@starbr1001 I am also looking for one. Best thing I can think of, is to convert the youtube video to mp3 and then edit out the speech in windows movie maker.
I am always amazed when I watch this excellent but blasphemously abridged version of King Richard III! The movie folk thought to make the play more agreeable and attractive to the modern audience by placing it in the early 20th century instead of late 15th century England; but they failed to do so and now good King Richard and his detractors mock the 20 century folk and confirm what Nietzsche said once: The emotionalism of modern people would be a comedy to die of laughter for renaissance folk!
I hate this version of the speech. They have skipped words, made changes, and didnt follow stage direction. Hollywood ruins the beauty of Shakespeare by trying to put it in simpler terms. This is a poor example of Shakespeares talented work.
This is an incredible film, brilliant acting, seamless editing, and razor sharp direction. it is too real to what is now happing in society and in global politics!
The opening song is a poem by Marlowe, "The passionate shepherd to his nymph", but the last verse is actually from Walter Raleigh's "The nymph's reply".
Ever since I saw Branagh's version of Hamlet, I wish that all of Shakespeare's plays could be brought to the screen as timeless, sprawling epics. This is a very similiar mold. It's just a shame this was the abbreviated version. McKellan as Richard is priceless. It would've been a true treat to see the man do the entire work. Thanks for posting.
This is a huge step up from the first stage version I saw of this play. It had Richard as a snarly bastard all the way through. They punctuated dramatic scenes with war drums and in one scene, Richard used his deformed hand to grab something. This movie made me actually like the play. He knows he's not fooling anyone that he's an evil guy (especially not the audience), but it works anyways, which he thinks is hilarious.
Just about any other actor would seem ridiculous giving Richard's famous monologue while peeing in a stall.
Ian McKellan, however, is NOT like any other actor...WOW...I've NEVER seen Richard played that way before, but that's definitely a fresh take on that famous monologue, and I like it, a nice new direction that stops short of becoming farce.
And again--what other actor could deliver those lines while IN A STALL? XD
Sir Ian McKellan and Sir Patrick Stewart--Knights of Shakespeare!!!
@gmaccy313 Do tell why, I'm curious, I thought it ws not only a fresh take on the famous opening words, but a good direction to take it as well. Richard's all about cunning and plotting--why not have him winning over the crowd with a couple of jokes at the opening of the speech?
@obiwanobiwan13 Yes I agree that it is a new direction to take Richard but at most I would have to describe it as 'interesting'. His ability to convince his audience (in the film) of his quest is well done with the telling of jokes, yet McKellen leaves out a fundamental aspect of Shakespeare's character in that he is able to deceive us (the audience seeing the film) of his quest. McKellen makes Richard's lascivious intentions clear without convincing the audience of these intentions.
Thus his distinct inability to portray a fundamental aspect of Richard's duplicitous and manipulative personality makes the performance a poor one (this aspect being his ability to sway his audience and convince us of his quest - i.e. the character from the outset seems like a criminal instead of making the audience sympathetic towards him)
(facial) similarity with current Czech politics (once again proving Shakespeare´s genius) is rather striking: Richard III - Schwarzenberg, Buckingham - Kalousek
(facial) similarity with current Czech politics (once again proving Shakespeare´s genius) is rather striking: Richard III - Schwarzenberg, Buckingham - Kalousek
(facial) similarity with current Czech politics (once again proving Shakespeare´s genius) is rather striking: Richard III - Schwarzenberg, Buckingham - Kalousek
There is an obvious and natural disconnect between Shakespeare's Middle English and modern vernacular that makes adaptations of Shakespeare's plays very difficult. Richard's solilquys are only achieved on the strength of Ian McKellen's acting - what a performance!
@nickc1188 Shakespeare didn't write in Middle English, but an early form of the Modern English we speak today. If you want to check out Middle English, I suggest reading Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as they were originally written.
I just recently watched this. What a great movie! I find it to be the best Shakespeare adaptation I have yet seen, along with Branagh's 'Henry V'. Laurence Olivier's version is, of course, also great, but this version is almost flawless.
Also, I love opening song. A nice tribute to Christopher Marlowe.
There are a family of Shakespeare's who live in the woods round about where I live. They can't even write their own name! All thay do is shoot possums! What does that say for the future of literature???
The greatest writer of literature and poetry that the English language has ever witnessed, his work transcends cultural boundaries, time and any other imaginable obstacle. He quite frankly was a genius and his influence on the world is immeasurable.
@MelsToast wristwatches started being used during World War one, and had mostly supplanted pocket watches by the 1920s. Since this is set in late 1930s/early 1940s, there's nothing anachronistic about it.
@hoodoo961 I do love his performance as Richard, however my personal favourite Richard has to be Al Pacino despite the fact he is american he does a superb job of displaying Richard's corrupt mind and his demented ways in 'looking for richard'.
@hoodoo961 McKellan is the Worst Richard, hands up. He doesn't get it. He just doesn't get it. The man is frigid. He's got no charm. I don't believe a word he says. He's an elitist fuck. And most of all the director was an idiot that cast him in the role 'cause he's too old for it too. Could be Richard's father according to the part. Yes, that does matter.
