Meryl Streep - Last Midnight (From “Into the Woods”)
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“Into the Woods” is a modern twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the characters’ wishes and quests. This humorous and heartfelt musical follows the classic tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel-all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife, their wish to begin a family and their interaction with the witch who has put a curse on them. - Hudba
This is basically the Witch giving up. She has no more reason to live, and she finally realizes how completely backwards the world she lives in is: she's careful and follows the rules and gets punished for other people's mistakes, while they get their happily ever after. The way she sees it, in order to get what you wish, you have to be reckless and pass on the consequences to everyone else. She wished for her life to be back the way it was, before she got her beauty back, but it only got worse.
+myspontaneity
I guess it is time to punish her mother ten times as hard.
+myspontaneity I don't think she dies though. She knew she would leave them so I figure she either teleported or got dragged to hell with her mother figuring it's more bearable than earth.
bluerisk Indeed.
Thank you, kep.
Better to be good than right. Just cuz you follow the rules doesn't mean everything will happen the way it should. Yes, the world is a dangerous place and even though she was right about it, her daughter Rapunzel is killed by the giant (in the theater version).
So basically this whole song summarizes her saying "FUCK DIS SHIT IM OUT"
Yep
Yes
Emii64 why do you have to swear!!!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
I watch this movie almost every week
Emii64 agreed......... Talk about too much drama. -_-
I think the ultimate way to insult a person now is telling them quote:
*"you're not good,*
*you're not bad,*
*you're just nice."*
Yes, I'm gonna scream that to someone who thinks they're good
Actually, she is calling them Fake. While, they only live by a facade, like Red being a mischivious child but putting a innocent girl face. In other hand she tells "Im not good, im not nice, Im just right". In that, she says that shes not trying to fake anyone, shes True in her Nature. Her actions are neither good or bad? She stole a Child, who was raised with all her love and joy. She wants to give Jack to the giant, but, to save all of them. She dont put out any intentions that are not her true self. So its very powerfull, becuse, actually, she is the only one who is not covering her actions, she is actually proud of it, even her ingeunity by being stolen of the beans when she was younger. Her love of Rapunzel, and her unbotherness by the Village Folk. Who fear her just for being a Witch.
@@giansena5536 Basically saying they're hypocrites. Omg I love this, I have so much else to say but I can't put it into words
@@misterminutes4504 Yes. This Musical has so many levels. I just can imagine the Full picture of it, without blowing my mind
Meryl's back must've hurt so bad after carrying this movie.
Facta
The time that Jonny had also carried it
Nah. She's used to it!
@@rickovery FACTS... thats th unfortunate part of greatness.. greatness always bears the weight of others beyond conscription
Facts
"i'm not good, i'm not nice, i'm just right!"
You"re so Nice! You're not good, you're not bad, you're just NICE!
I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just RIGHT!...
I'm the Witch. You can blame the Witch!
And the witch was right. I still think that the witch was right. Everyone so selfish and want to seem nice, but they are all guilty.
She was selfish too she wanted her beauty back.....
@@missywoods2005 keyword "back". She had it and it was taken (and kept) away from her by dishonest thieves 🙄 is it really selfish to want your things back? Let's say I stole from you. Then you, like every other sane & intelligent being, demand your belongings be returned.. I could flip your statement against you and say you're being selfish for wanting your things back 😂
@@missywoods2005 I mean she doesn't need it, she's already beautiful. Right?
D a n i e l l e she’s greedy, I love this movie so much!
The witch is hands down the best character in the movie. She just tells it like it is. She's not bad or nice, which is true she's not the villian here, just another victim. She wants to give the giant Jack so that everyone else can live. And Her last curse is leaving the rest of the cast alone. Not giving them anything bad, just leaving them.
Ye
yes
No, she's the villain. Thats the best part of this song, she's a hypocrite. She did many bad things: taking a child as a payment for stolen vegetables (seriously, no one with a right mind would say its fair. AND she said she will take the baby before the father took her beans), she imprisoned Rapunzel for 18 years, then banished her for being in love and blinded the prince.
Not to mention, she complains they all wanted their wishes no matter what while she did the same - she wanted her beauty back no matter how much harm would it do, and then she blamed Jack and wanted to sacrifice him.
