#al pacinos looking for richard

[latristereina]

The Godfather

Michael, Kay, Anthony and Al Neri

@blackvalyrians

@cml-17

#the godfather #michael corleone #kay adams #kay corleone #kay adams corleone #anthony corleone #al neri #al pacino #diane keaton #richard bright #my girl looks so happy

[angelobadalamenti]

Looking For Richard (1996) dir. Al Pacino

#al pacino #looking for richard #filmedit #mg. #happy birthday al 🥳 #this scene and lfr in general always make me go !!!!

[lakecrittlers]

the guy I like in Richard III

#richard iii #al pacino #jack mitchell #sorry for watermark #but I wasn't going to Pay! #he looks so silly and beautiful

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Al Pacino and Kevin Spacey behind the scenes of Looking for Richard (1996). Kevin was born in South Orange, New Jersey, and has 86 acting credits from Heartburn (1986) to 2022.

His entries among my best 1001 are Glengarry Glen Ross, Outbreak, The Negotiator, American Beauty, Seven, Baby Driver, and Rebel in the Rye.

#al pacino #kevin spacey #looking for richard

[elycold]

He's so beautiful

#al pacino #alfredo james pacino #i'm in love with him #looking for richard #my edit

[the-irrelevant-trumpeter]

bullshitting my way through my english exam tomorrow ✌️

#technically today #but i don’t think of it as today until i go to sleep and then wake up again #(or if i pull an all nighter it’s when the sun comes up) #anyway i have some stuff to go off #and in the morning i just have to memorise my quotes #ugh i hate the module we’re doing atm SO MUCH it’s so bullshit #we’re doing textual conversations which means we look at a classic work and an adaptation of it #and our classic is richard iii. which is actually interesting! #we haven’t done too much shakespeare but i generally enjoy it when we do #but the adaptation text we’re doing is looking for richard #and it’s literally the worst text i’ve ever had to study in english #it’s sooo bullshit and it’s super boring and no one has any clue what’s going on #and now i have a vendetta against al pacino #i hate it with my entire being

[jeremyfrail]

20-year-old girl discovers a love for Shakespeare alongside their long-time admiration for Al Pacino. They proceed to watch his 1996 directorial debut Looking for Richard. 20 wounded and 4 dead. 

#girl in the gender-neutral way #al pacino #please talk to me about shakespeare #looking for Richard 1996

[glitter-troublewind]

Sun + Ascendant = who you might look like

(extra celebrity bullsh*t) <3

xoxo gossip girl *try to ignore age and race, it could literally be similarity in eye shape or bone structure*

