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This 8 page paper discusses the Ian McKellen and Al Pacino versions of "Richard III" and compares them to the text itself. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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However, as Shakespeare wrote him hes a wonderful villain, possibly the forerunner of the anti-hero that intrigues us so much today. All of Shakespeare is ripe for scholarship as
well as various interpretations, and this play is no exception. This paper discusses two recent adaptations of the play, Sir Ian McKellens Richard III and Al Pacinos Looking for
Richard, with regard to the ways in which they differ from the text itself. McKellens Richard III Ian McKellen has been performing Shakespeare for over 30 years, and has
done Richard III over 300 times, so he brings a wealth of experience to the project of turning the villainous king into a film star. In the play, "Richard
III was a tyrant and a charismatic schemer, a man whom the desire for imperial power had turned into an ambitious murderer. He would kill those who stood in his
way to the throne, kill those who disputed his rule, and kill those whose empires he decided were a threat to his own" (Hagopian). He was ambitious, cruel and
ruthless and let nothing stand between him and the crown; he was "in short, a very modern dictator" (Hagopian). It is precisely because he is so modern that McKellen
brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard would have been quite at home with Hitler, Stalin
and Mussolini; reveling in a "horrific golden age of modern dictators" (Hagopian). One tends to agree; Richard as presented in the play bears very little resemblance to the actual
man, but does conjure up images of modern tyrants. This film adaptation, like any movie adapted from another medium, makes changes from the original; in particular, its been
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