will someone just breifly explain to me ( in the form of an essay ) and discuss the theme of 'misteken idendity" in the play and how misrepresenting one's identity creats tension. just wondering no big deal (include a thesis if you can)
@dwgryph Too bad for you. This is play and indeed this rendition is far superior both in content and in acting to anything you will ever see on GH! The rip off is in fact the other way round. This is Shakespeare after all!
@dwgryph Too bad for you! This is far superior in content and acting ability than anything you will ever see in GH. And the rip off is in fact the other way around. This is Shakespeare after all!
I think Shakespeare is wonderful, but I only started enjoying and appreciating his works after learning them through an English teacher that knew how to translate the beauty of his works. Before that, Shakespeare was just a synonym for "tedious, boring, complicated shit"
i was on my elementary days when i saw this movie's commercial..and as i reminisce my elementary life, i thought of this movie..that's why i browsed youtube right away..and here i am <3
and for those looking for other Shakespeare adaptations, how about a heavy metal Shakespeare,, chech out the cd called "Thane to the thone" by Jag Panzer!
@Alakakatie There must be sites that are for us dummies of the speak of Shakespeare. It's what puts people off, the talk. They see something like Romeo and Juilette and it isn't fully explained to them so they think it's not worth the bother. It's worth the bother. Just treat it like a foreign language where you have to look up words all the time. :) One of my favorite movies is, "Much Ado About Nothing" with Denzel Washington. Fun. :) Songs
The only way I managed to persuade my 10-year-old sister to watch this with me, was by telling her it isn't historical. She believed me, until she heard the characters speaking.
We've just started doing this at school, was browsing the adaptions and saw this one had Imelda Staunton, Mel Smith and HBC in it. On that straightaway
I love this so much but it makes me sad it is so different from the play Shakespear wrote. I think the part at the begining and how they arrange some of the script makes the play funnier, more enjoyable and accessable, but unfortunatly it is not really what the bard wrote. I still love the interpretations but was soked at how different they are.
@theatergeak101 It's an adaptation, it's not meant to be the same. But I'm pretty sure Shakespeare would know what they were about - he was a man of adaptations himself! No, it's not what he wrote, but it's an interesting exploration of the themes and ideas, and it might even get people to read the text in it's original beauty :)
I remember watching this film at school as we studies twelfth night - it is my favourite Shakespeare play and I still remember some of the lines. Thankyou for posting :-)
Could someone please tell me the exact words of Feste's opening song? I got lost after: "I tell thee a tale, now listen to me." English is not my mother tongue and I couldn't find the words in the original script of the Shakespeare's play. Please, please, some advice?
@Grencle I tell thee a tale, now list to me, with a hey ho, the wind and the rain, but merry or sad, which shall it be? For the rain it ranith every day.
@Grencle I tell thee a tale, now list to me, with a hey ho, the wind and the rain, but merry or sad, which shall it be? For the rain it ranith every day.
@Marjax thanks a lot :-) I've started to make subtitles for this film and I thought that as I have all of the other Feste's songs in, I should have the opening song too...
Love the track @ beginning! Sounds like Donovan [Lietch] but don't think it's him. Wonderful vocal ~~ is there a way for me [novice] to find out? Thanks for great uploaded series watBORG! Love gettin' lost in these 'other' worlds. ^_~\\
Belch is a comedy character. I was using the term 'comedy' as there is no 'romance' genre to the Bard's work. The play deals more with madness than romance anyway. In fact it's even more about status and power than romance too.
No, they are not: Since Shakespeare could not write a decent comedy (read some plays of Aristophanes or Molière to note the difference) but merely romantic non-tragedies; take this one for example: Save the fooling of Malvolio there is nothing comical in the whole play: A maid dresses as man and falls in love with her master and his beloved mistakes her and than the whole thing is set to right be the coming of her twin brother: This is mere romance but not funny at all!
@FireEyedMaidOfWar Apparently if you see the play it is ten times better... Movie adaptations of Shakespeare are rarely any good compared to the play itself.
We are performing some of this play in my drama class and I must confess it is very amusing!
@lolaf1er: Save the mischief that is inflicted on poor Malvolio the play is not very amusing at all but terribly romantic; as for the movies I would recommend that you first watch some of the versions the BBC made like Coriolanus, Richard II, King John, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure and many more; and of course the version of Henry V Kenneth Branagh made in 1989! Generally speaking: If theatre folk or serious actors like Orson Welles made them they are quite good, even brilliant.
Maybe it is because of my being a non native speaker but I cannot perceive any funny elements in the romance between Viola/Sebastian, Olivia and the Count Orsino! So without Sir Toby and his lackeys there would be very little fun; and again I say the whole play is not funny in his essence only the secondary characters are involved in some sort of merriment.