I like your take on the tale and the character : how much basic humanity and accuracy in a silly fairy tale, huh ?
+Miki Mash but it all started with a thief she was the first victim to which she then became what she is
The costume designers heard there was gonna be wind and went "HELL YES"
Wynnie M Lmao it's like they were told "No cape!" for every other costume. They've been waiting for this moment their whole life
Mia Fikes haha "no capes" totally reminds me of Edna Mode from the incredibles XD
Jajaja "No capes" the memories
Wynnie M 😂👍
Wynnie M 😹
I just love that meryl just causally pulls beans out off her bra
Amber Robinson lmao
Now that you mentioned it...
I'm yelling i've never noticed that before
Amber Robinson I did not see that
They were made for making people rich. 😳
There was actually no special effects, it's just Meryl
She sings so well lightning and wind come out of nowhere.
I wish I can do that
Merly Streep is just that damn amazing man.
Matheus Barros Costa It wouldn't surprise me.
She melted just for that scene! She's so committed to the part, what a talented actress god rest her gooey soul
There's a reason Meryl Streep's performance in this movie got her nominated for an Oscar.
This song proves that.
Black Mage Maverick Dude, she gets nominated for everything.
+Legion Ivory That may be true. But it's not like she's nominated for no reason. This was a fantastic performance. I had chills listening to the end of this in the theater.
Legion Ivory dude, not everything 🙄 she deserved all the nominations she got.
Blake Wilson Obviously, she's deserving of the awards she gets. She's the shit.
I'm just saying there's no significance to her getting nominated for this film. She's just Meryl Streep. This performance is dope, though.
This song was written to be epic and amazing, it's not her...it's the writing. I've seen better takes, though I like this one very much.
She still looks fab with all that wind blowing all around her.
Daph Duck 😊 ikr
+Daph
Youknow, in some of the scenes (youknow, splitsecond-ones) she looks incredibly young. I mean..despite her looking like a witch and all, just her movements, make her look 30.
She looks better
ikr
i just realized that she keeps repeating the boom SQUISH, boom SPLAT etc because in the stage version we hear that she saw rapunzel, her daughter, being stepped on by the giant. she keeps repeating it because her mind is suck on that traumatizing moment. and with rapunzel gone, there's nothing left to keep her to the world, and so she does anything she can to be punished.
What?! That seriously happened?!
@@twyla9559 yes, in the original ITW Rapunzel gets trampled by the giant. i recommend finding recordings of stage versions...the material gets darker, yes, but more layered!
the rest of the comment was just a bit of lyric/character analysis on my part, so that's not canonical.
honestly, Meryl Streep killed it, I love the transition from 'your fault' to last midnight
Me too! The transition was so good!
agreed
Jessica Nash And so do I; faantastic. The blue nails are nails are beautiful!. Thank you guys
+Phillas in the original it was all one song ...way better
That's how it is in the musical. They did a good job of it.
As much as I didn't want to see The Witch leave, she left with purpose. She left giving them her last curse, which was actually what really stopped the giant. In the end, she wasn't good, she wasn't nice, she was right.
Streep. fucking. KILLED this role. While she isn't as good as the original, she REALLY nailed the feel of the Witch. Like. Got damn.
I think she did much better than the original imo.
+Dean Wilson imo too
Wait, you're saying Steep did better then Bernadette Peters, who brought brilliant comedic timing, and power and sass to the role she originated, is that right?
i'm not familiar with the original, but does it matter if Meryl was better or the original singer? No matter which one you prefer, I think we can all agree that she did an amazing job
@@TimothyRobert93 Yes, in big part due to the singing (When she is not going all out like in the sadder parts of the lament Bernadette Peters can be very flat. Hell in that song alone, hear how she says the phrase “couldn’t you listen?”) but also because the original play, much like a lot of Sondheim plays focuses too much in being hammy and comedic while the movie adaptations of his works allow themselves to be more dramatic to really pull out the darker undertones in the story and the songs.
And also because Meryl has the advantage that the songs were arranged pretty damn well. That longer “All right mother, when?!” Makes the climax a lot better imo than the original where it keeps going like the rest of the song.
