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winter of our discourse. Made glorious summer by Al Pacino 's documentary, Looking for Richard. The documentary presents a facet of cultural and academic critiques of performing Shakespeare while striving to turn those preconceived presumptions on their head. Pacino 's documentary shakes up the script and provides an interesting dialogue on the importance, influence, and approachability of Shakespeare on a grand scale. A particular scene that captures Pacino 's message occurs around halfway through the

Good morning/afternoon Throughout my comparative study of texts and context, I have explored various connections shared between William Shakespeare’s ‘Richard the 3rd’ and Al Pacino’s ‘Looking for Richard’. As both of these items are based on the same character, King Richard the 3rd, they share a lot in common. The connection that I have chosen to concentrate on though is the idea of power, and how both texts explore this theme. William Shakespeare is an extremely famous English

Cameron Parker interviews Al Pacino about his docudrama Looking For Richard, about William Shakespeare's Richard III. PARKER: Intertextual connections have allowed us to observe the differences that the context makes to the composition of texts; such as the values conveyed, the textual medium, and textual devices within each text. This is evident in the intertextual connections between, William Shakespeare's play, Richard III, and Al Pacino's, docudrama Looking for Richard. So Al how were you able to

in. Al Pacino recites “Yes to smell pork…news on the Rialto?” with a mellow tone showing little to no emotion. This could be because Shylock is used to the daily prejudice and harsh life of living in a Jew-hating nation; allowing us to evaluate his human qualities, making us sympathise with him as a victim. Also, in the original script, Shylock’s line “Yes to smell pork” implies that it should be read with sarcasm, mocking Bassanio for asking him to dine with Christians. However, Al Pacino says

The pursuit of individual recognition in the form of power and authority remains intrinsic in texts despite the change in contexts. This is evident in William Shakespeare’s 16th century play, King Richard III and Al Pacino’s 19th century docu-drama, Looking for Richard. Both texts explore that the pursuit of individual recognition can be initiated by an individual’s flaw in character caused by the corruption of their sense of morality in order to gain power. This is depicted through the malicious

“You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, ‘That's the bad guy.’ So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie” (Scarface). Tony Montana, the main character of Scarface, questions a restaurant full of patrons silently judging him about their skewed sensed of morality and their own hypocritical views of heroes and villains. The most mesmerizing aspect of Scarface is how Tony Montana exudes the characteristics

connections between your prescribed texts enhanced your understanding of the values and contexts of each? In your response, make detailed references to your prescribed texts. Through exploring connections between Shakespeare’s Richard III and Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard the values of the era are often a product of the context of the text. However, through studying the theatricality of man and the pursuit of power, it is clear these notions transcend time and context. Shakespeare valued

The AFI movie I chose for a week 3 assignment is Scarface, this 1983 cinematic masterpiece, starring Al Pacino, shows the journey of a simple immigrant from Cuba trying to make his way to America, trying to find the American dream, after the character Tony Montana play by Al Pacino tries to enter into United States illegally, he was caught and placed into a immigration detention center, this is where Tony Montana gets his big break by taking on a contract hit for a Colombian drug cartel that can

When someone says Scarface the first image that pops up in their mind is not a rapper, but of a movie in which Al Pacino is holding a grenade-launcher-equipped M-16 and shouting this famous line “Say hello to my little friend!” before firing. Almost everyone I asked knows this iconic scene and the story of “Tony Montana” but what they don’t know is that the movie that they love is not a stand alone film it's a remake of a movie of the same name. Before doing this assignment I had no idea that the

willingness to strive for its attainment * Al Pacino’s production as an art-house vanity project * Promotes himself – manipulating the audience through cutaways, specific and timed edits. The medium of film allows for one to manipulate and force audience attention to a specific area, scene. * His honest ‘love’ for William Shakespeare * Richard III – Ambition for power and the crown (Buckingham, Richard,