@FireEyedMaidOfWar That is a matter of opinion, don't go around saying it like it's fact. I personally find the exchanges between Olivia and Cesario very funny, in a different sense, rather than the slapstick of Sir Toby, which is also funny. The scene where Sir Andrew and Cesario are fighting is also funny to me, so is the last scene, but not funny haha, more as in amusing, in the sense that it is light-hearted. I believe that is a good description of a Shakespearean Comedy: light-hearted.
@PoeticJustice05: I think the word you used to describe the scenes of Sir Toby is highly wrong: This kind of dull modern humor did not exists back than; and only if you do indulge into this gender role confusion genre you may find it funny but there is more entertainment to be found in the scenes with Viola and Orsino; but generally its romantic and not comical (see the plays of Aristophanes and Molière to find out the difference); light-hearted is a good choice but merry a better one.
@FireEyedMaidOfWar Slapstick may have been a poor choice of description for Sir Toby, but that is obviously where it derives from (but don't tell me you don't find Laurel and Hardy funny). Regardless, whether it is funny is a matter of opinion.
@PoeticJustice05: But you do realize that by referring to those two non-comedians you have sparked a Black Adder quote about their mental sibling? Here is it:
George: Oh well, because if you are cheesed off, you know what would cheer you up? A lot of Charlie Chaplin films. Oh, I love Old Chappers, don't you, Cap?
Edmund: Unfortunately, no I don't. I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.
George: Ah, beg pardon, sir, but come off! His films are ball-bouncingly funny.
Edmund: Rubbish!
George: Alright, why let's consult the men for a casting vote, shall we? Baldrick?
George: Well, no of course not, sir, but you see, Chaplin is a genius.
Edmund: He certainly is a genius, George. He invented a way of getting a million dollars a year by wearing stupid trousers. Did you find that funny, Baldrick?
Baldrick: What funny, sir?
Edmund: That funny.
Baldrick: No sir, you mustn't do that to me sir, because that is a bourgeois act of repression, sir.
@FireEyedMaidOfWar Again, "funny" is subjective. But I will say this, you've must got some big stick in your ass if you don't find Charlie Chaplin funny.
@PoeticJustice05: Nope; since Monsieur Charlie is not funny at all and this is not a subjective question as none but the Americans do delight in him and no once can take the judgement of these fool serious! Since they have won world domination by the favour Fortuna gives to fools and than gave it away to the Chinese.
@FireEyedMaidOfWar Now you're trying to argue that 'funny' is objective? Good one. I find this funny, I find Laurel and Hardy funny, and I find Charlie Chaplin funny; you don't, good for you (or not).
@PoeticJustice05: There is no chance in accusing me of your own folly! Since it was you who claimed that something must be amiss with me if I do not find Monsieur Chaplin funny; or do you deny your former statement now?
@FireEyedMaidOfWar It's ok if you don't find Chaplin funny, everyone has their reasons for finding something funny or not, I just don't your highfaluting self-righteousness about it, like you've got your head so far up your own ass all you can see is Aristophanes and the shit that's gonna come out of you in the next little while.
On a different note, while writing this, I noticed at around 6:30 the score sounded like that of Free Willy.
@PoeticJustice05: I think this Free Willy should be made a court-martial offence (what ever it is); and I do not really indulge in comedies or Aristophanes in particular but still there is no avail in your insolence; since you did at first harp on the objectiveness of humor by invoking Monsieur Chaplin, so becoming insolent will not hide your fault.
@FireEyedMaidOfWar@PoeticJustice05 "pretentious" is the word i believe you both seek; as i am but paces from a dictionary, i decided to proffer my services to arbit' this spirited debate.
@ilshengchyilama: That such a slave as this should wear a sword, who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these, like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain which are too intrinse to unloose; smooth every passion that in the natures of their lords rebel; bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks with every gale and vary of their masters, knowing nought, like dogs, but following.
So I know you're supposed to you you're imagination, but movies are usually supposed to make the image work. You'd think if the twins are so identical they get mistaken for each other, the actors themselves would be twins!!
I'm going to be Maria in the show in just three days! The only complaint I have about this is the monologue thing in the beginning about the twelfth night, and the music is out of place..
it can actually very well easily be a tragedy, if not for communication and timing; which has been an important element to clear things up. there's also both a melancholy and morbid subtext of the views on love. so in a sense it could be viewed in a dark light; amongst the likes of a tragedy.
@smoekdacheeb And you are yelling or don't you know that's considered rude? And some are ignorant. Nothing at all wrong with being ignorant. I'm with Omf. How wonderful we have a medium like You Tube for all of us to have the privilage of seeing works we otherwise couldn't see. And people as kind as WatBorg who take the time and make the effort to share them with us. I've learned so much from watching this. Getting the character's names straight for one thing! No offense but try to be kind.
Thanks a lot for posting it! I wanted to see this movie for a long time!! I am really fond of this play and the cast ist great! :-) Helena Bonham Carter is an amazing actress.
