Angels in America chapter 1 Part 1

[TheMrmonkeynews]

"Eric? Is that a Jewish name?" Ha ha.

[jatoodee]

Didn't recognise anyone!! Took a while. Must watch the whole movie now!

[liltxgal98]

I say to my son all the time "i wish I were a fucking octopus"

[T800System]

beautiful scene with Meryl Streep. 04:57 shows the conviction of the lithuanian jews who had lived under persecution by the Russians for hundreds of years. Anti-semitism has been one of the most sickly, pervasive diseases in history.

[ali23bt]

@Heavymedicine1 Heck yes it is, check the credits. She kills it!! Her and the makeup dept.

[Adler36]

I'm atheist, but this miniseries is good. :)

[MarcusAvon2]

AAH ITS A WEAPPING ANGEL!! DONT BLINK!!

[SONROX911]

WHEN THE ANGEL LOOKS UP IN THE BEGINNING.

Seriously. My whole body twitched. It was creepy.

[psychicriver]

@SONROX911 I've seen this series several times and every time I have to look away when the angel looks up. Creepy, indeed.

[killerqueenfbr]

Cats! is about cats, singing cats! lol

[MrsDebbieJersey]

This is one of the best TV series that have been ever produced. It's stunning! I think I'm going to read the book.

[just6breathe]

@MrsDebbieJersey you should, it's great too! :)

[MrsDebbieJersey]

@just6breathe You were right! It was almost better than the movie. There were even some scenes that didn't appear in the movie.

[chrisbwirey]

meryl Streep was the rabbi?! holy shit and I couldn't believe that was al Pacino as Roy. amazing

[futureshocker]

If Angels in America wasnt a miniseries, it will win over 10 Academy Awards. Not a joke. I saw the miniseries today and I never saw anything beautiful like this

[LuisRamirez666]

If this was released as a movie. Pacino and Streep would win their oscars

[futureshocker]

The opening music moves me to tears

[castravet]

tnx for uploading!

[LaGK1LL]

doing a paper and cant remember who said this quote "Happy enough, pretend happy, it's better than nothing." Either that quote or "It's the fear about what comes after the doing that makes the ting hard to do" plz help

[spleechick]

@LaGK1LL The first quote is Harper and the second one is Marty from the scene with Roy and Joe in the restaraunt

[MageSutek]

@LaGK1LL This first quote comes from Harper when she is speaking to Joe in their apartment. The second quote is made by the character Martin when he is dining with Roy and Joe in a restaurant.

[ultimateguitar553]

i like how you can see post-1985 cars driving in the street

[lilmermaidluver]

It"s amazing what make-up can do

[everlong78910]

I love this play.

[veiwnownownow]

Some of the German is spelled wrong in this. :/

[Omichitje]

@veiwnownownow

It's Dutch...

[veiwnownownow]

@Omichitje

ah, well, that would explain it. hahah.. sorry, my mistake.

[maaikemaya]

@veiwnownownow But you are actually kind of right, even though you thought of the wrong language. Roy says "I wish I were an octopus." which is translated as "Was ik maar een inktvis." But that means I wish I were a squid. Stupid subtitler.

[effingya]

wow, meryl is fucking badass, had NO IDEA it was her, no idea

[effingya]

wow, meryl is fucking badass

[kkayralene17]

Roy Cohn should've come with a warning label...or at least horns and a tail

[Waltham1892]

@kkayralene17 Wasn't the fact Roy Cohn was an attorney warning enough?

[cottonkandynb]

I have a drama exam and thank you so much for posting this, I have to know quotes, plot, and relationships between characters in this play! Watching the movie definitely helps.

[flyingzombie1]

Dang. Meryl Streep really CAN do anything.

[WickedQueen314]

@flyingzombie1 yes indeed 

[Buzz0Killington]

@flyingzombie1 I think the emphasis there should have been on anything not can.

[flyingzombie1]

@Buzz0Killington Emphasis should be on Meryl Streep.

Always. o.O

PS - Nice screen name. :)

[StuCkuPig]

if angels in america was a movie instead, it will sweep LOTS of oscars

[thatdrattedcat]

Thanks for putting this up, watchangelsinamerica, but it looks like the kind of series you probably better see on DVD rather than YouTube

[vuk030]

5:51 classic Al Pacino inpression that we all know .....:))))!He is my mentor!!!

