Richard III (1995)

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Richard III
by JimBell in JimBell Blog

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"Richard III is a 1995 adaptation of a modern stage adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play. Set in 1930s England, it chronicles the rise to power of an evil man. Unlike, say, Macbeth who is a man who happens to have severe failings, Richard is a mono-dimensional personification of evil. So why, some Shakespeare critics ask, is this rather soap-operaish play the second most produced (after Hamlet)? My guess is because we have all encountered or observed people acting in an evil way, so it does not surprise us—in fact, fascinates us—to see someone so overtly villanous. The production makes the move to the 1930s very well, and it deseved the two Oscar nominations for costumes and for set design. Music is used to good effect, with the wonderful Stacey Kent and orchestra doing the best Shakespeare song you’ll ever hear (the lyrics are actually by Shakespeare’s rival Christopher Marlowe). And as the happy-go-lucky music opens the movie, the plotting of murd ... " [More]

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