I distinctly remember coming home one night in 1997, turning on the TV and stumbling upon this film. It was the scene in the morgue where Ian McKellen talks to Kristin Scott Thomas. I was utterly amazed with this masterpiece of cinematography and it is still one of my favorite ones.
I have only seen parts of this film but Ian McKellen gave a phenomenal performance as the controversial York king. One of these days I am going to watch this from start to finish. The cast is just GREAT!!!
For anyone looking for the music that starts at 1:52, it's Belshazzar's Feast 'Then Sing Aloud to God'. (The version in the trailer is edited a bit, though.)
I knew a guy called like that, he degraded everything he touched and was like: "a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!". As it happened centuries after Shakespeare horse were "embodied" by cars... RIP William Shakespeare for all these beautiful plays
Near the end, when King Richard's jeep gets stuck in the mud and soldiers on horseback ride on past , he cries out "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse..."
There's an Amazing Australian film like this of MacBeth from 2006 They are a Scottish Mob family in Melbourne, the Horsemen are Biker Gang Members, the Witches are Gothic School Girls and the sword fights are Shootouts in the city and tunnels and bushland
@@JUSTFUN-xp7oi There's also a bizarre british version where the witches are male garbage truck drivers, and the whole thing is about a restaurant i think. Wtf.
Ralph Fiennes did a similar thing with 'Coriolanus' which is a better play - the themes and language are still uncanny - but not as good a movie. Still good though
Absolutely one of my all-time favourites. Saw it many times, still have to get the DVD. Superbly filmed, a brilliant cast, and the way they incorporated some of the landmark buildings in the story is really great. Ian McKellen is pure evil in this and boy, does he do a good job at being evil.
Holy crap I have been searching for this film forever now I couldn't remember the name but I saw it in 9th grade twenty years ago and it was so damn memorable but I couldn't remember the name . This is great just made my day :)
There's an Amazing Australian film like this of MacBeth from 2006 They are a Scottish Mob family in Melbourne, the Horsemen are Biker Gang Members, the Witches are Gothic School Girls and the sword fights are Shootouts in the city and tunnels and bushland
Ian mckellen is a sheksperian genius. I love him in the lord of the rings and the hobbit and so much more but ian mckellen is the king of shekapere and he could play any sheksperian character this actor is such a genius
i love the ending, where he shoots his own man through the brain, then leaps into an inferno laughing his head off while a jazzy upbeat Al Jolson track kicks off! a fantastic wicked villain
A movie ahead of its time with many important stories from what happened during the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th century with some liberty here and there, some dark humor, excellent choice of actors . They don't make movies like this anymore . ( wow Maggie Smith looked old back then still in Downtown Abbey show she looks the same strange ?? )
But he got what he wanted, because he was smarter, more ambitious, and more ruthless than anyone else was, or thought he was. And when he is defeated, he dies laughing surrounded by destruction. Could there be a better role model for the modern age? Also it allows Ian McKellen to just REVEL in his villainy, to the point where you just want to see him keep going. Also he has one of the greatest movie seduction scenes of all time, when he makes the moves on a woman at the morgue over the dead body of her husband!
Macbeth is interesting, he seems more convinced by others that he is destined (the witches and later his wife,) where Richard seems to have to convince everyone he should be King. Macbeth would have been happy as a lord without ever needing to go for power if he hadn't been told he could, and should, take it. Richard wanted it all from the start, it was only a question of how far he could go. P.S. If you want an insane movie version of Macbeth, look up Scotland, PA.
It makes no sense. Richard III was disabled. The Nazis hated the disabled and practiced genocide against them. Why would a disabled person be seduced by the Nazi ideology, an ideology that views them as non-humans?
@@GregOrCreg as disabled as he was, richard iii went down swinging from what we can tell. There are accounts of it, and evidence to suggest its true. His remains were covered in battle wounds, finishing blows, and post-mortem mutiliations. Which also goes against the idea hes hitler being as hitler either fled or killed himself. I think the original idea for the film was probably to just make Shakespeares "richard is evil" approach more accessible to a modern audience, while also just slipping in some good old fashioned "nazis are bad" and fun alternate history in there. A campy concept that maybe got a bigger budget than deserved... but they tried something different i guess.