[SlimShaney08]

I auditon for this show wed! I want to play prior walter so bad, and I have a monologue roy cohn does for acting one the one explaining what a homosexual really is and how he is not one.

[bbbbmer]

Every time I see the opening and the speech by the old rabbi about what our foreparents must have endured to journey to America I just weep uncontrollably at the suffering that they must have sustained, as beautifully told in this amazing vignette...  Exquisite production, and a very compelling history....

[RedbeardNC]

This is like watching my life story, except with famous people.

[RobLoach]

Thomas Newman music makes me cry.

[countermelody]

wow, meryl did every type of roles any artist can get.

[GreatMerylStreep]

I'm so glad it has Dutch subtitles, because I'm from Holland :) I love Meryl so much :) I couldn't believe she played the rabbi. But if you lsten very carefully, then you can hear it's her. Nobody can speak like that. Only Meryl :) She's wonderfull!

[profMike54]

still one of the most powerful lenses on the fight that still goes on! blessed to be in a hospital where social workers, doctors, nurses talked about Angels today! TY HBO, Tony Kushner

[scarredbanner]

OMG the rabbi is Meryl Streep!!!!!!!

[psychicriver]

@scarredbanner Woah! Thanks for pointing it out! I didn't notice it before. This series is so good!

[taffysaur]

@scarredbanner i would never have known if you didn't say, haha.

man, that was some eulogy, too.

i want her at my funeral.

[iaintmadatcha]

HBO are serious! in England we dont get powerful tv sitcoms with serious movie stars on the roster! AL Pacino and Meryl Streep in 1 sitcom is just ridiculous,possibly the best Actor and Actress that ever lived!

[afriln]

hey! thank you so much for this! ;-)

[mlsfany]

Is it Meryl who is is the first person to talk here?

Because it sound a bit like her?

[Mr137666]

Sehr wichtiger Beitrag großer Künstler, ich selbst habe das noch nie gesehen.

[anglefan85]

Pacino was the perfect actor to play Roy Cohn.

This also shows just how adaptable Meryl Streep is as an actress.

[Ifelllove]

emma thompson:X...wonderful:X

[razbigranicu]

Al Pacino is hilarious, I'm laughing my ass off

[manq211]

too much gay shit in this series, i hated it

[humanbeing524]

I've read this play and the part of Roy Cohn is so vivid... I tried to picture his role in my mind ...and now I see that Pacino is GREAT as Roy Cohn,GREAT and yes, Streep in drag is great too!

[PeterFormaini]

Thank you for taking the time and effort to upload this masterpiece! :D

[Zuberi1989]

Subtitles are in dutch, AWESOME!!!

[jamaq]

Fuck Fuck why did I find this now? So much work to do.

[adelllerom]

what language are these subtitles in?

[Hittmeg]

@adelllerom not entirely sure, but i think its dutch

[Karliang]

@Hittmeg It's German.

[Greenkai3000]

@Karliang No it is Dutch

[AlPacino1337]

@Karliang: It's not German! It's Dutch!

[eliminatethenegative]

This movie was so beautiful

[BiggCojones]

is it true the Rabbi is actually Meryl Streep?

[queenpatrice2009]

@BiggCojones beilieve me i was suprise more than u!!!

[littlestar3103]

this moved me to tears - this is surely the reason tv was invented - harrowing and beautiful.....

[Mistermax30]

Stupid subtitles...

[Bnesque]

Thank you for sharing this!

"'I've always depended on kindness of strangers."

[juanpazongochulo]

Amazing! Great play, great production, actors and the MUSIC! One of the best American modern classics. Everyone should watch this.

[Jonathon333Devitt]

This had become one of my favorite plays! I haven't read the second part yet, but I'm looking for it. I haven't watched this yet, and I'm hoping it lives up to the play.

[brooklynbuglet]

i don't care what anyone else says: I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie! and Meryl Streep is nothing shy of an acting GOD!

[ali23bt]

That opening with Streep is one of the most wonderful things I've seen EVER. Not only is she a believable male rabbi but she does the monologue so powerfully...I wish she could win an oscar for it.

[hrtmarko]

@ali23bt she did;)

[ali23bt]

@hrtmarko not an oscar! An Emmy and Golden Globe, no doubt.

