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“For i did kill King Henry but twas thy beauty that provoked me”

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"If we felt what we said, and say less we'd mean more." - Vox Populi Interviewee

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Richard the III

"they spake not a word But like dumb statues or breathing stones Stared each on other and looked deathly pale"

"So now prosperity begins to mellow and drop into the rotten mouth of death"

"The day is ours; the bloody dog is dead"

Looking for Richard

"I Love myself, Alas, I hate myself"- Richard/Pacino

"Irony is hypocrisy with style"- Scholar

"People are sick and tired of the way its been and they want a change"

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"I am determined to prove a villain" RIII

"A hell hound that doth hunt us all to death...to worry lambs and lap their gentle blood...that is carnal cur, preys on the issue of his mother's body and makes her pew-fellow with other's moan!" - Margaret (RIII)

"Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end, shame serves your life and doth thy death attend." - Duchess of York RIII

Pacino repeats the phrase, “deformed…deformed…deformed” with Kimball interjecting to ponder the idea that it is a “metaphor emphasizing the corruption of Richard’s mind.” LFR

“I’ll have her” (repetition and close up camera angle and editing) LFR

“As soon as Richard gets what he wants…then the whole thing…the emptiness of it.”
LFR

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"...and somehow by the end we're supposed to feel some pity for him?" - Al Pacino

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“People are sick and tired of it all and they just want change” - Al Pacino

“Now all that’s left is winning the people” - Al Pacino

“They canvas like politicians compete with lies and individuals” - Al Pacino

“dog, that had his teeth before his eyes to worry lambs and lap their gentle blood” - Elizabeth

“no beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity”. - Lady Anne

“I’ll have her (Anne), but I will not keep her long’’  - Richard

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“Plots have I laid,inductions dangerous… to set my brother Clarence and the king in deadly hate.”

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1. vox populi interview of the homeless man as he states “We have no feeling. That's why it's easy for us to shoot each other.”

2.  voiceover and intertextuality of Shakespeare’s ‘the Tempest’. The words “these actors…are melted into air, into thin air”

3. side-by-side editing of Richard’s monologue with himself after the dream

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"If we felt what we said, and say less we'd mean more." - Vox Populi Interviewee

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1. “Cheated of feature by dissembling nature…Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time”

2. “Slave, I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die”.

3. “I am determined to prove a villain”

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Richard III
“Elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog”

“So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin. Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.”

“And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house/In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.”

LFR
“Richard cannot know himself because he cannot love himself”

“You talked of Richard as a man who cannot find love. A person who, finally in the last scenes, knows he does not have his own humanity. That he has let the pursuit of power totally corrupt him and he is alienated from his own body and his own self.”

“But why should they be incompetent? Why make them weaker? By diminishing their importance, you diminish his actions.”

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“For i did kill King Henry but twas thy beauty that provoked me”

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“ So now all that is left is winning the people.”, as Pacino sings “he got the whole world in his hands”

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"After the silence, what is there?" - Al Pacino

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LFR
“When we speak without feeling, we get nothing from our society… We don’t feel for each other. If we were taught to feel, we wouldn’t be so violent.”

“A person has an opinion. Its only an opinion. Its never a question of right or wrong.”

“He’s trying to sooth her because she’s a hysteric… out of control.”

RIII
“Thus hath the course of justice whirl’d about And left thee but a prey to time.” (Act 4 scene 4)

“Bloody thou art, bloody will be they end.”

“I had rather be a country servant maid than a great queen with this condition,”

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I am determined to prove a villain,

A horse a horse, a kingdom for my horse

Stand betwixt two churchmen

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When he opens his purse to give us our rewards thy conscience flies out

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“Plots have I laid,inductions dangerous… to set my brother Clarence and the king in deadly hate.”

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"“Is there a murderer here? No. Yes i am. Then fly! What, from myself? Great reason why Lest I take revenge`.”

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"“Is there a murderer here? No. Yes i am. Then fly! What, from myself? Great reason why Lest I take revenge`.”

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"A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" (5.4.13)

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‘I am determined to prove a villain/ and hate the idle pleasures of these days.”-RIII

“If Heaven have any grievous plague in store/ exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,/ Oh, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe/ And then hurl down their indignation/ On thee, the troubler of the poor world’s peace./ The worm of conscience still begnaw your soul.”- Margaret

“A flourish, trumpets! Strike alarum, drums!/ Let not the heavens hear these telltale women/ Rail on the Lord’s anointed. Strike, I say!”- RIII

Looking 4 Richard

“... those in power have total contempt for everything they promise ...”

“God say amen.”

“... someone young enough to believe in Richard’s rap.”