@GrierRose No, he is bad. Give me one parallel between his interpretation and the part. None can be found. No humor, no charm, no lust for life, no frustrated villain, just a frigid snob like probably most people are that seem to appreciate what he's doing for whatever reason.
Its strange how Gloucester was a killing machine in the previous histories but in Richard III he is crippled from birth. I never understood how that worked. Also in real live Richard III was a better king than Henry who took over after Gloucester was killed at Bosworth
Ooh, unsubstantiated claim there... You will have to show me considerable evidence that Richard was a 'better' king than Henry (and being popular in the north does not make you better).
It is unfair to compare them, considering how little time Richard actually reigned for and thus how little concrete evidence there is for Richard's abilities as a monarch, but at the same time Henry's political moves and changes in governance were done quickly after his ascension to the throne and were extremely important in ending the Wars of the Roses for good and establishing the Tudor Monarchy (a system of governance arguably more effective than our own).
@sharpie443 Well he's not really crippled, he's just trying to gage the audience's sympathy, something he does to other characters the whole play, manipulate their emotions and make them see what he wants them to see.
@Nelsonhojax15 Not sure if you're talking about the movie specifically, haven't seen it, but Richard III is supposed to be crippled and hideous but so manipulative and charming that it's as if he's handsome. It plays off the myth that was promoted not long after the real Richard's death that he was hideous and cripple.
@Gleebo No, I was explaining the play, Richard is hunchbacked and has a crippled arm. sharpie443 had expressed confusion about how he was able to be a great warrior in Henry VI parts 2 and 3, and then say he was "crippled" in Richard III. I said that while he is deformed, its not like he can't operate or anything, he is just using the deformity to play on the audiences sympathy.
She has her birthday list.. Anyway, it was probably Charles who handed over the glitter! I'm not bothered, as I'm very unlikely to receive any such honours, for services to the modelling community.. :)
Will apply for dual cictizenship soon, by the way.. once my son is over his little ordeal! Don't wish that illness on anybody, not even my favourite hater.. :) I like this country I live in, even though some of the British 'natives' are rather ignorant at times.. :) :)
The Prime Minister merely recommends them to the Queen, who could, if she so wished, deny them. The queen can independently award peerages, earldoms, dukedoms and viscounts if she so wished. She doesn't do so because she's got more pride and etiquette than a republican imbecile. If you love republics so much, why don't you sod off to America, the land of "freedom". It works so well there. As for the United Kingdom, we'll have a monarchy for centuries to come, something to identify us.
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She doesn't choose who receives her 'honour's and peerages because doing that would be unconstitutional and would irrevocably damage the consensus of the 'monarchy'. The bitch aint gonna do anything that'll jepordise her cushy position as the idle rich monarch.
Idle? She's one of the most active diplomats in the world. Shame treason isn't commonly punishable; we could hang insolent fools such as yourself. She chooses it all the time. She gave Thatcher an hereditary baronetcy, and coat of arms. She made Monty a Viscount. I'm guessing your a socialist, it's often jealousy that motivate people such as yourself. Problem with socialism is you run out of someone else's money.
im sorry but you're completely wrong. i must admit im baffled by your ignorance. Our queen is an idle figure head and you are completely aware of it. Just because you dont like americans dont try to pass imperialism as a good thing. and although i tolerate the queen, she stands for everything that is contrary to democrasy. She was not elected or chosen by the people and she will continue to rake our money without care. The queen brings a little through tourism. But thats it.
No, she doesn't do so because by now she has accepted being a mere figure head, having de facto lost the last remaining rights, e.g. having a say in who her prime ministerial master is. It's a shame!
Okay, the concept that William Shakespeare didn't write the books attributed to him is a ridiculous conspiracy theory. There is basically no foundation for it except a few disparaging (i.e. jealous) comments made by other playwrights and an apparent lack of evidence about Shakespeare's life (unsurprising considering we've lost entire plays of his!)
Christopher Marlowe was dead through most of Shakespeare's career and the plays he wrote while alive bear little resemblance to Shakespeare.
His tomb statue was apparently altered. It originally showed a sack of grain. That's why today it shows him writing on a pillow ( who writes on a pillow?)
The true author may or may not have been Marlowe. The Marlowe conjecture, of course, posits that Marlowe faked his own death.
The theory that Marlowe was Shakespeare is quite ridiculous. They are two completely different playwrights--in tone, character, theme and syntax! There are many theories to the Shakespeare mystery (personally I think Shakespeare wrote all of his plays) but Marlowe = Shakespeare is just silly.
I love the way they conceptualized this film version... but not the way they mutilated the text of play. They cut way more of the language out than they needed to.
This is true. They've changed just a few details of costume, uniform, etc., to make it slightly strange. Then they picked up references here and there in the text, and gave a 1930s interpretation to them.
Sir Ian is just great, especially from 7:40 on, speaking about acting and then looking directly in the camera - a real good interpretation for the classic monologues of theatre in a film.