@ishtarg8 I think you're looking for one of the many movies losely based on a play by Shakespeare. This movie is mostly a by-the-book version of the original play.
@ishtarg8 Sorry, but you wouldn't believe how many of those comments like yours that get posted on youtube etc. are actually serious questions - a lot of people are terribly uneducated these days. I remember that someone once asked me in astonishment if they really made books out of "Gone with the Wind" and "The Lord of the Rings"...
I don't think it's that there are a lot more undereducated people around; it's just that they've been invisible before, not being interested in the forums educated people choose. Now, with the internet, they have a forum, so it suddenly seems as though they're everywhere, with thier bad spelling, appalling grammar and startling ignorance of what seem like obvious facts about literature, art and general knowledge.
@ishtarg8 You're probably right - well, every new medium has its downside, I guess. On the other hand, it's never been so easy to get to know things, do research or find rare books, music etc. ^_^
Personally, I think it's lovely that forums such as YouTube involve the 'uneducated' with Shakespeare and his plays. So often, in schools and colleges, people ignore Shakespeare because of the awful way in which it is taught. These adaptations and new versions create a new stage for Shakespeare's work, and in turn, a new audience.
One thing i cannot abide is when 'educated' people think they own Shakespeare and the right to enjoy it.
@omfggzzz Very correct, his plays were written for the "groundlings" with as little or smaller education as an elementary school student. These people were the majority of his audience.
thank you for uploading this film, because i'm going to write an essay about Twelfth Night and this film. though i've watched it, it's more convenient to watch it anywhere has internet!
Good film however its sad they did not link the setting correctly with the historical province of Illyria present day Croatia,Montenegro and Albania. The coast of these countries is remarkable and bears no comparison to how this film has set the landscape which resembles more of the north sea or the east suffork coastline.... rather then the pristine Adriatic.
When I see the actress who plays Viola, I can't help but remember the scene from Sense and Sensibility when Edward's sister flips out Lucy Steele in a crazy rage.
a manga brought me here
blackbutterfly386 4 days ago
will someone just breifly explain to me ( in the form of an essay ) and discuss the theme of 'misteken idendity" in the play and how misrepresenting one's identity creats tension. just wondering no big deal (include a thesis if you can)
ColeRedden 1 week ago
time to study
ColeRedden 1 week ago
lol :')
nicola6155 1 week ago
i was happy at the end because my name is Sebastian and i got the hot chick
goodyoj 1 week ago
how many people are doing the twelfth night for their play? My drama club is doin it and i'm going to play olivia! :) i'm excited
Cherries1358 1 week ago
I read the plot and thought, What a ripoff! I totally saw this exact story on "General Hospital" a couple of years ago!
dwgryph 1 week ago
@dwgryph Too bad for you. This is play and indeed this rendition is far superior both in content and in acting to anything you will ever see on GH! The rip off is in fact the other way round. This is Shakespeare after all!
bobthebard 1 week ago
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Good to see the art of detecting irony (or sarcasm if you will) is not lost.
dwgryph 1 week ago
@dwgryph Too bad for you! This is far superior in content and acting ability than anything you will ever see in GH. And the rip off is in fact the other way around. This is Shakespeare after all!
bobthebard 1 week ago
I'm playing the part of the duke Orsino in my college production of Twelfth Night!
MayGreen91 2 weeks ago
WHY ENHLISH WHY MUST YOU BE SO DIFFUCUT
tommycom1998 3 weeks ago
And that's how "Twelfth Night" began, with the Titanic sinking xD
Occeanicora 3 weeks ago
LOVE this movie <3
stephyta84 4 weeks ago
@Southeviliscool I just saw that today in drama. Were doing twelfth night this year as our winter play. That movies SOOO good!
TheBandisUntitled 1 month ago
Have you seen She's The Man ft. Amanda Bynes. It is like a modern version of Twelfth Night: Or What You Will. It is funny and awesome
southeviliscool 1 month ago
@southeviliscool
me and the rest of my cast watched that movie since we're doing Twelfth Night, I thought it was pretty bad
amanda bynes was pretty fucking hot though
TheLovableMan2 1 month ago
I - I'm just watching this for fun. Does that...make me weird?
AngeliniMeataballa 1 month ago in playlist Liked videos 3
@AngeliniMeataballa lol i thought i was the only one
LilMinnie365 1 month ago
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my favorite movie of all time. Ben Kingsley rocks.
LadySiubhan 2 months ago
IM GONNA PASS MY ENGLISH TEST
SwaggaBrandZ 2 months ago
Heehee the movie She's the Man was based off of this
scshorty11 2 months ago
amazing! now I have an idea on how to act as viola\cesario ^__^
jairrihzze 2 months ago
I really like this play and movie but... GEEZ my english teacher really ruins it XD
Rocketeer65 2 months ago
thankyou for the upload! Shakespeare brought me here!
