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What Happend to the Movie

posted 19 years ago by valandearl19
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Does anybody know how this went from being just a making of documentary to the entire film? Was he trying to make the film at the same time as Mckellens version and had trouble getting it released?

[–] lostintwinpeaks 19 years ago

I would be interesting in knowing the answer to this question, also.

[–] ungehoya 19 years ago

Look up 'Post-Modernism' and 'Fourth Wall' and after you get a grasp of these concepts, the film (which contains aspects of documentary, theater and film) should be self explanatory.

Consider it sitting in on a master class with Pacino.

[–] breynz 13 years ago

He was making the film, but realised that it would never get done, and so instead, started to create a documentary about the making of a movie based on a classic play.

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[–] yuma310 13 years ago

Look up 'Post-Modernism' and 'Fourth Wall' and after you get a grasp of these concepts, the film (which contains aspects of documentary, theater and film) should be self explanatory.

What twatiness. The answer to the OP's question is that Pacino had difficulty finishing his version of Richard III and decided to make this documentary for the enterprise not to be a total loss (he probably had backers to repay, etc etc). Of course, from the amateurish way they went about making the thing, it's not surprising that they didn't finish what they started.

[–] Valkyrist 12 years ago

I'm thinking about downloading the film as an MP4 and just editing it down to the play itself, and then posting it to YouTube. He may not have finished the whole play, but still completed a lot of it, and from what we saw, it is one of the more interesting interpretations.

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[–] phillylilmermaid 10 years ago

I just came to ask the same question and can't stop laughing at the word twatiness.

[–] HollyHop 10 years ago

I just finished watching it without reading about it beforehand and I thought the whole time that the movie they were making was just a pretended movie for a pretend documentary, Looking for Richard is a mocumentary. Although there were some nicely shot scenes for the Richard lll "film" not all of the production of it looked stellar enough to be a feature movie starring Al Pacino. Some of the discussions about the play was so odd that it must have been scripted, like the idea of replacing the letter G for C, maybe it was meant as a cruel joke at the American audience's so called inhability to understand the dialog in the play. It was a bit of WTF moment for me.

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