Richard III is an interesting character once you get to know how he makes things worse for everyone, I typically think that the Earl Of Warwick should go in there and kill Richard III because Richard is such a murdering slothful fool. And then everything should end the way it is suppose to end.
oops, reposted reply, I know the difference between fact and fiction, while I don't recall all the facts of the book, it said that Richard had no motive to kill the boys, because he was next in line to the throne. That the play, and our historical reference, was based solely on Thomas Moore's account, who was allied with Henry VIII, and who was an anti-protestent bigot, while Richard was the first Protestant English king. I not an historian, so don't overcorrect me if my recollections are off.
Henry the VIII was the first protestant king, or at least he was in power when the Reformation happened. The real reason that Richard III is remembered as a villain is that he was the last king from the York family. Henry VII, his son Henry VIII and then his daughter Elizabeth were descended from the Lancaster family. They hated the Yorkists. And as Shakespeare was writing during Elizabeth's reign then how could he portray Richard as a good guy? He'd have been accused of treason.
Well, I think using someone else is a good thing in itself, given that poets like Marlowe, Johnson, Fletcher and all of that lot are massively overshadowed and forgotten about because of Shakespeare.
I agree. Shakespeare was a genius whose work deserves the praise it gets. However, other brilliant Renaissance playwrights like Marlowe and Jonson certainly deserve more exposure. I think Jonson's comedies are better than most of Shakespeare's, and I feel many would agree if only they knew about them.
That book is a work of fiction. This is simply one of the many events in history we cannot be certain about. It is very likely that he murdered his nephews, but there is no concrete proof that he did. So yes, it is possible that he was innocent. What is certain is that Shakespeare's Richard is a character who is meant to have a dramatic significance and must not be mistaken for being a historically correct portrayal.
Yes, there is no doubt that Thomas More's account is questionable as a historical source. There are strong reasons to argue that it is Tudor propaganda. Portraying Richard III as a villain could indeed have been done to justify Henry VII's seizure of the crown. The term 'history play' is a relative one; 'Antony and Cleopatra', for instance, is known as a tragedy, but is actually one of Shakespeare's most historically faithful plays.
I love the picture that Clarence prints. Especially the man with charlie chaplin mustaches. In the 30s, many members of the Royal Family were Nazi sympathizers and secretely endorsed the fascist party of Oswald Mosley (the father of Max....the Nazi bondage enthusiast and F1 big boss? Yes, That's him).
Unbelievable film! This spirit of 30-s so suit Shakespeare grim book. All-around excellent film. And so true - Richard III is not an ancient tale of past. Internet, cell phones and all this shiny attributes of modern society will not save you from Richard in your hart. Technologies changes but peoples are not. The only thing that really changes is scale of human deeds. Both good and evil.
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Why not! i had a good idea for amodern version of the scotish play. insted of having 3 witches have 3 drug addicks. "Round about the cauldren go in the posion entrailes go". insted make it a bonk, let them boil it and smoke it.
i've seen that one. but it didn't really strike me as compelling. i'd use the shakespeare language but the king would be a high ranking business man or a general in either the iraq or afghan war. of course the business man idea could involve MacDuff throughing him from the top of the office building insted of having his head choped off.
well im studying this book now and have finished it.. ı have watched the version with al pacino which was very interesting.. different views u shud see it. ım hoping to watch the full version of this one it looks very good
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DrStormaggedon 1 month ago
14 people are not shaped for sportive tricks :)
SchergeSatans 1 month ago
At 6:19 the two little boys...are they Edward V and Richard, Duke Of York (aka the Princes In The Tower?)
brnleague99 1 month ago
i like this song but can't find mp3 version.
laofuzi400 2 months ago
utter don
sarahjamjar33 2 months ago
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Cettoto 2 months ago
Where can I find a recording of this song?
starbr1001 3 months ago
@starbr1001 I am also looking for one. Best thing I can think of, is to convert the youtube video to mp3 and then edit out the speech in windows movie maker.
Duskworker 3 months ago
I'm trying to memorize this to impress my Dad, who loves this movie.
thescotishawesome 4 months ago
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I am always amazed when I watch this excellent but blasphemously abridged version of King Richard III! The movie folk thought to make the play more agreeable and attractive to the modern audience by placing it in the early 20th century instead of late 15th century England; but they failed to do so and now good King Richard and his detractors mock the 20 century folk and confirm what Nietzsche said once: The emotionalism of modern people would be a comedy to die of laughter for renaissance folk!
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@dillonsmithliveca Then I hope you're not studying this for a test or something. If so....YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!
hayesism 5 months ago 2
Nice touch putting Marlowe's "Come live with me and be my love" at 2:07
GymMaurison 6 months ago
I hate this version of the speech. They have skipped words, made changes, and didnt follow stage direction. Hollywood ruins the beauty of Shakespeare by trying to put it in simpler terms. This is a poor example of Shakespeares talented work.
supermusiclove016 6 months ago
This is an incredible film, brilliant acting, seamless editing, and razor sharp direction. it is too real to what is now happing in society and in global politics!
aetechllc 7 months ago
Sigh, words have to be changed and skipped because modern society lacks the cultural appreciation to understand and enjoy the true text.
steeflo7 7 months ago
I teach this film as part of a college course and year after year my students say it's their favorite film, I agree, it's excellent.