BellaSilvery 2 months ago
English class brought me here.
UnfittingMusic1001 3 months ago 73
@UnfittingMusic1001 hahaha me too!
TheMunchfan 2 months ago
@UnfittingMusic1001 my class literally is an all Shakespeare class which is why im here and i love it :D
buntyio1 1 week ago
@buntyio1 Nice.
UnfittingMusic1001 1 week ago
I think Shakespeare is wonderful, but I only started enjoying and appreciating his works after learning them through an English teacher that knew how to translate the beauty of his works. Before that, Shakespeare was just a synonym for "tedious, boring, complicated shit"
aiayumi 3 months ago 7
i was on my elementary days when i saw this movie's commercial..and as i reminisce my elementary life, i thought of this movie..that's why i browsed youtube right away..and here i am <3
epalistah 3 months ago
I fell in love with Twelfth Night the first time I read it :)
This is a really good adaptation :)
bryonythompson 3 months ago
this is going to be good helena bona carta and richard grant are great together keep the aspidistra flying
240soundwave 3 months ago
im viola in my schools play..
wo1fgir1 4 months ago
this is a mess. i wish they had stuck to the text.
throwoutyourarms 4 months ago
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I love this movie!!!
nerdybro 4 months ago
Its quite interesting how you take an attractive woman and an attractive man and make them look exactly alike ....
kenruneck 4 months ago
viola looks like my neighbour :D
Lovett19991 4 months ago
and for those looking for other Shakespeare adaptations, how about a heavy metal Shakespeare,, chech out the cd called "Thane to the thone" by Jag Panzer!
its progressive heavy metal Mcbeth..
gonzosc1 4 months ago
Thanks for uploading this!!! atleast now I have an idea on how i should play viola/cesario
jairrihzze 5 months ago
Thank you so much for uploading this. Made my snowy Chch day!
mlnphsk 5 months ago
:'D
sPaRkLiFy24 5 months ago
i love helena bonham carter :)
cuttie16fanaticno1 5 months ago
ahhh..my favorite piece by Shakespeare....
StephanieSpardaXD 6 months ago
oh unrequited love thou art a bitch
emilyolp 6 months ago 16
HELENA BOHNAM CARTER!!!!!....YES!!!! ILL TRY AND GET HTUMBS UP!!!!....testicals
Rukia91554 6 months ago
Steven Mackintosh! Steven Mackintosh!
ThingsWeSaidToday 6 months ago
I read this story before in my school library but I wanted to watch the movie too
poiyin 6 months ago
i love this play. <3
shortypingi 6 months ago
Its not accurate to the book but still preatty good.
tequilera95 7 months ago
Is this accurate to the play? :S
I'm having trouble reading the original script and hoped to get some help from this.. xD
Alakakatie 7 months ago
@Alakakatie There must be sites that are for us dummies of the speak of Shakespeare. It's what puts people off, the talk. They see something like Romeo and Juilette and it isn't fully explained to them so they think it's not worth the bother. It's worth the bother. Just treat it like a foreign language where you have to look up words all the time. :) One of my favorite movies is, "Much Ado About Nothing" with Denzel Washington. Fun. :) Songs
Songsmirth 6 months ago
The only way I managed to persuade my 10-year-old sister to watch this with me, was by telling her it isn't historical. She believed me, until she heard the characters speaking.
missrowanb2009 7 months ago
why does it feel like there are scenes missing in this one?
Jupitersthunder 7 months ago
We've just started doing this at school, was browsing the adaptions and saw this one had Imelda Staunton, Mel Smith and HBC in it. On that straightaway
OnlyOneTreeHill8 7 months ago
@OnlyOneTreeHill8 we watched the same one in school - Nigel Hawthorne as Malvolio was piss funny
er10b 7 months ago
oh gog she put a towel in her pants
PokingSealStuff 7 months ago
I love this so much but it makes me sad it is so different from the play Shakespear wrote. I think the part at the begining and how they arrange some of the script makes the play funnier, more enjoyable and accessable, but unfortunatly it is not really what the bard wrote. I still love the interpretations but was soked at how different they are.
theatergeak101 7 months ago
@theatergeak101 It's an adaptation, it's not meant to be the same. But I'm pretty sure Shakespeare would know what they were about - he was a man of adaptations himself! No, it's not what he wrote, but it's an interesting exploration of the themes and ideas, and it might even get people to read the text in it's original beauty :)
NotTheSauce 7 months ago
i love that "comedy" meant marriage in those days.... :)
luckysems 8 months ago
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this is shit
tom603331 8 months ago
this is shit
tom603331 8 months ago
@tom603331 ur shit
Littlemissleci 7 months ago
Thank you so much for uploading
I will love you forever <3
doggis54 8 months ago
Love it^_^
Mikah105 8 months ago
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My favorite play
teresa1720 8 months ago
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This is probably my favorite of Shakespeare's comedies. Its too bad that nowadays people are not so fond of his plays....they really are brilliant.
