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Ricky Gervais & Sir Ian McKellen Blooper From Extra's

Ricky Gervais & Sir Ian McKellen Blooper From Extra's! x...ricky gervais ian mckellen blooper outtake extra's funny lord of the rings

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Sir Ian McKellen talks on his role in The Lord of the Rings

, monkeys, films and immortality are subjects for debate in this great Parkinson interview....BBC BBCWorldwide Parkinson Lord of the Rings Ian McKellen Celebrity Interview

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Ian Mckellen supports Indignation 2007

Ian Mckellen voices his opinions on 377a and support for Indignation 2007...gay_pride ian_mckellen indignation singapore

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Ian Mckellen In 'Richard III'--"Now Is The Winter Of...

Shakespeare's 'Now is the winter of our discontent' soliloquy performed by Ian McKellen in his film version of 'Richard III' from 1995.
---tho with the long introduction in this modernized version, the soliloquy actually starts about 5 and a half minutes into this clip.


I really like the re-created 30s style jazz tune here, but for those who want just THE SPEECH, go here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5-SUDrHMU

Stacey Kent (born 1968 in New Jersey) is the fine jazz singer in this clip (and in real life!). Excellent music by Trevor Jones for this film.

Christopher Marlowe. 1564--93

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

COME live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
Or woods or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
And see the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies;
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.

A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair-linèd slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold.

A belt of straw and ivy-buds
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my Love.

The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my Love.

Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250--1900.



from an interview with Sir Ian McKellen:

Now, why the Thirties?

If Shakespeare was offering a commentary on comparatively recent events for his audience, shouldn't we look for what to us is a modern period? The Thirties are close enough for us to relate to them in the Nineties. Characters dressed in Thirties fashions are easier to distinguish from each other than if they are all done up in floppy hats, feathers and wrinkled tights. In such medieval costume, of the period when the original Richard III was alive, everyone looks the same. For instance, you cannot tell in the Olivier movie what people do for a living, how much money they've got, what their social standing in relation to each other is, simply by looking at them. You can by listening to them; but in a drama about the way individuals interrelate (and their professions), what they wear and own, the sort of buildings they use are as important as their manners.

The Thirties was perhaps the most recent time when the English royal family might have played a major part in politics. Richard III centres on power and the structure of politics. It was a period when a tyrant reminiscent of Richard III might just have arisen in the United Kingdom. On his abdication, Edward VIII visited Hitler with approval and Oswald Mosley aped Germanic fascism in the streets where I live in the East End of London. These reverberations were helpful for the play's credibility, presenting not real history but events that might have happened -- an aid to the audience's suspension of disbelief.

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Ricky Gervais - Extras - Wizard! You shall not pass!

Ricky Gervais - Extras - Wizard! You shall not pass!...Ricky Gervais Stephen Merchant Extras Wizard You shall not pass Ian McKellen Funny Comedy

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Othello: Iago (Ian McKellen) tells of a handkerchief, 1/2

Shakespeare's "Othello", Act III, scene 3, lines 294 to 384.......Emilia's "I am glad I have found this napkin" to Othello's "Nay, stay, thou shouldst be honest".

go here to see Laurence Olivier do this same bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDXG04pIH_0

Ian McKellen ... Iago
Willard White ... Othello
Zoë Wanamaker ... Emilia

Othello (2006 film)


from Leo Africanus' A Geographical History of Africa (Trans. John Pory. 1600):

The commendable actions and vertues of the Africans

The Arabians which inhabite in Barbarie or vpon the coast of the Mediterran sea, are greatly addicted vnto the studie of good artes and sciences: and those things which concerne their law and religion are esteemed by them in the first place.....Likewise they are most strong and valiant people, especially those which dwell vpon the mountaines. They keepe their couenant most faithfully; insomuch that they had rather die than breake promise. No nation in the world is so subiect vnto iealousie; for they will rather leese their lives, then put vp any disgrace in the behalfe of their women....


As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,
And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy!
--"The Merchant of Venice" (3.2.115-16)

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Secret LOTR Audition Tapes! Ian McKellen

Taken from the feature mockumentary "Guerrilla Distribution".

Shirley and John audition Flora, Robin Renny and Ian McKellen for their production of Lord Of The Rings.

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TOM HANKS: SIR IAN MCKELLEN IS A PLAYHOUSE FOR DA VINCI CODE

Sir Ian McKellen plays another sir in The Da Vinci Code, Sir Leigh Teabing. Tom Hanks says acting opposite McKellan is like being in a gigantic playhouse. "I don't think anybody has more fun acting than Sir Ian McKellan. Our first scene on film was very representative of every day we had in meetings and in rehearsals. There was just this constant delightful probing that went on. He'll say a line, we were at the table and he'd go through a patch of dialogue and he'd say something like, 'well my brain just turned around in on itself there. What was he saying?' He's always looking at it like scanning out, not just the dialogue but the sensibilities behind it. From my experience when he gets...

