KING LEAR Official Trailer (2018) Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Amazon Movie HD 

SO TRUE!!! So many people just *recite* Shakespeare, which is why I think it can be hard for some audiences to grasp, but he knows how to make it feel so natural and easily understood.

Probably the only actor who can do that and still make it believable.

majooismajor Totally. What I'm suggesting is that he actually has a greater knack for communicating the dialogue than most classically trained actors. Perhaps not head and shoulders above a couple of the most successful actors of all time like you mentioned, but even amongst his peers, I'd argue he makes it feel more natural. Although "natural" may not always be the goal of Shakespearean actors. Personally, however, I admire Anthony Hopkins' ability in this particular regard.

The only movie I never dared to watch with Anthony Hopkins was Silence of the Lambs.

Chris Copeland, yes, it's called "acting."

I never read King Lear. Was that being said to his daughter? That sounds cruel

Definitely a touch of Hannibal Lecter about that delivery - which I'm sure is why it's found its way into the trailer.

can someone translate to present day english, please.

@@miranx5735 It would've been better for you to have never been born than to have displeased me like you did.

@@miranx5735 "It would've been better for you to have never been born than to have displeased me like you did."

Emma

I love her too. She is really great. She is one of my favourites in the present day acting industry. I also love how naturally beautiful she is too. How she has the perfect look and figure also is not trying to look like everyone else. I am about to watch her in the new Black Widow. I've watched most of her films. She was absolutely phenomenal in Midsommar.

Amazon is too cheap to pay costume and set designers. This is a disgrace to a classic

@Edward Lee Miller Hamlet was a banger

@@DanefrakShakespeare is perfect for all manner of different settings! For instance, McKellen in the film of Richard III

Complaining about modernizing the setting makes no sense and honestly just shows that people don't understand Shakespeare's relevance. Shakespeare is timeless, it should not be restrained only to depictions in a historic setting, particularly as it is fiction, he himself writes his works with no concern for historical accuracy of the times he depicts and not even when the plays were enacted in his times they were "accurate", there wasn't a historical costumes deparment and men played the roles of women, so you can't even say they were concerned with casting actors accuratelly. Shakespeare is not trying to do historical documentaries, he is writing about the human condition, passions, feelings and all of that, which continues the same to this day. Showing his works in contemporary settings only enhance this and shows how his work is still relevant and still speaks to our lives today.

@@MateusVIIIwell said

Oh that the lord had not fixed his cannons 'gainst self pleasure!

Well, I'm certainly not an English teacher by any stretch of the imagination but, pip pip, ole boy, pass the lube and tissues I say.

@@DCI-Frank-Burnsideand protrudes a mighty load of insurrections gainst himself with every isolation. They speak through walls of stone, spearing far away their assault. And yet, he goes on, brandishing his weapon well, one that holds the power to slay a thousand fare with its glean

Hahaha yeahh man

😂😂😂😂

It's because he reads the script 250 times and it becomes his second nature, it's incredibly powerful the way he becomes his role.

That's Sir Anthony Hopkins to us! ;-)

And lost me at Shakepsear.

You had me at Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson

Ditto.

They lost me at "Amazon" I don't support pieces of shit like them.

Wolfman7870 You won't, cause it's an online movie

Kinda wish I had tweed but it never gets that cold where I live

@johnperry91 It's not a Prime Original like the trailer suggests. This was fan made - it was aired in May 2018 on BBC 2 in the UK.

I'm writing tomorrow

and yet he disliked doing Shakespeare immensely, due to the demands of undertaking the roles on stage - hence his Macbeth walk out from the National Theatre. Lucky for everyone that he did though, or we may have had to go without one of the greatest character actors ever to grace cinema.

Odin is Yelena's dad in the movie.

Omg that's a good catch, I saw Moriarty but totally missed the 9th Doctor!

Is this french?

Werecati, i like the cast too! Canțt wait watching it with boxxy software

It's incredible

It's annoying. There are certain things which just CAN'T be updated, so they come across as silly or downright stupid. When was the last time someone had their eyes put out in the Anglosphere anyway? What a waste of great talent!

You just learn to ignore it. What is it about slight incongruities that makes people so angry? This is a myth, you can't fixate on minutiae.

@@chazbrennan9632 Because it's something that tries to be creative but is ultimately a pointless and dumb exercise. It's one thing to put something in a different time and place with ESSENTIALLY the same story, but not 100% the same. My understanding is that that's what the highly-regarded Japanese "versions" of Macbeth and Lear are (off the top of my head, this is what they also did with Scrooged in the mid-80's). Would we take a modern script and place it in ancient Rome or Stonehenge? Probably not, but that's essentially what these people are doing. Just imagine, we could take, say, Star Wars and place it in ancient Egypt, but instead of flying fighters, we could have them in chariots, and the Death Star can be the Great Pyramid, and the droids can be ancient Egyptian gods, but we'll keep referring to everything as though they're flying around and they're computerized. That would be sooo cooool.

This is true, but they might do it save a shitload of money on costume design, props and sets. Cant imagine how expensive it would be to make that many shakespearesn era costumes

@@lm.2275 Agreed

I became a fan of Shakespeare on my own once I decided to give his work another chance as an adult. I did not like being forced to read it.

It did I think.

He was born to play Titus Andronicus, this is just an added plus.

@@aveuch This is just an expansion of that role, and it's a vastly superior play, so you might say that Tutus was a warm-up for Lear.

Nope, the role he was born to play is and always will be Hannibal. Actually, every role Anthony has ever played, he becomes is. What a great actor!

Indeed. One of the best films of all-time.

Rob Bridges, Ran is great, but Peter Brook's 1971 film is hard to top. Most people haven't seen it because it's been tied up in legal limbo for years.

agree

I agree.

Remember he also did a contemporary version of titus

YES CAPITAL LETTERS

Ahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah that’s so funny and original man. I can say with confidence that no one has EVER made a comment even slightly like this one on any video starring an actor know for a role in a comic book movie. Keep up the good work buddy.

thank you my friend...

Actually, the plot of Thor 1 follows the subplot with Gloucester and his sons pretty closely!

Right and it’s not a superhero movie lol