Antigone by Sophocles (1984 TV) Juliet Stevenson (part 4/11)

Sorry about the buzzing sound, most of it goes away soon.

click on link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this "Antigone":
http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5321CB5DC1092F31

John Churton Collins:

Antigone, it must be remembered, belonged to
a doomed family, and her conduct is regarded
throughout by the Chorus as an act of infatuation
urged on her by the curse resting on that family:
it is defended by no one except her lover Haemon.

She makes no attempt to conciliate Creon, but
maintains throughout a most defiant attitude,
glorying alike in her deed and in its penalty.

It
is indeed difficult to see how Creon, without
stultifying his position and his authority, could
have acted otherwise than he did. Antigone not
merely braves but courts death.

That the Gods
did not approve of Creon's treatment of Polyneices
may be pleaded in justification of Antigone's act,
but this hardly affects the question of her fate.
In her case as well as in Creon's, it was not so
much what they did, as the temper in which
what they did was done, that brought ruin on
them.



Cast:

Juliet Stevenson ... Antigone
Gwen Taylor ... Ismene

John Shrapnel ... Creon
Tony Selby ... Soldier

Patrick Barr ... Chorus
Paul Daneman ... Chorus
Donald Eccles ... Chorus
Robert Eddison ... Chorus
Patrick Godfrey ... Chorus
Ewan Hooper ... Chorus
Peter Jeffrey ... Chorus
Noel Johnson ... Chorus
Robert Lang ... Chorus
John Ringham ... Chorus
Frederick Treves ... Chorus
John Woodnutt ... Chorus

Produced by...Louis Marks
Original Music by ....Derek Bourgeois
Film Editing by ...Peter Reason
Production Design by ...David Myerscough-Jones
Costume Design by ...Jane Hudson
Geoffrey Lewis .... classical advisor

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• Σοφοκλῆς
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• Antigone
• Αντιγόνη
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[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

Antigone is indeed another timeless masterwork of Sophocles! For in it he depicts the old conflict between the necessities of upholding political power and the duties and feelings caused by religion and family bands; manifested in the persons of Antigone and her uncle Creon; and the poets decides the struggle in favour of the later thus giving all exercise of political powers severe morale boundaries and limits and this is indeed an ever recurring topic...

[jezmuff]

Ah! I love her!

[TheWickedVampire]

I'm doing the speech at 2:47 for drama

[asafk8]

@kamlin The king in those days was considered as the messenger of the gods / the one chose by them to rule. Therefor - The king's law = the god's law and desires. The god's laws are strictly forbidden to break.

[kamlin]

@5:31 "I AM THE LAW!"

...wait, so Creon is Judge Dredd?

[CygnusRat]

@ameeliavirginia so much love for this comment. In addition to this,

Creon: calm...calm....caLM, CALM, NOT CALM, YELL YELL YELL YELL MY AUTHORITY YELL YELL YELL

antigone: I'm a woman and I make you cry from snide comments

Creon: FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUU-

[tinawerewolfgirl]

wonder what happened to ismene...

[ameeliavirginia]

chorus: blah blah blah blah gods blah blah blah DRAMATIC MUSIC blah blah

me: SHUT THE F UP!!!

thumbs up if you got an Antigane essay due tommrow. screw the old grandpas who hate on me for watching it

[OuranHighBasketCase]

What time period is this? Can't they just pick one style of dress?

[realityme]

When I read this in college I thought Antigone was a man! Even when I found out (through reading further) that she was a woman I kept forgetting because she was so dam tough!!!