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Ian McKellen - [Jan-2002] - interview

[16-Jan-2002] 5 Questions...ian mckellen interview lord of the rings

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Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (Ian McKellen) -- Banquet Scene

from the 1979 TV version of the Trevor Nunn production by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Judi Dench ... Lady Macbeth
Ian McKellen ... Macbeth
John Bown ... Lennox
Ian McDiarmid ... The porter and Ross
Bob Peck ... Macduff
John Woodvine ... Banquo

Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act III, scene 4 ("Banquet Scene"), Lines 1-122 (to exit of Lords)

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Ian McKellen calls Holy Bible FICTION

DaVinci Code and X-Men star Ian McKellen calls the Bible fiction in this news interview....McKellen DaVinci X-Men X3 Last Stand Jesus Bible

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Charlie Rose - Ian McKellen / Richard Eyre / Uta Hagen

Segment 1: Sir Ian McKellen, Actor, "Richard III" (orig. air: 1/5/96)

Segment 2: Richard Eyre, Director, Royal National Theatre, play: "Racing Demo"n (orig. air: 11/16/95)

Segment 3: Uta Hagen, Actress, "Mrs. Klein" (orig. air: 11/28/95)

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IAN MCKELLEN LORD OF THE SEWERS IN FLUSHED AWAY

Once Lord of The Rings, Sir Ian McKellen is now lord of the sewers in Flushed Away....news ian mckellen lord sewers flushed away

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Othello: Iago (Ian McKellen) tells of a handkerchief, 2/2

Shakespeare's "Othello", Act III, scene 3, line 384 to end.


Ian McKellen ... Iago
Willard White ... Othello

Othello (2006 film)

Iago is "an unbeliever in, and denier of, all things spiritual, who only acknowledges God, like Satan, to defy him" (William Robertson Turnbull, "Othello: A Critical Study", 269).



'For where Love reigns, disturbing Jealousy
Doth call himself Affection's sentinel;
Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny,
And in a peaceful hour doth cry 'Kill, kill!'
---"Venus and Adoins" (600)

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Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (Ian McKellen) "Tommorow and Tomm...

from the 1979 TV version of the Trevor Nunn production by the Royal Shakespeare Company...Macbeth Shakespeare IanMckellen

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Part from "Neverwas" with Sir Ian McKellen

movie "Neverwas" with Sir Ian McKellen. "Somethings worth dieing for..."...Neverwas Part Ian McKellen.MacKellen McKellan Best Movie

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Ian Mckellen in 'Richard III'-Lady Anne mourns, gets wooed

McKellen delights in showing Richard's humor and arrogance as he dances off at the end of this scene to the jazz music of the first.

What Is Worth Dying For... Is Worth Killing For.


Kristin Scott Thomas ... Lady Anne



from an interview with Sir Ian McKellen:

---You're not suggesting that the audience should have sympathy for him?---

I'm not suggesting that they do anything, but if they don't I'd be very disappointed. He's very engaging. I think they will catch their breath, hopefully, at his bravado. I hope at times that they will be so convinced by his acting that they will forget what he's up to, which is why he has to keep reminding the audience. "You know what I've just done..." I hope they're going to see not just one person all the way through. They're going to see the different facets of this man's ability and his potential which he channels to absolutely the wrong purposes; but he is undoubtedly an attractive figure and that's why Lady Anne is momentarily seduced by him.

---Yes. I find that rather hard to believe.---

You find it hard to believe on the stage but you won't when you see it on the screen. The reasons are many, but one is Richard's overwhelming force; the other is her own heightened emotion, she's at a very vulnerable state emotionally. She's exhausted with grief. She cannot keep it up even faced with a man who legitimately killed her husband in battle. She is totally destitute at the point when she was about to become First Lady, Queen of England. She has no family support, apparently. Where is she going to live now? Who's interested in her? Overnight that happens and along comes a very powerful man who is old enough to be her father and says: "Marry me and you can have it all back." Now in her state of confusion, who's to say that Lady Anne is a totally innocent child? She may be, probably is, considering her social class and her upbringing, extremely ambitious on her own behalf and she's fooled, not realising that Richard's wife is never going to get a look in and she regrets it for the rest of her life, of course. Basically, she believes him when she says he loves her -- at a moment when she is bereft of love.

---You mentioned his sense of humour. Would you elaborate on that?---

His sense of humour comes from the same place as his conscience. He knows what he's doing. It's irony; but he's observing himself and he's pleased with himself, admires himself and asks the audience to admire what he's done, along with him. So he's extremely arrogant; but he just hopefully wins the audience into wanting him to succeed. The audience are accomplices in this journey to power. I hope, when the film is over, they will remember how much they wanted Richard to succeed in becoming king and how like many people in the story they got seduced by the excitement of it.

In other words, I hope they're not just going to sit back and watch this story. I hope they're leaning forward and that humour is one of the ways that they're drawn in. It wouldn't be right to say it's a comedy! In fact, it's interesting that Shakespeare calls the play The Tragedy of King Richard III.

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Richard III - Ian McKellen, KS Thomas

......Ian McKellen Richard III Kristin Scott Thomas

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Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (Ian McKellen) "Is this a dagger..

from the 1979 TV version of the Trevor Nunn production by the Royal Shakespeare Company...Macbeth Shakespeare IanMckellen

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McKellen, Sir Ian: "Was ever woman in this humor wooed?"...

Richard gloats, "Was ever woman in this humour wooed?" (Act I, scene 2, in the play), in the film Richard III, featuring Ian McKellen, 1995.

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Gods and Monsters - Ian McKellen

for fans, this is brand-new:
http://www.stageworkmckellen.org/

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my next Fanvid.
Movie with many special small details.
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Richard III - Ian McKellen - Kristin Scott Thomas

music from A-HA. It's interesting how the song fits to this....Ian McKellen Richard III Kristin Scott Thomas A-Ha Aha Lifelines

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Richard III - Ian McKellen - The Beginning

Richard kills the husband of his future wife....Ian McKellen Richard III Shakespeare

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Ian McKellen speaking at the launch of LGBT History Month 20

from www.slightlylostintheworld.co.uk...ian mckellen gay speeches london history 2007

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