MrPipboy77 8 months ago
words are missed and changed :(
mandymay22 8 months ago
Is he meant to miss two lines?
mandymay22 8 months ago
@Skybaby79
Well, who hasn't?
sweetcurmudgeon 9 months ago
I love this version of Richard III. Makes Oliver's portrayal look like a hack.
mikeS8590 9 months ago
5:37
AkumaOfTheHorde 9 months ago
Magneto Vs Ironman.
genetvideos 11 months ago
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What a bad idea for a movie.
PZK12 11 months ago
hammy old pompous queen lol
henryhaven 1 year ago
actually, the opening song is Come Be My Love written by Phillip Marlowe and sung by Stacey Kent. It's not a poem at all.
cameron120587 1 year ago
The opening song is a poem by Marlowe, "The passionate shepherd to his nymph", but the last verse is actually from Walter Raleigh's "The nymph's reply".
mainsqueeze1977 10 months ago
@ dextear The opening song is actually a poem written by Christopher Marlowe written in the late 1500's.
dizzedot2250 1 year ago 11
@dizzedot2250 yea it's called the passionate shepherd to his love
sweetpinkcafe 1 month ago
Given the fascist-style uniforms, you'd think the opening song would have been a Vera Lynn recording. Would have made a nice contradiction.
Dextear 1 year ago
5:35
AkumaOfTheHorde 1 year ago
<3 Hunter
dsymms11 1 year ago
Arthouse movie but I had to buy it. Imagine we really evolved into that society.
Kelly14UK 1 year ago
Ever since I saw Branagh's version of Hamlet, I wish that all of Shakespeare's plays could be brought to the screen as timeless, sprawling epics. This is a very similiar mold. It's just a shame this was the abbreviated version. McKellan as Richard is priceless. It would've been a true treat to see the man do the entire work. Thanks for posting.
TenderTrap86 1 year ago
8:16
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LAZRCAT 1 year ago
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LAZRCAT 1 year ago
This is a huge step up from the first stage version I saw of this play. It had Richard as a snarly bastard all the way through. They punctuated dramatic scenes with war drums and in one scene, Richard used his deformed hand to grab something. This movie made me actually like the play. He knows he's not fooling anyone that he's an evil guy (especially not the audience), but it works anyways, which he thinks is hilarious.
Bottery 1 year ago
Just about any other actor would seem ridiculous giving Richard's famous monologue while peeing in a stall.
Ian McKellan, however, is NOT like any other actor...WOW...I've NEVER seen Richard played that way before, but that's definitely a fresh take on that famous monologue, and I like it, a nice new direction that stops short of becoming farce.
And again--what other actor could deliver those lines while IN A STALL? XD
Sir Ian McKellan and Sir Patrick Stewart--Knights of Shakespeare!!!
obiwanobiwan13 1 year ago
To be honest I think this is a terrible way to perform Richard
gmaccy313 1 year ago
@gmaccy313 Do tell why, I'm curious, I thought it ws not only a fresh take on the famous opening words, but a good direction to take it as well. Richard's all about cunning and plotting--why not have him winning over the crowd with a couple of jokes at the opening of the speech?
obiwanobiwan13 1 year ago
@obiwanobiwan13 Yes I agree that it is a new direction to take Richard but at most I would have to describe it as 'interesting'. His ability to convince his audience (in the film) of his quest is well done with the telling of jokes, yet McKellen leaves out a fundamental aspect of Shakespeare's character in that he is able to deceive us (the audience seeing the film) of his quest. McKellen makes Richard's lascivious intentions clear without convincing the audience of these intentions.
gmaccy313 1 year ago
@obiwanobiwan13
Thus his distinct inability to portray a fundamental aspect of Richard's duplicitous and manipulative personality makes the performance a poor one (this aspect being his ability to sway his audience and convince us of his quest - i.e. the character from the outset seems like a criminal instead of making the audience sympathetic towards him)
gmaccy313 1 year ago
Not to take away from anyone else's performance, but Ian McKellen's is bar far the best. He made Richard a REAL PERSON.
firefox335 1 year ago
@firefox335 Fuck no he didn't he made it a MUSEUM PIECE. He is FAKE. DEAD. Without HUMOR or CHARM. He DOES NOT GET IT.
metyuewb 4 months ago
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(facial) similarity with current Czech politics (once again proving Shakespeare´s genius) is rather striking: Richard III - Schwarzenberg, Buckingham - Kalousek
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(facial) similarity with current Czech politics (once again proving Shakespeare´s genius) is rather striking: Richard III - Schwarzenberg, Buckingham - Kalousek
suchIaccountthylove 1 year ago
(facial) similarity with current Czech politics (once again proving Shakespeare´s genius) is rather striking: Richard III - Schwarzenberg, Buckingham - Kalousek
suchIaccountthylove 1 year ago
He is a legend actor of all time
peppercornbtbij 1 year ago
Thats it. Nobody should even try now, or as Shakespeare once said "I pity the Fool"
garyfrank100 1 year ago
There is an obvious and natural disconnect between Shakespeare's Middle English and modern vernacular that makes adaptations of Shakespeare's plays very difficult. Richard's solilquys are only achieved on the strength of Ian McKellen's acting - what a performance!