Aries Sun + Aries Rising - Heath Ledger

Aries Sun + Taurus Rising - Alia Shawkat , Scott Eastwood

Aries Sun + Gemini Rising - Kristen Stewart , Gregory Peck

Aries Sun + Cancer Rising - Mariah Carey, Paul Rudd

Aries Sun + Virgo Rising - Doris Day , Conan O'Brien

Aries Sun + Libra Rising - Elizabeth Montgomery , James Garner

Aries Sun + Scorpio Rising - Jessica Chastain

Aries Sun+ Sagittarius Rising - Leona Lewis , Marlon Brando

Aries Sun + Capricorn Rising - America Ferrera, Brendon Urie

Aries Sun + Aquarius Rising - Selena Quintella , Harry Houdini

Taurus Sun + Aries Rising - Barbara Streisand

Taurus Sun + Taurus Rising - Gigi Hadid, Robert Pattinson

Taurus Sun + Gemini Rising - Michelle Pheiffer

Taurus Sun + Cancer Rising - Cher , Rami Malek

Taurus Sun + Leo Rising - Al Pacino

Taurus Sun + Virgo Rising - Renee Zellweger , Roy Orbison

Taurus Sun + Libra Rising - Dwayne Johnson

Taurus Sun + Capricorn Rising - Megan Fox

Taurus Sun + Sagittarius Rising - Grace Jones

Taurus Sun + Aquarius Rising - Audrey Hepburn, George Clooney

Taurus Sun + Pisces Rising - Bettie Page

Gemini Sun + Gemini Rising - Judy Garland

Gemini Sun + Cancer Rising - Angelina Jolie, Mark Wahlberg

Gemini Sun + Capricorn Rising - Naomi Campbell

Gemini Sun + Leo Rising - Logan Browning

Gemini Sun + Libra Rising - Greg Kinnear

Gemini Sun + Scorpio Rising - Nicole Kidman, Chris Evans

Gemini Sun + Sagittarius Rising - Courtney Cox

Gemini Sun + Capricorn Rising - Colin Farrell

Gemini Sun + Aquarius Rising - Shia Labeouf

Gemini Sun + Pisces Rising - Maria Menenous

Cancer Sun + Aries Rising - Farley Granger , Lena Horne

Cancer Sun + Gemini Rising - Lindsay Lohan

Cancer Sun + Cancer Rising - Liv Tyler, David Hasselhoff

Cancer Sun + Leo Rising - Meryl Streep

Cancer Sun + Virgo Rising = Nicole Scherzinger

Cancer Sun + Libra Rising - Michelle Branch, Benedict Cumberbac

Cancer Sun + Scorpio Rising - Lana del Rey , Vin Diesel

Cancer Sun + Sagittarius Rising - Cheryl Cole

Cancer Sun + Capricorn Rising - Gisele Bunchen

Cancer Sun + Aquarius Rising- Cyndie Lauper

Cancer Sun + Pisces Rising - Shane Dawson

Leo Sun + Aries Rising - Taylor Schilling

Leo Sun + Taurus Rising - Halle Berry , Austin Butler

Leo Sun + Gemini Rising - Sandra Bullock, Mick Jagger

Leo Sun + Cancer Rising - Karlie Kloss, Ben Affleck

Leo Sun + Leo Rising - Gillian Anderson , Matthew Perry

Leo Sun + Virgo Rising - Madonna, Patrick Swayze

Leo Sun + Libra Rising - JLO

Leo Sun + Sagittarius Rising - Mila Kunis , Robert Plant

Leo Sun + Scorpio Rising - Iman

Leo Sun + Pisces Rising - Whitney Houston, John Stamos

Virgo Sun + Gemini Rising- Greta Garbo

Virgo Sun + Cancer Rising - Lauren Bacall , Jack Black

Virgo Sun + Leo Rising - Beyonce, Nick Jonas

Virgo Sun + Virgo Rising - Chris Pine

Virgo Sun + Libra Rising - Barry Gibb

Virgo Sun + Sagittarius Rising - Shania Twain

Virgo Sun + Capricorn Rising - Joan Jett, Richard Gere

Virgo Sun + Aquarius Rising - Zendaya

Libra Sun + Aries Rising - Cardi B, John Lennon

Libra Sun + Taurus Rising - Serena Williams , Josh Hutcherson

Libra Sun + Gemini Rising - Christina Millian, Will Smith

Libra Sun + Cancer Rising - Emily Deschanel

Libra Sun + Leo Rising - Rachel leigh Cook , Lindsay Buckingham

Libra Sun + Virgo Rising - Marion Cotilliard, Donald Glover

Libra Sun + Libra Rising - Doja Cat , John Mayer

Libra Sun + Scorpio Rising - Naomi Watts , Charlton Heston

Libra Sun + Sagittarius Rising - Kim Kardashian

Libra Sun + Capricorn Rising - Gwen Stefani

