Lucky had no wisdom to offer, there isn't a hint of any wisdom in one nano second of this film. Complete garbage sold as "intellectual", which is fine as long as intellectual means worthless and absurd.
Lucky’s name is most appropriate because unlike the others, he knows his place in the world. All his needs are met. How many of us should be so fortunate.
This for me is the definitive production of Waiting for Godot. I have lost count of the times I have watched it. I finally get 'Godot' at least in my own mind. I view Godot the same as Clive Barkers Hellraiser, sounds strange but the people in Hellraiser are trapped in their own personal Hell. A Hell where nothing happens and nothing changes, they are doomed to live in their own personal sufferring on a Hamsters Wheel which just goes round and round and round, nothing changes, every day has the same outcome.
Best version I came across was the version read by Sean Barret and David Burke -audio book, with Sean also doing The Unnamable and Malone Dies - born to read it. I see what you mean though about getting attached to certain versions. Clive Barker is awesome too.
It's actually absurdist short. Existentialism is about making meaning from nothing and that they would have chosen to leave when they realize he's not coming. Absurdist philosophy is no meaning, and still persists to wait for Godot regardless of the results.
This is so great! First time I watched it was like 13 years ago. As I am older, I laughed so hard but with complete empathy! This is better than the Sir Patrick Stewart performance!! THANK YOU GUYS!!
It was this one I watched.. Back then the whole thing saddened me because of the representation of the human condition.. What makes me laugh now is.. Ive become Gogo.. 😆 🤣 😂 ❤ 🙏
I can't imagine having to sit through this piece of garbage more than once, feckless rubbish and a complete waste of almost 2 hours of breathing and listening to the utter stupidity and useless double-talk. You really shpuld find good intellectual reasoning like C.S. Lewis.
This film is about meaningless of a vain imaginations. Hope can be found in the person of CHRIST, far beyond the grasp of the proud intellectual. In Christ and in the New and Old testament the answers of all time for the human are four, they are: origin, meaning, morality, and destiny, ALL ANSWERED in the PERSON and WORK of Jesus of Nazareth, Messiah and KING of the JEWS... READ for yourself from the New Testament and answer life's greatest questions, I pray.....
@@kramsdrawde8159 Fascinating. I was just linked to this video from a discussion on the emptiness of Jesus' promise to return. 2,000 years and not a trace of the guy. But so many of our politicians make decisions based on the assumption that The World Will End. And so our culture acts like we don't want to stick around another thousand years, because I guess we don't? Still, it would be nice to live in a world without ideologies that require every other person on earth to submit to them.
Strangely, I find the play life affirming! I think it's the stoicism throughout the story and the constant humour in the face of absurdity. Beckett was also full of great lines about simply getting back up and going again when you fall or fail. I find that attitude to be rather inspiring to be honest.
I watched five minutes of it and couldn't understand the humour of the past at all. It makes me hopeful that the threatre of absurd today has progressed so far.
An apt play for our Facebook times. We log in waiting for something of real interest to be posted. It never happens but we log in the next day just the same. We could deactivate our accounts or entirely delete them. Maybe tomorrow we will.
The play is also apt for the type of society that many people are anticipating. By that I mean socialism/communism. The two main characters have given up everything to some nebulous authority figure or governmental structure that doesn't care about them, and in any case, may not wish to help these two or even be able to help. I am thinking of the former Soviet Union, in which people at times had so little that they would often join a line because there was a line, without knowing what they might receive when and if they reached the front. Sometimes they would wait in line for hours, and then receive nothing. Now, people in power want to bring that type of existence to all of us.
Beckett's classic play with an Irish flavour (albeit, with accents easily comprehendible to North American ears) . A wonderful combination of existential wonder and woe.
Did anyone notice Barry McGovern in Game of Thrones? Arya and The Hound meet him on their travels. He plays, yep, you guessed it, a man sitting out in the country, wounded and waiting for death. The Hound saves him from the pain he is suffering and gives him a merciful death. Since D and DB met studying at Trinity College Dublin, they no doubt saw this version of Godot.
Excellent production, although I’d love to see both the Leo McKern and Tim Roth ones again - they used to be up on RU-vid. But I really enjoyed this, thanks for posting.
Waiting for Godot was famously described by Irish critic Vivian Mercier as a play in which ‘nothing happens, twice’. I always saw the repetition in the first and second act as born from Beckett's own existentialist philosophy. Have a read of Camus's Myth of Sisyphus, the Titan is doomed to push that blasted rock up a hill in the underworld for all eternity, as we are all doomed to repeat the mundanity of life until we die.
