I just came back from seeing Kevin Spacey's & Sam Mendes' rendition of Richard III at the Curran theater, San Francisco. Makes me wonder if Mendes borrowed from this movie.
I've seen this movie, the Laurence Oliver version, and the play on stage at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Both were freaking epic. I am aware of the controversies surrounding this drama because of the lack of correlation with historical evidence. Personally I see the Shakespearean Richard III as a Machiavellian anti-hero, and the historical one as a great warrior and statesman of his time. I have spoken, all depart.
whatever one thinks of the interpretation...the central performance is staggeringly brilliant. a cruel, funny, capricious military creature. he was cheated of oscar nomination by murdoch tabloid revelations about his sexuality. shame on the academy for this embarrassing decision.
Making him facist now? 0:13 probably due to Tudor Historians. 0:47 that is an exaggeration. His son didn't cause religious turbulence for the next couple of centuries, and he was very pious. He also made Court of Requests and banned restrictions on printing and sale of books. Though I feel I should merely look upon this as a play, as it is become detatched from original history. 1:40 comparing him to Hitler. Why don't they have Mosley here? Somehow I prefer Laurence Olivier's amusing Richard.
The real amazing thing about this movie is that it does proof Nietzsche right on his assumption that modern beings could not even dare to think themselves being transferred back to the age of the Renaissance: By moving the Renaissance play to the era of World War II the characters of Shakespeare show the key figures of that age as bloodless and boring persons: Compare Richard of Gloucester to Adolf Hitler and Richmond to his detractors; and I should invoke Nietzsche now:
Were we to think away our frailty and lateness, our physiological senescence, then our morality of "humanization" would immediately lose its value too (in itself, no morality has any value)--it would even arouse disdain. On the other hand, let us not doubt that we moderns, with our thickly padded humanity, which at all costs wants to avoid bumping into a stone, would have provided Cesare Borgia's contemporaries with a comedy at which they could have laughed themselves to death.
@MrThorfan64 Well he was maligned from very early, even thought there is no evidence he was the murderous villain he's thought to have been. I think with this film, Richard III is so far from the real person that it's hardly character assassination anymore: the play was a farce factually, and this has abstracted the premise further. So just think of it as a fictional character.
ooh ark at her... enough to get Crispin rolling around the gold leaf casket. Willie shakespeare was in name an anagram for all things tory whips and gay day.
The happy hettys are becoming some what bemused by the gayby's and same sex marriages.
Then those ruffian tudors got in and broke up the fenian empire.
@NoRightsForGays - glad you finally came to the realization that it is an inevitability sunshine. today gay marriage and repealing DADT - tomorrow the world! :-p
@slea79 The historical Richard III is completely different to Shakespeare's Richard III; it's left up to the director to reimagine it however he wants. Shakespeare left no costume notes and very few stage directions, so why NOT remake it for the 20th century, with imagery closer to the audience's heart?
This is hysterical. A great Shakespearean film with a cliche-ridden American voice-over on the trailer ... "NOW ... ONE MAN ...will car-nquer ALLLL!!!" The studios couldn't break a habit to save their souls ... er, sorry, i forgot, what souls? Very, very funny.
Yeah, the trailer narration just oozes cheesiness. I like the movie though. Not the first attempt at inserting a Shakespeare play into a modern (albeit stylized) setting, but certainly one of the best of them. :-)
Haha... I guess it's a good movie. I'm just about to watch it. I just wanted to check out the trailer first. But, yeah, that trailer... Haha... very funny.
Yeah ... Nick's Australian, but the accent is still the cheesiest American ... Australian actors train in cheesy American accents, and as everyone knows, excel at it ... are you listening, Russell (NZ actually), Cate, Geoffrey, Naomi, Sam, Eric, etc.etc.etc.? ... Strangely, the Aussie who was a bigger star than any of them, Errol Flynn, never quite fully adopted the Yankee twang.
@fringelily I always wonder, is there one man that does all those dramatic voiceovers? And is the reason we don't know his identity that he's in hiding??
I would like to get this movie>I like the idea of alternative histories (What IF).Theres also a movie called Niflheim Blood and Bullets where it's set in a world were North America called Vinland never entered WW1 and Europe is a fascist United Empire called the Union Star.America hasn't the Superior weopons Europe has and it has invaded.
