and how he is power-hungry‚ also Shakespeare’s need to perpetuate the Tudor Myth. While in ‘Looking for Richard’ Al Pacino’s 1996 docu-drama human condition is shown through Al Pacino and the reasons as to why he wanted to create Looking For Richard‚ these reasons include wanting to revive Shakespeare and also to bring Shakespeare and Richard the Third to a Modern audience‚ as Pacino states‚ ‘It has always been a dream of mine to communicate how I feel about Shakespeare to other people… and taking
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that prevent a modern audience from understanding these central values. Al Pacino uses his docu-drama “Looking for Richard” to try to break down the barriers that prevent a contemporary audience from understanding the original play by reshaping the central values of power‚ evil and manipulation and making them presentable to modern audience. Through reshaping and making the themes more accessible to a modern audience‚ Pacino has allowed for a connection between the texts to be made and a deeper understanding
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and Looking for Richard. Compare how these texts explore ambition and identity. Ambition; an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction‚ as power‚ honour‚ fame‚ or wealth‚ and the willingness to strive for its attainment * Al Pacino’s production as an art-house vanity project * Promotes himself – manipulating the audience through cutaways‚ specific and timed edits. The medium of film allows for one to manipulate and force audience attention to a specific area‚ scene
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Mus 355 Music Critique of film Score Action‚ suspense‚ love‚ and drama are all the makings for a great film. None of these key features to a film could have any substance or feeling without the help of music. Composers play a big role for setting the tone of the movie‚ developing characters‚ moving along or supporting action‚ and depicting the time and place the movie is taking place. In the movie Heat‚ Elliot Goldenthal does just that. Goldenthal was born in NY in 1954 and studied music under
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Richard III and Looking for Richard How has your study of the connections between King Richard III and Looking for Richard deepened your understanding of the context of and values within‚ each text? William Shakespeare’s play King Richard III and Al Pacino’s docu-drama Looking for Richard have enriched my understanding of how context shapes the values inscribed within each text. In light of this‚ the connection that exists between the two texts is: how the central character of the texts embodies
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Connection between texts shapes your understanding of context and values Examinations of Shakespeare’s play ’King Richard III’ and Pacino’s docu-drama ’Looking for Richard’ reveals relationships between the texts and their respective audience. The fifteenth century and twentieth century contexts demonstrates the values of each text and enables understanding of how the film enriches the ideas presented in the play. ’King Richard III’ portrays a hateful‚ corrupted Richard exploring divine justice
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Idea and Explanation Example Quotes Techniques Appearance vs Reality Approx4 2per e.g. List act scene line 2per e.g. Richard III- Richard‚ himself is very aware of the gap between his outwards reality and inward reality. As a consequence he carefully constructs his façade while fully acknowledging his Machiavellian motivations to the audience in his asides. Clarence going to prison and Richard says he will try to get him out but doesn’t do it. The ghosts visits
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By tracing back the early roles of Shylock done in the Elizabethan stage‚ we are able to appreciate the complexity of Shakespear’s character‚ Shylock‚ and how he has the greatest impact than any other character. In the early Elizabethan era Shylock was portrayed as an archetypical Jew of that time. He would be played by the performer wearing a red wig and large false nose. This look created the foundations of Shylock’s personality during the Elizabethan era; a comic villain not to be taken seriously
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"An honest tale speeds best‚ being plainly told.” This quote from William Shakespeare’s King Richard III is a seed from which Al Pacino’s docu-drama Looking For Richard grows‚ both texts demonstrating the intrinsic relationship between contexts and the composition of texts. As 21st century students‚ we see Pacino’s creative reshaping emphasise inherent values within the original text‚ from dynamic perspectives to interpretational understandings‚ presented in an ‘honest’ and ‘plainly told’ composition
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‘docudrama type thing’. Yes ‘Docudrama type thing’ as described personally by the narrator Al Pacino. The opening scene with the cold winter background‚ leave less grounds and the grey skies that was alluded to above‚ is a direct connection to the opening soliloquy exerted by Richard in Shakespeare’s Richard III‚ "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York...". In the same scene Pacino also juxtaposes modern buildings with classic castles‚ and Shakespearean literature
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