producing Richard III
I believe that the only way to do Richard III justice is to produce it as a western, using the famous gunfight at the OK Corral as the setting. Actions packed movies are underlined with the same themes that I find in Shakespeare's Richard III: Deceit, double-crossing, power, lust and of course, murder. In fact, most historical conflicts have more than one of the elements that I have just mentioned. When we weave the right historical moment into Richard III, we will get a Hollywood phenomena. Richard should be portrayed close to John Henry Holliday, who was more known as Doc Holliday. In Shakespeare's story, Richard is physically deformed. Doc Holliday, was also physically deformed but he had TB. Richard appears to have no real friends, as did Doc. They both appeared to be cold-blooded killers and feared by many, even shunned by family. The opening scene of the film would be in the Oriental Saloon. Richard would be sitting at a poker table alone, throwing back shots of Kentucky whiskey as he speaks his first silique: "Now is the winter of our discontent/Made glorious by this son of York/And all the clouds that loured upon our house/in the deep
Richard, of course, after some pleading from the group happily concedes to their wishes in 3. Richard refuses, almost gallantly: "I am unfit for state and majesty/ I do beseech you, take it not amiss/ I cannot, nor I will not yield to you" (195-197, 3. 7, Buckingham brings with him the mayor to the chapel where Richard appears to be in the middle of prayer:" Ah ha! My lord, this prince is not an Edward/he is not lolling on a lewd day-bed/but on his knees at meditation/not dallying with a brace of courtesans/but meditating with two deep divines" (lines 71-75). She should seem not to be unloving of her son, just merely blaming of Richard for the recent loss of husband and son: "Out devil!/ I remember them too well/thou killed'st my husband Henry in the Tower/and Edward, my poor son, at Tewkesbury" (lines 118-120,1. I can see Richard saying this in the sense that he was telling her if it wasn't for him doing the errands he was assigned, that her precious Edward would not have the throne and for that he believes that he deserves his mother's love and respect. To make it seem dreadful and even deathly is the way I see it so to impose that the young princes are doomed before Richard orders it so. When Richard first meets up with Clarence, in this version, it is as the guards are taking Clarence to the jail just outside of town: " He hearkens after prophecies and dreams/and from the cross-row plucks the letter G/and says a wizard told him that by G/his issue disinherited should be/and for my name of George begins with G/ it follows in his thought that I am he" (lines 154-159, 1. Now it is getting closer to the showdown for Richard. 2: " If ever he have a wife, let her be made/more miserable by the death of him/ then I am made by my young lord and thee". Here, as we shall see throughout the play Richard succeeds in getting what he wants because he possesses ultimate power to control the situations around him. Richard tries to convince his mother as well, that he was loyal and true in act 1. Richard's fear of not succeeding can be seen when he sets into motion the act of putting his two brothers at odds with each other. He knows that Richmond is gathering his backers for a showdown and now that he is king, Richard decides he has no use for Anne: "Rumor it abroad that Anne my wife, is very grievous sick/I will take order for her keeping close" (lines 55-57, 4.
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