Shakespeare - Richard III (1983 TV) - Richard Killed

[tc1485]

What's with the crap fantasy armour?

[tnecklover]

This is acting at it's finest.

[belisariusorb]

Good. Just all-round good from the performances to the direction of the fights. Great in fact.

[Ingemar1965]

How lovely to finally see poor queen Margaret happy! But I think the actor playing Henry Tudoe should have been allowed to keep the beard he wore when he played Oxford in H6 part 3. Looked more like a king.

[McGrenzer]

BBC violence at its very best: real, suggested and remembered. Nothing like this on US TV, in my opinion.

[uclrichard]

why does henry have a comedy welsh accent? he was a franco/anglo/celtic aristocratic...he would NOT have had a working class 20th century rhyl accent.

[JackFieldBand]

The final scene is freaking disturbing!

[musicgalore30]

@JackFieldBand I agree with you.

[mutantking88]

fuckin bastards, england would have been different IF better if us Yorks had the throne.

[docterphreak]

"'IF'? thou protector of this damned strumpet

Talks thou to me of 'ifs'? thou art a traitor.

Off with his head."

[kirstyasher2]

this is the funniest fake battle scene ever XD

[rexel666]

The bit at the end with Queen Margaret and the maniacal laughter is brilliant.

[DarthWill3]

It would've been much better if Margaret laughed more like the Joker!

[Ceaaa22]

@rexel666 Stevie Nicks has really let herself go.

[Hendrikdevuile]

Where is the hump and the clubfoot?

[GreatGrumbledook]

@Hendrikdevuile: I guess the Romans took them away as they've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers and from our fathers' fathers' fathers and from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers. And what have they ever given us in return?!?

[fatdaddyb28]

Richard got fudged up!!!!!!

Damn

[hotlovehotlovehotlov]

"Now is the winter of our discontent" what is the meaning of this sentence?

[fatdaddyb28]

I believe the discontent he's talking about is the Wars of the Roses. The sentence is "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by the sun of York...." and the sun is Edward IV.

[aj2001832000]

Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun or york. Is the whole sentence which means "Now that our winter (which was probably depressing) is over, the this sun of York bring upon us summer. Basically; summer's here.

[diddymuck]

now is our war, which turned the land barren of life like a bad winter, made peaceful and cheery again like a glorious "summer". You might say the Sun, that is, the "son" of York, Edward IV our new king, is the cause of this "change of weather".

[joyusachoobarb]

The direct-address to the camera is awesome!

[mtigers1981]

What a dark and disturbing (not to mention pessimistic) end here...

Not to mention this isn't even in the original play...

Usually, adaptations of "Richard III" end on an upbeat note with Richmond's final speeches after becoming King.

[MRMETHOS1]

What witch? Anymore info. on this?

[fabios66]

GREAT COSTUMES,

[petofi6]

Blessed be your great ancestor, Sir Edmund Rice, for killing the usurping murdering Richard III! Sir Edmund avenged the murdered, King Edward V and his brother by slaying the tyrant Gloucester. You're very lucky to have such a great man in your family tree.

[ajawofcopan]

Richard was killed by an unknown Welsh pikeman and then mutilated. This is a play, not a documentary. At nay rate, the Tudors were piece of shit pigs and the current monarchy is held by usurpers.

[redfan45x]

My ancestor Sir edmund rice was the knight who killed him.

[abrondarbit]

What!? They have no idea who killed him or exaxtly how he was even slain.

[goodagofilms]

You can kill a man but not a family.. Perkin Warbeck.. prince richard bore fruit it lives upon the vine..history is a lie written by tudour scum...

[komodo149]

every English royal family is scum tyrants

[goodagofilms]

Richard was lanced by an unknown pike man. Killed by a commana, as foretold on the bridge by the witch.

[fringelily]

It's a moot point since Edward IV was almost certainly a bastard.

[NeoXer0]

Ouch..

[batalion666]

even in propaganda piece of art Richard seams to be someone really interesting

[petofi6]

There is no doubt that Richard III was the murderer of his nephews. Long Live King Edward V!!!!

[abrondarbit]

Really? No evidence one way or the other exists to who killed those boys or if they were even killed at all! Richard had means and motive, but so did Henry VI, Buckingham, and a few others.

All that = DOUBT.

[JUMONG2ND]

Richard get a murdurer and kill all Princes and Princess btw what scene that the ghost of the ppl that richard killed talk to them.Them means Richard and Richmond

[rickker20]

Henry tudor was the evil one he killed murder the princes and blame Richard so he can take his crown that truly belong to Richard III not Henry Tudor.

[elleoneiram]

it's interesting hearing this piece after hearing Richmond's pious speech

[FinalFreek]

they're wearing the wronf type of armour for the period and they wouldn't of just had footmen and richard didn't have a flail or a sheild he had a poleaxe and heavy plate armour

[steerpike66]

If you're going to be pedantic (ridiculous; people have been adapting the trappings of these plays in every way forever; that's why they persist) then Richard WAS neither a hunchback nor a murderer; his armour proves him undeformed and the hero of this play killed the princes.

[FinalFreek]

yeah the pic that shows that he was a hunchback was a remake and a mistake becuase the original didn't have a hunch and i think i'm right about the villan killed the princes not the hero.

[xilpix]

Shakespear made a little of propaganda for the Tudors. Richard was a man of his time, he wasn't hunchback, he wasn't a monster and he wasn't a Hero, Richards fought and killed like the others.

[FinalFreek]

i agree he wasn't a hero, hunchback or monster he was an every day king.

[abrondarbit]

I think he was a bit too far ahead of his time. A lot of his ideas would have been betetr suited to the renasaince.

[TyUnglebower]

The last 60 seconds in one of the more messed up, macabre moments in TV history.

[zenstudent37]

Not bad. But i think the guy who played Richard wasn't really the right choice for the role. But, he did okish.

[Dalaruan]

The end with the mad queen Margaret is a really great pieta!

[zilch77]

I remember seeing this verison way back when. It was a very memorable redition