Libra Sun + Aquarius Rising- Alicia Silverstone, Matt Damon

Libra Sun + Pisces Rising - Gwenyth Paltrow

Scorpio Sun + Gemini Rising - Mathew McCoughney

Scorpio Sun + Cancer Rising - Hedy Lamar

Scorpio Sun + Leo Rising - Miranda Lambert

Scorpio Sun + Libra Rising - Anne Hathaway, Leonardo Di Caprio

Scorpio Sun + Scorpio Rising - Grace Kelly, Shah Ruhk Khan

Scorpio Sun + Sagittarius Rising - Yaya Decosta, Mark Ruffalo

Scorpio Sun + Capricorn Rising - Drake

Scorpio Sun + Pisces Rising - Demi Moore, Ryan Gosling

Sagittarius Sun + Taurus Rising - Miley Cyrus

Sagittarius Sun + Gemini Rising - Julianne Moore

Sagittarius Sun + Cancer Rising - Tyra Banks

Sagittarius Sun+ Leo Rising - Tina Turner, Jake Gyllenhaal

Sagittarius Sun + Virgo Rising - Sarah Paulson

Sagittarius Sun + Libra Rising - Keri Hilson

Sagittarius Sun + Scorpio Rising - Taylor Swift

Sagittaarius Sun + Sagittarius Rising - Jimi Hendrix, Xosha Roquemore

Sagittarius Sun+ Aquarius Rising - Nicki Minaj

Sagittarius Sun + Pisces Rising - Billie Eilish, Jay Z

Capricorn Sun + Taurus Rising - Issa Rae, Jared leto

Capricorn Sun + Gemini Rising - Naya Rivera , Ricky Martin

Capricorn Sun + Cancer Rising - Kate Bosworth

Capricorn Sun + Leo Rising - Ava Gardner , Jason Bateman

Capricorn Sun + Virgo Rising - Dolly Parton

Capricorn Sun + Libra Rising - Alison Brie, Denzel Washington

Capricorn Sun + Scorpio Rising - Hrithink Roshan

Capricorn Sun + Sagittarius Rising - Eartha Kitt, Nicolas Cage

Capricorn Sun + Capricorn Rising - Zooey Deschanel

Capricorn Sun + Aquarius Rising- Regina King , Orlando Bloom

Aquarius Sun + Aries Rising - James Dean

Aquarius Sun + Taurus Rising - Taylor Lautner

Aquarius Sun + Gemini Rising - Lana Turner, Ashton Kutcher

Aquarius Sun + Cancer Rising - Molly Ringwald , Chord Overstreet

Aquarius Sun + Leo Rising - Heather Graham

Aquarius Sun + Virgo Rising - Zsa Zsa Gabor , Michael B Jordon

Aquarius Sun + Libra Rising - Jennifer Aniston, Harry Styles

Aquarius Sun + Sagittarius Rising - Paris Hilton

Aquarius Sun + Aquarius Rising - Alan Cumming

Aquarius Sun + Pisces Rising - Brandy

Pisces Sun + Aries Rising - Rihanna, James Dean

Pisces Sun + Taurus Rising - Dakota Fanning

Pisces Sun + Gemini Rising - Drew Barrymore

Pisces Sun + Cancer Rising - Cindy Crawford, Kurt Russel

Pisces Sun + Leo Rising - Laura Prepon , Adam Levine

Pisces Sun + Virgo Rising - Lauren Graham, Kurt Cobain

Pisces Sun + Libra Rising - Jean Harlow , Sidney Poirtier

Pisces Sun + Scorpio Rising - Eva Longoria, Daniel Craig

Pisces Sun + Capricorn Rising - Rashida Jones

Pisces Sun + Sagittarius Rising - Elizabeth Taylor

Pisces Sun + Aquarius Rising - Nina Simone

Pisces Sun + Pisces Rising - Johnny Cash

#sun signs #dumb astrology #astrology #capricorn rising #random astro #aries rising #sun and rising #scorpio #astro notes #signs as #looks in astrology #rising signs appearance #appearance in astrology

[alpacinocharactertournament]

AL PACINO CHARACTER TOURNAMENT ROUND ONE

richard: a prince willing to use any means necessary to get to the crown

frank: a retired solider looking to get away to new york city for the weekend

#apct.txt #al pacino character tournament #al pacino #richard iii #scent of a woman #frank slade #not to be dramatic but if richard iii doesnt win this im losing my shit

[charliethomascoxuniverse]

Charlie Cox: Star turn

Charlie Cox is taking a break from Hollywood to bring Pinter to London's West End. And the experience has proved to be truly terrifying, he tells Charlotte Cripps.

