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"Stop! You know damn well

what's going on. "

And that's why I'm hysterical.

You know it.

If he dies, that's it.

PACINO:
Let's start the scene.

- Have patience, madam.

There's no doubt his majesty

will soon recover his accustom'd health.

In that you brook it ill,

it makes him worse.

Therefore, for God's sake,

entertain good comfort.

And cheer his grace

with quick and merry...

And that's the way

you want me to behave, is that it?

If he were dead,

what would betide on me?

No other harm, Mother,

but loss of such a lord.

The loss of such a lord...

...includes all harm.

The heavens have bless'd you

with a goodly son...

...to be your comforter when he's gone.

- Ah, he is young.

His minority is put into the trust

of Richard Gloucester.

A man that loves not me...

...nor none of you.

PACINO:

We gotta come up with ideas, direction.

KIMBALL:
We need a plan.

- We've got to start writing prefaces...

...or, like, a list that says,

"Today we'll do these scenes.

I want you to talk about Lady Anne

and what happens to her. "

PACINO:
How are you?

How you doing?

PACINO:

How do you feel about Shakespeare?

KIMBALL:
This feels good.

PACINO:
That's good.

[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]

PACINO:
William Shakespeare?

- William Shakespeare, right.

- Do you like him?

MAN 6:
Of course.

Did you ever see Shakespeare?

- I never studied.

- You've never seen?

Never seen the show,

but you still like him?

MAN 6:
Sometimes I see

something good on TV.

- Oh, TV.

- I like it.

PACINO:
But Shakespeare, you don't see?

MAN 6:
No.

- That's too bad.

- There's no Shakespeare on TV.

No. Perfectly fine.

Sometimes it comes on.

"To be or not to be.

That is the question," right?

- Right.

- That is the question.

PACINO:
They do me wrong,

and I will not endure it.

I fear our happiness is at its height.

Who is it that complains

unto the king...

...that I, forsooth, am stern,

and love them not?

Because I cannot flatter...

...look fair, smile in men's faces...

...deceive, cog, duck with French nods

and apish courtesy...

...I must be held a rancorous enemy.

The world they live in...

...the world they exist in

is privy to these kinds of...

- Is internecine family quarrel.

PACINO:
That's right.

They are clawing at each other

for the throne.

Brother Gloucester,

we know your meaning.

You envy my advancement

and my friends'.

God grant we may never

have need of you!

Meantime, God grants

that I have need of you.

Our brother is imprison'd

by your means...

...myself disgraced...

...the nobility of the house

held in contempt...

...while great promotions

are daily given to ennoble those...

...that scarce, some two days since,

were worth a noble.

By Him that raised me

to this careful height...

...from that contented hap

which I enjoy'd...

...I never did incense his majesty

against the Duke of Clarence.

You're gonna say you are not the mean

of my Lord Hastings' late imprisonment?

You see? Richard's stirring the pot.

The king is dying,

so he's fearful and paranoid...

... and sending people to jail.

This is a situation Richard loves.

He can use the fear...

... the turmoil to his advantage.

He knows they hate each other.

He'll use their hatred

to manipulate them.

You know, to divide, then conquer.

My Lord of Gloucester,

I have too long borne...

...these blunt upbraidings

and these bitter scoffs.

By heaven, I will acquaint his majesty

of these gross taunts.

- I'd rather be a country servant...

PACINO:
What!

Threat you me with telling of the king?

Tell him, and spare not.

Let me put it in your minds,

if you forget...

...what you are ere this,

and what you are.

Withal, what I have been,

and what I am.

A murderous villain,

and so still thou art.

PACINO:

Well, it is a complicated play too.

All those relationships and the wives,

the Queen Margaret stuff is difficult.

Hear me, you wrangling pirates,

that fall out...

...in sharing that which

you have pill'd from me!

PACINO:
Margaret was the queen

before the war.

She was a Lancaster,

and she was dethroned by the Yorks.

She's a ghost of the past,

haunting the Yorks with her curses.

A husband and a son...

Don't you think she rants and raves

around the castle like this a lot?

PARSONS:
No!

ALLEN:
No?

I don't think so.

I think she just comes in this day...

...because it's a crisis time.

She feels it.

Give way, dull clouds,

to my quick curses!

It's primordial.

She brings that kind of music

into this experience.

Poor painted queen.

The day will come that thou shalt wish

for me to help thee...

...curse this poisonous

bunchback'd toad.

LINDFORS:
Reading this play,

as I take word by word...

...everything she says happens.

Beware of yonder dog! Look.

Have not to do with him,

beware of him.

Sin, death, and hell

have set their marks on him...

...and all their messengers

await on him.

PACINO:
Thou hateful wither'd hag,

have done thy charm.

And leave out thee?

Stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me.

The worm of conscience

still begnaw thy soul.

Thou elvish-mark'd, abortive,

rooting hog.

Live each of you

the subjects to his hate...

...and he to yours,

and all of you to God's!

We don't say a word. We let her go.

REDGRAVE:
The music...

Literally, I mean the music...

... and the thoughts and the concepts...

... and the feelings have not been

divorced from the words.

In England, you've had centuries in

which word has been totally divorced...

...from truth, and that's a problem

for us actors.

If we think words are things

and have no feelings in words...

...then we say things to each other

that mean nothing.

But if we felt what we said,

we'd say less and mean more.

Spare some change?

Lt'd be interesting to see where he...

- Is that possibly...?

- Where Shakespeare was born.

PACINO:
I think that's Shakespeare

up there in the window.

Knock first. Knock, Frederic.

PACINO:
Hello. Frederic, you've...

KIMBALL:
Okay.

- Where was William Shakespeare born?

- There's the bed of birth.

KIMBALL:
You gotta be kidding.

- I wouldn't kid about a thing like that.

It's too late.

It's a very, very small bed.

I was expecting to have an epiphany...

...an outpouring of the soul

upon seeing...

- Go out and come in again.

- Where he was born.

If you're really an actor, you can come

back and have an epiphany. I did.

[SIREN WAILING]

- Only...

- Did you have one?

- I did not see it.

- I'm not showing it. It's an inner one.

We're not alone.

- Every once in a while...

- There's a fire truck out there.

- I think we tripped an alarm.

- We should pause and think...

You talked too loud

and it set off an alarm.

MAN 7:
Fire alarm. I got the fire officer.

KIMBALL:
We set it off.

PACINO:
There's a fireman. Oh, yes.

- Hello.

Unfortunately, the sensor head is here.

There.

That's going to be the problem.

Yeah? What is it? Is it...?

That's a real bummer.

We come 6000 miles to see

where he was born...

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