Looking for Richard 《寻找理查德德》可以在如下网址下载
http://lib.verycd.com/2005/03/09/0000041643.html
【内容简介】
阿尔．帕西诺演而优则导处女作就挑战高难度，用半纪录半戏剧，既诠释又议论的复杂手法拍摄本片，其创作诚意和导演技巧都有令人惊喜。本片基本上是纪录阿尔．帕西诺和美国演员排学莎翁的冷门剧本《理查三世》的整个过程。透过大量的街头访问，让人了解到美国年轻一代对莎士比亚的戏剧是何其陌生，这也解释了帕西诺为何要拍此片的动机。而一连串选角和围读剧本的讨论，则有如向观众解读《理》剧，深入了解其时代背景和角色心理动机，让大家在欣赏戏中戏的正式演出部分很快便进入状况。因此，本片采用的叙事手法看似零乱，实际却对观众发挥了下面的辅助作用。对于看过国片《阮玲玉》的观众而言，本片的结构有点似曾相识，但帕西诺做得比关锦鹏更成功，因为他的镜头运用更自由奔放，戏里戏外的呼应更紧密，关注的层面更广泛，成功地为莎剧电影注入了新血液。
【家有春夏案】“透过大量的街头访问，让人了解到美国年轻一代对莎士比亚的戏剧是何其陌
生，这也解释了帕西诺为何要拍此片的动机。” 西方人也切需重读“经典”啊。
“the reader of the text is far from the meaning. Great distance. Maybe he secretly thinks the text is absurd/ridiculous. Poetry seems completely unnatural to the people nowadays. So usually the readers do not havegood understanding of poetry. And
in many cases the readers treat the poetry asprose.; they are embarrassed by it, try to make it sound more like prose. But actually poetry is very different from prose. It has rhyme and metre (to mention only the most simple things). In the series of BBC productions on TV of Shakespeare from around the 90s, the distinction between the parts of the playsthat are in verse/poetry and the parts in prose was very often blurred; but this distinction was very deliberate and very important. In the last half-century or so, English people seem to be even worse than Americans, even further from understanding their own literature. Of film productions, in the last 25 or 30 years, all the film productions of Shakespeare I have seen werequite bad (there are of course a few older films that are considerably better);the only film of/about a Shakespearian play that I saw that seemed to have some real understanding and power is Looking for Richard, directed by the American actor Al Pacino (who also plays Richard III in the scenes from King Richard IIIin the film). That is
perhaps the only recent thing that I could recommend,though with reservations.