I've been working on putting music to this play. I see Waiting for Godot as being a subtle piece, a meditation on the questions of existence. This is an open question. If the music is on point, subtle and doesn't mess with themes, is it possible to bring something to the table? ..any advice welcome..
@@salvadorkent8207 thanks man, yes sparse. I'm really unsure about it, I have my own interpretation but i know that this play needs a silence so I don't want to mess with that.
Beckett himself would have forbidden it. It's not in the stage directions. If you did put music to it, he'd very likely sue you and force you to put a disclaimer in the program to say that your production bore "no resemblance whatsoever" to his original play. (He did that on occasion.)
Beckett really hated Camus,lol.He has a nice ironic piece in The Unnamable for his "philosophy" " The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sport- ing God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits. I’ve swal-lowed three hooks and am still hungry. Hence the howls. What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips. Well I suppose one can’t have everything, so late in the proceedings." Also in Malone Dies has also something ironic about Camus more straight and made the priest a nice guy there,i am sure,having Camus in mind,lol. For Beckett is all about the "redempition" he doesn't care what keeps you to continue, hope,the stupid philosophy of Camus or whatever.Also objectively the concept of sisyphus mentality is stupid and pure ideology.Camus needed Marxism and psychology to not end in this stupid concept but denies both in his philosophical try.
@Chris Kavanagh I do remember this play I had a class at the community college college called U.S. History from 1865 till present and they made us watch this play. It was pretty interesting to watch.
Nope. In fact Beckett explicitly said it wasn't about god. It's an analogy for his own personal philosophy, existential nihilism. Most of his work was in fact.
@@dublintales6311 Well, mate, in order to be nihilistic you have to deny meaning, deny God, don't you? So whether he admitted it or not, I think that's what it's about, albeit in a negative way. I think once you realise that, the whole thing makes a lot more sense. 'If Godot comes, we'll be saved!' Besides, the whole thing is full of religious references. Seems like a case of denying the bleedin' orbvious. 'Nope' indeed! God, why is everybody on RU-vid so bloody chippy?
@@paddymeboy He is more of an expert on his work than I am or you are and he won the nobel prize so I'll quote him about the true meaning behind the play: "If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot."
This play put the meaningless existence on display, this question of meaning is one of the four greatest attached to the understanding of human experience: origin, meaning, morality and destiny none of which may be answered adequately in the nihilist, rationist or materialist world view. Only in the person and work of Jesus Christ may all of these questions be completely answered through study of the bible and the "...Fear of God is the begining of wisdom" and "The fool has said in his heart, there is no God..."
This isn’t a play it’s a homily. Mere philosophical babble, Elitist “synthetic” art masquerading as Drama. The playwright should abandon his title and adopt the moniker of “Preacher.” More fitting.
You hear about some books that are so amazing that you must read or see performed. I have now seen "Waiting for Godot" and I want my time back. Boring, not funny, and a major waste of time. I don't care if it was written by a Irishman. I would not recommend it to anyone.
I hope some of the critics of this time had labeled this "defecation", I agree with anyone that is a big pile of steamy, smelly,defecation. Why Beckett produced this ? He needed money, it shows, ,attempts at humor are lame, existentialism is futile, absurd & empty. Nothing to take from this rubbish, it's dialog being useless, in thought it comes up feckless & good-for-nothing, altogether meaningless fustian noise. This work would only identify for the depressed, suicidal or existentialist now known to be one of the most useless philosophies around, having a positive attitude and working to that end are far superior to the gloomy gus beckkett serves as drama.
do you believe that the the purpose of every piece of literature/drama is to take the moral high ground or dictate goodness? a key feature of modernist writing is the fact that existentialist thoughts were rampant, and therefore looming pessimism due to the impact of the world wars and whatnot. moreover, experimental styles of writing and the stream of consciousness began emerging too. your opinion is as valuable as anybody's, but without making any assumptions i think if you should give the play a fair chance, probably by understanding the context it was written in. i think it is an apt representation of life, surprisingly to this day. there's lot to take from it imo, to be called defecation is really a shame. cheers anyway :))
PERHAPS he made this play to see what complete brainless people would pay to see this garbage and waste of time ...He made it at a time he was very broke, and desperate...it shows.@@joenjeru5927