nickc1188 1 year ago
@nickc1188 Shakespeare didn't write in Middle English, but an early form of the Modern English we speak today. If you want to check out Middle English, I suggest reading Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as they were originally written.
mikeymo0220 1 year ago
@mikeymo0220 - my mistake. I only wanted to give McKellen credit for making their style work in a modern setting.
nickc1188 1 year ago
I'd like to see Robert Downey, jr perform more Shakespeare roles, especially MacBeth.
rerite2 1 year ago
I have to learn that monologue by Monday, for an audition
notforvideos 1 year ago
Ahh they've mixed Marlowe with Raleigh in the lyrics here. At the end of the song, she sings the first stanza of The Nymph's Reply to the Sheperd.
xRhinestone 1 year ago
speech starts at 5:37
FromHalo2halo 1 year ago
I just recently watched this. What a great movie! I find it to be the best Shakespeare adaptation I have yet seen, along with Branagh's 'Henry V'. Laurence Olivier's version is, of course, also great, but this version is almost flawless.
Also, I love opening song. A nice tribute to Christopher Marlowe.
rigstula 1 year ago
There are a family of Shakespeare's who live in the woods round about where I live. They can't even write their own name! All thay do is shoot possums! What does that say for the future of literature???
spamount028 1 year ago
0:40 Dominic West is in this? I had no idea.
overfiend30 2 years ago
a famous rennesance playwrite.
Euellinc09 2 years ago
WHO WAS THIS SHAKESPEARE GUY???
spamount028 2 years ago
You're kidding, right?
jackgorden 2 years ago
Really? He wrote Romeo & Juliet. Macbeth. Henry V. Much Ado About Nothing. Hamlet. Julius Caesar.
deadlyjoker5 1 year ago
The greatest writer of literature and poetry that the English language has ever witnessed, his work transcends cultural boundaries, time and any other imaginable obstacle. He quite frankly was a genius and his influence on the world is immeasurable.
DukeofWellington91 1 year ago 3
I think he was a porn-star.
Warwickcain 1 year ago 2
seems he was pretty good.
krane33 1 year ago
All I really want to do right now is drink quite a lot of whiskey and watch this youtube video on repeat.
dasgdasg 2 years ago 3
@dasgdasg I feel that.
shininghours 1 year ago
6:06 noticed the watch he wears?
It doesn´t fit does it?
MelsToast 2 years ago
to MeIsToast: the wristwatch is appropriate. Deco-styling.
gregorandolga 2 years ago
@MelsToast wristwatches started being used during World War one, and had mostly supplanted pocket watches by the 1920s. Since this is set in late 1930s/early 1940s, there's nothing anachronistic about it.
BorisGodunov 1 year ago
McKellan is the best Richard, hands down.
hoodoo961 2 years ago 74
@hoodoo961 I do love his performance as Richard, however my personal favourite Richard has to be Al Pacino despite the fact he is american he does a superb job of displaying Richard's corrupt mind and his demented ways in 'looking for richard'.
0o0kempy0o0 2 years ago
@hoodoo961
I'm going to see Kevin Spacey as Richard III in a couple months. I think he is going to make a superb Richard.
abrondarbit 11 months ago 2
@hoodoo961 McKellan is the Worst Richard, hands up. He doesn't get it. He just doesn't get it. The man is frigid. He's got no charm. I don't believe a word he says. He's an elitist fuck. And most of all the director was an idiot that cast him in the role 'cause he's too old for it too. Could be Richard's father according to the part. Yes, that does matter.
metyuewb 4 months ago
@metyuewb Haha, you're an idiot. Just saying, McKellan is a great Richard III.
GrierRose 4 months ago
@GrierRose No, he is bad. Give me one parallel between his interpretation and the part. None can be found. No humor, no charm, no lust for life, no frustrated villain, just a frigid snob like probably most people are that seem to appreciate what he's doing for whatever reason.
metyuewb 4 months ago
@metyuewb
Well, this is the beauty! Just an ordinary man, snob, normal one - ordinary fellow. Like Hitler.
swiesel100 3 months ago
@swiesel100 Uh, no. Let's not try to simplify this by pretending to understand it. Or the other way round.
metyuewb 3 months ago
@hoodoo961
I'd say McKellen is the best anything when acting, hands down. Alongside Gary Oldman of course. Just imagine them both on screen...
Edhunter665 4 months ago 8
what an actor.
aced1592 2 years ago 37
Lawrence Olivier was a better Richard 3rd. Noone can speak or act shakespere better then Olivier.
afel33 2 years ago
Not any more. He's dead.
strontiumcrypt 2 years ago 5
That does not make sense.
afel33 2 years ago
Death rarely makes sense.
strontiumcrypt 2 years ago 5
and apparently neither do you.
afel33 2 years ago 4
Compared to peruvian president ALAN GARCIA, Richard III is just an amateur.
amilcaraml 2 years ago
Its strange how Gloucester was a killing machine in the previous histories but in Richard III he is crippled from birth. I never understood how that worked. Also in real live Richard III was a better king than Henry who took over after Gloucester was killed at Bosworth
sharpie443 2 years ago 3
Ooh, unsubstantiated claim there... You will have to show me considerable evidence that Richard was a 'better' king than Henry (and being popular in the north does not make you better).
