Titus - Julie Taymor - I Tell My Sorrows to the Stones

A clip from the movie Titus by Julie Taymor based on Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

ACT III
SCENE I. Rome. A street.

TITUS ANDRONICUS

Hear me, grave fathers! noble tribunes, stay!
For pity of mine age, whose youth was spent
In dangerous wars, whilst you securely slept;
For all my blood in Rome's great quarrel shed;
For all the frosty nights that I have watch'd;
And for these bitter tears, which now you see
Filling the aged wrinkles in my cheeks;
Be pitiful to my condemned sons,
Whose souls are not corrupted as 'tis thought.
For two and twenty sons I never wept,
Because they died in honour's lofty bed.

For these, these, tribunes, in the dust I write
My heart's deep languor and my soul's sad tears:
Let my tears stanch the earth's dry appetite;
My sons' sweet blood will make it shame and blush.
O earth, I will befriend thee more with rain,
That shall distil from these two ancient urns,
Than youthful April shall with all his showers:
In summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still;
In winter with warm tears I'll melt the snow
And keep eternal spring-time on thy face,
So thou refuse to drink my dear sons' blood.

Enter LUCIUS, with his sword drawn

TITUS ANDONICUS:
O reverend tribunes! O gentle, aged men!
Unbind my sons, reverse the doom of death;
And let me say, that never wept before,
My tears are now prevailing orators.

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/titus/full.html

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[madfoot]

I don't know how he holds his body so still while his hands and face are in such an agony of expression. Gah! This is so good, it makes me want to punch somebody.

[shnazztastic]

I know exactly how you feel.

[WarriorTrtle]

omg, T_T

I beg of u could'nt you post the whole movie kind sir, pleeeeaaase!!!

[shnazztastic]

I would but the movie is protected and the program that I used to rip this clip, I lost.

I'll try my best to fix that problem very soon.

[knocho2]

gotta love shakespeare :)

damn good monolouge.

[TheSethIkrass]

my favorite moment in Shakespeare

[DrStrangefate]

This scene brought me to tears.

Anthony Hopkins is a god among men.

[Drac39]

Why Marcus so she is...

[Drac39]

@tommyt1971 Since when has Shakespeare shyed away from graphic violence? King Lear and Macbeth have moments of violence on par with what is done in Titus. And the violence in Titus is far from gratuitous but rather a brilliant expression of chararacter

[Drac39]

I know a lot of pretentious Shakespeare scholars hate Titus Andronicus but some of the stuff here matches Hamlet IMHO

[tommyt1971]

@Atrahasis7 It IS one of his worst - it's always been considered ludicrous because it was so violent. The movie's a bit overdone, the only thing I ever liked about it was Hopkins.

[jaymeeharkeen]

@madfoot you've got it man.

[SomethingSchneider]

@madfoot yeah thats it im' punchin somebody

[BrucknerMotet]

@endersgame55 Titus' caged sons being carted off to their deaths with the throng of tribunes and extras are indeed a crucial focus for this scene. Their bodies quickly fade into the distance for a very specific/intentional reason: to show (or expose) that the father's anguish at seeing the brutal swiftness with which his beloved sons are taken from him is the same suffering of the vanquished queen whose son he had earlier dismembered without a thought of mercy. Taste of his own medicine.