Ian McKellen/ Richard Loncraine: Screenplay (AO5) Flashcards
As Richard sees off ‘simple, plain Clarence’, what does he move from as he heads off to woo Anne?
Moves ‘from a parody of brotherly love to a parody of courtship’
Why did Anne ‘Grossly [grow] captive to his honey words’ ?
because ‘a liaison with Richard would lead her back to those privileges’ she previously enjoyed.
What did Ian McKellen say about Richard wooing Anne and what does he say in response to watching this on film?
‘Richard inspires himself by playing the fantasy role of romantic lover’
‘watching the film, I can never quite catch the moment when Lady Anne is won over. She never quite remembers herself.’
(Honey words)
What is the quote that Richard says to Buckingham about his kingship?
‘Why Buckingham, I say I would be king’
What did Ian McKellen say about Richard’s motivation/kingship/success or failure in regards to ‘Why Buckingham, I say I would be king’ ?
‘Richard does not say what kind of king. Throughout, he has a need to be active, to re-create he excitement of fighting in his civilian life. He has no credo and his kingship is politically barren.’
What is the quote that Buckingham addresses to Richard regarding his annoyance?
‘And is it thus?’ Repays he my deep service with such contempt?’
What does Ian McKellen say about Buckingham voicing his distress to Richard ‘Repaying him in such contempt’ ?
‘Their partnership was never an equal one– although it takes half-a-dozen murders for Buckingham to realise that Richard has an agenda that does not include both of them.’
What is the quote that Implies Richard might as well kill again, or even sees that he has to, given that he has done so already?
‘I am in so far in blood, that sin will pluck on sin’.
What is the quote that shows Richard as putting aside his conscience, presenting him as merciless?
‘Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye’.
What did Ian McKellen say regarding Richard’s line ‘Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye’ ?
‘Richard’s confession that he has sinned is put aside by his determination to control the conscience which will erupt in his nightmare’
What did Cecily say to Richard in scorn?
‘You came on earth to make the earth my hell’
What did Ian McKellen say regarding Cecily’s scorn to Richard that involves her disgust at him?
‘Whatever justice there is in the Duchess of York’s disaffection towards [Richard], it is based on her disappointment and disgust at his physique. Perhaps it was from his mother that Richard learnt to hate so fiercely. ‘
What is the quote that Richard says that shows his arrogance?
‘Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.’
How does the line of ‘Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I’ “ explain everything” ? (4-5 things, analysis)
(Ian McKellen said all)
-Throughout, much of the ‘full text’ uses rhetorical devices of regular rhythm, rhymes, repetitions and alliteration.
-Here Shakespeare’s words are modern and bleak.
‘Apart from ‘loves’ and the simple monosyllables ‘that’, ‘is’ and ‘am’ the rest is all Richard by name or pronoun.
-The second ‘I’ is stressed by its rhyme with ‘by’
What did Ian McKellen say about the ‘double irony of the AI Jonson song’ at the end of the film?
He ‘relished the double irony of the AI Jonson song which [Loncraine] had overlaid on the final frames of the film. Richmond and Richard, simultaneously feel, in the moment when their fates collide, that they are sitting on top of the world.’