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"Slave, I have set my life upon a cast and I will stand the hazard of the die." (5.4.9-10)

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“I must be married to my brother’s daughter, or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass. Murder her brothers, and then marry her— Uncertain way of gain. But I am in So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin. Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye”. (4, 2, 62-67)

“Earth gapes, hell burns, fiends roar, saints pray, to have him suddenly conveyed from hence. Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I pray, that I may live and say the dog is dead” (4, 4, 75-78)

"But then I sigh and, with a piece of scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil; And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stolen out of Holy Writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil." (1, 3, 340-344)

"After the silence what is there?" - Al Pacino

"Irony is only hypocrisy with style"

“Those in power have total contempt for everything they promise”

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"I am determinéd to prove a villain." (1.1.30)

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"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings."

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"Grim-visaged War hath smoothed his wrinkled front."

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"A thing devised by the enemy."

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"So wise so young, they say, do never live long."

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"Since I cannot prove a lover…
I am determined to prove a villain."

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‘I am determined to prove a villain/ and hate the idle pleasures of these days.”-RIII

“If Heaven have any grievous plague in store/ exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,/ Oh, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe/ And then hurl down their indignation/ On thee, the troubler of the poor world’s peace./ The worm of conscience still begnaw your soul.”- Margaret

“A flourish, trumpets! Strike alarum, drums!/ Let not the heavens hear these telltale women/ Rail on the Lord’s anointed. Strike, I say!”- RIII

Looking 4 Richard

“... those in power have total contempt for everything they promise ...”

“God say amen.”

“... someone young enough to believe in Richard’s rap.”

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"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"

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A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon 1.4, line 2

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"Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him" 1.3.293

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Rapid montage to superimpose his villainous deeds is coupled with repetitive voiceovers of “despair and die”

Pacino is alert to the power of visual semiotics; manipulates them to create desired impression = setting for opening soliloquy of church and chiming bells

Chiaroscuro lighting: able to artfully illuminate Richard’s torments as emphatic repetitions of “deformed” metaphorically plague his thoughts

Mis En Scene: She is Surrounded by Men = Lady Anne is weak; she needs the men surrounding her to protect her.

Stage Direction: Lack of Physical Characteristics = Lady Anne is a general statement about women; Elizabethan people see women as weak/inferior.

Colloquial Language: “someone young enough to believe in Richard's rap." = Postmodern values are different; Pacino wants to portray Lady Anne as Naive, not weak.

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"The film is not about me doing Shakespeare's Richard III. It's about me as an American actor looking for Richard and meditating on what I find" Richard

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"Did York's dread curse prevail so much heaven That Henry's death, my lovely Edward's, their kingdom's loss,  my woeful banishment, should all bust answer for that peevish brat? Can curses pierce the clouds, and enter heaven?" 1.3
189 - 193

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"be gnawed” by "the worm of conscience"  1.3, line 220

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'Sin, death and hell have set their marks on him, and all their ministers attend on him' 1.3.293-294

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"Live each of you the subjects to his hate, And he to yours, and all of you to God's." 1.3.302-303

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Second Murderer: ''Tis a blushing, shamefaced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom.'  1.4.132-133

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"Out, devil. I do remember them too well. Thou kill'dst my husband, Henry, in the Tower, And Edward, my poor son, at Tewkesbury"
1.3.116-118

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'The urging of that word “judgment” hath bred a kind of remorse in me.'
1.4.102

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"Hence both are gone; with conscience and remorse" -Tyrell 4.3.20

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“The world is grown so bad that wrens make pray where eagles dare not perch”

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“Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.” Richard III - misogyny

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"A person has an opinion. It's only an opinion. It's never a question of right and wrong"
Al Pacino

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"When he opens his purse to give us our reward, thy conscience flies out." First Murderer 1.4.124-125

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"only people who wanted to go to hell would not keep vows" Fred Kimball

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"Richard has let the pursuit of power totally corrupt him"

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"He is bound to be left alone because nobody can love the King beyond the degree of their own egoism." LFR

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Clarence still breathes, Edward still lives and reigns; When they are gone, then I must count my gains." Act 1 Scene 1 Lines 162-163

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A man cannot lie but it checks him. A man cannot lie with his neighbour’s wife; but it detects him.”

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"they canvas like politicians, complete with lies and innuendo" Al Pacino ch. 16

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"Guilty! Guilty! I shall despair. There is no creature love me, And if I die no sould shall pity me" (5.3. 203 - 205)

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"is there a murderer her? No. Yes, I am. (5.3.180)

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"Oh, that your young nobility could judge what 'twere to lose it and be miserable. They that stand high have many blasts to shake them, And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces." Queen Margaret (1, 3, 256)

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"Look how I am bewitched. Behold mine arm is withered up, like a blasted sapling. And this is Edward's wife that monstrous witch consorted with harlot strumpet shore" (Richard 3,4,66-69) - misogynsitic attitudes and language

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"They're trying to soother her because she is an hysteric. They've got a lady here who is way out of control." Fred Kimball LFR