The true monster is the length of the drama, making it as hard as possible to finish shortly before a test. That's actually the real meaning of it. Also, Shakespeare is ennervating with his damn over-the-top passion. That's fine in your leisure, but not necessarily in a serious context...
Richard the Third needs a nicer depiction of him in film, one without the villainizing and incest. He defiantly wasn’t like the Nazis and seemed like a champion for the commoners with what he contributed to protect them.
And Englands flag at the time was The three lions of England on a red backround and the fluer de lis of France against a blue backround on a qaurtred flag
Esta película se ve bastante interesante. Además me siento algo representado, ya que tanto mi bisabuelo, como mi abuelo, y mi padre, por parte de mi familia paterna, se llaman o se llamaban Ricardo, y por ello yo vendría siendo, en cierto modo, Ricardo IV. No sería Ricardo III, pero estaría cerca. XD.
this is actually how Shakespeare is done ALL THE TIME - no one ever puts on Shakespeare plays in the actual Shakespearean period - they are all adapted to the era of the director's choice
@@venusianviking1733 Absolutely nothing. It's an interesting conceit. But does it truly work here? I mean, Richard III was disabled, the Nazis sent millions of the disabled to the gas chambers, and yet this film presents a disabled man who becomes a Nazi leader. I'm not sure whether the people behind this film properly thought this through.
What the hell is this? I expected a 15th Century historical representation of Richard III. This looks like a mid-Twentieth Century iteration of the Shakespearean play, which by the way is not historically accurate, because of political considerations concerning the Tudor dynasty.
It is a mid-Twentieth Century iteration of the Shakespearean play, which is able to be this adapted because of how historically inaccurate it is. Shakespeare is almost never set in the time it was meant to be at this point.
This movie is a horrible presentation of a William Shakespeare play. Shakespeare died in 1616 and wrote a story of a king in 1483. YET the costumes are 1940 fashion and the characters are driving in cars not invented until the 1900's Meanwhile, the vocals are not only spoken in Shakespeare's horrid stage-play style of poetry writing (I'll never understand why people like that) BUT the vocals are not recorded well so inaudible most of the time ranging from mumbles to screetches. Meanwhile, the background music is so loud its deafening. If the director was aiming for a modern theme on a story of ancient history, such as has been done with the fictional story of Romeo & Juliet (Leonardo DiCaprio), it doesn't work here because this is actual history and shouldnt be 'time altered'. Great cast of actors in a horrible movie.
I haven't seen this movie but for the unaltered history bit I can say that Shakespeare Richard III is already a fictional story and many even dare to say that's a propagandistic story with the sole purpose of make him look bad.
this movie is awesome. Near the end, when King Richard's jeep gets stuck in the mud and soldiers on horseback ride on past , he cries out "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse..."
I always wonder why people who do modernizations maintain the original scripts even if the words used have changed meaning over the years. It works fine to keep the original speeches as they were, but side conversations where a man in 20th century clothing says something like: "prithee" my head wants to take flight.
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I distinctly remember coming home one night in 1997, turning on the TV and stumbling upon this film. It was the scene in the morgue where Ian McKellen talks to Kristin Scott Thomas. I was utterly amazed with this masterpiece of cinematography and it is still one of my favorite ones.
I found it at the dollar store
Ian McKellen is so good in this!
You obviously have excellent taste!
A Jeep .... A Jeep ... My kingdom for a Jeep ! :-)
I have only seen parts of this film but Ian McKellen gave a phenomenal performance as the controversial York king. One of these days I am going to watch this from start to finish. The cast is just GREAT!!!
I heartily concur !
God, it's like the narrator can't decide if he's doing an American or British accent.
It's American, and out of place here.
I think they might of been going for a Mid-Atlantic accent and failed.
Ian accent sounded Like an English accent his usual
For anyone looking for the music that starts at 1:52, it's Belshazzar's Feast 'Then Sing Aloud to God'. (The version in the trailer is edited a bit, though.)
Came here exactly for this, thank you!
I knew a guy called like that, he degraded everything he touched and was like: "a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!". As it happened centuries after Shakespeare horse were "embodied" by cars... RIP William Shakespeare for all these beautiful plays
Saw it in original cinema release and would love to see it again. This is a brilliant translation of Shakespeare to the 20th century.
Right On !
Near the end, when King Richard's jeep gets stuck in the mud and soldiers on horseback ride on past , he cries out "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse..."