bballsh326 9 months ago
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i like this movie by english,couse the russian translate is inaccurate. good, kind movie. imogen stubbs so cute
airsoul100 9 months ago
i like this movie by english,couse the russian translate is inaccurate. good, kind movie. imogen stubbs so cute
airsoul100 9 months ago
my theater group is doing this play tomorrow, im malvolio
TheRobertMillerShow 9 months ago
SHES THE MAN??!! same name too. Now i get it where they got the story...
lovelotz89 9 months ago
ahahah 9:23 she is trying to make hersolf look like she has Package like a Man
zipyalipz 9 months ago 12
@zipyalipz yep o_O
somethingboutthewind 4 months ago
I remember watching this film at school as we studies twelfth night - it is my favourite Shakespeare play and I still remember some of the lines. Thankyou for posting :-)
RuachEish 10 months ago
LOL HER BRO JUMPED IN AND SCARED ME!!!
Candythehedgehog2 10 months ago
Could someone please tell me the exact words of Feste's opening song? I got lost after: "I tell thee a tale, now listen to me." English is not my mother tongue and I couldn't find the words in the original script of the Shakespeare's play. Please, please, some advice?
Grencle 10 months ago
@Grencle I tell thee a tale, now list to me, with a hey ho, the wind and the rain, but merry or sad, which shall it be? For the rain it ranith every day.
:)
Marjax 9 months ago
@Grencle I tell thee a tale, now list to me, with a hey ho, the wind and the rain, but merry or sad, which shall it be? For the rain it ranith every day.
:)
Nice to have someone caring about the play
Marjax 9 months ago
@Marjax thanks a lot :-) I've started to make subtitles for this film and I thought that as I have all of the other Feste's songs in, I should have the opening song too...
Grencle 9 months ago
Her hair was so beautiful before :( ... probably the wrong part to focus on, but oh I LOVE this play!! <3
EeerHowAboutNo 10 months ago
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iridescentblue 10 months ago
Love the track @ beginning! Sounds like Donovan [Lietch] but don't think it's him. Wonderful vocal ~~ is there a way for me [novice] to find out? Thanks for great uploaded series watBORG! Love gettin' lost in these 'other' worlds. ^_~\\
evernetherall 11 months ago
@evernetherall It's Ben Kingsley singing it, believe it or not.
al1936ful 10 months ago 2
Belch is a comedy character. I was using the term 'comedy' as there is no 'romance' genre to the Bard's work. The play deals more with madness than romance anyway. In fact it's even more about status and power than romance too.
grimbalgrambal 11 months ago
This is one of my favorite movies! Thank you for uploading it in such amazing quailty!
Narritoey 1 year ago
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Shakespeare's comedies are ridiculous to the point that it angers me.
Give me a history or tragedy any day.
grimbalgrambal 1 year ago
Shakespeare's comedies are ridiculous to the point that it angers me.
Give me a history or tragedy anyday.
grimbalgrambal 1 year ago
No, they are not: Since Shakespeare could not write a decent comedy (read some plays of Aristophanes or Molière to note the difference) but merely romantic non-tragedies; take this one for example: Save the fooling of Malvolio there is nothing comical in the whole play: A maid dresses as man and falls in love with her master and his beloved mistakes her and than the whole thing is set to right be the coming of her twin brother: This is mere romance but not funny at all!
FireEyedMaidOfWar 11 months ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar Apparently if you see the play it is ten times better... Movie adaptations of Shakespeare are rarely any good compared to the play itself.
We are performing some of this play in my drama class and I must confess it is very amusing!
lolaf1er 11 months ago
@lolaf1er: Save the mischief that is inflicted on poor Malvolio the play is not very amusing at all but terribly romantic; as for the movies I would recommend that you first watch some of the versions the BBC made like Coriolanus, Richard II, King John, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure and many more; and of course the version of Henry V Kenneth Branagh made in 1989! Generally speaking: If theatre folk or serious actors like Orson Welles made them they are quite good, even brilliant.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 10 months ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar No, it's plenty funny.
PoeticJustice05 10 months ago
@PoeticJustice05: Proof?
Maybe it is because of my being a non native speaker but I cannot perceive any funny elements in the romance between Viola/Sebastian, Olivia and the Count Orsino! So without Sir Toby and his lackeys there would be very little fun; and again I say the whole play is not funny in his essence only the secondary characters are involved in some sort of merriment.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 10 months ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar That is a matter of opinion, don't go around saying it like it's fact. I personally find the exchanges between Olivia and Cesario very funny, in a different sense, rather than the slapstick of Sir Toby, which is also funny. The scene where Sir Andrew and Cesario are fighting is also funny to me, so is the last scene, but not funny haha, more as in amusing, in the sense that it is light-hearted. I believe that is a good description of a Shakespearean Comedy: light-hearted.
