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    TRANSCRIPT. Thesis: Looking for Richard is al Pacino’s interpretation of Richard the third‚ as it explores the various context‚ values and ideas within Richard the third it attempts to reconnect a modern day audience with this ideas and values through a form of exploration and explanation. Though this “dociodramatypething” has been criticized for being too broad and in some cases unnecessary it definitely has found a level on which it can speak to a modern audience with both seriousness and humor

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    an Elizabethan context bound by a belief in a divinely ordained world order and consequently examines how the nature of power and ambition is gained through using human susceptibility to deception and manipulation. However in Looking for Richard‚ Al Pacino creatively reshapes Shakespeare’s depiction of Richard’s quest for power with postmodern ambiguity and secular beliefs to unchanging elements of human nature and the continuing struggle to discriminate between appearance and reality. The interweaving

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    our humanity defining us as beings. The Shakespearean play‚ “King Richard III” and its hybrid doco-drama appropriation‚ “looking for Richard’ directed by Al Pacino‚ reveal inherent values of power in relation to our morality and justice. As Shakespeare focuses on the human psyche and the role of god’s Devine retribution in the Elizabethan era‚ Pacino on the other hand emphasizes the American context to allow audiences to re-evaluate the significance of the political and social values present in KRIII

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    One of the greatest actors in all of film history‚ Al Pacino established himself during one of film’s greatest decades‚ the 1970s‚ and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies. Born on April 25‚ 1940‚ in the Bronx‚ New York‚ Pacino’s parents (Salvatore and Rose) divorced when he was young. His mother moved them into his grandparents’ house. Pacino found himself often repeating the plots and voices of characters he had seen in the movies‚ one of his favorite activities

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    Throughout Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard and Shakespeare’s King Richard III‚ there are many similarities between both texts. This can be seen through values such as the importance of integrity as well as trust. However‚ it is only to a certain extent that both texts portray these similar values. Throughout Al Pacino’s modern remake of Looking for Richard‚ many modern cinematic techniques such as the specific use of colours‚ rearrangement of the original text as well as comparisons made in commentary

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    HSC Advanced English‚ Module A: Richard III and Looking For Richard‚ Essay Connections of commonality and dissimilarity may be drawn between a multiplicity of texts through an appreciation of the values and attitudes with which they were composed. Accordingly‚ the values and attitudes of the individual being may be defined as an acute blend of externally induced‚ or contextual and internally triggered‚ or inherent factors. Cultural‚ historical‚ political‚ religious and social influences‚ dictated

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    ------------------------------------------------- What themes and techniques link the two texts? Refer to the opening scenes of both. (50/50) Due: Thursday 16th Shakespeare’s play King Richard III and Al Pacino’s documentary Looking for Richard are two text composed more than 400 years apart that can be linked through their themes and techniques. The influence of these themes or values however‚ is subject to the context of the audience. Both texts explore the characterisation

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    Richard III and Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard the values of the era are often a product of the context of the text. However‚ through studying the theatricality of man and the pursuit of power‚ it is clear these notions transcend time and context. Shakespeare valued the way an actor could act within a play and theatre was valued in this context. Shakespeare also demonstrated how Richard pursued political power‚ whilst Shakespeare himself pursued cultural power. Similarly‚ Pacino demonstrates the

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    through awareness of context deeper levels of understanding can be developed and explored. By a comparative study of texts parallels in context can be established and evaluated‚ with the alternate visual mediums key in enhancing the audience experience. Al Pacino’s “Looking for Richard‚” (1996) provides a more coherent view of William Shakespeare’s “Richard III‚” (1592)‚ using similarities between texts to accommodate a modern audience. Both texts represent common themes of war‚ demonstrating the inherent

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    William Shakespeare’s “King Richard III”‚ an Elizabethan play written as a piece of Tudor propaganda‚ and Al Pacino’s 1996 docudrama “Looking For Richard” set in contemporary New York‚ have distinctive parallels in what values they concern themselves with despite their markedly different contexts. Our understanding of both texts is advanced through exploring the composers’ contrasting values of free will clashing with Providentialism and the importance of integrity and honesty in the Murder of Clarence

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