Tuesday 29 January 2008 (X)

I'm watching a preview of the Harold Pinter double bill at the Comedy Theatre on the night before I meet Hollywood's newest star, Charlie Cox, when I encounter his fan club in the row behind me. The girls gasp collectively at how good-looking he is, especially at the end of The Collection, when he strips off to a pair of tight white boxer shorts.

The English public school-educated 25-year-old is not only converting teenagers to Pinter, however; he also holds his own with his more experienced co-stars, Timothy West, Richard Coyle and Gina McKee.

The young star has just played the lead in the blockbuster family film Stardust, alongside such Hollywood luminaries as Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert de Niro, Sienna Miller and Claire Danes. Cox's character was the earnest, genuine Tristan, who transforms from boy to man on his quest for true love. In real life, too, the actor is growing up fast as he finds himself, right at the beginning of his career, rubbing shoulders with the acting elite. Although he had picked up some good roles – performing opposite Al Pacino in The Merchant of Venice and in Casanova alongside Heath Ledger – the actor was relatively unknown until a few months ago. Nowadays Cox, with his boyish, wide-eyed good looks, gets recognised wherever he goes.

When we meet the morning after the Pinter previews, the actor is cleaning his teeth in his dressing room at the Comedy Theatre. As he welcomes me inside, he takes off his porkpie hat to reveal a mass of bouncing, newly cut hair and clear brown eyes. His dressing room, which has the feel of a miniature flat, is nevertheless smaller than those of the other three members of the cast, because, he says as if he is still at boarding school, he is "the new boy".

His costumes for the character Bill – who in The Collection is accused by a husband (Coyle) of having a one-night stand with a married woman (McKee), despite being in a gay relationship with Harry (West) – are hanging tidily over a camp bed. There is a ‘Just For Today’ meditation book on the table – a 12-step recovery tool – because the actor no longer drinks. He has already begun pinning things neatly to the white walls, to create a collage that will document his four-month run in the play. So far it includes a line of fizzy vitamin C sachets, a Nurofen Cold & Flu packet, even three different Starbucks coffee cup sizes. He points out everything to me – "I will remember the bad cold I had at the beginning of the run" – but it is only day four. He is still warming up in his first proper job on a West End stage. "I am far out of my comfort zone. I am trying to keep up with actors who are consistently brilliant, not like me, this Disney kid Cox from Stardust."

Cox lives in World's End, Chelsea, above an art gallery, with his best friend, Ned, and dog, Ralph. He speaks with passion and maturity about his job, and has a calm presence as well as heaps of energy, which he uses both positively and negatively. "I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt. With every job I watch, I can't find peace with what I've done. It's never good enough in my mind. I will never be happy if I'm in that mindset, unless I get a review that starts: 'once in a generation'," he says, laughing. "Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you."

The actor was born in 1982 and grew up in East Sussex with his publisher father, Andrew, his mother, Trisha, and his older brother, Toby. He also has three much older half-siblings, Ollie, Emma and Zoë, who were all leaving home by the time he was born. At the age of eight, he was sent to a local prep school and then to Sherborne School in Dorset. He won the school's Gerald Pitman Award for Drama twice, before leaving school for London at the age of 18.

He got a supporting role in the film Dot the I opposite Gael Garcia Bernal, before starting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School at 19 years old. It was a miserable experience. "They start picking holes and I took it all too personally." Auditioning for roles was banned while pupils were still at the school, but after his first year he secretly auditioned for Pacino's The Merchant of Venice. "I remember feeling really panicked. I was meant to have learnt to play the recorder for the class nativity play when I got the call from my agent telling me I'd got the role. The next thing I knew I was hanging out in Luxembourg with one of my idols. Deep down I knew I'd never go back to Bristol. To slot back into my class after that would have been entirely weird."