The gesture when she says "I'm the witch" is golden.
Does anyone else just love how expressive are the witch's gestures here? The faux calmness when she's saying that they're so "nice". And that head tilt towards the baker when she says that they are liars and thieves "like his father", I just love it
I totally understand. I love how she looks as she says I'm the Witch like she's so disgusted and over how people react to and treat her
+mizbrissycutsiibabii Exactly!! And the hesd tilt, it totally shows exactly how she feel for the baker and his father: contempt and disgust. And her expression when she says "I'm not good, I'm not nice", like saying "of course I'm neither of those things, I'm the witch, I'm just right"
I love how she attacks the cape at 00:50 So menacing and sassy.
+MARIBEL ABE-BENI You have the observation skills of an animator. I am impressed by her gestures here too
+chompet123 Thank you! The gestures in this kind of films are the first thing I pay attention to, because some of them look so... natural and elegant, especially the witch's' ones here. It just helps me get more into the film :)
I see this clip and just can't fathom how people said this is the worst movie they've ever seen.
Truly don't understand.
And the people who walked out too. I was literally glued to the screen
doody magoob LOL those people are the ignorant clueless ones who thought Into the Woods wasn't a musical.
pupulicious I didn't know (don't sue me I'm only 13) but I absolutely LOVED IT
VStodder they clearly have no brains or taste
VStodder because those peopel are stupid and dont get what real art is
If we ever get a Tangled live action Meryl must play Gothel
Probably not till the next decade
Fun fact! Gothel's voice actress Donna Murphy her role of the witch in a Broadway version of "into the woods".
Another fun fact this version has vocals by Donna Murphy herself interspersed with Meryl Streep's.
@@SnazzyjazzBro I was gonna say! And from what I can gather, Gothel's design was basically just Donna Murphy in a Cher wig, so God forbid they remake Tangled, Donna Murphy would fit the bill
@@mmcgonagall1833Wow, really? They sound so similar I can't tell when they switch!
this song makes so much more sense in the original broadway production. Especially the line "your the world", because through the whole show the witch hates the world, and see's it as a horrible dangerous place, which is why she trapped her daughter in the tower. Also it makes since her going all out like this because her daughter was killed, but that din't happen in the movie, so it just escalates pretty quickly.
0:10 - 0:20 The way she just flawless switches from like five different expressions under just a few seconds is amazing! Damn good acting, right there.
And somehow every single one of them was some form of disgust 🤣🤣🤣
Yyyeeeesssss
Really, any good enough actor can do that.
And no I don't hate Meryl.
@@lemontree1235 thanks for agreeing with the comment that it was good acting? fail to see your point lmfao
My favourite one is the 'OK fair enough, point in your favour I guess' on "you're not *bad* "
Blue tones in winter. Groundbreaking.
no, it's blue tones to represent the darkness of the scene. just before the bakers wife died, the whole scenery was a warm orange around Brown just like winter but the second the ground started rumbling, it change to a deep blue
+Temi K i was quoting the devil wears prada
stungbyabea I love you, whoever you are
stungbyabea lmbo
stungbyabea yes..
Lyrics:
Just give me the boy
No! (No)
No?
You're so nice
You're not good
You're not bad
You're just nice
I'm not good
I'm not nice
I'm just right
I'm the witch
You're the world
I'm a hitch
I'm what no one believes
I'm the witch
You're all liars and thieves
Like his father
Like his son will be, too
Oh, why bother?
You'll just do what you do
It's the last midnight
So, goodbye all
Coming at you fast, midnight
Soon you'll see the sky fall
Here, you want a bean?
Have another bean
Beans were made for making you rich!
Plant them and they soar
Here, you want some more?
Listen to the roar
Giants by the score!
Well, you can blame another witch
It's the last midnight
It's the last verse
Now, before it's past midnight
I'm leaving you my last curse
I'm leaving you alone
You can tend the garden, it's yours
Separate and alone
Everybody down on all fours
All right, mother, when?
Lost the beans again!
Punish me the way you did then!
Give me claws and a hunch
Just away from this bunch
And the gloom
And the doom
And the boom
Cruuunch!
