Shakespeare "King Lear"- Ian Holm - Act 1, iv and v

[KevinZS]

i laughed when Lear leaves and come back then leaves again XD

[deedee9960]

Ian Holm plays a brilliant Lear love it

[cvallone1]

Judging from these two scenes, I like this interpretation a lot, more than Olivier's Lear who is a little too pathetic for my taste. The fool is great--he's like a cynical old comedian who is running through his schtick somewhat less than half-heartedly. The relationship between the fool and Lear is really interesting and totally unexpected.

[BSFBOPE]

holm plays it with a lot of anger, an angry short guy almost like joe pesci at times but its a fine performance in which the level of anger and emotion is taken to an extreme degree, he and scofield are the most pissed off lears i have seen, other actors play him as a romantic tragic figure in lower tones, but i prefer the pissed off lear that rages against the world.

[kadiekerr]

Thank you!

[MrYpres]

i played kent in school,, we wached this version too

[StevieFan85]

The setting's abit plain, the fools a fat cockney.

[14santiago52]

What a terrible fool. Ian Holm is very good though.

[SiN3MATIC]

7:04 - hahahahaha

[x0chrystinax0]

hahahaha i was the fool in grade 8!

we watched this version and like 2 others before we started rehearsals teehee

this brings back memories

[phononut]

It,s the milk lady from open all hours!

[BloodBubblegumPixie]

This is such a great production, the delivery of lines, direction and the actors themselves seem to actually believe and truely understand the line's there speaking, unlike other productions. I can understand better Shakespeare's meaning through the delivery sweet!

[belovedmakesmusic]

Anal I love it.

[Eudora74]

With all my respect for this great actor, but I prefer the Scofield Lear, and I think that he was the definetly Lear. Of course I couldn`t see ths Scofield`s work in theater, but I suppose that it must be near of Brook`s film, and I see a powerful performance, more powerful that other actors.

[southfieldmo]

I like this Lear. He is cantankerous and stubborn yet regal, and his fool is more his friend.

[uclrichard]

good acting but rather strange sets...not very compelling and a poor fool.

[labyrinthaddicted]

Opps not Goneril and Regan, I meant Cornwall and Regan :)

[labyrinthaddicted]

In the actual play Goneril doesn't react to Lear's insults, so they got this part wrong.

Please please please upload the scene where Goneril and Regan take out Gloucester's eyes :)

[SupraJulie]

It does not say whether she reacts or not. Whether Shakespeare intended for her to react or not is unknown, but if Lear said the same things to you as he says to Goneril you would probably be pretty upset too.

[fuckyourmamma]

All hail Bilbo Lear!

[1GodsAdvocate1]

The fool is one of my favourite characters in this play, along with Kent and Edgar. The best actor here however is no doubt Lear (Ian H.) although I think the fool did a great job at playing his role.

[brayshizzle]

Ian Holm is the business...what an actor

[vbond007]

Who will ever know what "Shakespeare, when properly done" looks like. Are suggesting there is only one way?

[ohcecilia]

Not only are they hilarious, they're a wee bit inappropriate. She is, in my opinion and the opinions of many others, supposed to be unaffected by Lear's words.

[utubesucks2003]

Actually there is a long and extensively dramatic tale of how a theatre memo was suppose to reach her to tone down but the messanger was caught up in an intrigue that left him in remote secret prison in Omsk, Russia for espionage for over 50 years...suffice to say she never got the much needed memo in time.

[thedoctor1812]

I think the unaffected approach makes for a rather too villainous, one-dimensional Goneril. Cordelia is sometimes shown as a spoilt brat, which makes Goneril and Regan more sympathetic characters, inverting the 'princess with ugly sisters' cliché.

[julianveronica]

shakespeare, when properly done, is as cunning as a petit fours.

[myrrhis01]

I lost my eye to a petit fours . . . 'struth!