He then played a warrior in an unwatchable Spanish film, Tirante el Blanco. "To call it a flop is an understatement. The film made no sense. It hadn't been translated properly. I wasn't even invited to the premiere." He returned to the UK to perform for no wages in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore to packed houses at Southwark Playhouse. The production, directed by Edward Dick, received rave reviews. "None of us got paid for it but it ended up being one of the shows to see in London."

This was the first time that the actor had a difficult decision to make, as he had already been offered a role in a big feature film when the Pinter play came up. "It really threw a spanner in the works because there is a pressure to continue to do films. If you disappear for a little while, they just lose interest. But if I want to be still acting when I'm older, the Pinter play is the kind of work I need to be attached to. The theatre is where I'm learning my trade," says Cox. "In Tim's [West] day he did years of rep theatre. Today we are in a manic rush to be rich and famous. None of us young stars has had time to learn our trade. There is a horrible misconception that you can either act or not. But experience is everything."

It is a challenge for Cox, playing a lead role in The Collection – one of the two rarely performed Pinter plays, the other being The Lover, which are being revived at the Comedy Theatre under the direction of Jamie Lloyd, who recently directed The Caretaker for Sheffield Theatres. "Harold [Pinter] has been involved in the production, but he hasn't told us whether my character Bill really did sleep with Stella or not. He is the only one who really knows. Gina [McKee] and I made a decision that we think helps us, but we are keeping that decision a secret." Bill is a million miles away from his Stardust role of Tristan, who wore his heart on his sleeve. "What is certain about my character Bill is that he lies all the time. Whether Bill did it or not, he still gives different versions of the story. He is a bit of a spoilt brat who doesn't think of what other people want. He just wants a bit of a drama. He craves power and manipulates people for his own amusement. He annoys Harry for no reason at all other than to entertain himself."

For Cox, who has been living out of a suitcase for so long, starring in the West End allows him something of a normal routine. He can walk his dog and hang out with the small group of friends whom he has known since childhood. Fame has not changed him, and he doubts it ever will. None of the older actors has ever sat him down for a pep talk either, but Pacino offered him some words of wisdom. "Al said, 'You're not an actor until you've got a leather jacket.' I took it very seriously and asked my parents to buy me this brown leather jacket for my 21st birthday. It's worn really well, hasn't it? Then Al rang me on the day to wish me happy birthday while I was in the middle of having a small party. Answering the phone to him was one of the most bizarre things that has ever happened to me."

Now Cox has another offer to star with Pacino, in Enclosure, a black comedy about a Jewish family. He has already finished filming Stone of Destiny, based on a true story, in which he plays Ian Hamilton, a committed Scottish nationalist who in the 1950s led a raid on Westminster Abbey to bring the Stone of Scone back to Scotland. The actor talks about his career with the excitement of somebody who is living his dream. In promotional TV interviews for Stardust he looked almost startled, but since he's been at home he seems to be more at ease. "It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people. Doing this play, in front of a live audience, has reminded me of that."

~*~

#a lovely interview of a young Charlie 😎💖 #and the source of some of his most famous quotes #also I'm pleased to say fame hasn't changed him - he's still the same sweet humble and hardworking guy he's always been <333 #charlie cox #bill lloyd #the lover and the collection #theatre #interview #article

[twistedtummies2]

