I have a far bigger problem with Perchik calling the rich criminals and having a personal claim on their wealth (probably by stealing it). Communism is an insidious Evil. Perchik's hatred of the wealthy is far more insidious and evil than the sexism of the Rabbi's son. The Rabbi's son's sexism is an annoyance. Perchik's statement about stealing wealth from rich people is unadulterated evil. And what makes it worse, the Perchiks of Russia had their way for 70 years.
@@thelegom7116 My G-d, I am not a Christian, but I am sure that Jesus encouraged loving acts of charity and good will to the poor from the free will of the giver! I highly doubt that he encouraged wholesale robbery on a national scale and then beating up Capitalists and throwing them into vats of acid if they did not comply.
Every ounce of this movie is dripping with charisma. Topol is obviously a treasure, but really the entire cast is so fantastic. Barry Dennen as the constantly-correcting-Mendel is such a perfect foil for Topol's charming, folky, and easily aggravated charisma. Michael Glaser's earnest idealism in the future of a socialist revolution really sets the stage for this time and place and collision of worlds old and new in just 3 characters. In just these 3, we have a microcosm of the themes of the film, Perchik is the new, Mendel is the old, and Tevye is the folks caught in the middle, just trying to live.
Isn't it funny that the scene ends with Tevye being annoyed by the man his daughter wanted to marry and getting along with the man she ended up marrying?
@@davidanderson6055 both are still traditional by faith, it's just by way of thought. This represented more of Hodel's desire for a rich man over her love for a poor man.
This is one of my absolute favourite scenes of the film. Every interaction says so much about these characters, and it leads to simple yet effective comedy.
So sad to report that Alfie Scopp, seen here playing the newspaper-bearing Avram, has recently passed away. He was an English-born Canadian actor who worked mostly in television series, including as a voice actor.
I love the interactions in this scene, because Perchik is meant to represent new ideas while Mendel (the rabbi's son) represents tradition. In Matchmaker, Hodel sings "For Papa, make him a scholar", which is something both men are. She's stated to have interest in Mendel also, and in my opinion that interest isn't entirely one-sided, given how Mendel hangs around Tevye even after he's gotten his milk and the other men have left. He'd have more choice about his marriage as the rabbi's son, and at Tzeitel and Motel's wedding, he's shocked by the idea of Hodel breaking tradition to dance with Perchik. Tevye, however, tells him to go away and offers to let Perchik stay with them for the summer, effectively sealing Hodel's fate by introducing her to the man she'll end up marrying.
Sholem Aleichem witnessed the 1905 pogrom in Kyiv and emigrated to the USA. He then wrote stories about Tevye the dairyman. "Fiddler on the Roof' is based on those of his stories that anticipate a pogrom.
Maybe I can move there. My grandmother her father's father, came from county mayo, Ireland. My father side of family my grandmother his mom. Taught my dad galic some Irish words ancient Irish words.
So funny how he says shit, and says the good book says it! And someone calls him on it and he says that the good book must say something about a chicken! Hilarious!
I LOVE this scene! It's so funny! So many wonderful actors, truly superb casting. When the men curse the czar and spit (hilarious!), Tevye trying to protect his wares each time they spit lol, Tevye's 'saying's (probably half-made up) just a great scene. I also enjoy watching Mendel the know-it-all Rabbi's son (the one that Tzeitl mentions Hodel wants to marry in the "Matchmaker" scene. Hodel wanted to marry Mendel at first but that was before she met Perchik. He is played by the marvelous Barry Dennen who also played Pontius Pilate in the film version of "Jesus Christ Superstar". Dennen had a relationship with Barbra Streisand (he was her first love) and wrote a book about it "My Life With Barbra: A Love Story".
OH MY GOD you're right about Barry Dennen!!!!! OMG, this makes my night, that he's also in Jesus Christ Superstar!! Both of these movies are woven into the very fiber of my being and I didn't even realize they share an actor. I, too, love this scene. There's so many tiny details that are so funny and wonderfully character based. The guy who keeps automatically complimenting himself with "Well said!," the hubris of young Perchik, the way Mendel keeps hanging around territorially like a little bit of a pest. Also, as time has gone by, there's so little difference between this scene, and the steampunk scene in, say, Portland. Everything old is new again. ;)
Every time I watch this movie I realize how little jewish culture has changed in the last century, I heard conversations like this at my parents synagogue every week when I was a child
I'm Just Out For a Stroll Sound of Music's got some good tunes but the historical and sociocultural aspects are secondary to the main plot. Fiddler is a time capsule from beginning to end. Fiddler is a masterpiece... And the film -- the casting, directing, interpretation -- is far superior to the original play.