Kind of like the “swords” in Baz Lurmans Romeo + Juliet
I loved that scene.
Between this and the Hopkins version of “Titus”. It’s hard to say what my favorite Shakespeare adaptation is. Both are great.
There's an Amazing Australian film like this of MacBeth from 2006
They are a Scottish Mob family in Melbourne, the Horsemen are Biker Gang Members, the Witches are Gothic School Girls and the sword fights are Shootouts in the city and tunnels and bushland
There's also a semi-modernization of _Macbeth_ where he's basically Stalin.
@@JUSTFUN-xp7oi
There's also a bizarre british version where the witches are male garbage truck drivers, and the whole thing is about a restaurant i think. Wtf.
Ralph Fiennes did a similar thing with 'Coriolanus' which is a better play - the themes and language are still uncanny - but not as good a movie. Still good though
Branagh’s Henry V?
Absolutely one of my all-time favourites. Saw it many times, still have to get the DVD. Superbly filmed, a brilliant cast, and the way they incorporated some of the landmark buildings in the story is really great. Ian McKellen is pure evil in this and boy, does he do a good job at being evil.
This is a bad boy you don't want to make mad.
I just got the DVD for a dollar at the Dollar Store! It's also streaming on Prime and some other joints.
Fascinating how they make him look like Hitler and compare his rise to that of Hitler.
Holy crap I have been searching for this film forever now I couldn't remember the name but I saw it in 9th grade twenty years ago and it was so damn memorable but I couldn't remember the name . This is great just made my day :)
Actually, for a movie that good, the trailer is rather unpalatable and perhaps misleading...
It's full of spoilers.
Óscar Maldonado bit late in the day to go on about spoilers?
Can Shakespeare be spoiled?
The play is 400 odd year old...
@@markziff7234 - HAHAHA, EXCELLENT POINT, BUT I THINK IT WAS LOST on some, LOL!!!
There's an Amazing Australian film like this of MacBeth from 2006
They are a Scottish Mob family in Melbourne, the Horsemen are Biker Gang Members, the Witches are Gothic School Girls and the sword fights are Shootouts in the city and tunnels and bushland
Ian mckellen is a sheksperian genius. I love him in the lord of the rings and the hobbit and so much more but ian mckellen is the king of shekapere and he could play any sheksperian character this actor is such a genius
Looks decent! Anyone know where I can find Richard and Richard 2? Obviously I can’t just watch Richard 3 without seeing the previous films.
Heh...
hahaha idiot...
I'm not sure if this is serious or not, but it's about King Richard III, it's not the third movie in a trilogy.
Clever joke!😂
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1:52 What is that music from? Is it from the film itself or elsewhere?
A blu-ray release would be nice...
i love the ending, where he shoots his own man through the brain, then leaps into an inferno laughing his head off while a jazzy upbeat Al Jolson track kicks off!
a fantastic wicked villain
In a way he's like a wolverine,indestructible.
Frank Underwood is based off of Richard
+meganjerai Kevin Spacey also played Richard too :D
+meganjerai Well based off of Francis Urquhart from the original series, who was based off of a Machiavellian villain.
+Hector Berlioz Did he?
But yes Frank Underwood is quite a Shakespearian villain. Scheming, twisted and willing to do anything (even murder) to gain power.
Zebcast That's how they decided to cast him as Frank.
A fantastic adaption!
I didn't know that Professor McGonnagall had a son called Gandalf.
Louisa Weber what about magneto squaring off against tony stark?
The birth of the Dowager Countess.
Magneto vs Iron Man
Magneto wins.
"That remarkable metal doesn't run through your entire body, does it?"
Let's just put it this way ,you wouldn't want all of the iron sucked out of your body.you probably will wind up being silly putty.
oh shut up you uncultured swine
At the beginning, the narrator sounded it like a bond film
Greatest villain of all times?
Film&Clips yeah
Maggie Smith has been the same age (80) for 40 years
I love Laurence Olivier's version but wow this looks cool!
As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point !
Shakespeare... with tanks!
What's not to love?
What song is that at 1:52
this looks epic. cannot believe that I did not see this.
maggie smith- hasn't aged a day.
Shows what clean living will do for a person !
