Richard III 1995 123movies

Watch: Richard III 1995 123movies, Full Movie Online – William Shakespeare’s classic play is brought into the present with the setting as Great Britian in the 1930s. Civil war has erupted with the House of Lancaster on one side, claiming the right to the British throne and hoping to bring freedom to the country. Opposing is the House of York, commanded by the infamous Richard III (Sir Ian McKellen), who rules over a fascist government and hopes to install himself as a dictator monarch..
Plot: A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of York and Lancaster. Richard aspires to a fascist dictatorship, but must first remove the obstacles to his ascension—among them his brother, his nephews and his brother’s wife. When the Duke of Buckingham deserts him, Richard’s plans are compromised.
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	7.3/10 Votes: 14,855
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Reviews:

He Can Murder While He Smiles.
I’ve avoided Shakespeare in modern settings. Before this I’d only watched Olivier’s version and read the play. And, I regret to say that all the way through this film the setting — 1930s “Germany” — was a bit of a distraction. You have never seen so many people smoking cigarettes. What saved the movie was the performances. Ian McKellen is far more a rude lump of foul deformity than Olivier ever even suggested and his performance as the central figure is superb, all squinched up, skinny and ugly. Richard the Turd, some have called him.

But then everybody is pretty good, with Robert Downey, Jr., perhaps the weakest of the lot. Kristin Scott-Thomas as Lady Anne is a close second to McKellen. She’s also very attractive. Kate Steavonson-Payne has only a few lines but makes a succulent Princess Elizabeth. The exopthalmic Maggie Smith, as usual, sets the screen alight and Edward Hardwicke is the soul of morality as Dr. Watson — I mean Stanley.

The story is familiar enough,. Richard, a deformed cripple, murders his way to the top. The first victim we learn about is Lady Anne’s husband. McKellen has had him murdered and Scott-Thomas knows it. But he confronts her in the morgue where she is lamenting her late husband’s fate over his body, which has two holes in its chest. Richard woos her on the spot. Yes, he says, he killed her husband — but only because he loves her so much. He proffers a dagger and invites her to cut his throat. When she demurs, he claims he can do it himself, but she refuses the offer because of his “honey’d words.” Not only that. She looks at him a little curiously and not much later falls under his spell. It always struck me that Lady Anne was kind of dumb.

The final battle takes place in a burned-out city, something like the Saigon of Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket.” I was waiting to see how the hell they would work, “A horse! A horse! MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE!” into a battle that has tanks plunging through walls and jeeps with machine guns zooming around in a confusing manner and not a horse in sight. They did manage to work the famous line in, though. I won’t say how.

The closing scene is surreal — Richard is shot and plunges to his death in some kind of bonfire, laughing maniacally all the way, and then Al Jolson is singing “Top of the World.” And I’m thinking: homage to Cagney?

Production design and related elements aside, what impressed me was how much of the play Olivier had left out and McKellen, who wrote it, has managed to squeeze in and how the text of the play itself was at least equally mangled.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 2748518
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Director Richard Loncraine
Writer Ian McKellen, Richard Loncraine, Richard Eyre
Actors Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Christopher Bowen
Country United Kingdom, United States
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. 7 wins & 12 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, Dolby Stereo, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Cameras and Lenses by JDC
Laboratory Technicolor, London, UK (processing) (prints)
Film Length 2,906 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Super 35
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)