Dig into this collection of fascinating Thanksgiving reads while you’re waiting for dinner to cook.
Alex Dalenberg
Thanksgiving is probably a little different for most of us this year. But if it’s any consolation, the Great Zoom Thanksgiving of 2020 is actually part of a long tradition of autumnal weirdness. Lean into the strangeness (and impress your remote dinner guests) with this collection of surprising Thanksgiving histories, from how eels were served at the first Thanksgiving to the time that Mikhail Gorbachev cut a Pizza Hut ad on Thanksgiving Day.
The
author of the children's poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was persistent
in arguing that establishing the national November holiday could help
heal wounds from the Civil War.
Quel plaisir... vous écouter !! Vous n'avez seulement le Français le plus pur mais aussi autant de classe que de charme. Dans un mot: TOUT
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C'est assez marrant, je suis Tourangeaux (habitant de Tours donc) de naissance, j'ai grandis et vécu là-bas, et j'ai toujours considéré que je parlais un français extrêmement neutre, voire un français dont l'accent était en fait inexistant. Je suis monté à Paris pour mes études il y a de ça quelques années, et ça m'a permis de me rendre compte que je parlais bien différemment des parisiens. Chez moi on me disait que je parlais un français rapide, alors que pour la plupart des gens que je côtoie maintenant ce n'est plus du tout d'actualité (s/o les gens dans les commentaires qui mettent la vidéo en 1,25). Selon certains potes que j'ai ici à Paris également, je prononce certains mots d'une manière un peu écorchée, je mange un peu sur des syllabes. La vidéo me conforte un peu dans cette idée. Je ne m'étais jamais rendu compte que j'avais en fait un "véritable" accent. 🗣 Que c'était bon et informatif, ton video! Merci! J'ai appris des tas de choses!
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Bonjour! Je suis americain et etudie le Français depuis trois ans. Je watch beaucoup many YouTube videos donc je learn the subtilties of the language. I also watch beaucoup French language shows on Netflix. And I will say as a beginner, understanding spoken French isn’t easy. I recently watched a video of your health minister. So difficult to understand. Yes, it was French but spoken at warp speed so that only a native can understand. You on there other hand are crystal clear. Your enunciation and diction of French words are the most precise and I’ve ever heard. Also, you speak at a speed and rhythm that is so easy to listen to and to identify the individual words. Spoken French on Netflix or TV, radio, YouTube is tres,tres, tres fast...and words are smashed together so it’s hard to hear if it’s one word or ten. I’m not sure I’d characterize that as “pure”...neutral is more what I think. As a beginner, I think it’s so important to hear unaccented speaking, that’s of any language. Nothing wrong with accented French from France or all over the world but it’s not for beginners. In the same way that learning American English from someone in the Deep South would slow any beginners progress. I’m determined to stay in your region for a month( instead of Paris, which my wife has visited) I’m certain my French will be 100% better then when my stay began. In the meantime, I’m subscribing to your channel and look forward to more! Merci beaucoup! 🗣 As an American who started to learn French in the 3rd grade (age 8), my teacher had l'accent de Tours. That enabled me to understand everything you said in this film. In many of the other You Tube French films I have great difficulty understanding what is said. As an adult I lived in Geneve for five years and had no difficulty with French spoken there. Once, when I visited Quebec, Canada, and made a purchase in a local store, the sales lady said, "Oh madam, vous etes du continent !" I guess I still had l'accent de Tours. 🗣 This video is very interesting, I studied the origin of my mother language, Italian, a few months ago and I see many similar points in common like the social discrimination for the accents and the centrality of the "pure" accent. Very interesting. 🗣 En Espagne arrive une chose pareille concernant les accents. On dit souvent que les espagnols à Madrid n'ont pas d'accent (même si c'est faux) peut-être parce qu'elle est la capitale simplement. Alors que les accents des autres régions semblent moins sérieux, il y a une tendence à les ridiculiser, surtout ceux du Sud. En Espagne, on associe l'accent du Sud avec l'ignorance . Je ne sais pas exactement pourquoi, mais c'est comme ça...
🗣 J'ai du mal à comprendre toutes ces remarques stupides à propos de votre vitesse d'élocution. Elle est très bonne. En tant que française, j'ai toujours appris à l'école que le "meilleur" français était celui de la région de Angers (ce qui correspond à peu près au français de Tours je suppose.)