Good & Evil - Villain Protagonists

Welcome to Good & Evil: A Study of Heroes & Villains. I’m discussing different forms of heroic and villainous characters, different types of protagonists and antagonists, and providing examples of them each from various sources. Today we’re looking at one of the more intriguing types of protagonists, the Villain Protagonist. We’ve all heard the phrase “The Villain is the Hero of Their Own Story.” Well, depending on perspective, the Villain Protagonist either exemplifies or spits in the very face of that notion. Villain Protagonists are exactly what they sound like: they are the main character of the story, and they are also the bad guy. They aren’t anti-heroes or anti-villains, either; sometimes they start out that way, as more moral people in some respect…but regardless of where they start, the Villain Protagonist always ends their tale decidedly in the wrong. The idea of the Villain Protagonist may seem revolutionary, but it’s really not: it’s a concept that’s been floating around for centuries. Probably one of the earliest examples is the title character of Euripedes’ play, “Medea”: the story of a scorned wife who murders her own children in revenge against her husband. The 1600s gave us “Paradise Lost,” an epic poem which effectively acted as the origin story of the Devil himself. Animated media is full of more of these than you think: Wile E. Coyote and Dick Dastardly are both comical cartoon baddies, and they are also the primary focal characters in their respective series. The idea of having an evil character as the one the audience follows and relates to most has always been fascinating to writers and audiences alike.

There are, in essence, two types of Villain Protagonists, with perhaps some overlapping elements. First, there are those you might call the “Villain Rising” Protagonists: these are characters who start off the story as relatively decent sorts, but by the end of the story, they’re the bad guy who needs to be defeated. Second, there are those you might call “Villain Fall” Protagonists: in these stories, the character starts off the tale as the villain, without any sugarcoating it whatsoever, and somewhere within the story, they face their karmic punishment. Shakespeare handled both of these ideas in his plays: my two favorite examples are The Scottish Play and Richard III. The former is an example of the “Villain Rising” idea: MacB starts off the story as one of Scotland’s greatest heroes, trusted by the King, and with many friends, and a devoted wife. By the end of the story, his ambitions and paranoid antics have led to him turning against his friends, his former surviving allies becoming his nemeses, his wife committing suicide, and his own descent into presumed madness. Richard III, meanwhile, is the opposite: he starts off the story by flat out saying “I am determined to prove a villain,” and he does not disappoint. Over the course of the show, Richard engages in increasingly despicable and vile acts of depravity, and while he does show some human qualities, nothing can save him from his fitting punishment at the end of the play. In both cases, the title characters are malevolent usurpers, who use dishonest means to gain power and control, and in both cases, their rule only leads to chaos. These stories seem to warn people not to tempt fate, and that honesty is, at times, the best policy, if only for your own sake.

Gangster movies are a common source of this type of character. Two of my favorite examples are in some of the greatest gangster movies ever made, “The Godfather” (and its second part) and “Scarface.” Both, coincidentally, star the same actor: Al Pacino. Michael goes through the full run, starting off as a pretty straightforward Hero, but as the story goes on and he fights harder and harder to try and get what he wants, the evil of the world around him seemingly swallows him up, and he becomes the Villain. Tony Montana of “Scarface,” meanwhile, pretty much starts off the story as a nasty greasebag, without much shame or attempt at self-justification…and, by the end of the story, Tony - just at the moment where he seemingly feels most invincible - is felled by a single shot to the back. Whether it be at the cost of your morality, or at the cost of your own life, both stories show us the consequences of a criminal life.

While all of these examples are fairly straightforward, so far, sometimes the Villain Protagonist’s journey isn’t so cut and dry. Walter White in “Breaking Bad” starts off as an anti-heroic figure. His goals and ideals are actually quite good and noble, as he ultimately just wants to do good by his family and is generally just trying to survive. However, as the series goes on - just like with Michael - the evil of the world he’s immersed himself in swallows him up more and more, and he begins to lose sight of the place where his journey started, causing him to go off the deep end and sink into darker and more despicable acts, making it harder and harder for the audience to sympathize with him and agree with his behavior. In the end, however, Walter does start to realize he’s lost his way, and by the series finale, it’s hard to say if he’s still the villain, or if he’s struggled his way back to a SOMEWHAT brighter space in the universe