[tommy1976ify]

great job =)

[Heavymedicine1]

@ali23bt Oh my God. The male rabbi was Streep? No way!? I can't see it. If so, she indeed did an absolutely amazing job.

[eldadevata]

A Mormon who gets offended by how you use the word Christ! Nice, in the end they will tell you when and how to use words, to the point of censuring you. And you get people like him working in the Justice Department DC. No wonder the US creates laws that apply for some and not to others.

[gallieman]

i adore this.

and it's with subtitles.

thanx much for posting this.

xx

lola

[Mattyb88ful]

I adore Angels in America.

[acidicxbliss]

I adore this play. I hope it translates well to film? Guess I'll have to see.

[jonpaul1717]

Your ignorance is astounding, not to mention your spelling and punctuation.

[thedinastee13project]

I'm sorry haters but this version of Jewish and gay in America is all that our Hollywood could handle at the time, so accept, adapt and lets all move forward. It takes the popular vote to change things in Hollwood, oops I mean America, so that means 18-21 people need to get their heads out of the clubs and stop twittering long enough to make a difference in our government!

[bappinardi]

thanks for sharing the videos

[ResentfulButtocks]

...

The way they portray us jews is... Very insulting...

I live in a JEWISH town... 90% jews...

NONE of us look like that XP... Or TALK like that... Or act like that...

The sermon isn't even accurate!!!

Wasn't the temple scene enough to convince the audience??? Did they REALLY need to put in the accents... and the archetypal characters... And the NOSES... Seriously... Get REAL, Hollywood!!!

[ggc151]

watch "a serious man"....

[veejee777]

Firstly, in the context of theater, the use of stereotype is not definitionally negative; only if it is used to the end of demonizing a particular group, as one can say of Shylock in A Merchant of Venice, can it be construed as anti-Semitic, racist, etc.

'Tis greatly unlikely that any Jewish stereotypes utilized in this play are anti-Semitic as the playwrite (Tony Kushner) is, you know, JEWISH!

[emmetgirl]

@veejee777 that might depend on one's definition of anti-semitic. for example, tony kushner is the kind of jew who felt that '7 jewish children' was worth vigorously defending in a public forum while other jewish scholars thought it was inherently anti-semitic. things are gentler in this play but i'm sure it's anti-semitic through somebody's spectacles.

[veejee777]

Secondly, you're overly focusing on the context in which the sermon was given (i.e. a summation of the Jewish immigrant experience), and overlooking the broader and more relevant point, that Americans (not to speak of Native Americans, African Americans and/or Chicanos) tend to start their "story" with the story of the immigrant.

[veejee777]

Thirdly, the story of the immigrant that the rabbi gives is, ultimately, a deconstruction of this mythologization of the American ethos, as he pinpoints "America" not to be a country in any traditional sense, founded upon the more ancient bases of race, land, religion, etc.

[mmedefarge]

Thank goodness for that. Go outside of major cities in England or just about anywhere in Britain, for instance, bearing a surname that they can identify as Catholic & see the responses that you get. Let the old world keep their interminable religious & ethnic battles. We're far from perfect but I'd rather be here. I'm a first generation American & my feet are only planted in the clay where I was born.

[Karliang]

Hear, hear. I'd rather be in USA too.

[veejee777]

Rather, "America" is less of an actual country, and more so, an abstraction, an idea with no ontological objectivity, which means so many varied things to Americans, and so, ultimately means nothing.

[grlblu73]

You broke it down! Kudos!

[veejee777]

Thank you. :-)

[videosarefun69]

Apparently Meryl Streep is the rabbi in the beginning. I thought he had a somewhat feminine voice....but i had NO idea that it was meryl streep. Holy shit! could anyone actually tell it was her?

[ggc151]

yeah take off the glasses and BOOM that's her

[FerKing9]

I knew the Rabbi was actually a woman. That I could tell. And I was waiting for Meryl Streep to show up. The Rabbi was either her or Emma Thompson.

[mmedefarge]

It was Streep, most definitely.

[nisaba81]

I've Nothing against Jews, But why is it always about Jews,Jews & Jews in most movies & series! where they the founders of America? Besides,why do they always want people 2 cry 4 what some Ashkinazi EU jews suffered, alot of nations around this world had suffered much more than they did? I wonder why do we work hard 2 pay Taxes 2 aid & help them & Israel, what for ? why don't we pay taxes 4 helping poor US families, those who lost Jobs..did jews benefit America, did they shed blood 4 this land?!

