Richard III

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Summary: Chillind Adaptation
Review: There can never be enough good things said about this film adaptation. McKellens' performance is awe-inspiring, as should be expected of so superb and legendary an actor. Any play/movie discrepancies resolve quite nicely, and the imagery, both visual and aural, give credit to the creators' deep understanding of the forces at work in this tale of evil.

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Summary: Stunning
Review: Visually stunning, a real force de tour for the Britsh Film industry. Every shot is beautiful, the performances are great. What ever happened to the lovely British Actress who played Princess Elizabeth - Kate Steavenson-Payne?! Anybody who knows anything about films, or pretends to, should watch this film. Can be a slog if you don't know the text, but visually - WOW!

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Summary: Shakespeare never looked so cool!
Review: I am not an especially big fan of Shakespeare based movies but this movie is the exception. It was an absolutely briliant idea to adapt the play to a ficticious 1930s era nazi like England. It fit so well. McKellan's performance was excellent. The last time I enjoyed wathing an evil character so much was Alex in A Clockwork Orange. Shakespeare's concentrated dialog is a little hard to follow but in this movie it doesn't matter. The performances and brilliant adaptation are so cool you get sucked in even if you miss a line here or there.

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Summary: Awsome
Review: This is an incredible movie. I haven't seen or read the original Richard III, so I can't say if it held true or not, but it is certainly marvelous in its own right. Sir Ian McKellen is a wonderfully slimy Richard. The only problem with it is that unbelievably inappropriate, light, happy music that is played at the end. It ruins the moment. Watch the rest of the movie and then hit mute.

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Summary: This is atypically cool
Review: Will's language never made so much sense. At least not to me

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Summary: I recommend it
Review: The most resent potrayl of the Shakespearean play Richard the III is quite an interesting one at that. Set during the World War II era, the dialogue is as written in old English. The basic story is of a crazed man, Richard, whom is the brother of the King of England. The king is sick and his son is next in line to take the throne. Richard is hardly about to let that happen. Through a series of lies, deaths, and cunning trickery Richard becomes king. The movie was good. It was intriguing and funny. I recommend it.

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Summary: a different way
Review: Richard III stars Ian Mckellen in the role as the evil Richard of Gloucester. This Shakespearean novel is portrayed in a different way, in the 1930's. Keeping the same dialogue from the play, Richard III keeps it's theme and plot, with Gloucester killing even his own family to get the throne. Replacing horses with jeeps and guns for swords keeps the audience interested, even those who don't know what the movie is about. Ian Mckellen gives a great job as portraying Richard of Gloucester with an ironic smile and an evil laugh of triumph. The ending of the movie shows a version of what happened to Richard, since it is not told of what happened to him in the play.

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Summary: recreation superb
Review: Verbatim from the play written and performed loosely four hundred years ago by the master of the playwrights William Shakespeare, Richard III the movie is an excellent contemporary version of the Elizabethan Richard III the play. By setting the story in 1930's England the best attribute of the play reverberates from the opening scene till the final credits. What attribute is this exactly? It is the timelessness of the tale, even when Queen Elizabeth I and King James I were on the throne this story was ages old and now to launch this tale into the twentieth century and have it still be stirring and realistic is what makes this recreation superb.

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Summary: the movie did do justice to the play
Review: The movie Richard III not only held true to the book, but portrayed it in an interesting way by setting the movie in a 1930's war era. This setting changes the images that you would usually think of when you are reading the play. For example, near the end of the play, Richard III shouts the famous words, "a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse," when he is wounded at war. But in the movie, it is a car that has broken down that he is shouting at and he would do anything for a horse. So, although the scenery is a bit peculiar, the movie did do justice to the play.

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Summary: This is a movie that is really great
Review: This is a movie that is really great, and was more appealling to me because it was in the time setting of the 1930's but that is what makes it a great, excitng, and almost exactly like the book except for the fact that the movie was a movie and the one Shakespeare set it back in the 1400's. The book and the movie are almost identical and that is why it is such a good movie. Plus it had to do with tanks, guns, and gasmasks, while the book had swords, horses, and knives. So in conclusion it was a thrilling movie that I wish I could see again and the movie didn't take as much time to watch instead of the time it spent to read the book.