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Is Clarence dead?

The order was reversed.

But he, poor man,

by your first order died.

YULIN:
Have I a tongue to doom

my brother's death?

My brother killed no man.

His fault was thought...

...and yet his punishment

was bitter death.

Who sued to me for him?

Who kneel'd at my feet,

and in my wrath, bid me be advised?

Who spoke of brotherhood?

Who spoke of love?

The proudest of you all...

...have been beholding to him

in his life.

Yet not one of you

would once beg for his life.

O God, I fear thy justice

will take hold on me, and you...

...and mine, and yours for this!

Come, Hastings, help me to my closet.

WOMAN 1:
What is it in theater?

Why do we want to do it?

We want to do theater

because of that personal presence.

West Germany gave a billion dollars

a year to the arts.

I gave up a TV movie in France

to do Richard llI in Milwaukee.

I was talking to my teacher,

and she said, "You will benefit. "

Kevin Costner did that TV show.

- You lost out. Look at his career.

- He's afraid to do Shakespeare.

No, he's in the other room practicing.

PACINO:
The Anointed Shakespeare.

WOMAN 2:
"Annotated. "

It's got beautiful pictures.

It's got beautiful pictures.

That's what I like about Shakespeare,

the pictures.

HADGE:

He's dead. Okay.

Okay.

Well, what are we gonna do?

- Okay.

- I like it.

What next?

What do you mean, you like it?

MAN 8:
What time is it?

MAN 9:
3:30.

MAN 8:

What are they doing, do you know?

MAN 9:
Freddie said something

about burying the king.

MAN 8:

Is that in the play?

[CHURCH BELL RINGING]

[WOMAN CRYING]

PACINO:
Here it goes. This is it.

KIMBALL:
This is the crunch.

PACINO:
Now we can say Richard

is the most powerful man at this point...

...alive.

All of us have cause to wail

the dimming of our shining star.

KIMBALL:

The crisis is...

...are they going to live by the words

that they spoke to the king...

... or are they not?

Is the peace going to hold?

I hope the king made peace

with all of us...

...and that compact is firm

and true in me.

- And so in me.

- And so say I.

Then go we to determine...

...who they shall be

that shall post to Ludlow.

Who is going to go to Ludlow

to get the young prince...

...and bring him back to be king?

Who's gonna do it?

And Buckingham says,

"Whoever does do it...

...we go along too. "

SPACEY:
Whoever journeys to the Prince,

let not us two stay at home.

Buckingham decides politically

to align himself with Richard.

He does everything for him

in order to...

...help him, obviously wanting

to help himself.

When I am king...

...claim thou of me

the earldom of Hereford...

...and the moveables whereof

the king my brother was possess'd.

SPACEY:
Buckingham is like

the secretary of state.

Like the guys who did

the Iran-Contra stuff, the dirty work.

PACINO:
Mm-hm.

- Propped up the king.

PACINO:
Without Buckingham,

there's no Richard as king.

- Right. He couldn't do it alone.

- Mm-hm.

But then, they never can.

Shakespeare saw Richard Gloucester

and Buckingham as gangsters.

They were thugs.

High-class, upper-class thugs.

There's been no influence here,

has there? No influence.

ALLEN:

What is thy news?

Lord Rivers and Lord Grey

are sent to Pomfret...

... and with them Sir Thomas Vaughan...

... prisoners.

ALLEN:

Who hath committed them?

The mighty dukes

Gloucester and Buckingham.

You're a pretty smart guy.

I can see it.

I see the ruin of my house.

Insulting tyranny begins to jet upon

the innocent and aweless throne.

I can see it...

...as in a map, the end of all.

PACINO:
Now, Richard and Buckingham

have betrayed everybody.

They lied. They went to Ludlow

to pick up this prince.

They were supposed

to be peaceful.

They forced him out

from under his uncle's arms...

- ... and they've stolen this kid.

KIMBALL:
They're bringing him back.

What they have really got there

is the throne of England...

- ... in their arms.

PACINO:
The future.

KIMBALL:

They've got it.

[PACINO & KIMBALL SING "HE'S GO THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS"]

PACINO:

Now is the winter of our discontent...

... made glorious summer...

... by this sun of York.

Welcome...

...to London.

CURATOR:

This is the first chance since 1640s...

...to see the Globe Theatre.

This is where Shakespeare...

...wrote his plays, where he acted.

- Shakespeare owned it.

PACINO:
So this is the spot?

If you stand in the middle of it,

what happens?

It's like a sounding board,

like a resonating chamber.

- You can hear the wonderful acoustics.

- I hear it already.

Now is the winter of our discontent...

...made glorious summer...

...by this sun of York.

And all the clouds

that lour'd on our house...

...in the deep bosom of the ocean...

- Hi. Are you working on this?

- I am. I've been recording it since 1980.

- You've been recording this since 1980?

- Yeah. The whole shebang.

- Really?

- And who is this?

This is the son of one of the builders.

PACINO:

Welcome, sweet prince, to London.

My thoughts' sovereign.

The weary way

hath made you melancholy.

- I want more uncles here to welcome me.

- Sweet prince...

...those uncles which you want

were dangerous.

Your grace attended

to their sugar'd words...

...but look'd not on the poison

of their hearts.

God keep you from such false friends!

God keep me from false friends!

But they were none.

The mayor of London

comes to greet you.

Okay, now they got the kids. They got

the young prince who'll be king.

- They got his brother.

KIMBALL:
Richard has a happy family.

PACINO:

Yeah. Somebody's gotta go.

Will't please you pass along?

Myself and Buckingham

entreat your mother to come...

...and welcome you at the Tower.

What, will you go unto the Tower,

my lord?

- What should you fear at the Tower?

- Nothing.

PACINO:

Why has he put them in the Tower?

He's going to kill them.

The Tower is where they execute...

They chop people's heads off.

There are many rooms up there.

So it can also go for meetings

and different places.

But there is one specific spot

up there...

...where they...

They do the...

You know, do the thing.

The one person who is in line is a child.

What a wonderful opportunity

for all of us to get what we want.

- Of course.

- I'll basically be running the country.

PACINO:
One person's standing

in their way:
Lord Hastings.

Hastings loves this kid, the prince.

He really wants him to be

the next king.

Though the kid's in the Tower,

he believes he will be.

KIMBALL:
He's tough.

PACINO:
Tough Guy Hastings.

He was the former king's

closest friend.

They even shared a mistress.

Mistress Shore. Who is she?

KIMBALL:
She's Shakespeare's device

to connect Hastings and the king.

- They share the same woman.

PACINO:
Good idea.

Hastings is a great threat

to Richard and Buckingham.

KIMBALL:
He can stop them,

so they have to stop him.

SPACEY:

What shall we do...

...if we perceive Lord Hastings

will not yield to our complots?

Chop off his head.

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