If Walter White is a bizarre example of the “Villain Rising” storyline, then Alex DeLarge from “A Clockwork Orange” is an equally bizarre example of the “Villain Fall” storyline. Alex starts off the story as one of the most horrifying human beings anyone could NOT hope to run into. He’s a boy genius who squanders his incredibly gifted mind in favor of brutish violence, engaging in sadistic and intensely vicious acts of criminal mischief just for his own sick pleasure. He’s an appalling ghoul of a creature, one of the scariest human monsters you could (n)ever hope to meet. Thanks to government experimental procedures, however, Alex ends up being stripped of all his criminal desires later in the movie…but once he’s stripped of these dark parts of his spirit, his life doesn’t get better, instead it becomes a nightmare. It’s not till he’s “truly cured” and allowed to be the savage fiend he was at the start that he seems to find some closure and happiness. In this story, the villain’s fall is something we’re supposed to question and ponder, as “A Clockwork Orange” raises interesting and HIGHLY disturbing questions about free will and the psychology of human beings.

One of my favorite Villain Protagonists of All Time is Light Yagami from Death Note, and he weirdly enough has TWO different endings to his story. In both the manga and the anime (disregarding various other versions, such as the better-than-you-think stage musical and the worse-than-even-I-expected Netflix film), Light starts off as an idealistic youth who feels the world needs fixing. He believes the justice system in his country, perhaps even all justice across the globe, is deeply flawed, and wants to make sure that criminals pay for their crimes, while good people are rewarded. When Light comes into contact with a demonic notebook, which allows him to murder anyone whose name he inscribes in its pages, he begins to come unglued, as a mixture of his own ego and the power of the book corrupts him and turns him into a psychopathic, narcissistic serial killer. While in both adaptations Light is ultimately killed in a final brush with the law, the way his death plays out differs greatly: in one, Light suffers in agony and monstrous humiliation, paying the ultimate price for hubris. He dies unloved, alone, and scared. In the anime, Light is allowed to die more peacefully, accepting his own weakness without panic or resistance. Whether he is forgiven or repentant or simply knows it’s time to die is left up to interpretation. In essence, he gets both types of basic endings: the karmic justice in the manga, and the tragic penalty in the anime.

Why do Villain Protagonists fascinate us so much? I would argue it’s for the same basic reason that Villains, in general, interest us, but now with a new twist. Villains fascinate us because they allow us to glimpse into the dark recesses of the human mind: to see the things we would or could be capable of if situations escalated to a point where we abandoned our inhibitions in favor of seeking whatever mattered most to us. Villain Protagonists represent that in a highly poignant way, because they bring us closer to the Heart of Darkness than ever. By making the villain the hero of the story, the questions become even harder and more interesting for us to work out, and challenge our basic allegiances and ideals in a subtle, intriguing way. When the Villain Protagonist reaches the end of their adventure, whether they find a tragic penance or a righteous doom, we remain sorry to see them beaten, because we realize that - no matter how evil they might have been - they are not as different from us as one might at first anticipate.

#good and evil #a study in heroes and villains #villain protagonists #character types #archetypes #analysis #protagonists #antagonists #heroes #villains #the invisible man #hannibal #hannibal lecter #walter white #heisenberg #breaking bad #macb #the scottish play #richard iii #the godfather #michael corleone #scarface #tony montana #light yagami #kira #death note #alex delarge #clockwork orange

[lukiness]

Al Pacino, Looking for Richard [1996]

#[re]visioni

[gnusnoteunuchs]

Richard Hammond looks like porn parody Al Pacino

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Alec Baldwin and Al Pacino in Looking for Richard (1996). This is Alec's second honorable mention, after Woody Allen's Alice.

#alec baldwin #al pacino #looking for richard

[matafilms]

