Looking for Richard Page #2

Synopsis: Director Al Pacino juxtaposes scenes from Richard III, scenes of rehearsals for Richard III, and sessions where parties involved discuss the play, the times that shaped the play, and the events that happened at the time the play is set. Interviews with mostly British actors are also included, attempting to explain why American actors have more problems performing Shakespearean plays than they do.
Director(s): Al Pacino
Production: Columbia Pictures
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
PG-13
Year:
1996
111 min
8,025 Views


- That comes from Richard III.

MAN 5:
It does, yes.

I mean, nobody knows

who Richard llI is.

- Nobody.

HADGE:
It's a tough play to get.

The relationships between

those characters.

- Who can keep it straight?

- Well, I think the question is...

...what is the understanding?

I mean, the understanding is...

It's a simply... Can you

follow the story line and the plot?

We've provided this kind of

docudrama-type thing...

...to inform some of the scenes

so you know where you are.

For instance, there's an early scene

with the queen...

... and her brother and her two sons...

... which is outside in an anteroom...

...waiting for the king to call them in

because he is inside, sick.

The queen is worried. She's afraid

the king will die, who is her husband.

And when he dies, the only...

The only people left to inherit the throne

are her two young sons...

...by the king himself.

She has two sons by a previous

marriage, which are in the scene.

And she's afraid that the character I

play, Richard llI of Gloucester...

...is going to take hold

of the situation...

...and somehow manipulate them

into thinking...

...that they're, you know...

That the kids are...

I'm confused just saying it.

I can imagine how you must feel...

...hearing me talk. It's confusing.

I don't know why we even bother

doing this at all.

But we'll give it a little try.

Let's see what we can come up with.

First of all, let's get a smaller...

Let's work out of a smaller book

than this. This is hard to carry.

- Excuse me, but look at this. "Hello?"

- I think...

"Yes. It's my entrance? Oh, I see. "

It's good sometimes that you open it,

and it is Richard, it's not Hamlet.

Sometimes in Shakespeare,

there's a tendency...

...to confuse the plays.

The first act is about a sick king,

and everybody maneuvering...

PACINO:
Sure.

... around. I wish that this play...

...could begin...

...on the body...

On the sleeping king...

...Edward IV, your brother, in bed.

PACINO:
Yeah.

And it pans up and you are standing

over him, looking at him.

Yeah.

- Yes, but he's alive, the king is alive.

- Yes.

I would prefer having him

off in the distance. I'd like...

- Good. You can watch him.

PACINO:
I'd like to walk...

- Frederic? Can you get the other end?

KIMBALL:
Yeah.

I'd like... Hi, how are you?

Frederic and I decided to go

to The Cloisters...

... a museum that has

a medieval setting...

... which is good for us because the play

takes place in this period.

We thought we'd rehearse

in this atmosphere.

We're shooting him.

We're shooting him.

I'll be with you in a minute,

if you can just wait for me out there.

- So you're here.

- Okay. Okay.

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