PlantFaceMan 2 years ago
It is unfair to compare them, considering how little time Richard actually reigned for and thus how little concrete evidence there is for Richard's abilities as a monarch, but at the same time Henry's political moves and changes in governance were done quickly after his ascension to the throne and were extremely important in ending the Wars of the Roses for good and establishing the Tudor Monarchy (a system of governance arguably more effective than our own).
PlantFaceMan 2 years ago
@sharpie443 Well he's not really crippled, he's just trying to gage the audience's sympathy, something he does to other characters the whole play, manipulate their emotions and make them see what he wants them to see.
Nelsonhojax15 1 year ago
@Nelsonhojax15 Not sure if you're talking about the movie specifically, haven't seen it, but Richard III is supposed to be crippled and hideous but so manipulative and charming that it's as if he's handsome. It plays off the myth that was promoted not long after the real Richard's death that he was hideous and cripple.
Gleebo 1 year ago
@Gleebo No, I was explaining the play, Richard is hunchbacked and has a crippled arm. sharpie443 had expressed confusion about how he was able to be a great warrior in Henry VI parts 2 and 3, and then say he was "crippled" in Richard III. I said that while he is deformed, its not like he can't operate or anything, he is just using the deformity to play on the audiences sympathy.
Nelsonhojax15 1 year ago
MASHALLAH. This is perhaps the greatest movie of the 1990s .....
Abuamina001 2 years ago
I've heard of this version but have never seen any of it until now...Now I want to see the rest!
mecampbellesq 2 years ago
Easily one of the cleverest adaptations of Shakespeare to film. I love this, from the excellent acting to the design details.
mikeybill 2 years ago 2
it is a great depiction of 30's England with the rise of extreme right-winged parties
dajohnthomas69 2 years ago
wtf? THis video is mainly dreary trad jazz. We don't actually get the beginning soliloquy until 05:41.
DeafFret 2 years ago
Who cares if Porky Pig wrote the stuff; it is incredible literature. All the genius plus iambic pentameter; brilliant.
rollsthepaul 2 years ago
Isn't he SIR Ian McKellen now.. the Queen gave him a knighthood, I think..
BasicModelling 2 years ago
No, no. Let me explain to you very carefully, Swede...THE PRIME MINISTER decides who receives honours. Elizabeth Windsor merely
hands over the awards themselves.
EnglishRepublicNow 2 years ago
She has her birthday list.. Anyway, it was probably Charles who handed over the glitter! I'm not bothered, as I'm very unlikely to receive any such honours, for services to the modelling community.. :)
Will apply for dual cictizenship soon, by the way.. once my son is over his little ordeal! Don't wish that illness on anybody, not even my favourite hater.. :) I like this country I live in, even though some of the British 'natives' are rather ignorant at times.. :) :)
BasicModelling 2 years ago
You're such an optimist.
EnglishRepublicNow 2 years ago
I have no reason not to be.. :)
BasicModelling 2 years ago
The Prime Minister merely recommends them to the Queen, who could, if she so wished, deny them. The queen can independently award peerages, earldoms, dukedoms and viscounts if she so wished. She doesn't do so because she's got more pride and etiquette than a republican imbecile. If you love republics so much, why don't you sod off to America, the land of "freedom". It works so well there. As for the United Kingdom, we'll have a monarchy for centuries to come, something to identify us.
BertrumPantyshield 2 years ago 2
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She doesn't choose who receives her 'honour's and peerages because doing that would be unconstitutional and would irrevocably damage the consensus of the 'monarchy'. The bitch aint gonna do anything that'll jepordise her cushy position as the idle rich monarch.
EnglishRepublicNow 2 years ago
Idle? She's one of the most active diplomats in the world. Shame treason isn't commonly punishable; we could hang insolent fools such as yourself. She chooses it all the time. She gave Thatcher an hereditary baronetcy, and coat of arms. She made Monty a Viscount. I'm guessing your a socialist, it's often jealousy that motivate people such as yourself. Problem with socialism is you run out of someone else's money.
BertrumPantyshield 2 years ago 5
I'm no socialist.
Why do you write like a PJ Wodehouse character? You're living in the 21st century, you affected fuck.
EnglishRepublicNow 2 years ago
Indeed we are. Not the 17th.
BertrumPantyshield 2 years ago
im sorry but you're completely wrong. i must admit im baffled by your ignorance. Our queen is an idle figure head and you are completely aware of it. Just because you dont like americans dont try to pass imperialism as a good thing. and although i tolerate the queen, she stands for everything that is contrary to democrasy. She was not elected or chosen by the people and she will continue to rake our money without care. The queen brings a little through tourism. But thats it.
peni14 2 years ago
Your Isle has bigger problems with Nanny government than Mother Queen.
salinagrrrl69 2 years ago
No, she doesn't do so because by now she has accepted being a mere figure head, having de facto lost the last remaining rights, e.g. having a say in who her prime ministerial master is. It's a shame!
mainsqueeze1977 2 years ago
@BertrumPantyshield Your pretension is showing sir, I'd cover that up if I were you.