PoeticJustice05 10 months ago
@PoeticJustice05: I think the word you used to describe the scenes of Sir Toby is highly wrong: This kind of dull modern humor did not exists back than; and only if you do indulge into this gender role confusion genre you may find it funny but there is more entertainment to be found in the scenes with Viola and Orsino; but generally its romantic and not comical (see the plays of Aristophanes and Molière to find out the difference); light-hearted is a good choice but merry a better one.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 10 months ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar Slapstick may have been a poor choice of description for Sir Toby, but that is obviously where it derives from (but don't tell me you don't find Laurel and Hardy funny). Regardless, whether it is funny is a matter of opinion.
PoeticJustice05 10 months ago
@PoeticJustice05: But you do realize that by referring to those two non-comedians you have sparked a Black Adder quote about their mental sibling? Here is it:
FireEyedMaidOfWar 10 months ago
George: Oh well, because if you are cheesed off, you know what would cheer you up? A lot of Charlie Chaplin films. Oh, I love Old Chappers, don't you, Cap?
Edmund: Unfortunately, no I don't. I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.
George: Ah, beg pardon, sir, but come off! His films are ball-bouncingly funny.
Edmund: Rubbish!
George: Alright, why let's consult the men for a casting vote, shall we? Baldrick?
FireEyedMaidOfWar 10 months ago
Baldrick: Sir!
George: Charlie Chaplin, Baldrick. What do you make of him?
Baldrick: Oh sir, he's as funny as a vegetable that's grown into a rude and amusing shape, sir.
Edmund: So you agree with me. Not at all funny?
George: Oh come on, skipper, it ain't fair. I haven't asked for all of this. When he kicked that fellow in the backside, I thought I'd die!
Edmund: Well, if that's your idea of comedy, we can provide our own without paying for the privilege. There, you find that funny?
FireEyedMaidOfWar 10 months ago
George: Well, no of course not, sir, but you see, Chaplin is a genius.
Edmund: He certainly is a genius, George. He invented a way of getting a million dollars a year by wearing stupid trousers. Did you find that funny, Baldrick?
Baldrick: What funny, sir?
Edmund: That funny.
Baldrick: No sir, you mustn't do that to me sir, because that is a bourgeois act of repression, sir.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 10 months ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar Again, "funny" is subjective. But I will say this, you've must got some big stick in your ass if you don't find Charlie Chaplin funny.
PoeticJustice05 10 months ago
@PoeticJustice05: Nope; since Monsieur Charlie is not funny at all and this is not a subjective question as none but the Americans do delight in him and no once can take the judgement of these fool serious! Since they have won world domination by the favour Fortuna gives to fools and than gave it away to the Chinese.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 9 months ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar Now you're trying to argue that 'funny' is objective? Good one. I find this funny, I find Laurel and Hardy funny, and I find Charlie Chaplin funny; you don't, good for you (or not).
PoeticJustice05 9 months ago
@PoeticJustice05: There is no chance in accusing me of your own folly! Since it was you who claimed that something must be amiss with me if I do not find Monsieur Chaplin funny; or do you deny your former statement now?
FireEyedMaidOfWar 9 months ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar It's ok if you don't find Chaplin funny, everyone has their reasons for finding something funny or not, I just don't your highfaluting self-righteousness about it, like you've got your head so far up your own ass all you can see is Aristophanes and the shit that's gonna come out of you in the next little while.
On a different note, while writing this, I noticed at around 6:30 the score sounded like that of Free Willy.
PoeticJustice05 9 months ago
@PoeticJustice05: I think this Free Willy should be made a court-martial offence (what ever it is); and I do not really indulge in comedies or Aristophanes in particular but still there is no avail in your insolence; since you did at first harp on the objectiveness of humor by invoking Monsieur Chaplin, so becoming insolent will not hide your fault.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 9 months ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar Fine, I'm insolent, and you're bourgeois.
PoeticJustice05 9 months ago
@PoeticJustice05: Aristocratic is the proper (and more Greek) word since I am only two cousins away from a barony created by the conqueror himself!
FireEyedMaidOfWar 9 months ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar @PoeticJustice05 "pretentious" is the word i believe you both seek; as i am but paces from a dictionary, i decided to proffer my services to arbit' this spirited debate.
ilshengchyilama 9 months ago
@ilshengchyilama: Come not between the dragon and her wrath.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 9 months ago
@FireEyedMaidOfWar good dragon, why burns't thou so with rage?
ilshengchyilama 9 months ago
@ilshengchyilama: That such a slave as this should wear a sword, who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these, like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain which are too intrinse to unloose; smooth every passion that in the natures of their lords rebel; bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks with every gale and vary of their masters, knowing nought, like dogs, but following.
