Looking For Richard: Today's society taking a look at Shakespeare Within the film "Looking for Richard," Al Pacino takes the works of William Shakespeare and tries to make it more understandable to today's society. Pacino says, "are goal is to reach an audience who normally would not pay attention to these type of plays." Pacino attempts to pull together a cast that can help to explain the historical background, the language spoken within the play, …
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…being played. The movie also showed the difficulties actors and actress face with a Shakespeare play compared to a regular Hollywood film. The depth of the text had to be understood by the actors before they could present it before an audience. This movie has shown the difficulty of the actors in presenting the movie, an understanding of the text, and a behind the scenes look at actors preparing and presenting a part. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**