Asciipanda 2 years ago
Novel adaptation of a great play.
EnglishRepublicNow 2 years ago
Great play yet what a horrible movie. Althrough Ian Mckellen is always good.
gothsrule247 2 years ago
The song "Come Live With Me" is based on a poem by Philip Marlowe - one of the candidates for the real playright.
edydon 2 years ago 2
Christopher Marlowe?
walkies777 2 years ago
I suspected as much. When I watched this opening scene I felt there was something contemporaneous about that song. But thank you for clarifying.
soulharvest2012 2 years ago
one of the candidates for the real playwright?
BoredOf 2 years ago
Okay, the concept that William Shakespeare didn't write the books attributed to him is a ridiculous conspiracy theory. There is basically no foundation for it except a few disparaging (i.e. jealous) comments made by other playwrights and an apparent lack of evidence about Shakespeare's life (unsurprising considering we've lost entire plays of his!)
Christopher Marlowe was dead through most of Shakespeare's career and the plays he wrote while alive bear little resemblance to Shakespeare.
CharmingApollo 2 years ago
Check out the film:
MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING:
Documentary. Directed and narrated by Mike Rubbo.
I would hardly call the conjectures "ridiculous."
He never even mentioned the plays in his will.
His tomb statue was apparently altered. It originally showed a sack of grain. That's why today it shows him writing on a pillow ( who writes on a pillow?)
The true author may or may not have been Marlowe. The Marlowe conjecture, of course, posits that Marlowe faked his own death.
edydon 2 years ago
The theory that Marlowe was Shakespeare is quite ridiculous. They are two completely different playwrights--in tone, character, theme and syntax! There are many theories to the Shakespeare mystery (personally I think Shakespeare wrote all of his plays) but Marlowe = Shakespeare is just silly.
faithlessjuliet 2 years ago
yes but shakespeare was greatly influenced by christopher marlowe
MzNotorious 2 years ago
Thank you for taking the trouble to say this, it just can't be said often enough.
Hessenkittel 2 years ago
8:19 is the funniest part ever
cysolja 2 years ago
I love the way they conceptualized this film version... but not the way they mutilated the text of play. They cut way more of the language out than they needed to.
mistabobdobolina 2 years ago
response to psychobiskit- I believe the the movie is set in pre-WWII era, bringing to mind Franco in Spain or Hitler in Germany
piscean60 2 years ago
This is true. They've changed just a few details of costume, uniform, etc., to make it slightly strange. Then they picked up references here and there in the text, and gave a 1930s interpretation to them.
TheNeverson 2 years ago
Ian is such a ledge
one of the greats
.... although part of is speech is kindof ruined by the fact he is peeing....
o well :)
RedKingCommandz 2 years ago 5
Ever since indoor plumbing, who wants to deliver a soliloquy anywhere else? XD
Threetails 2 years ago 4
whens this supposed 2 be based like
20s-30s?
ian makes a boss richard lol
PsychoBisket 2 years ago 3
Sir Ian is just great, especially from 7:40 on, speaking about acting and then looking directly in the camera - a real good interpretation for the classic monologues of theatre in a film.
0Klabund0 2 years ago
Richard III is an interesting character once you get to know how he makes things worse for everyone, I typically think that the Earl Of Warwick should go in there and kill Richard III because Richard is such a murdering slothful fool. And then everything should end the way it is suppose to end.
DukeOfLuke1 2 years ago
I saw him in this role at the National Theatre in1990 and in NYC Amadeus...He is a fabulous actor and speaketh the English trippingly.. ;-))
Ceboia 2 years ago
oops, reposted reply, I know the difference between fact and fiction, while I don't recall all the facts of the book, it said that Richard had no motive to kill the boys, because he was next in line to the throne. That the play, and our historical reference, was based solely on Thomas Moore's account, who was allied with Henry VIII, and who was an anti-protestent bigot, while Richard was the first Protestant English king. I not an historian, so don't overcorrect me if my recollections are off.
Cricketmite 3 years ago
Henry the VIII was the first protestant king, or at least he was in power when the Reformation happened. The real reason that Richard III is remembered as a villain is that he was the last king from the York family. Henry VII, his son Henry VIII and then his daughter Elizabeth were descended from the Lancaster family. They hated the Yorkists. And as Shakespeare was writing during Elizabeth's reign then how could he portray Richard as a good guy? He'd have been accused of treason.
cszemis 3 years ago 4
Hahaha, I love the "Come Live With Me And Be My Love" Jazz adaptation XD
klickenpod 3 years ago 6
5:38
is when the speech actually starts
scribble100 3 years ago 2
i love this film and the book they're so sarcastic and evil
this film has even a friday the 13th spoof
rikiyamashi 3 years ago
Hmm they're using Marlowe and Raleighs' poems in the song, aren't they? I wonder why they didn't just use Shakespeare...
skatemaker89 3 years ago 4
Well, I think using someone else is a good thing in itself, given that poets like Marlowe, Johnson, Fletcher and all of that lot are massively overshadowed and forgotten about because of Shakespeare.
thedoctor1812 3 years ago 2
I agree. Shakespeare was a genius whose work deserves the praise it gets. However, other brilliant Renaissance playwrights like Marlowe and Jonson certainly deserve more exposure. I think Jonson's comedies are better than most of Shakespeare's, and I feel many would agree if only they knew about them.
rigstula 3 years ago
Richard was falsely accused. Read The Daughter of Time, by Josophine Tey.
