The Remains of the Day (2/8) Movie CLIP - No Longer Needed (1993) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Mr. Stevens (Anthony Hopkins) informs his father that he is no longer allowed to wait on the tables in the manor.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Filmed with the usual meticulous attention to period and detail of films from Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, The Remains of the Day is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Anthony Hopkins plays Stevens, the "perfect" butler to a prosperous British household of the 1930s. He is so unswervingly devoted to serving his master, a well-meaning but callow British lord (James Fox), that he shuts himself off from all emotions and familial relationships. New housekeeper Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson) tries to warm him up and awaken his humanity. But when duty calls, Stevens won't even attend his own dying father's last moments on earth. The butler also refuses to acknowledge the fact that his master is showing signs of pro-Nazi sentiments. Disillusioned by Hitler's duplicity, the master dies an embittered man, and only then does Stevens come to realize how his own silence has helped bring about this sad situation. Years later, regretting his lost opportunities in life, he tries once more to make contact with Miss Kenton, the only person who'd ever cared enough to seek out the human being inside the butler's cold veneer.

CREDITS:
TM & © Sony (1993)
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Peter Vaughan
Director: James Ivory
Producers: Paul Bradley, John Calley, Ismail Merchant, Mike Nichols, Donald Rosenfeld
Screenwriters: Kazuo Ishiguro, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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[NiVi]

The few dialogs with his father tells us so much about why he became who he was, why he had so much trouble connecting with his own emotions and never reached the point of 'I deserve to be happy in my own life, too' ... more precisely, 'I deserve to be with the love of my life. I am worth it'.

[ariplatt]

Like father like son. Wow. What a relationship

[vinman]

pain in his voice after being told he's no longer required to wait on tables...the moment he starts to feel obsolete is the moment he feels it's not worth living....and so it happened too.

[Lord_of_The_World]

That look and reaction beginning @0:58. Brilliant.

RIP, Peter Vaughan.

[RaikenXion]

This film is sheer class, talk about stiff upper lip.

[RobStephfanfver]

They portrayed their strained and difficult father-son relationship so well. So cold and unmoving. Startlingly unprofessional.

[edwardcatt]

I would have been sorely tempted to reply to ‘I haven’t got all morning!’ with the retort, ‘Well, as it happens, you rather _do’_ . . . 😂

[September]

Maester Aemon's voice is so much more powerful here. I wonder how much of that is natural aging of the actor and how much is pure acting skill.

[dougmorris]

The father is a little more rough around the edges than the son. You get the sense that father wasn't born into domestic service like is son obviously was.

A masterpiece...ideal to study the british diction...

[shahbazsheikh]

He is your dad for God's sake... talk to him like he is instead of like another employee.

[memoiryou]

Excellent scene. I wonder if their relationship was strained because of their mother's "carrying on. "? I also like Stevens' Snr 's sarcastic dig at "gentlemen of stature " .

[MapleSyrupPoet]

Your fired! That's all you have to say ...fired! Let's get on with the job

[mahlstadt]

This is a film of exceptional quality. Minor criticism: The father doesn't seem to have the same accent or pronunciation of his son, which makes it a little hard to believe they are from the same family.

[MapleSyrupPoet]

British way of doing things - I think of - very highly Butler, etc 😊