Nathaniel Johnson I have a theory that no one over 5 actually really likes Frozen, but that Disney has done such a superb job marketing and re-marketing that those efforts, combined with that one great song, has convinced the general population that it's good, when it's kinda shit.
I remember seeing this in the theater, and thinking Perchik was the cutest thing in the world. Then the next year there he was in “Butterflies Are Free”. Little did I know a couple of years later he was going to be David Starsky, and he rocked my world each week!😍
I think every Jew that has seen this movie can search in our soul the necessity for togetherness we all have in common for the values of the Torah. With the Torah we are one people without her we are destined for suffering and unhappiness.
And only one daughter married a Christian and left with all the others at the end. Her Christian husband says he will not stay where his wife’s people are not welcome.
@@MrCool-qi7cy Roman Catholics are Christians - I must know, afterall I am one. Just like Sunni and Shiites are both muslim faiths. Protestants, Orthodox - all Christians. Just like not all Jews believe the exact same interpretation of the Torah and their exact faith varies slightly depending on region & tradition
Perchik seems to have a very undeveloped backstory. Why would a radical student from from a big town like Kiev just show up at a nowhere like Anatevka?
Maybe the book explains it. But it was commonplace in Europe for Jewish students to go to yeshivas or universities far from their villages and be offered a bed & food my Jewish families near the schools they attended. Even Einstein experienced this practice in his own home when he was young.
@@IAmTheUltimateRuler I was thinking the same thing. I noticed that Tevye, who sang "if I were a rich man" agreed with the student that he would like to be rich. But he only wants the rich man's money of the rich are willing to give it. The student doesn't say anything, but implies he's willing to take it by force.
Definitely! Though it is a little odd seeing him with brown eyes. Looks fine, just unexpected. He was 27 here. Both he and the director thought he was too old for the part, but he ended up getting anyhow. He does a good job of playing younger than he is for this role.
Gregory Markashak. He isn’t a Christian. He sings ‘is there a canopy in store for me to Tevye’s middle daughter at the wedding. And he is shocked when he finds our Tevye has FIVE daughters (no son). He is just educated. But that doesn’t make him not Jewish
He was 100% Jewish. He was there to show what the beginning of communism looked like. He was educated and studied in the University in Kiev and was introduced to a whole different way of life that they did not know about.
Perchik is Jewish. He's just not as religious as the Jews in Anatevka. He keeps his head covered (granted not every Jew covers their head nowadays), teaches the Old Testament and not the New Testament, he took part in the Sabbath and thinking of getting married in the Jewish traditions because Jews marry under a canopy and not at an altar Also, because Perchik has lived outside Anatevka and in the world, he's more educated then the people Anatevka and understands the world better then they do and that's why he's telling them they need to know what's going on in the outside world. Perchik knew that sooner or later, the troubles of the outside world would eventually come for all of them and this was proven by the end of the story. Because no one wanted to be informed about that, there wasn't anything they could do about it and they all had to leave
My DNA test told me that I am 4% Jewish. Not much. And yet all of my life their music, the humor, the dances, all of that culture resonates with me so strongly. Perhaps it has a universal appeal. Or perhaps it is simply that underneath the skin we are all the same.
I have yet to see this movie in its entirety. Paul Michael Glaser is Perchik here and then later (about 10 years ago) did a FOTR tour of the UK playing Tevye. Apparently, he did very well.
Perchik: _It's the rich who are criminals...some day, their wealth will be ours_ Tevye: _(Hey!)...if _*_THEY_*_ would agree, _*_I_*_ would agree!_ ...so funny LOL
I just hope Perchik and Hodel survived the revolution and all that came after it. Not everyone, even true believers like Perchik, did. Their children might then have joined the matchmaker.
Lenin killed a whole lot of the radicals first so uhhhhh probably not Also, the prison Perchik was sent to was in Siberia, a location that even today is a two day trip by train and is far away from anything close to civilization. If Lenin didn't do him in, the brutal winter might have.
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