DADGUM Boi It occurs to me that the “when” after Alright Mother is more an exclamation than a question, as in “Once you have enough, say ‘when’.” I could be wrong, of course, just throwing it out there.
“You’re so nice, you’re not good you’re not bad you’re just nice.” The way this line was delivered and the facial expressions make it so satisfying. Meryl Streep really killed it
I can't believe Meryl Streep is 65 YEARS OLD!
sen de mi türlsün yok ben makyajdan bahsetmedim hareketlere bak yani 65 yaşında ve o kadar hareketli... oha! (ENG: Well I wasn't talking about her face. Of course there is makeup. Look at her moves. She is 65 years old and she is like... 17 years old crazy dance.She is so old how can she do a crazy dance like that!
haaa ok :D
***** Actually, She Wasn't Wearing as much make-up as we thought, as shown in some of the Extras.
Ya Shaquille Staley
AngelinaPlaysGames APG In fact she´s gonna be 66 Next June 22: unbelievable.
On August "Ricky and The Flash" will be released, movie in which she is a rock star , a mother. This woman just won´t stop.
This is one of my FAVORITE songs from Into the Woods!!!! Meryl did a great job in this performance!!!!!!
She sure did, Her performance in the movie has Received her 19th Academy Award Nomination.
Jaden Parr Why she didn't win it, though, is totally beyond me. She deserved the award. I've never understood the negative 1-star reviews for it from customers either. Seriously, this movie deserved better acclaim.
same
Turnajon its because its a musical but I agree she should have won
same :)
I love it when she starts throwing those beans as they run to pick them up. I think it manifests the endless greed of humans who run after money and power and the haunting just goes around in endless useless circles.
Laila Oueld Mimti Thinking it was that, or them trying to keep them from sprouting or anything else they can’t possibly know. She’s a witch, and those are her magic beans. They just got done throwing blame around for handling (and mishandling) some of the same beans, who knows what they’d do in the hands of someone who knows how to use them?
I think it's just, yk, the beans were what caused the first and second problems in the story and they don't want a dozen more
I like your theory, but they are picking them up in a panic. They don't want more bean stalks and potentially more giants coming down.
they were picking up the beans so no other beanstalks would grow
No? The beans conjured the giants to come in the first place.
I think the artistic choice this movie made (vs the original cast production and other productions I've seen) that really got me was how they had the Witch holding the Baby right before this song. It made so much sense to me; the Beginning and the End, the Parent and the Child, Life and Death. The reason all of this has happened, and well, another reason all of this has happened. In the end, every fairy tale starts with a witch holding a baby that's not hers, raising it to inevitably make (so she says) the same mistakes as the parents did. The cycle is inevitable, life continues to live on despite the wolves and giants. Who is the Witch to argue with that?
Julia Whitmore the Broadway revival with Vanessa Williams did this too!
I thought it was interesting that she was holding the baby too. Giving her SHHHH more of a maternal feel. And in some ways, she is a maternal figure to the other characters. No matter what you do, children won't listen.
She's 65 but she's so flawless... The way she acts it just flows with her, so natural. Her expressions and movements are just so perfect, not to mention the intense song and the great music. LOVE IT.
Jorge Rosales I’m sorry she’s 65? I thought she was 45 or something!
I'm so obsessed with how she says, "You're not good- you're not bad; you're just nice." Lol 😂
I love when Meryl just screams “Alright mother, when!!!”, just that anger and frustrations and bitterness shining through the roughness of her voice. I always got the implication that the witch hated her mother but could never really go against her what with how powerful she’s implied to be.
But this is just the witch absolutely not caring about her fate anymore. Screaming at her mother because for once she doesn’t care what she’d do to her because she’s just so angry and frustrated with it all.
She's a very smart witch
She's a witch who prepares
Not smart enough to avoid throwing away her mother's beans and then be destroyed where she stands.
futuremovieactor she did that on purpose
I got that.
