Waiting for Godot - Beckett on Film 1/13

I couldn't find the Beckett on Film version of Waiting for Godot anywhere online for the longest time. Now that I have it, I thought I'd upload it, for the other Samuel Beckett fans out there. Enjoy. Any comments or concerns, contact me.

Vladimir: Barry McGovern
Estragon: Johnny Murphy
Pozzo: Alan Stanford
Lucky: Stephen Brennan
The Boy: Sam McGovern
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Running Time: 2 hours

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Samuel Beckett
• Beckett on Film
• Absurdism
• Waiting for Godot
• Vladimir
• Estragon
• Pozzo
• Lucky

[ScrapeNow]

I just love everyone jumping on the wagon calling this piece of shit play genius, get a grip, you are all just thinking in herd, hating on anyone who cries "the emperor wears no clothes!".

[CIoudbby]

@ScrapeNow So you're saying that you're a child that's too stupid to understand the reality into which he has been thrust? o_o

In all seriousness, you can think whatever you want about it. Nobody really gives one shit or another. Maybe it does suck; academia sure loves it, but Beckett hated academia...the play is what you make of it. Hate it, love it - the important thing is that you know that one way or the other, nothing is sacrosanct. Not even your pretentious accusations of pretentiousness.

[OrodesIII]

Beckett never wanted his play to be filmed.

[Interview with Peter Woodthrope 18 February 1994. Referenced in Knowlson, J., Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (London: Bloomsbury, 1996), pp 487,488.]

[CIoudbby]

@OrodesIII The wish of the author is, both unfortunately and fortunately, often negligible.

[DSfan81]

@CIoudbby The author is dead.

[CIoudbby]

@DSfan81 Uh...okay? Thanks for the news flash. Feel free to inform me that there will be one day be a Gulf War, or that one day, in 1968, Martin Luther King will be assassinated. o_O;

[CIoudbby]

@DanCruzCoverz For the sake of all that is holy, I pray that you're joking.

[yurikomuro]

@CIoudbby thank you for serving as an example to the original argument, this is the exact type of pseudo pedants rampant throughout the literature world and why I think this play is overrated, I'm not afraid to speak my thoughts so bring on the hate, and i think it's really childish of you to simply censor people who do not share same pathetic cowardly opinion as you. Continue on my child, a simple block is not going to stop the voice that needs to be heard. Shit on you cunt.

[ScrapeNow]

Beckett wrote this while high on drugs, isn't it blatantly obvious this is the most boring vile piece of mediocrity in literature?

[meganedie1]

@DanCruzCoverz You sir, can go somewhere else.

[supereldinho]

This is what I reviewed for my graduation work. My English teacher called it "a fine example of student creativity" and claimed she "won't see a student like me for a long time".

True story.

[drtolkienjones]

This play is a paradox. It's pretty much a purposeless play with a purpose.

[jayblocke]

@wouterMC5000 Because it's brilliant.