Al Pacino Meets Shakespeare
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 whilst not losing what it was Shakespeare was really trying to say through his play Richard the Third.
Opening : Al Pacino is on an American talk show promoting his new film “looking for Richard” when the show’s presenter offers to bring Shakespeare himself out on the stage to comment on what he thought of Pacino’s debut film.
Al : Well Willy I must say this is quite a once in a life time opportunity but in all seriousness I am dying to know what you thought of my film?
Shakespeare : Well I must admit that I had to watch it a few times, just to see everything that you attempted to do for it and really to give the film the justice that it deserves, though in saying that I believe that it is quite a great tool for the modern audience. I understand that my work can seem quite foreign to many people especially the younger generations of society who are required to study my plays. I know that you have been criticized for it being too deconstructed but in a world this that may be the best thing for students.
Al : yes, when you originally wrote the plays it was like modern history to you and of course the people in which you wrote the play for knew exactly what was happening and exactly what you were saying, though for kids these days, sometimes even me included the language for Elizabethan English can be a giant wall for the understanding of what you’re actually saying and when I was making the film I wanted to include the vox pops of people actually saying that
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 whilst not losing what it was Shakespeare was really trying to say through his play Richard the Third.
Opening : Al Pacino is on an American talk show promoting his new film “looking for Richard” when the show’s presenter offers to bring Shakespeare himself out on the stage to comment on what he thought of Pacino’s debut film.
Al : Well Willy I must say this is quite a once in a life time opportunity but in all seriousness I am dying to know what you thought of my film?
Shakespeare : Well I must admit that I had to watch it a few times, just to see everything that you attempted to do for it and really to give the film the justice that it deserves, though in saying that I believe that it is quite a great tool for the modern audience. I understand that my work can seem quite foreign to many people especially the younger generations of society who are required to study my plays. I know that you have been criticized for it being too deconstructed but in a world this that may be the best thing for students.
Al : yes, when you originally wrote the plays it was like modern history to you and of course the people in which you wrote the play for knew exactly what was happening and exactly what you were saying, though for kids these days, sometimes even me included the language for Elizabethan English can be a giant wall for the understanding of what you’re actually saying and when I was making the film I wanted to include the vox pops of people actually saying that