Psalm of Life - H. W. Longfellow (by Paul Scofield)
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Uploaded by headlink on Oct 17, 2008
Original footage has been provided as VHS video by the advertising agency on behalf of UBS. Copyright by UBS.
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It is fitting that Paul Scofield should record Longfellow's words "Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and, departing, leave behind us, footprints in the sands of time." Scofield, the most sublime of actors, has left us an incomparable legacy.
3 years ago 19
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Magnificent! R.I.P. Paul Scofield!
3 years ago 9
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I admit, I found this after Oancitizen's review.
Great stuff!
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some stanzas are skipped
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Truly beautiful in every single way. Does anyone know the piece that is playing in the background?
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Wow, that was the best one yet
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Utterly perfect delivery by Scofield.
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I watch this about 50 times a day. Not just because I'm practicing for my school's poetry contest semi-finals, but also because the way he speaks the stanzas of the poem, especially the last stanza he recites, is truly inspiring and very motivating.
11 months ago 3
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@wainscottbl I agree. Every time I see a big company glom onto a work of art to try and sell their shit it just sickens me. I'm sorry, but UBS just ruined a great poem by putting their letters in it.
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Every person on earth should watch this video. Twice. Once to appreciate the poem and it's true and very relevant message, and secondly to appreciate Paul Scofield, as we seem, sometimes, to be forgetting him.
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I am simply spellbound. What a great actor Scofield was, what voice!
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@TruthSurge: I think it's not all negative if a company uses adverts - which are a kind of art today - in order to present itsself. Sure they use the poem, but, to my mind, they have left enough space for the work by just showing their logo for a few seconds independently after the reading.
The means may become important for society anyway... there's an American Express production with the Counting Crows and Jack Johnson, intended to raise money for music classes at public schools.
headlink 1 year ago 3