The Seagull - 1975 - Anton Čechov - John J. Desmond - Blythe Danner - Frank Langella
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- A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin (Frank Langella), an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
Definitely watching this instead of reading the play for summer reading
+Sugar Clover REEEEEEEEEEE
To get the summary of the plot - maybe. But this film doesn't have the Chekhov's soul. There is a version by Warner's Brothers, not as good as the Russian one, but much better than this one.
How sad! Is way better
The young and beautiful Frank Langella has never been topped by any actor. God gave him a gift to be shared.
I feel like I am eating up my own life for the honey that I give away.
You're the last chapter of my life , if you leave me , I'll be out of my mind.
Cast and the acting make your eyes glued and heart enraptured till the end.
I love every actor in this production. Blythe and Frank. You could not find another them anywhere.
I've never seen a greatest Nina. Blythe Danner IS Nina. Gosh, she's incredible!
Have seen her before she looked familiar but was shocked she was such a great THEATER actress??!!!
My first exposure to Chekov. Saw it when it originally aired in 1975 and loved it. Boy, have the actors in this cast aged like the rest of us! Watched it again this evening (THANKS FOR POSTING) and it still holds up quite well. Especially Blythe Danner, Lee Grant and Frank Langella. Some of the supporting performances not as much, but still very compelling and thought provoking. Enjoyed comparing it to the recent film with Annette Bening and Elizabeth Moss, which is also quite well done.
Rest in peace, Mr. Hal Holbrook. Thank you for the lovely intro. You will be missed dearly!
Thanks for this! Blythe Danner is the definitive Nina.
+irenebullock1021 Agreed. She is simply superb! I saw this when it originally aired on PBS in 1975. I was 19. Last year I purchased the DVD and watched it again. The passing of time has only increased my appreciation of this production. All the actors play their roles very well. Miss Danner, Mr. Langella and the amazing Miss Lee Grant each give performances of immense depth. It is, however, Miss Danner who remains the stand out. In particular the way she delivers the line, "I am a seagull.". Acting is an art and it doesn't get any better this.
LMFAO!
I just love these intellectuals who understand this fancy intellectual stuff!
Juicy thinking stuff!
I don't understand it but I love it!
Or I love some people's enthusiasm of this stuff.
she's unbelievable. and so beautiful!
She is not. Russian women of Chekhov's time, even aspiring actresses didn't talk like that.
Thank you for uploading this. I remember watching it on PBS forty years ago (!), it was a great pleasure seeing it again.
Thanks so much for uploading this!
I don’t know the accuracy of this interpretation, but watching this after reading the play did help me to visualize and digest it
I am russian guy, was seraching for a perfetct represantation of the final scene between Nina and Treplev, watched MANY russian movies and they not even close to this one. SO true to life scene here
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I am surprised you write that, there is nothing remotely Russian or true to Chekhov about this film. Actors were acting and overacting, unnaturally.
@@fondationekomeli238 Maybe, you are right. When I was searching it, I was trying to find idea behind the scene, because I wanted understand the idead behinds characters motivation maybe the actors are overplaying, but I clearly what exactly they think about in a lot of moments.
@@TheJohnyFreeman If you are Russian . Please i want to talk to you about The Seagull.
Very helpful for an essay for class, thank you!
Tqsmuch it's help lots for me to easily understand the play .
This is extremely beautiful. So nice to see these actors on the stage rather than in film.
Ummmmmmmm... what stage? This is film lol
@@classica1fungus he preferred them to be on the stage not in a film.
2022 July 2, I am still reading Anton Chekov short stories...
He read internal spirits of human from different social class and present in fewest words - a short story master...
This was excellent! thanx a lot!
great film to watch & entertain ......
This is the best version on CZcams. I still remember it.
I just loved this play. Apparently checkov wrote to take the piss, as s joke, but I found it so real.