Check out there trailer on youtube.(Niflheim Blood and Bullets Pre Sale)
tut tut tut, richard iii never says "your beauty would have me under take the death of all the world," it was gloucester.
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SchergeSatans 2 months ago
Great version
SavageBroadcast 3 months ago
Interesting...
I just came back from seeing Kevin Spacey's & Sam Mendes' rendition of Richard III at the Curran theater, San Francisco. Makes me wonder if Mendes borrowed from this movie.
xrayt3ch 4 months ago
Was he the ugly guy
thebrit301 4 months ago
Adolf III?
lunaticorthelover 5 months ago
A lousy trailer for a great movie.
WiredDragoon 5 months ago
I've seen this movie, the Laurence Oliver version, and the play on stage at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Both were freaking epic. I am aware of the controversies surrounding this drama because of the lack of correlation with historical evidence. Personally I see the Shakespearean Richard III as a Machiavellian anti-hero, and the historical one as a great warrior and statesman of his time. I have spoken, all depart.
LivingCrusader 6 months ago 6
Looking forward to seeing MacBeth with Spaceships.
Keltibarian 6 months ago 6
@Keltibarian they actually did a sci fi macbeth in a comic.
FunkEfied 5 months ago
whatever one thinks of the interpretation...the central performance is staggeringly brilliant. a cruel, funny, capricious military creature. he was cheated of oscar nomination by murdoch tabloid revelations about his sexuality. shame on the academy for this embarrassing decision.
uclrichard 7 months ago 5
Making him facist now? 0:13 probably due to Tudor Historians. 0:47 that is an exaggeration. His son didn't cause religious turbulence for the next couple of centuries, and he was very pious. He also made Court of Requests and banned restrictions on printing and sale of books. Though I feel I should merely look upon this as a play, as it is become detatched from original history. 1:40 comparing him to Hitler. Why don't they have Mosley here? Somehow I prefer Laurence Olivier's amusing Richard.
MrThorfan64 8 months ago
The real amazing thing about this movie is that it does proof Nietzsche right on his assumption that modern beings could not even dare to think themselves being transferred back to the age of the Renaissance: By moving the Renaissance play to the era of World War II the characters of Shakespeare show the key figures of that age as bloodless and boring persons: Compare Richard of Gloucester to Adolf Hitler and Richmond to his detractors; and I should invoke Nietzsche now:
FireEyedMaidOfWar 9 months ago 2
Were we to think away our frailty and lateness, our physiological senescence, then our morality of "humanization" would immediately lose its value too (in itself, no morality has any value)--it would even arouse disdain. On the other hand, let us not doubt that we moderns, with our thickly padded humanity, which at all costs wants to avoid bumping into a stone, would have provided Cesare Borgia's contemporaries with a comedy at which they could have laughed themselves to death.
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MrThorfan64 10 months ago
@MrThorfan64 Well he was maligned from very early, even thought there is no evidence he was the murderous villain he's thought to have been. I think with this film, Richard III is so far from the real person that it's hardly character assassination anymore: the play was a farce factually, and this has abstracted the premise further. So just think of it as a fictional character.
CecilyHeron 9 months ago
GANDALF!!!
ItzzXkillin 10 months ago
it`s on play.com aswell, were do you live?
MrVanhelsing009 11 months ago
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This movie is AWESOME
lastdancemaryjane1 11 months ago
is that Robert downey jr.?
julids 11 months ago
@julids
yeah, that film is amazing, have you seen it?
MrVanhelsing009 11 months ago
@MrVanhelsing009 I wish. So hard to find.
julids 11 months ago
Utter shite!
BRUTUALTRUTH 1 year ago
was that william walton's 'bellshazzar's feast' heard right at the end there?
sstuddert 1 year ago
No Rights for gays
ooh ark at her... enough to get Crispin rolling around the gold leaf casket. Willie shakespeare was in name an anagram for all things tory whips and gay day.
The happy hettys are becoming some what bemused by the gayby's and same sex marriages.
Then those ruffian tudors got in and broke up the fenian empire.
DontVoteCameron 1 year ago
@NoRightsForGays - glad you finally came to the realization that it is an inevitability sunshine. today gay marriage and repealing DADT - tomorrow the world! :-p
thegayprovocateur 1 year ago
this was one of my favortie movies of all time. superbly done. but of course it wasnt well received by the "mtv" "people magazine" generation
ERIELACKU34CH 1 year ago 2
but this is a modern version of richard 3rd!!....
gianpaolobianchi65 1 year ago
VERY VERY VERY CLEVER...ALTHOUGH, IT WAS A FLOP...APP. GENIUS....AND PROVES THAT SHAKESPEARE, IS AS RELEVANT AS EVER........WATCH AND LEARN...