🗣 A propos d'accents, j'estime qu'il faudrait faire la différence entre la "musique " de la langue (il y en a des tas ) et la prononciation des sons propres à la langue (là, soit c'est correct, soit non. Par exemple tous les parlers incapables de différencier les nasales entre elles sont incorrects. ou de faire la différence entre o et ô. ) Je ne suis pas d'accord avec votre notion de non-accent "parisien": il y en a plusieurs (selon la classe sociale), et ils changent relativement vite (plus personne ne parle comme Arletty, qui était le prototype de l'accent populaire de Paris, qui a toujours été considéré comme un "accent" et que personne n'a jamais pris pour le français standard, non plus que celui des "Marie Chantal" de la bourgeoisie parisienne. 🗣 Ce que je trouve incroyable c'est que j'ai compris presque la totalité de ce que vous avez dites sans l'emploi des sous titres et avec mon français de secondaire! C'est un testament à la clarté de votre accent. Félicitations! Excellent vidéo. 🗣 I really enjoy this channel. Your French is easy to understand and expressed with intelligence, plus you talk about interesting things. Truly educational! (I could write this in French, but it's a pain with the accents, which I have to copy/paste.)
Before Edgar Wright and Wes Anderson, before Chuck Jones and Jackie Chan, there was Buster Keaton, one of the founding fathers of visual comedy. And nearly 100 years after he first appeared onscreen, we’re still learning from him. Today, I’d like to talk about the artistry (and the thinking) behind his gags. Press the CC button to see the names of the films.
🎬 He was not only a genius, but his athleticism was unbelievable... and countless scenes where he risks his life and yet retains that stoic, deadpanned expression. There will never be another like him. May God bless and keep this man.
🎬 The last part really made me emotional for a moment. I really appreciate what this man has done for the film industry and we'll never forget him.
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At age 70, he made his last film: "The Railrodder", for the National Film Board of Canada. In that film, he demonstrated the same natural athleticism, timing and comic genius which he had first brought to the silver screen starting in 1917. In addition to his early 1950's TV show, during the early 1960's (I was around 12 years of age, at the time) there was a 1/2-hour long TV show on Saturdays (it may have been local to just SoCal) which featured Buster Keaton's shorts, and that TV show formed my introduction to Keaton's remarkable silent films.
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I was at a silent film festival a while back and they were playing The General for the grand finale of the whole festival, with a jazz-funk band playing the score. I had no idea who Buster Keaton was, but holy shit. I've never heard that much roaring laughter take place in a cinema before, and I've never seen stunts so ambitious and ahead of its time. Eventually, I found this video after restlessly searching for more of his movies and you hit the nail in the head when you say that you can really see his influences in a lot of today's directors.
🎬 He's not just valuable and relevant today because of imitations and homages, his actual films are still hilarious! 🎬 Buster Keaton could easily win the modern "American Ninja Warrior"! 🎬 It’s amazing how films made almost 100 years ago can still make me crack up in laughter.
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 - February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is best known for his silent film work, in which his trademark was physical comedy accompanied by a stoic, deadpan expression that earned him the nickname "The Great Stone Face". Critic Roger Ebert
wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929" when he
"worked without interruption" as having made him "the greatest
actor-director in the history of the movies". In 1996, Entertainment Weekly recognized Keaton as the seventh-greatest film director, and in 1999 the American Film Institute ranked him as the 21st-greatest male star of classic Hollywood cinema.
His career declined when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
and lost his artistic independence. His wife divorced him, and he
descended into alcoholism. He recovered in the 1940s, remarried, and
revived his career as an honored comic performer for the rest of his
life, earning an Academy Honorary Award in 1959.
Buster Keaton's
Crazy Stunts & Comedy
(Supercut)
A tribute to the best Director, Comedian and Stuntman in the History of Cinema, the one and only Buster Keaton!
This guy was on a different level of stunt men. How he survived back then is amazing. 🎬 My favorite comedian (some would argue; it comes down to taste) but finest stuntman and yes, a brilliant, often underestimated director. Everything is planned and comes off as spontaneous. He did so many things for the first time ever and the imagination is quite astonishing, always delightful.Keaton builds pace and creates tension like no-one else. The word "genius" gets thrown around a lot but here it is. Bravo Buster 🎬 Un sacré cascadeur, tout est calculé au millimètre prés, l'enchainement des scènes est vraiment spectaculaire et l'imagination omniprésente. Un acrobate et un artiste vraiment doué. Fabuleux Monsieur Buster Keaton's.