Magneto
Iron Man
Professor McGonagall
Professor Horace Slughorn
Mar-Vel Captain Marvel former boss and enemy
A movie ahead of its time with many important stories from what happened during the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th century with some liberty here and there, some dark humor, excellent choice of actors . They don't make movies like this anymore . ( wow Maggie Smith looked old back then still in Downtown Abbey show she looks the same strange ?? )
Maggie Smith is a great actor and she had been in a LOT of films!
Indeed.....I rate it right up there with 1953's "Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla" !
The trailer makes it look like they wanted this to be shown as a double feature together with Die Hard 3.
Or hopefully a triple feature with a musical remake of 1966's "The Ghost and Mr Chicken". Attaboy, Luther !!
The interesting of this movie is that it looks modern, but the language spoken is not. And it works wonder well.
In the 1930s, Orson Welles did a modern dress Broadway version of "Julius Ceasar" with a fascist setting.
This movie made Richard III into one of my heroes. It also has one of the greatest seduction scenes in all of film.
But Richard III is the villain lol XD
But he got what he wanted, because he was smarter, more ambitious, and more ruthless than anyone else was, or thought he was. And when he is defeated, he dies laughing surrounded by destruction. Could there be a better role model for the modern age?
Also it allows Ian McKellen to just REVEL in his villainy, to the point where you just want to see him keep going. Also he has one of the greatest movie seduction scenes of all time, when he makes the moves on a woman at the morgue over the dead body of her husband!
Jeremy Fridy Yeah. It is an excellent tragedy so far. I am still reading it. What do you think of Macbeth ias the villain in _Macbeth_?
Macbeth is interesting, he seems more convinced by others that he is destined (the witches and later his wife,) where Richard seems to have to convince everyone he should be King.
Macbeth would have been happy as a lord without ever needing to go for power if he hadn't been told he could, and should, take it. Richard wanted it all from the start, it was only a question of how far he could go.
P.S. If you want an insane movie version of Macbeth, look up Scotland, PA.
Jeremy Fridy Alright. It was Macbeth's greed and the Witches' temptations that got the best of him. Overall, excellent traedy as well.
Ah, now is the winter of our discount tents made glorious summer by this son of Millets.
Magneto, Iron Man, Horace Slughorn, Professor McGonagall, and Jerus Jannick are in the same movie
what is the name of the song near the end
"Belshazzar's Feast" - Walton
One wonders if it's the "Whoopee Cushion Serenade" by Sir Frederick Flatulence.
A cheesy commercial for a brilliant film....
0:50 Stop! Is Iron Man yelling at Magnito?
Great playwright. I still think Macbeth is a better villian lol XD
Excellent!
Thanx Paul, lovely! (:
Ditto !
Makes Sauron look like an amateur :)
Excellent.
''My kingdom for a jeep''
Do you think he would have settled for an AMC Pacer ??
never thought i'd see richard III as hitler..
It makes no sense. Richard III was disabled. The Nazis hated the disabled and practiced genocide against them. Why would a disabled person be seduced by the Nazi ideology, an ideology that views them as non-humans?
@@GregOrCreg as disabled as he was, richard iii went down swinging from what we can tell. There are accounts of it, and evidence to suggest its true. His remains were covered in battle wounds, finishing blows, and post-mortem mutiliations. Which also goes against the idea hes hitler being as hitler either fled or killed himself.
I think the original idea for the film was probably to just make Shakespeares "richard is evil" approach more accessible to a modern audience, while also just slipping in some good old fashioned "nazis are bad" and fun alternate history in there. A campy concept that maybe got a bigger budget than deserved... but they tried something different i guess.
I hope Harry doesn't watch the movie...It might give him some ideas..😂😂😂
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The true monster is the length of the drama, making it as hard as possible to finish shortly before a test. That's actually the real meaning of it. Also, Shakespeare is ennervating with his damn over-the-top passion. That's fine in your leisure, but not necessarily in a serious context...
so metal...
cuz there's magneto in it
and Iron Man...
God bless us and to our family!!!
Richard the Third needs a nicer depiction of him in film, one without the villainizing and incest. He defiantly wasn’t like the Nazis and seemed like a champion for the commoners with what he contributed to protect them.
this is shakespeare's history
far from historically accurate
but quite poetic
And Englands flag at the time was The three lions of England on a red backround and the fluer de lis of France against a blue backround on a qaurtred flag
1984?
1934
All this time i thought it was trigger from only fools and horses who played him
Everyone complains about spoilers in modern day trailers yet this one spoils a ton of the film lol.