Cricketmite 3 years ago 3
Maybe so but the villan being innocent doesn't make a good shakespere play
cheeserape 3 years ago
That book is a work of fiction. This is simply one of the many events in history we cannot be certain about. It is very likely that he murdered his nephews, but there is no concrete proof that he did. So yes, it is possible that he was innocent. What is certain is that Shakespeare's Richard is a character who is meant to have a dramatic significance and must not be mistaken for being a historically correct portrayal.
rigstula 3 years ago 2
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countsclavus 3 years ago
Yes, there is no doubt that Thomas More's account is questionable as a historical source. There are strong reasons to argue that it is Tudor propaganda. Portraying Richard III as a villain could indeed have been done to justify Henry VII's seizure of the crown. The term 'history play' is a relative one; 'Antony and Cleopatra', for instance, is known as a tragedy, but is actually one of Shakespeare's most historically faithful plays.
rigstula 3 years ago
i am now playing this vid for the 11th time and i am not near finished yet
cant get over how good sir Ian is awesome
the way he catches the audiences eye(the camera)in the mirror as if he didn't realize it was there before that... my hat goes off to you Sir
and old Shakes' aint too bad either
khalmatic 3 years ago 2
Brilliant performance, in a fascinating restructuring of Shakespeare's tale. But McKellen is a brilliant as can be.
hanshotfirst1138 3 years ago 5
I love the picture that Clarence prints. Especially the man with charlie chaplin mustaches. In the 30s, many members of the Royal Family were Nazi sympathizers and secretely endorsed the fascist party of Oswald Mosley (the father of Max....the Nazi bondage enthusiast and F1 big boss? Yes, That's him).
purgebaby102 3 years ago
Unbelievable film! This spirit of 30-s so suit Shakespeare grim book. All-around excellent film. And so true - Richard III is not an ancient tale of past. Internet, cell phones and all this shiny attributes of modern society will not save you from Richard in your hart. Technologies changes but peoples are not. The only thing that really changes is scale of human deeds. Both good and evil.
TonyHanin 3 years ago 2
"And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
I am determined to prove a villain"
It is lyrical perfection.
GroundskeeperRonnie 3 years ago 3
LOVE IT.
PrinceOfCatsInAHat 3 years ago 2
How fucking great is Shakespeare? Excellent adaptation of a great play. I love it.
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TJ7531 3 years ago
Mashallah. Definitely one of THE best films of the 1990s.
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sabhjuman 3 years ago
richard dreyfuss has the most hilarious interpretation of richard III in the film goodbye girl
s065002 3 years ago
it is so wonderfully funny...i really enjoy this movie everytime.
Oriola26, indeed, that thing was marvellous.
idriveayugo 3 years ago 3
I love Downey in this film, he doesn't have the biggest part but he does it so well
cheeserape 3 years ago
...cars and airplanes in a Shakespeare play?
youvebeenthunderstru 3 years ago 4
And tanks.
Blue387 3 years ago 2
Why not! i had a good idea for amodern version of the scotish play. insted of having 3 witches have 3 drug addicks. "Round about the cauldren go in the posion entrailes go". insted make it a bonk, let them boil it and smoke it.
nationalist19 3 years ago
in the bbc shakespeare retold series it was 3 garbage men but i like ur idea :)))))
s065002 3 years ago
i've seen that one. but it didn't really strike me as compelling. i'd use the shakespeare language but the king would be a high ranking business man or a general in either the iraq or afghan war. of course the business man idea could involve MacDuff throughing him from the top of the office building insted of having his head choped off.
nationalist19 3 years ago
Macbeth was a 'head chef' in that appropriation wasnt he?
H1926 3 years ago
"...cars and airplanes in a Shakespeare play?"
Yes? So? Orson Welles did the same thing with Julius Caesar - and set MacBeth in Haiti (his famous "Voodoo MacBeth")
JAF1970 3 years ago 2
...and did a great job, didn't he?
btw, sir Ian McKellen is the best living actor imo. Who else?
terwin16 3 years ago 3
What a great blend of music and play!
Sir Ian must be the most classic person on Earth. I would like him to represent us when they come. Cheers to Sir Ian :-)
Shad0wplay 3 years ago 2
This is anawesome version of the play!
briareos02 3 years ago
well im studying this book now and have finished it.. ı have watched the version with al pacino which was very interesting.. different views u shud see it. ım hoping to watch the full version of this one it looks very good
4horsemen93 3 years ago
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gandalf goes shakespearean :P
brainfreeze05 3 years ago
No, you mean a Shakespearean goes...
Eh, it's not worth it...
Taskat 3 years ago 21
It is my sad duty to inform you that I.McKellen palyed Richard III BEFORE Gandalf. Brainfreeze05, I think you need to defrost your brain!
purgebaby102 3 years ago
that song is a marlowe poem isnt it?
Daringa 4 years ago
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no, john donne
seantanzey 3 years ago