[MainStage33]

It's not all about Jewish people, it just opens that way. Get over yourself, go read the play before you attempt to make profound and questioning statements

[bionicoddity]

The fact that you began this response with "I've Nothing against Jews" is so ridiculous. As soon as you use the word "but" you become a moron.

[Vatfryer]

Thank you for this! You're awesome.

[Freakishkrabb]

HBO ROCKS!

[FarrSight]

I think the genderfuck was one of his greatest and deepest ideas.

[Evilgrl669]

Thank you for uploading...I love you!

[JHowesitgoing123]

Thanks for uploading this--this is an amazing mini-series and play =)

[moniiiiqua]

:) Thank you, I was searching for this everywhere, and who knew it was all right here on good ol yt.

[skippyd89]

Streep plays the Rabbi, Joe's mother, and Ether Rosenberg. But, in the scene where Joe's mother is lost in the Bronx, did you notice Emma Thompson plays the hobo?

[mario55404]

Meryl Streep is phenomenal!!! For the longest of time I never knew it was HER who played the rabbi.

=)

[DonZadjali]

@mario55404 but that's one ugly rabbi!!! lol

[davidovich00]

@mario55404 GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!! she played the rabbi?!?!? wtf??... wow... I mean, just wow...

[matoushka]

@mario55404

HOLY COW! I had no idea she played the rabbi until now!

[gwatson678]

@mario55404 wow, c'est vraiment cool

[isisqueenafrika]

Humm

[Ni83co]

cool dutch subtitles not that i need them :P but its great

[Marina190588]

I cant watch the whole serie in you tube? I have the impression that some scenes are missing....

[Marina190588]

My god!!! Yes, it is Meryl Streep, unbelievable! Her accent performances are always amazing...

[SilentedSpirit]

OMG.. This is one of the best series i EVER saw, thank you so much for uploading !! And the quality of the image is just perfect...Love it !! ♥♥

[mario55404]

I love the intro speech by the rabbi... sets the mood really well really fast. :)

[jmoon219]

This mini series in one of the best ever. Excellent performances all around.

[jaceysnick]

I am a theatre major in Louisiana and we are performing this play in the fall. Our director is good friends with Tony Kushner, so there is a big chance that he will come see the show! I'm STOKED!!!!!

[weepingwind24]

I...am SO jealous. I met Steven Spinella (the original Prior) when he was in Spring Awakening and it was the ONE time I've met someone famous and was completely speechless. I felt like such a dork but I couldn't even say hello...

[emmetgirl]

@jaceysnick this is now in the past. how'd it go?

[fiercity04]

omg! thank you soooooooo much for posting!!

[saravlemmings]

They sell this in the Netherlands?! I am so going to run to the store tomorrow. This is one of the best things I've have ever seen!

[feelingpeanuty]

I just realized something, but.... is that Meryl Streep as the Rabi in the beginning? I know that the same actors played numerous parts in both the play in the miniseries, so it seemed plausible. Also, it sounds like a woman.

[dramamajor1220]

Yes I believe she is. She is so amazing. I love this play!!

[ChrisXVermouth]

yes, she is xD hahaha xD

[emmalouisexxxx]

I Love The Music At The Start...Antbody Know What Its Called??? XD

[icandoanything1]

It's 'Angels in America' from the movie soundtrack by Thomas Newman

[gmhmilenio]

"I'm not religious but I like God and God likes me" hahah Al Pacino is hilarious

[moodyjenny86]

Thanks for uploading been looking for this forever!!!

[rotivevan]

which language is this subtitle on?

[obviousmistake]

I think it's Dutch (:

[Remedynr]

heeeeey :) the Rabin is talkin 'bout Lithuania ^^^ yeah baby, my country

[dramamajor1220]

Yeah!!!!

[dolokpurba]

OMG! i love this miniseries! thx for uploading! i will finish this as soon as possible, since i'm sure youtube will delete it soon or later.

[dramamajor1220]

It hasn;t so far! I enjoy this too!

[MissOmaha]

one of the best series ever imo. Thanks!