I really did think she's the one in the right in this story. Well, not kinda until the baker's father robbed her. If she wanted it to be fair and square, she could've just cursed the baker's father and not cause trouble any further for others (which resulted to this, where they blame each other for their own reckless mistakes or I'd say, greediness). And if it's not enough, then just demand them to fix what the thief had done by ordering them to lift the curse. And she also shouldn't have kept Rapunzel, which is an another mistake she made because it had a relation to the thief. But everyone is to blame here, the recklessness and greed just to have what you want and need, she's just right in this situation because she pointed the mistakes they all made (also including her), no one is the "good" in this story.
Granted Meryl is not Bernadette vocally...she is still Meryl effing Streep and a LEGEND in every sense of the word. She made this version her own.
Cheyenne Cook her vocals are fkin amazing
I love Bernadette's performance, but honestly. . . I cannot choose between her and Meryl because Meryl completely slayed and gave so much depth and humanity to this.
In my opinion Meryl’s performance had so much more emotion in it. I could actually feel the lyrics. Bernadette didn’t give that to me.
I like Meryl's voice better.
@@honeybee7197 Bernadette gave the perfect vocals, but Meryl gave the whole body expression of frustration. I love her arms in "you'll just do what you do", and we can hear the "you're fucking idiots and you'll just fuck it up again and again and this drives me up the fucking wall!"
I love the first lines. "You're so nice...You're not good. You're not bad. You're just nice. I'm not good..." The lines and the music are bloody brilliant. And her facial expression just wow. At 0:15 👌
0:06 freaking amazing acting. You can see the witch just give up and realize they're not worth it. Like "Oh well! I tried!"
Still one of my favourite characters in any movie ever, Meryl Streep does a fantastic job at this. (also love what she is wearing, absolutely gorgeous)
xXShadowOwlXx She lifted the curse that made her a witch at the end of the first act. so in this sing she intentionally loses the beans again, which causes her to be cursed again. the curse is that she becomes old and haggard looking, but gains magical powers. she has decided power and being in control of her own life is more important than physical beauty and acceptance by the common riff raff of society who aren't good anyway.
uhm... okay. Thanks?
"I'M MELTING! MELTING! OH WHAT A WORLD!"
😂😂 The Wicked Witch said that, so funny!! 😂😂😂
+CJCroen1393 Now thats what i call a bowel movement!!!
CJCroen1393 If donkey from Shrek was standing next to her 😂😂
I can't believe people hated this movie. I guess it was too real for them. All actions have consequences.
Brent Thomas it's because it wasn't faithful enough to the source material
I liked it in a vacuum, but, as the guy above me said, it wasn't fateful to the source material, which threw people off before they even saw it.
I remember always arriving at this part when doing my auditorium walkthroughs. Loved this sequence, it's like the witch just "F you all and kill me now, because these people are garbage."
The whole Last Midnight sequence was a point that caused people to hate it due to the earlier plot change of (Spoiler Warning if you haven’t seen the actual musical) Rapunzel not dying. In the movie, Last Midnight is basically “I’m tired with you all, because all of you are really terrible people”. In the musical, it’s this as well BUT there’s also a darker edge of “my daughter is fricking dead, and I have no will to live anymore”. Without Rapunzel’s death, you never see this aspect in the song.
I'm glad it strayed from the source material.
Now I don't have to look at a wolf penis while watching a disney movie. How awkward.
The ironic part is this was genuinely the role of “witches” throughout Europe in the Medieval Ages. Any famine, any act of misfortune that seemed out of place, any unfortunate “illness” on a woman or man, a witch was to blame. And in other words, it was a woman to blame. Meryl was originally sceptical because she didn’t like the stereotype of the witch being an evil old hag but she played it beautifully and put through the message. Women were blamed for all sorts of things, things they couldn’t control or had nothing to do with. Women were the scapegoat of the entire World, practically no country was exempt. There will always be an example of classic sexism and awful treatment of women. The symbolism of the witch can be interpreted in many different ways but the interpretation I love is that we have a powerful, strong and intelligent woman. A woman who hasn’t actually done any wrong except take someone’s child and cared for it better than they would have been able to since they were quite poor and in response to them stealing from her and corrupting her physically. A woman, who in all respects, was simply trying to get by in a life that hated her for something she was born into. Here, it’s her magic powers. The reality, it’s her vagina, her body, her very being of femininity. Despite all this, despite her lack of any flaws, society still found some way to hate her and discriminate against her and ostracise her. And for that, women paid the price. An easy and weak power in a country, women posed little threat in those times. And thus, were so easily destroyed. It’s really quite sad. Even here, she is being logical and fair. Trying to protect hundreds by giving up one. Contrary to the typical stereotype of women being too emotional and incapable of making hard decisions but she was the only one doing so. She did everything that people believe women cannot do or that people believe men do better. No matter all this, she still fails. There was a certain futility about it.