FireEyedMaidOfWar 8 months ago
@grimbalgrambal
lol I love the agonizing ironies of Sir William's mental meanderings. But tragedy any day will do me too, grimbalgrambal. ^_~\\
evernetherall 11 months ago
@grimbalgrambal You're right! And our modern comedies seem too silly as well, what's to be done!
Kelvinian 11 months ago
i read this as a comic then read it as a story and now im watching it as a movie
kataralove154 1 year ago
helen bonham carter is sooo good
2788sweetNsour 1 year ago
This soooo reminds me of the Alanna books by Tamora Pierce. I think she based some of it on Twelfth Night. :) Anyone agree?
BatmansFavoriteGirl 1 year ago
@BatmansFavoriteGirl Alot of people do take some inspiration from shakespeare I wouldn't be too surprised.
badarbiter 1 year ago
hahaha it pains me to watch viola wrap that red cloth to flatten her bossom! =)))
BrockenAyngelll 1 year ago
what's the name of the folk song in the beginning????? ) 0:06
smurfieboo 1 year ago
i just watched it because i have a major test on it
but good movie
thank u very much
yakksu 1 year ago
Haha...codpiece for the win!
Excellent production of "Twelfth Night!" (Or, you know, What You Will...) ;)
obiwanobiwan13 1 year ago 2
I was the stage manager for this play, and it was absolutly amazing.
amandag789 1 year ago
THANK YOU FOR THESE VIDEOS!!! I really wanted to see Twelfth Night ;)
lizziesuperstar1 1 year ago
The soundtrack is amazing but incredibly rare. Shaun Davey is amazing.
GrainneMhaol 1 year ago
I had just watched' Shakespeare in Love' & in the end he was writing about Viola and the Twelfth night, hence my viewing of this movie.
I have no clue what beholds me but I look forward ;p
creativsis 1 year ago
So I know you're supposed to you you're imagination, but movies are usually supposed to make the image work. You'd think if the twins are so identical they get mistaken for each other, the actors themselves would be twins!!
RoguishBlonde 1 year ago
I'm going to be Maria in the show in just three days! The only complaint I have about this is the monologue thing in the beginning about the twelfth night, and the music is out of place..
josapplesauce445 1 year ago
thank u soo much
zarahkuous 1 year ago
The world has only known 3 geniuses Einstein, Newton, and Shakespeare
sipote1994 1 year ago
thank you, i need this for school
kingten16 1 year ago
THANK YOU, I needed this for school :D cheers mate
Keyinei 1 year ago 2
amazing movie i love it!!
thanks watBORG
MsEvampire 1 year ago
Umm.... this is the best Twelfth Night ever?
<3!!!
MoooonshoesPotter 1 year ago
This is my favourite version of Twelfth Night. I especially love Imogen Stubbs as Viola.
DreadVane 1 year ago
ITS A COMEDY NOT A TRAGEDY GOOD GRAVY YOU ARE ILLITERATE
smoekdacheeb 1 year ago 52
@smoekdacheeb
it can actually very well easily be a tragedy, if not for communication and timing; which has been an important element to clear things up. there's also both a melancholy and morbid subtext of the views on love. so in a sense it could be viewed in a dark light; amongst the likes of a tragedy.
AMHK1024 8 months ago
@smoekdacheeb And you are yelling or don't you know that's considered rude? And some are ignorant. Nothing at all wrong with being ignorant. I'm with Omf. How wonderful we have a medium like You Tube for all of us to have the privilage of seeing works we otherwise couldn't see. And people as kind as WatBorg who take the time and make the effort to share them with us. I've learned so much from watching this. Getting the character's names straight for one thing! No offense but try to be kind.
Songsmirth 6 months ago
This is my FAVOURITE movie. I've watched it a hundred times, and STILL cry every time Viola and Sebastion find each other again =D
And it has so many fantastic actors in it =)
Flipitiflop 1 year ago
i have been looking for this play since 2 days.
and this one was with best details......... liked it very much.
thanks for posting it... keep it up....
husuchan 1 year ago
i think this version was filmed in cornwall wasnt it?
jibgt6 1 year ago
My school is putting on an all female production of this..I'm Sebastian..our Sir Toby Belch is bloody funny. :)
VixyDaPixyxXx 1 year ago
this is great help! thanks!!!!!
paramoure101 1 year ago
I've just realised that awful film 'she's the man' is a version of this
999uragay 1 year ago
They missed out maria in the description =(
She's Olivia's servant and leads the secondary subplot with Sir Toby and Malvolio =(
I know because i'm playing her soon xD
xoxsexystephyxox 1 year ago
Love this movie. So good to see it here.
guruuDev 1 year ago
i just noticed, the guy in the sailors outfit watching from the corner is Antonio!
gasp :0 ?
michellessparetime 1 year ago
I love you so much for posting this movie....I have been looking all over the place for it!!!