I like this very much
I remember this series King Lear James Earl Jones, beautiful young Blyth Danner in the Seagull, late 30s Irene Atkins in The Lady's Not for Burning. Entertaining serious theatre.
paxwallacejazz Thank u. I will search for it and watch
I love this TV play of the seagull it's the only thing I've seen it performed in
Unrequited love!
this was extraordinary
Watch the Russian version. It's the best. This doesn't convey the atmosphere of Chekhov's Russia. Acting was forced, theatrical, unnatural.
@@fondationekomeli238 Which russian version?
Excellent interpretation of Chekhov's play! Some scenes even better than what we seen in the best performances in Russian leading theaters and cinema-versions.
Totally disagree.
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Is The Seagull Chekhovs greatest play: GREAT performances by all but knew Nina looked familar found out her name from the end credits was shocked Blythe Danner such a magnicent STAGE actress??!!!
I found a copy recorded off of KCET, back when they had BBC-style clocks during intermissions and also The Dick Cavett Show on PBS.
So it’s not Russian, it’s different and good for it’s manner . Thank you for sharing this here :)!
The Seagull showing in London Harold Pinter on June 2022
Definitive and indelible.
Frank Langella has so much charisma, even when he's playing this nervous anxious mess.
Good play, I saw it in a manga called Kasane
Frank Langella throws away so many beautiful lines
Terrible acting. Kostya was not a psychopath, neither did he have such a physique. Nothing saying Chekhov's Russia about his acting. He acted like a maniac.
Nina rises in the triangle of Chekhov's idea, real Russian life, & the concept of the director of this play.
Gwyneth Paltrow looks like his mother Blythe Danner at the same age, same face, same expressions! (47")
Supposed to be doing a monologue from this and I understand nothing so I’m gonna try watching it. Kinda surprised I found it.
Mrs. Blythe Danner I am in love with you.../
I'm afraid the casting is wrong here. For example, Nina is supposed to be a 18-19 year old girl. Blythe Danner was 32 at the time and she just can't convince me. Masha is also a similar age as Nina, maybe a year or two older, but she's played by an older woman.
I also never get to see the actors' faces clearly. They all move around too much.
Beautiful play, perhaps the best play of Chekhov, I wonder if Seagull was written in form of a short story, it would have been a far better creation because I believe Chekhov was a far better short story writer than a playwright. I believe 1978 BBC Play of the month is a far better version/performance than this attempt.
Could anyone please give this text written in english ?
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Does anyone know the actress at the time frame of 0:27 ?
+Francis Blair That's Faye Dunaway
+Ellen Grana Thank you, so much.
Francis Blair "
Faye Dunnaway
Apologizes to Checkov, but all these people are nuts.
Of course they're all nuts, so are we, all!!! Not a fault of Chekhov, in any way.
Which script adaptation is this?
It is a translation by Stark Young that was written around the 30’s-40’s.
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Why does Dukakis have a Bronx accent?
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Kevin McCarthy was 61 when he did this and he was suppose to be playing someone in their thirties ?
Casting would be at fault. With Mr. Langella, at age 37, as Konstantin his mother would be in her mid-50s. It would not be amiss for McCarthy to play Trigorin at 61.
Hes too old what women is head over heels in love with a 61 year old man ???"?
NOT at all qualified to say. Still, this is late 19th century Russia and Nina, a lifetime resident of the countryside - not a city sophisticate - becomes infatuated with a mature man whom she regards a person of great intellect and accomplishment and actually tells him so despite his objections.
This might help: "What do young women see in much older men?" Neil Lyndon (67) tries to fathom the appeal of the older man.
www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/10980731/What-do-young-women-see-in-much-older-men.html
www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/10980731/What-do-young-women-see-in-much-older-men.html
Such profanities, Maximilien.
FYI - profanity is a subset of a language's lexicon that is generally considered to be strongly impolite, rude or offensive. It can show a debasement of someone or something, or show intense emotion. Linguistically, profanity takes the form of words or verbal expressions that fall into the category of formulaic language.