CPOWEN69B 1 year ago
Britonia needs a leader like the III right now.....to clean n sort out things.
HA!HA!HA!HA!HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
salinagrrrl69 1 year ago
I loved this film, setting the story in the mid-twentieth century was a brilliant decision. The cool uniforms didn't hurt either.
Humbertusmarius 1 year ago
This movie is fucking awesome. Long live the Bard!!!!
ACEWilly08golf 1 year ago 4
best scene...at the end, trying to escape in the jeep..."My Kingdom for a horse!"
ryanell666 1 year ago 4
What an insult to make a good king as a natzi looking figure!!!!
lb40713 1 year ago
meraviglioso...strepitoso...feroce....uno dei miei film preferiti
YUMYUMYAAH 2 years ago
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What the hell is this? Richard III lived in the 1400s. This looks just plain awful!
slea79 2 years ago
@slea79 Shakespeare often gets restaged in different time periods. If you enjoy Shakespeare, watch this! Ian McKellan is brilliant.
Haroun2k 1 year ago
@slea79 The historical Richard III is completely different to Shakespeare's Richard III; it's left up to the director to reimagine it however he wants. Shakespeare left no costume notes and very few stage directions, so why NOT remake it for the 20th century, with imagery closer to the audience's heart?
Elcore 1 year ago 5
I was initially skeptical, but this looks awesome
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cleopatrapettyhp 2 years ago
"In a world gone mad...one man will have the courage to do what must be done!"
Fujikorific 2 years ago
This is hysterical. A great Shakespearean film with a cliche-ridden American voice-over on the trailer ... "NOW ... ONE MAN ...will car-nquer ALLLL!!!" The studios couldn't break a habit to save their souls ... er, sorry, i forgot, what souls? Very, very funny.
fringelily 2 years ago 73
Yeah, the trailer narration just oozes cheesiness. I like the movie though. Not the first attempt at inserting a Shakespeare play into a modern (albeit stylized) setting, but certainly one of the best of them. :-)
ZemplinTemplar 2 years ago 8
@fringelily
Haha... I guess it's a good movie. I'm just about to watch it. I just wanted to check out the trailer first. But, yeah, that trailer... Haha... very funny.
DancePetunia 1 year ago
@fringelily gingers
ieatskotchtape 1 year ago
@fringelily Yeah, I know this comment is a year old. But uh....Nick Tate is the voice-over. He's Australian. :P
pengudeus 1 year ago
Yeah ... Nick's Australian, but the accent is still the cheesiest American ... Australian actors train in cheesy American accents, and as everyone knows, excel at it ... are you listening, Russell (NZ actually), Cate, Geoffrey, Naomi, Sam, Eric, etc.etc.etc.? ... Strangely, the Aussie who was a bigger star than any of them, Errol Flynn, never quite fully adopted the Yankee twang.
fringelily 1 year ago
@fringelily haha fair enough, but damn the movie was good. american-voice-over fail, but sir ian mckellan for the win.
danthedeadhead88 11 months ago
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@fringelily haha fair enough, but damn the movie was good. voice-over fail, but sir ian mckellan for the win.
danthedeadhead88 11 months ago
@fringelily I always wonder, is there one man that does all those dramatic voiceovers? And is the reason we don't know his identity that he's in hiding??
CecilyHeron 9 months ago
TQ starrs in this movie as the dj
HardyCharlie09 2 years ago
I would like to get this movie>I like the idea of alternative histories (What IF).Theres also a movie called Niflheim Blood and Bullets where it's set in a world were North America called Vinland never entered WW1 and Europe is a fascist United Empire called the Union Star.America hasn't the Superior weopons Europe has and it has invaded.
Check out there trailer on youtube.(Niflheim Blood and Bullets Pre Sale)
reticulan5 2 years ago 2
No one rocks harder than The Bard!
AndrewMann552 2 years ago 58
:-D
goldengreen73 2 years ago
This movie is amazing
YeOldeTune 3 years ago 8
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GayGeisha 3 years ago
Nice! Could you possibly stream the whole movie?
H1926 3 years ago 6