LadyBeth24 1 year ago
Thanks a lot for posting it! I wanted to see this movie for a long time!! I am really fond of this play and the cast ist great! :-) Helena Bonham Carter is an amazing actress.
dandy2805 1 year ago
FESTE <3 <3 <3
I less-than-three him.
FlippinBooks 1 year ago
Thank you so much. I love this story.
inturn23 1 year ago
Wait; I thought this was a movie about football. Where's Vinnie Jones as the gruff-but-kindly coach?
Lovin' (Sir) Ben Kingsley's mellifluous voice over, tho'.
ishtarg8 1 year ago
@ishtarg8 I think you're looking for one of the many movies losely based on a play by Shakespeare. This movie is mostly a by-the-book version of the original play.
spiderorchid81 1 year ago
@spiderorchid81
*Sigh* Nobody gets my sense of humour.
ishtarg8 1 year ago
@ishtarg8 Sorry, but you wouldn't believe how many of those comments like yours that get posted on youtube etc. are actually serious questions - a lot of people are terribly uneducated these days. I remember that someone once asked me in astonishment if they really made books out of "Gone with the Wind" and "The Lord of the Rings"...
spiderorchid81 1 year ago
@spiderorchid81
I don't think it's that there are a lot more undereducated people around; it's just that they've been invisible before, not being interested in the forums educated people choose. Now, with the internet, they have a forum, so it suddenly seems as though they're everywhere, with thier bad spelling, appalling grammar and startling ignorance of what seem like obvious facts about literature, art and general knowledge.
ishtarg8 1 year ago
@ishtarg8 You're probably right - well, every new medium has its downside, I guess. On the other hand, it's never been so easy to get to know things, do research or find rare books, music etc. ^_^
spiderorchid81 1 year ago
@ishtarg8 You spelt 'their' incorrectly.
Personally, I think it's lovely that forums such as YouTube involve the 'uneducated' with Shakespeare and his plays. So often, in schools and colleges, people ignore Shakespeare because of the awful way in which it is taught. These adaptations and new versions create a new stage for Shakespeare's work, and in turn, a new audience.
One thing i cannot abide is when 'educated' people think they own Shakespeare and the right to enjoy it.
omfggzzz 11 months ago 35
@omfggzzz Very correct, his plays were written for the "groundlings" with as little or smaller education as an elementary school student. These people were the majority of his audience.
laargxentofluto 8 months ago
@omfggzzz Well put. Even acclaimed director Kenneth Branagh shares the sentiment that Shakespeare is taught terribly in schools.
MOTHMAN225 8 months ago
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tommyburgos 6 months ago
@spiderorchid81 you're joking?! Truly sad....
saehee426 1 year ago
Im doing this play :D I got the role of Olivia.
LauraStar11 1 year ago
the description reminds me of the movie; She's the Man. some names are even the same XD
L190418 1 year ago
@L190418 Thats because shes the man is based on this. Shes the man is modern time of Twelfth night.
LauraStar11 1 year ago
@LauraStar11 lol, i figured that out when i read it. thanks though :) i never knew until now.
L190418 1 year ago
thank you for uploading this film, because i'm going to write an essay about Twelfth Night and this film. though i've watched it, it's more convenient to watch it anywhere has internet!
limonatamber 1 year ago
I love this movie
Michaelwolf1000 1 year ago
thaanks,
im playing Viola in 6 days time (: <3
starryeyed283 1 year ago
@starryeyed283 I'm playing her in December (:
LuciaCroneMaster 1 year ago
Seriously the best Shakespeare adaptation I've seen. I know every line by heart. The 19th Century is a perfect backdrop for this drama.
etchingsdrm 1 year ago
Thankyou so much for posting this, i just got cast as Viola today, and being the stingy actor i am i can't afford to rent it. so thankyou
LuciaCroneMaster 1 year ago
Thank God cause i have an essay tomorrow and i didn't read the book :D
0Saccy0 1 year ago
Thanks you! I'm watching this now.
hedonistic2008 1 year ago
ty for this video, ive needed it for my english exam
sactorres66 1 year ago
Good film however its sad they did not link the setting correctly with the historical province of Illyria present day Croatia,Montenegro and Albania. The coast of these countries is remarkable and bears no comparison to how this film has set the landscape which resembles more of the north sea or the east suffork coastline.... rather then the pristine Adriatic.
croatianpimp15 1 year ago
haha now i dont have to rent it or torrent it for my english class. sweet
MrMagicallights 1 year ago
When I see the actress who plays Viola, I can't help but remember the scene from Sense and Sensibility when Edward's sister flips out Lucy Steele in a crazy rage.
Brookem04 1 year ago