I agree with everything, but what does “women had to suffer many trials and tribulations” have to do with this film? My memory is a little rusty because it’s been while since I’ve watched this film, but wasn’t the witch hated just for being a witch? True, she was born a witch and was hated for being a witch, but that doesn’t have anything to do with sex or gender. Even back in medieval times, a witch could be a man or a woman, but they were mostly associated with women. Though, if the witch was born a male in this movie, it wouldn’t make much of a difference. This movie isn’t about a women that was mistreated for being born a women, it’s about the revelation on how backwards the world really is. To quote another comment on this comment section, the witch basically gave up after realizing just how heinous this world really is. You can follow all the rules, mind your own business, and still be punished for your neighbor’s misdeeds, while your neighbor gets their happily ever after. True, the witch is a freaking queen, and I love her so much. Like, UGH such an underrated character 😌, but again, this isn’t about the trials and tribulations that women had to go through in the medieval era, so why bring it up? Whether the witch is born a man or a woman has nothing to do with the plot of the movie. (Sorry for sounding a bit rude. I promise, I don’t mean any harm.)
@@yahirs4508 My point was specifically about Meryl’s hesitance to play the role. Witches are historically considered female and inherently their infamous nature was towards free women too. Movies and especially musicals have meaning in everything it does. Whilst Into the Woods isn’t centred around women the point still holds in a general sense.
Acutually this is a common myth sjw. Witches were considered fake until the 15th century.
do you guys realize her last curse is to vanish yo leave us alone in this world without magic
I guess her last curse is to leave the world without magic resulting in no easy way to do things ( since magic is gone ) therefore people would not be able to depend on magic users bit themselves now.
Does anybody else feel like the Witch was completely right in this instance? If they had simply given Jack to the Giant they could have saved everybody a lot of pain and suffering. I mean Jack is guilty of theft and homicide, it only seems right that they hand him over to the one that he wronged.
Technically the homicide could be classed as self defense the giant was going to kill him
@@vamprose3058 well the giant could also claim self-defense considering the fact that Jack was intruding on private property without permission a.k.a breaking and entering. Would you just sit still in a corner if someone broke into your place?
That is the eternal question off the play, and of life. Something can be right, but also bad, someone can be nice but not good, someone can be good but not right. Is there any time that the three can truly be said to intersect? Is it possible to be good AND nice AND right? I say absolutely not. So we all pick and choose what suits us, or develop our own moral codes and that is why we humans can never seem to really see eye-to-eye.
her character is basically the voice of reason throughout the story
Maybe Jack should be fighting the giant if she wants him or give himself up to save everyone
Meryl Streep slayed the witch and honestly she slays all her performances. She's my favourite actress she's my inspiration.
Meryl for president 2020
Yes
YES
Its biden
@@emeses1278 LMAO
I remember 8 year old me was so impressed by this in theaters. Literally everything in that movie went over my head except how iconic Meryl streep was in this.
I love how unapologetic Meryl Streep is. The acting and sheer, bitter emotion in this was phenomenal. I'm no theatre buff, but the other versions I watched felt too reserved (except Vanessa, who ripped off that wig like a boss).
This song is very interesting as it justifies the witch misanthropy. She's the designated villain for all of this, the one that is considered the "bad one" even though they all made careless, selfish actions. The witch really gets something right by making them understand that being nice won't make them good and it ties so well into the general message of anti-manichaeism moral of the musical.
At the end of the day, she was just a parent who wanted to protect her child and is no worse than the Baker, his wife, Cinderella or Jack et cetera.
"Here, you want a bean?
Have another bean
Beans were made for making you rich!
Plant them and they soar
Here, you want some more?" -the witch 2015 XD
Listen to the roar,
giants on the soar,
oh well you can blame another witch!