Looking For Richard

Dir. Al Pacino - 1996

Retomamos el título de un libro de otro hombre de teatro, Fernando Fernán Gómez, para referirnos a esta inclasificable (para bien) y excelente película dirigida por Al Pacino, Looking for Richard, excepcional mixtura entre cine vanguardista y experimental, falso documental y adaptación teatral que, partiendo del proceso de creación de un montaje cuasi-privado de la obra Ricardo III de William Shakespeare, nos ofrece una visi��n global del proceso creativo de puesta en marcha de una obra, desde el estudio del texto original, su análisis, su contextualización histórica y el acercamiento a la figura de su autor, hasta la selección del reparto, el debate en el seno de la compañía en cuanto a los distintos puntos de vista sobre las escenas más relevantes y su tratamiento y, por último, de la percepción por parte del público tanto de la obra como del autor, del teatro en general y del shakespeariano en particular. Todo ello, no con vistas a la representación de la obra en un marco teatral -o, mejor dicho, no sólo- sino, y ahí radica buena parte del mérito innovador del filme, para la puesta en imágenes cinematográficas de una forma de expresión artística puramente teatral traducida al lenguaje de la cámara sin olvidar la naturaleza última de su raíz, la esencia íntima del teatro. La gran virtud de la cinta reside en que, construyéndose en un formato documental mediante el que Pacino pretende acercarse -y acercar al público- a una de las obras más complejas y difíciles de representar del inmortal dramaturgo inglés, la película termina conteniendo en su metraje final, 107 minutos, la práctica totalidad de la obra, o al menos sus fragmentos más importantes y reconocibles, una nueva forma, más dinámica, didáctica, amena y apasionante de brindar al público generalista la oportunidad de zambullirse en el universo de conspiraciones, crímenes, envidias, celos, asesinatos, ambiciones, traiciones y venganzas que comprende el inagotable caudal de las tragedias shakespearianas. De tal manera que el espectador, que al principio asiste al proceso de construcción, o más bien de deconstrucción, de un denso drama de complot, ascenso y caída con mucha sangre vertida, obtiene finalmente la recompensa de una representación superlativa de un clásico imperecedero, y a día de hoy no superado, sobre la naturaleza del poder y de la corrupción de su ejercicio, en un destilado lenguaje, además, que ofrece lo mejor del teatro con una exposición cinematográfica ejemplar, que roza el virtuosismo en la dirección y en el montaje. Este aspecto de mezcla de lenguajes queda simbolizado ya en los créditos iniciales: en primera instancia, las palabras «king richard» aparecen sobreimpresionadas en la pantalla; después, son «look» y «for» las que ocupan su orden para componer el título del filme.

Un deleite absoluto para los amantes del cine y del teatro. Una película imprescindible que demuestra la posibilidad de aunar aprendizaje, entretenimiento, disfrute y diversión.

«Y así visto mi villanía desnudaCon extraños y viejos fines salidos de las sagradas escrituras;Y parecer un santo, cuando más juego al diablo «. Ricardo III

[twoheartsoneclara]

al pacino movies watched:

the godfather (november 21, 2022)

the godfather part ii (november 21, 2022)

serpico (november 22, 2022)

sea of love (november 22, 2022)

dog day afternoon (november 22, 2022)

...and justice for all (november 22-23, 2022)

scarecrow (november 23, 2022)

scent of a woman (november 23-24, 2022)

heat (24-25 november, 2022)

insomnia (november 23, 26, 2022)

the panic in needle park (26 november 2022, 5 november 2022)

bobby deerfield (26-27 november 2022)

frankie and johnny (28-29 november 2022)

author!  author!  (28-29 november 2022)

the insider (29-30 november 2022)

righteous kill (1 december 2022)

donnie brasco (1 december 2022)

people i know (2 december 2022)

glengarry glen ross (3 december 2022)

revolution (4 december 2022)

looking for richard (5-6 december 2022)

scarface (6-8 december 2022)

the godfather part iii (9 december 2022)

carlito’s way (10-12 december 2022)

dick tracy (12, 13 december -ongoing, uninished, this a weird af movie)

city hall (14-15 december...)

chinese coffee (16 december 2022)

the local stigmatic (17, 18 december 2022 - ongoing)

danny collins (19-20 december)

the recruit (21, 22 december - ongoing)

the irishman (11-12 january) + the irishman: in conversation (12 january)

manglehorn (13-14 january)

#claire.txt #you know what going to go ahead and post this so i don't have to keep searching for it in my drafts haksjdlfa #ap films