Meryl Streep - Last Midnight (From “Into the Woods”) 

"i'm not good, i'm not nice, i'm just right!"

There was actually no special effects, it's just Meryl

So basically this whole song summarizes her saying "FUCK DIS SHIT IM OUT"

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."*

Meryl's back must've hurt so bad after carrying this movie.

The costume designers heard there was gonna be wind and went "HELL YES"

She still looks fab with all that wind blowing all around her.

I just love that meryl just causally pulls beans out off her bra

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.

There's a reason Meryl Streep's performance in this movie got her nominated for an Oscar. This song proves that.

The gesture when she says "I'm the witch" is golden.

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.

honestly, Meryl Streep killed it, I love the transition from 'your fault' to last midnight

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.

“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

She's a very smart witch

Blue tones in winter. Groundbreaking.

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

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.

If we ever get a Tangled live action Meryl must play Gothel

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.

This is one of my FAVORITE songs from Into the Woods!!!! Meryl did a great job in this performance!!!!!!

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.

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)

I can't believe Meryl Streep is 65 YEARS OLD!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Meryl Streep slayed the witch and honestly she slays all her performances. She's my favourite actress she's my inspiration.

"I'M MELTING! MELTING! OH WHAT A WORLD!"

I'm so obsessed with how she says, "You're not good- you're not bad; you're just nice." Lol 😂

Meryl for president 2020

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 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 👌

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.

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?

do you guys realize her last curse is to vanish yo leave us alone in this world without magic

I can't believe people hated this movie. I guess it was too real for them. All actions have consequences.

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.

I love how Meryl says "I'm leaving you alone" while thunder strikes and that expression when she does that 👌 spot on great acting

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!"

After all Meryl Streep did won an MTV award for best villain

Meryl streep is just so. Powerful.

"...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.

This woman's voice is the definition of flawless.

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.

Into the woods is my favorite movie

My whole theater applauded after 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).

“I’m not good, I’m not nice, I’m just right” - Every mom ever

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

2:05 Anyone else hear: Meryl where are the beans?

Maturing is realizing that the witch is the best character.

Ah Meryl Streep, you and your bewitching good looks!

At the end does the singing just get so intense she dies?

Meryl Streep has really stepped it up from Mama Mia over the years.

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.

Meryl Streep is there anything she can't do? AMAZING!!

THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER!!

Meryl Streep is just Legend!

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.

0:26 this part just gave me chills

This is my favorite version of this song

"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

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 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*

She looks nice for 70 years old just love her

still a phenomenal performance to watch years later!!

Such a powerful vibrato

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.

1:53 I don’t know why this gives me chills

"Beans were made for making you bitch"? 1:00 lmao

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.

0:20 i love this part

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.

Between this and mamma Mia. It just proves that Meryl is awesome

1:30 lol that background music makes me think meryl is dancing to jazz

Meryl Streep !!! I need to see this movie! I love mamma mia!

SHE KILLED IT!

The theatrics and hand gestures, just great.

FREAKING QUEEN! Meryl why u have to be so good?

this song is so UGHHH IT GIVES ME LIFE

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...

Omg Meryl Streep is so cool

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

I like this rendition of the “alright mother” line a lot more than the original version, it’s a lot more dramatic

She’s so powerful sexy flawless amazing groundbreaking showstopping gorgeous unbelievable legendary

She is absolutely stunning.

Meryl Streep deserves all the good things in the world... A true ARTIST!

i’m in love with meryl streep

this one of those legendary films

Why didn't she win an oscar this year? Srsly academy?

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.

LOVE YOU MERYL

i can’t believe this movie came out in 2014. crazy how much time flies. love this song!

I love her hair