XD my favorite part
It's giants by the _score_ so basically twenty giants.
Alison O'Connor Ooohhhh...thanks!
"...like his son WILL be too..." I love how casually the Witch predicts the future while singing. This musical has so many details, its amazingly good.
After all Meryl Streep did won an MTV award for best villain
Luv it
cathy thea2003 Meryl Streep was nominated before for that same award for the devil wear prada and lost it..
It´s also the very first witch she plays, mostrly she plays bitches.
When she turned 30 she was offered 3 witches in 1 year, she turned down because she thinks that role demonaises a woman and also she thougt; turning 30 and 3 witches offered in the same year ¿? .
So it ´s the first one for Meryl. I trully honor her integrity to do the part and hope she will do more.
Yep and luv her
Soo much
cathy thea2003 She bit
Meryl really said, let me show you how to get an Oscar nomination in two minutes. 0:05-0:58 is my favorite part. She just nails that feeling of being so fed up with people who also outnumber you and thus override your position on a matter. The fairy tale group project from hell.
I love how Meryl says "I'm leaving you alone" while thunder strikes and that expression when she does that 👌 spot on great acting
“I’m not good, I’m not nice, I’m just right” - Every mom ever
I'm not a particular fan of the rest of the movie, but this song and specifically the opening 26 seconds are fantastic. "You're not good, you're not bad, you're just nice" is the best description for modern culture that there is. And it's a perfect insult for anyone you know who lacks a spine. *chef's kiss*
Meryl Streep has really stepped it up from Mama Mia over the years.
so true, i reckon she did way better in this than mama mia
Heh, she's done a whole lot more movies than Mama Mia.
Holly Evans YESHHH MAMMA MIA
Yeah something tells me she heard her singing in Mama Mia and said "Alright, let's fix this", went and got lessons then signed up for one of the hardest musicals she could find just to show everyone that she really can do anything.
I think the director was very lax about the singing (and the dancing) for that movie musical. I mean, Sondheim and ABBA are two different monsters but you'd think directors would take the singing part of the job seriously. Meryl can sing, she was trained in opera when she was a teen. You could see it in flashes in Silkwood, Ironweed, and Postcards from the Edge. A Prairie Home Companion too.
This woman's voice is the definition of flawless.
2:05 Anyone else hear: Meryl where are the beans?
HOLY F**K. I NEVER HEARD THAT BEFORE! Ok, it probably is not "Meryl" but someone or something definitely says something about beans and that is incredible. Is it supposed to be the Witch? Her mother? The Mysterious Man who was left out of the film version? I want answers!! Excellent catch, my friend. Thank you for sharing.
Tomas Mucala I heard what _kinda_ sounded like the late echo of “have another bean”
@@alecLogan I think it's the witches mother saying"where are my beans?"
She has a amazing voice and till 00:32 it kind a reminds me of when you fighting with someone and trying to show your right
At the end does the singing just get so intense she dies?
she threw away the beans so that she could leave and go back to her ugly self and relive here life but instead her mother killed her
Isobel Keirs It's either that her mother killed her or that she actually ended up killing herself. It's a topic that's been up for debate since the original Broadway production - it's up to your interpretation which one you go with! X
I believe that she wanted her mother to make her older again but because of how many beans she lost she died. I don't believe that she or her mother tried to kill her.
She doesn't die if you listened to the revival version it says that she's turning back into the old ugly witch regaining her powers and disappears
Her mother punishes her because she loses the beans
Maturing is realizing that the witch is the best character.
Meryl streep is just so. Powerful.
Agree
Ah Meryl Streep, you and your bewitching good looks!
I love when she goes, "Im the hitch, i'm what no one believes, im the witch!". The music is great there.
I'm not really into musicals, but she's just amazing....she makes everything amazing and makes everyone else look less than mediocre. I'm not fascinated by celebs but I'd be seriously starstruck if I ever met her.
Meryl Streep knows how to play a beloved Broadway character without being too over the top and she gave it so much depth and emotion. A truly a great actress.
Meryl Streep is there anything she can't do? AMAZING!!
