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King Lear (1971) Directed by Peter Brook CLIP #1

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Uploaded by on May 6, 2008

King Lear, played by Paul Scofield, is ridiculed by his fool and chided by his eldest daughter Goneril.
This is my favorite film version of Shakespeare's famous play. It is grim, graphic, and flawlessly casted.

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  • Storm scene wasn't uploaded by me but give me a half a day.

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  • Yes The RSC has stolen Shakespeare for its own ends. All patrons are encouraged to donate to other more diverse organisations rather than looking at the RSC as the last vestige for the promotion of Shakespearean art. The RSC is inward looking self promoting and exercises exclusion at the highest level and offers no resolution or dialogue which encourages original creativity and understanding to those who once believed that the RSC was the almighty propeller for Mr William Shakespeare,

  • Monsieur Brook is a movie genius indeed: Ever since I saw his version of the Indian epic Mahabharata I did worship him; and as long as he does not try do produce any modern nonsense like this “Marat Sade” fuss he cannot fail but be brilliant; and had he not cut the text of King Lear so much it would have been the best version made of the play I have seen so far; but than again: He did focus on the tragic essence by doing so: Here we see an old exhausted Lear causing his own destruction.

  • Goneril is the great Irene Worth.

  • @goback3spaces

    there's been a lot of cutting and re-arranging of the text for this production.

  • Can you tell me where can I find the beginning? Thanks

  • re: "I love this version. Too bad it's impossible to find."

    It's scheduled to play on Turner Classic Movies 03/31/2010 at 3:30am Central (or thereabout) right after Kurosawa's "Ran"

    Just a heads up/

  • I love this version. Too bad it's impossible to find.

  • when lear falters when he realises at 0:47 that he's mirroring his earlier words to cordelia...that's a magic moment.

  • Is this scene cut? Isn't the speech the fool teaches the "Have more than thou showest" speech?

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