way he did.

[elibethobbit]

@Meldomene1 Totally agree. She shot herself in the head in the original, and that is quite an important detail. I am disappointed that this otherwise good version scraps that important detail.

[aSMARTblonde13]

@Rookiewill

actually she thought that the bowels were very ugly, where he shot himself. in the original she was all confused when brack said that lövborg shot himself in the chest and was like, 'not in the temple?' it was so much better when she shot herself in the head.

[brendanhsu]

This was disturbingly amazing...

[ramonimacaroni]

didn't she originally shoot herself in the temple?

[theironfreak]

@ramonimacaroni now THAT would have made for a better movie wouldn't that?

[ramonimacaroni]

@theironfreak i like a bit of gore :)

[mpfreestyle]

It's better than the 1981 version, really useful for my a level coursework. tesman's reaction to his wife's death was also really good here, although brack's was kinda crappy.

but hedda's death is stupid. she's meant to shoot herself in the head from the script. where does she shoot herself here? no blood or anything! i would have preferred a gory ending...

[laceydays]

ah, Hedda......perfect portrait of the darker side of a Scorpio woman.....

[spazzirry]

thank you so much for uploading this

[UptownHunter]

Thanks! This helped me so much for school!

Btw I lol'd when she shot herself, not because she died, but because it was so fast and abrupt. You would think that the music would stop too :P

[xzc426]

....I suppose that's the most quickest route to complete freedom.

[baigsaab20]

wow what a drama. I loved the drama especially towards the end where the action really began to unfold. I never really fully understood Hedda's character at times it was jealousy, selfishness and cruelty. The only thing left was to kill herself after she had succeeded in ending someone else. Hedda could not bear someone else who could control her.She wanted all the power to herself..........

[TaraMoriah]

THANKYOU I LOVED IT!

[englishfolk]

WHAAAAAT! the ending was sooo shit!

such and anticlimax!

Thea was like o yes shes dead...cup of tea anyone?

SOOO CRAP

[2MuchSkill]

that's how Ibsesn wanted it...

"who does that sort of thing..."

[xantara2]

Read up on the history - Then you'll get it.

[ArmyOfLovers134]

Bergman's good, yes, but she really doesn't suit Hedda. She's too frantic. They could have put someone more appropriate in the role.

[centrifuge1789]

bergman is gorgeous!

thanks for uploading

[eilianu]

She's almost 50 in this! She is so elegant and gorgeous she looks half her age.

[oldaba]

Thank you very much! It is great to get the oppertunity to see such pieces!

[copydex123]

Thanks, this will also help me with my exams!

[bsy]

thank you

[Geminie1]

Thank you, thank you!

[mafialm]

thanks thanks you make a brazilian fan happy

[zamolxis7]

Merci pour avoir posté cela. We can see this only here. It's a privilege.