R u an actress
That furious “Last CURSE” hits differently then if she had been purely singing. Meryl gives the perfect mix of singing and “talking”. Both overflowing with anger, frustration and just bitter resentment at everyone
My whole theater applauded after this.
0:26 this part just gave me chills
Just gonna throw my two cents in, I honestly love this version better than any other. I think Meryl's interpretation nails the meaning of "The Last Midnight": it is about the witch, a character who has always been a scapegoat for people to blame their shortcomings on, being fed up about being blamed for everyone's errors and bad choices. People believe they can get what they wish at any cost and blame the consequences of their actions on outside agents or forces, the titular Witch from every fairytale. When you think of it, she was peacefully living her life when some guy barged in her garden and stole her greens, and in a matter of minutes her whole life changed with her having no control on the situation. True, it was her decision to take away Rapunzel as payment and curse the baker's family, but the baker's father's choices were his own. Just before this, she's trying to do what she believes is best for everyone, sacrificing Jack's life for everyone else's. We know they will defeat the giant in the end, but she doesn't. And when everyone starts blaming their mistakes on someone else's choices and ultimately identify her as the villain yet again, she's had enough of playing that role trying to do what's right. She realizes that humanity will never change and that the best thing to do is just to leave them to the fate they have chosen.
1:30 lol that background music makes me think meryl is dancing to jazz
Meryl using less than 1% of her power
Why the hell didn't Meryl Streep win an Oscar for this???? She is outstanding, her acting truly shows her pinnacle as an amazing actress, and while being 65 yet managing to handle this scene like a 20 year old. She deserved the Oscar for this so much and so many of her other roles such as doubt, Julie and Julia and Florence foster Jenkins. I think someone must have cheated not to have Meryl win the oscars...
Into the woods is my favorite movie
Same here! =D I listen to the music every day!
Finally! I thought I was alone.
Scott Stephen You Are Not Alone. =D
No one is alone ;)
I was never alone when I went to go see it.
1:53 I don’t know why this gives me chills
I like this rendition of the “alright mother” line a lot more than the original version, it’s a lot more dramatic
She looks nice for 70 years old just love her
Between this and mamma Mia. It just proves that Meryl is awesome
YuhItzRubydoobie Can't. Agree. MOOORE!
What I love is how she’s going into this full on singing sensation, with the wind and light and e v e r y t h i n g , and everyone else is rushing around, trying to grab all da beans before she curses them again
Meryl Streep is just Legend!
If another person played the witch the film would not have been this good, only Meryl can play this role.
"Beans were made for making you bitch"? 1:00
lmao
Lamo it's rich not bitch😂😂
lol
Devil_Heal making you rich
Devil_Heal I heard bitch too
Deviled 😂
This is my favorite version of this song
She’s so powerful sexy flawless amazing groundbreaking showstopping gorgeous unbelievable legendary
As a massive Sondheim/Bernadette fan, I was so worried about this movie, but fuck, leave it to Meryl to knock it out the damn park
Callum I know right! love that damn women
Meryl Streep deserves all the good things in the world... A true ARTIST!
Of all the characters in Into the Woods, I hated saying goodbye to the witch, but awesome song to leave us with.
"Screw you guys, I'm going home!"
Meryl was the best damn part of this movie. Period.
It's even more emotional and understanding why she loses it in the original Broadway production as raunzel is actually killed by the female giant.
THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER!!
She can do no wrong in my eyes. Absolutely fabulous, this woman. I love the original theater musical, and Mamma Mia was my childhood, so the marriage of both those with the outstanding embodiment of Meryl Streep is my wet dream.
0:20 i love this part
I watch this on a daily basis to recharge my soul meryl streep is a legend and can literally do anything
Meryl improved this video milestones
still a phenomenal performance to watch years later!!
Why didn't she win an oscar this year? Srsly academy?
I don't know... =(
This song alone should have one her the Oscar!
As much as I love Bernadette Peters' version, I have to say that Meryl Streep also did an amazing job!
She said: I’m waaaay tooooo fucking tired, aways painted as the villain 🦹🏿♀️ but to end this forever, I’m going to leaving you alone
Meryl Streep !!! I need to see this movie!
I love mamma mia!
FREAKING QUEEN! Meryl why u have to be so good?