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aq2003 · 10 months ago

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rewatching ben whishaw's richard ii and yea i think the biggest difference between his and the rsc version is that he plays richard's flippancy/disregard for other people's lives completely straight and in a kind of sinister way while david plays it for humor

#shoutout to the scene with dt's richard and gaunt because it's so FUCKING funny dwhgjkflkjwjlw #it's like that one twelve scene in dw where he's reading clara's flashcards for social interaction #and he's like 'uh i'm sorry for the death of your friend slash family member slash pet'. Same energy #ricky 2 #ws #in terms of 'what's more fun for me to watch' i like david better but both are v good ways to play the character imo #one emphasizes the dislikability and the other emphasizes the hubris #although i don't think playing richard's character for humor would work as well without an audience to bounce it off of #one of the weakest parts of david's 2009 film hamlet is that (now that i've listened to an audio clip of the stage recording)#the hamlet w rosencrantz/guildenstern bit in act 2 scene 2 is filled with too much dead air where the live audience would normally laugh #and like hamlet Is meant to be more Funny as a play in a way richard ii is not so it's not like. dealbreaking or anything #but i am so grateful that the rsc richard ii is a stage recording rather than. made for tv bc i can imagine a world #where tv dt richard ii would have a bunch of scenes like the hamlet/ros/guil scene where it would drag more than it needed to #so like while i do slightly prefer the rsc version both versions are ultimately best suited to their respective mediums #also rory kinnear plays henry a lot more human and sympathetic than nigel lindsay does #which means that while he is much much much more entertaining to watch #i do feel like the wider theme of the fragility and sheer ridiculousness of the monarchy as a concept comes thru better in the rsc version #as well as (perhaps accidentally..) satirizing the english nationalistic sentiment expressed by a bunch of the characters #but then again i don't think that's what hollow crown was shooting for they wanted to do a grounded drama and they did a grounded drama

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