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Some of Buster Keaton's
Most Amazing Stunts
Clips used: Three Ages, Cops, Day Dreams, Sherlock Jr., One Week, Hard Luck, Neighbors, The General, Steamboat Bill, Jr., Seven Chances, Our Hospitality, The Bell Boy
Mar 27, 2022 He was a vaudeville performer from the age of four, a silent-film star in his 20s, and the writer and director of some of the greatest comedy films ever made. Yet Buster Keaton never quite achieved the fame of Charlie Chaplin, and, at the peak of his success as an independent filmmaker, he signed a studio deal that he would call "the worst mistake of my life." Correspondent David Pogue talks with biographer Dana Stevens, and with comic actor Bill Irwin, about Keaton's artistic ingenuity, stunts, and innovations that inspire filmmakers to this day.
I decided to make a spotlight series about important people of the 1920s, and today we have the great "Stoneface" Buster Keaton. Keaton was perhaps the most imaginative and inventive comedians of the decade, if not of all time.
Do not place a cross
with my name to cover these bones!
Non croce, non
fiore
No cross, no flowers
Ah, della
traviata sorridi al desio
Ah, the misguided
desire to smile;
A lei, deh,
perdona ; tu accoglila, o Dio
God pardon and accept
me,
Ah ! Tutto,
tutto fini. Or tutto, tutto fini !
All is finished.
La Traviata🇮🇹 Giuseppe Verdi 🇫🇷Palais Garnier
Avec
🇫🇷 Benjamin Bernheim&🇿🇦 Pretty Yende
Orchestre et Chœurs de l'Opéra national de Paris Direction musicale de Michele Mariotti / Carlo Montanaro Mise en scène de Simon Stone
Based on the novel "La Dame aux Camélias" (The Lady with the Camellias / Camille) 📘by Alexandr Dumas Fils (the younger)
🗣️ Comments 🗣️
🗣️🇫🇷 Pretty
Yende est juste merveilleuse, la mise en scène est surprenante mais il faut tout voir pour comprendre ... je n’étais pas convaincu et pourtant ce n’est pas mal. Pretty est merveilleuse ! 🗣️🇺🇸 Makes me want to go to the theater. Nice idea to portrait her memories with Alfredo like a picture of her happy times. La Traviata is all about Violetta feeling things she never thought she could 😭🤧
🗣️🇺🇸 It's sad that so few people don't know that Traviata was shockingly modern and scandalous when it premiered in Paris - and that's what Verdi wanted. He told the story of a woman who had died only 6 YEARS BEFORE. People complained - as they're complaining over this production and used much of the same language. "Cheap, vulgar. No escapism." Opera must adjust to suit the times to have any relevance. I love traditional productions, but I also love bold, crazy productions - like this one. At least this production has people arguing about ideas, as Verdi would have wanted - instead of just commenting on the costumes.
🗣️🇺🇸Not much for modern productions but who cares when you have artists like Yende and Bernheim! Bravo!!
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16, 2019 🇫🇷 En ouvrant son opéra par un prélude pour cordes d’une économie de moyens inédite, Verdi affirmait en 1853 sa volonté de bousculer les conventions et les normes. Là n’est pas la moindre des radicalités de son oeuvre : sa « Traviata » met implacablement à nu la violence d’une société qui prône la jouissance matérielle et finit par sacrifier une innocente victime sur l’autel de la morale bourgeoise. Simon Stone aime travailler au corps à corps les pièces du répertoire pour les entraîner vers des territoires plus intimes. Ce metteur en scène, qui compte parmi les plus remarqués au théâtre aujourd’hui, fait ses débuts très attendus à l’Opéra national de Paris.