ADDENDUM: Beware Apraxia of Speech. Individuals with AOS have difficulty connecting speech messages from the brain to the mouth.
+Robespierre1758X - Suggest that you start by taking some remedial English:
www.wikihow.com/Use-There,-Their-and-They%27re
as well as posts that involve the possessive and contractions, as here:
www.yourvsyoure.com/
Regarding your confusion on the initial issue of age difference, follow that with:
Neil Lyndon (67) tries to fathom the appeal of the older man.
www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/10980731/What-do-young-women-see-in-much-older-men.html
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Treplev is not Hamlet, that’s the problem in this one version, he is not a hysterical sociopath too , for Russian this character is far away from this version at all:))))
try to watch the "Ultimate" Seagull With Alla Demidova
many companies have played it AS a "generation fight" stuff, many AS "art concepts" fight. but. it's NOT about "any fight" apart all humane have with themselves. it's about human highs and lows, searches and callings for a higher meaning. in the contrary to Tolstoy, completely outside any spiritual space. just people!!!
Ludmila, TOTALLY agree! The version with Demidova, Yakovlev, Djigarkhanyan, Kopelyan is so, so much better. I feel Chekhov in that version, and I don't feel Chekhov or Russia in this one.
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It looks like soap opera... I thought this was a classic.
Chekhov played like daytime tv soap opera. Chekhov calls this play a comedy. This is cream cheese when it should be roe.
Exactly, Masha gets called "Marsha," at around 7.00; says it all.
The Russian look and appearances being towed along by such American stylized voices, acting skills, and accents totally destroy the deeper spirit of this particular production. These actors should've just "Americanized" the play and made it contemporary to America and it would've made so much more sense for their acting skills and attitudes put forth in this production. This is a fine troupe of actors working with what they were given...the produces horribly failed in their effort to really display the great play.
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honestly, it brothers less than overplaying all the normal feelings. Chekhov is ALL about normal human feelings
i guess one of the problems might be that the Shakespearian GREAT tradition does NOT Always go Well With Chekhov;-)
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Unfortunately the sphere is missing :/ And of cause it didn’t help it taking the play partly in natural environment, alas .
The ability to tell yo text by heart, making face or grimacing is not enough to create the real atmosphere of any Chekhov’s play
Only the actress who’s playing Arkadina is not so bad to me.
My neo-vagina smells like shit. I never should have let them use the colon and just the facia. I didn’t do it the natural way and now my boyfriend calls me “two shitters.” 😢
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Americans can't do this play.
How come?
Gross stupidity.
I'd say the notion that an entire nation doesn't have the capacity to do Chekhov is the grosser stupidity.
There's a lot of things Americans can't do.
Richard Hewlett You keep saying that, yet won't explain why.
The Russian soul is missing...
EXACTLY. The Chekhov's soul is missing too. Acting is all wrong. Actors are also wrong for the roles.
@@fondationekomeli238 Precisely
just terrible to listen to chekovs words in that ghastly pronunciation of english.
I am sorry to have put dislike, but there is nothing saying Chekhov or Russia about this. Almost all actors are wrong for their roles, esp. the ones playing Constantin, Nina and Marsha's mom. Masha is supposed to be much younger than the actress who plays the role. Irina Arkadina here is too vulgar. The emotions are so wrong, again esp. those of Kostya and Nina. Really, the filmmakers should sometimes watch the old Soviet era movies based on Chekhov's plays to get the feeling of the era when Chekhov's was writing. Music is wrong - it sounds Central European, not Russian, besides that's not what aristocracy was playing in Chekhov's time.
Pompous second-rate writers and hysterical women -- what a bunch of jerks. I'm laughing all the way through this play.
you literally saved my finals thanks. wish me luck🤌🏻
how did you go?
@@shortstackofpancakes i passed.
@@ayahxx3062 YAY CONGRATS!
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