Zidders Roofurry Spoilers for a 400 year old play!
Matthew Smith This isn't really a 1/1 interpretation plus not everyone reads Shakespeare.
How many killings?
Esta película se ve bastante interesante.
Además me siento algo representado, ya que tanto mi bisabuelo, como mi abuelo, y mi padre, por parte de mi familia paterna, se llaman o se llamaban Ricardo, y por ello yo vendría siendo, en cierto modo, Ricardo IV.
No sería Ricardo III, pero estaría cerca. XD.
Not seen the first two...
The sequels are better...
I like his wild boar.
I wonder if Ian McKellen and Nigel Hawthorn ever dated.
This is Richard III of England right who ruled in late medieval times and was not a Nazi and existed 450 years before Hitlers rise
+Dylan HopkinsKelly ; Yeah!, I was hoping for a historical representation of the War Of The Roses.
Both versions are fictional.
What's wrong with putting your own spin on it?
this is actually how Shakespeare is done ALL THE TIME - no one ever puts on Shakespeare plays in the actual Shakespearean period - they are all adapted to the era of the director's choice
@@venusianviking1733 Absolutely nothing. It's an interesting conceit. But does it truly work here? I mean, Richard III was disabled, the Nazis sent millions of the disabled to the gas chambers, and yet this film presents a disabled man who becomes a Nazi leader. I'm not sure whether the people behind this film properly thought this through.
Gandalf became a fascist huh?
ach ihr briten , das böse am briten ist halt deutsch , gell . drum heissen sie auch haus windsor und nicht mehr haus hanover .
The movie may be good (I haven't seen it), but this trailer looks like unwatchable '90s kitsch.
It is heavy Shakespeare and visuals are beautiful.
I fucking love this film but this trailer is just so... urgh
never saw it
Great film...lousy trailer.
Robert hahahah perfect
BTS V's insta story rechard 3
What the hell is this? I expected a 15th Century historical representation of Richard III. This looks like a mid-Twentieth Century iteration of the Shakespearean play, which by the way is not historically accurate, because of political considerations concerning the Tudor dynasty.
It's 'fiction'. All versions.
It is a mid-Twentieth Century iteration of the Shakespearean play, which is able to be this adapted because of how historically inaccurate it is. Shakespeare is almost never set in the time it was meant to be at this point.
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Evil Gandalf
טלי מורנו תעלי לשידור בערוץ 14 אחרי השידור?
Of course they have to make it about Nazis. Might as well call it Edward VIII.. lol
אחג הסרטים הטובים בהיסטוריה ברמה של גאטטקה, על המשיח במלחמת גוג ומגוג. LONG Live Tsar Richard
Man Richard the lionheart was a man guy.
Okay this is confusing and completely inaccurate Richard the third lived in 1400
It's an adaptation of the pretty much entirely fictional Shakespeare play
What the fuck is this?
This movie is a horrible presentation of a William Shakespeare play.
Shakespeare died in 1616
and wrote a story of a king in 1483.
YET the costumes are 1940 fashion and the characters are driving in cars not invented until the 1900's
Meanwhile, the vocals are not only spoken in Shakespeare's horrid stage-play style of poetry writing (I'll never understand why people like that) BUT the vocals are not recorded well so inaudible most of the time ranging from mumbles to screetches. Meanwhile, the background music is so loud its deafening.
If the director was aiming for a modern theme on a story of ancient history, such as has been done with the fictional story of Romeo & Juliet (Leonardo DiCaprio), it doesn't work here because this is actual history and shouldnt be 'time altered'.
Great cast of actors in a horrible movie.
I think you should watch this video: th-cam.com/video/4qpkpaj-2VA/w-d-xo.html
I haven't seen this movie but for the unaltered history bit I can say that Shakespeare Richard III is already a fictional story and many even dare to say that's a propagandistic story with the sole purpose of make him look bad.
You're not actually familiar with the term "adaptation" are you?
this movie is awesome. Near the end, when King Richard's jeep gets stuck in the mud and soldiers on horseback ride on past , he cries out "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse..."
I always wonder why people who do modernizations maintain the original scripts even if the words used have changed meaning over the years. It works fine to keep the original speeches as they were, but side conversations where a man in 20th century clothing says something like: "prithee" my head wants to take flight.