Pretty Yende & Benjamin Bernheim
"Libiamo, ne' lieti calici"
Pretty Yende: Violetta Valéry Catherine Trottmann: Flora Bervoix Marion Lebègue: Annina Benjamin Bernheim: Alfredo Germont Jean‑François Lapointe: Giorgio Germont Julien Dran: Gastone Christian Helmer: Il Barone Douphol Marc Labonnette: Il Marchese d'Obigny Thomas Dear: Dottor Grenvil Orchestre et Chœurs de l'Opéra national de Paris José Luis Basso: Choir Master Michele Mariotti: Conductor Full concert here: http://bit.ly/Verdi_LaTraviata_OperaD... Follow medici.tv on: Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/medicitv Twitter : https://twitter.com/medicitv Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/medici.tv/
🗣️🇺🇸Sorry
but this dreadful setting prevents us to appreciate the beauty of the
music and the singing. Are these modern directors crazy? Utter rubbish. 🗣️🇫🇷 Oui
pour la voix. Mille fois NON pour cette mise en scène. Je conseille au
"metteur en scène" de lire le dictionnaire de l'opéra de Monterverdi à
nos jour (Kobbe) pour apprendre les éléments de la Traviata. (époque
Paris vers 1850)
🗣️🇺🇸 Possibly the best performance of this aria I have ever heard. Clear vocalization of the grace notes makes a huge difference in the aria's effect. 🗣️🇺🇸 He's the best Verdi baritone today. Beautiful voice, flawless technique, and such elegance. 🗣️🇫🇷 Voix et diction parfaites; c'est un bonheur des oreilles. Merci Monsieur, vous êtes un très Grand. 🗣️🇺🇸 I wish the Paris Opera would make their recorded productions available for sale (download or DVD/Blu-Ray)... they have made some of them available for streaming for a while, and then they're gone :( I would pay good money to have this on DVD!!! 🗣️🇫🇷 Quelle ligne de chant ! une façon magistrale de chanter qui a presque disparu de nos scènes lyriques !
🗣️🇫🇷 Comme d'habitude mise en scène pourri. Mais voix absolument monumentale, magnifique !!! 🗣️🇫🇷 Encore une mise en scène minimaliste d'un metteur en scène névrosé. 🗣️🇫🇷 Ludovic - toujours impressionnant mais quelle mise en scène et tenue négligée, on ne sait plus quoi inventer, dommage.
🇫🇷Savez-vous que Ludovic est marseillais, donc PROVENÇAL, d'origine ?
🗣️🇮🇹La voce e bellissimo,vero baritono! Per me e uno grande cantante d'oggi!Modo di cantare e stupenda con vera "italianita".Bravissimo Maestro💐💐
Premiere – March 6, 1853, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy
Premiere of the revised version – May 6, 1854, Teatro San Benedetto, Venice, Italy
Giuseppe Verdi 🎼 Composer Francesco Maria Piave 📜 Librettist
Running Time – ca. 2 hours and 15 minutes
Background – The Opera La Traviata is set in…Paris.
La Traviata - Paris – 1865
The time period is very interesting. Verdi wanted to set the Opera in a contemporary time-frame. The novel was written in 1848, and Marie Duplessis, the courtesan from whom Violetta is inspired, died in 1847. But at the premiere, the censure wouldn’t allow it. So the Opera was set in 1700. Nowadays, theaters usually set it in the 1800s, but Verdi’s intention was to have the audience look at themselves. He wanted it to be the same people on stage as in the theater so that the cynicism and dualistic thinking of the typical 1800-upper class, would be obvious to the spectators.
For that reason, the Opera should be staged as a contemporary piece, not further back than the second half of 1900. It’s really a very modern story, about issues of modern society. Setting it in the 1800s cuts off something of its edge. That’s my own, very private opinion.
Alexandre Dumas fils a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel La Dame aux Camélias, published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera La Traviata, as well as numerous stage and film productions, usually titled Camille (Greta Garbo) in English-language versions.
Marie Duplessis 🌷 Alexandre Dumas fils
Alexandre Dumas fell in love with Marie Duplessis but after Dumas left her in 1845 she met and fell in love with Franz Liszt - the handsome legendary composer was “bewitched” by her.
Sadly their love did not last.
She died from “consumption” three months later…
Something about La Traviata
Giuseppe Verdi lived through something that vaguely resembles the story in La Traviata. His first wife, Margherita Balezzia, died in 1840. Together they had two children, who both died at a young age and before the death of Margherita.
So Verdi must have been quite devastated having lost his whole family in just a few years. He buried himself in work and in just five years, from 1842 to 1847, he wrote ten operas.
During this time he met Giuseppina Strepponi. She was a great PrimaDonna at the height of her career, and she was beautiful with many lovers and admirers. The two had a long professional collaboration, but they also mixed their feelings of passion for each other into the relationship, and soon they were a couple. When they formed a regular family back in Buseto, Italy, the local bigoted community wasn’t all that impressed. They weren’t married, and Giuseppina, being a singer and as such more or less a prostitute in the eyes of the every-day village community, was looked upon as something of a man-eater. While the famous composer could overlook the pity-minded neighbors, Giuseppina obviously took a harder blow.
They married on August 29, 1859, and they lived happily together until the death of Giuseppina in 1897.
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