Lucky's Speech - Waiting for Godot

The best performance of this I've seen.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• lucky's speech
• pozzo
• waiting for godot
• samuel beckett

[Stanmorden]

I remember watching this version on school's televison some time in the mid 00s. It's amazing what you stumble across when you're unemployed.

The primary thing that leaps out at me with this version is the set design. It portrays all the lonelyness, the bleakness that Beckett's work requires, but it avoids being minamalist or abstract.

You really feel the play is taking place in a real physical space. It provides a lot more depth than the tree and backdrop of many stage productions.

[edwardcating]

Love it. No better version of Lucky that I have ever seen.

[witt19800]

"Who says something has to be beautiful to be brilliant?" That's straw man argument. Godot is a PLAY, and therefore ART. That art has to be "beautiful to be brilliant" is self evident.

When did I say Lucky's monologue was "meaningless"? PAY ATTENTION. I said that although Lucky speaks about the "nature of meaninglessness", his ideas are presented in a way that prevents the audience from following along. And communication is a two way street.

Go back to the drawing board, you dumb fuck.

[THEREBELFOX1]

@witt19800 Who says something has to be beautiful to be brilliant.. If your a romantic read Jane Austen.. and pray tell how is it possible to follow someting that is meaningless?? If something is without meaning, its either a) without reason and not possible to follow or b) without significance and not worth following .. either way your point is complete nonsense.. You obviously don't have the apptitude to follow Becketts ideas, and your reaction is quite common for people of your IQ

[AzafreakSM]

Memorable.

[JayGatsbyOdysseus]

@witt19800 I agree.

[witt19800]

@euthydemos That doesn't disprove my point, you ignoramus.

[euthydemos]

@witt19800 it is satire, dummy

[missrevenge8]

wooww I did an skating dance about this speech!!!

[witt19800]

Although I credit the actor's terrific skill, this monologue is the most overrated piece of writing in Western literature, a thing of novelty rather than beauty.

If the author means to say something about the nature of meaninglessness, it must be done in a way where I can follow his ideas, moment to moment, rather than tune out and admire the actor's technical prowess.

This is literary masturbation, and by the way, also a boring ass fuckin' play.

[IndianaJoker]

Maybe I'm wrong, but my interpretation of the speech is something similar to his play Play; that Lucky says this speech at a breakneck pace, with all of these thoughts rushing out of him at once without punctuation.

[MaskedMenace830]

I have 2 memorise this for a school drama monologe assignment 0______________0 Should be fun to do though