Shakespeare from a Modern Viewpoint

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This paper explains that the energy of Shakespeare's words can only be realized in modern terms -- in our language, in our time and with our ideals. This paper uses many examples from the movies: John Madden's "Shakespeare in Love," Al Pacino's "Looking for Richard," Stuart Canterbury's "A Midsummer Night's Cream," Spike Lee's "Bamboozled," and Baz Luhrmann's "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet." The author concludes that actors have the power to bring the dead back to life and especially to determine how future generations will view Shakespeare.

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"Al Pacino's "Looking for Richard "is a patchwork of movie, educational film, Bardolatry, and documentary into adapting, directing and acting Shakespeare, specifically "Richard III." Pacino along with actor/director Frederick Kimble and an all-star cast takes us on a journey or a "quest" as Kimble puts it, to fulfill a personal dream of Pacino's to "communicate a Shakespeare that is about how we feel and think today." Immediately Pacino has conveyed that he is bringing the Bard to our society and so is not just presenting an adaptation of Richard III but a "meditation on what Shakespeare means at the end of the twentieth century.""

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