This version sets a modern alternate kingdom based on the background of Shakespeare's original. Shortly in the film's opening, tanks blast through the walls of Henry VI's strategic front, and bullets penetrate the forehead of Henry VI's son Edward. Taking off the gas mask, it was Richard's evil smile. The integration of modern weapon elements into Shakespeare's story strikes me as abrupt yet reasonable. Under this kind of visual impact, as a modern person, compared to the ancient war in the original work, where the hot weapon instantly destroyed a generation of kingship and ended the life of the crown prince, it made me feel the war more. Cruelty, and Richard's ambition and cruelty.
In the movie version, Richard and Annie proposed to me in particular, which was very memorable and touching. Anne, who mourned at the body of her ex-husband Edward, was intercepted by Richard who came to propose. He slowly told Annie in a soft tone the beauty in his eyes that he dared not look directly at her, and the sadness he felt for her heartache, which almost made me empathize with what a man showed to him when he was courting, that Full and delicate admiration. After being satirized by Annie, he picked up the silver-white blade and approached the side of his neck again, using his life as a mortgage, to replace Annie's acquiescence with her as his wife. Perhaps because of his deformed body, he had no choice but to turn his head and bite off the tail ring of his little finger, then let it strain Anne's white fingers. Maybe someone else doing this kind of behavior will make me feel like a lot of fun and deliberately, but Richard did it, it made me feel that it happened so naturally, but it did make me feel a little bit of his charm.
In this way, Richard actually completed the proposal by the body of Anne's ex-husband.
Just when I was almost touched by his sincerity, a transition shattered all my fantasies. Richard left the morgue and said to the camera as if showing off, "Have you ever seen a marriage proposal like this? ... I completed the proposal at the apex of her grief", the expression of joy and excitement after something succeeded , which is completely different from the sincerity and humility he had just now, but it also made me wind up in my back. Indeed, this is Richard, insidious and cunning. He never had the sincerity to put it into practice, and everything in the world was a playground for him to rob.
Contrast that with Benedict Cumberbatch's performance in the Empty Crown, where Benny comes to Annie almost in a bitter but aggressive tone, in which he wants to direct" Possession" Anne's motives are more intuitive and completely undisguised. In order to get her, he even let Annie hold his long sword, let it pierce the skin of his chest, and persistently shouted "Don't be soft-hearted, continue". In the end, it was Anne's mercy that saved his life. It can be said that Richard, played by Benny, threw his own life on the gambling table as a bargaining chip. In this game of pursuing Annie, he was completely resigned to fate. In the end, after Annie threw the sword away, Richard even breathed a sigh of relief, and then confessed painfully: "Have you ever seen such a courtship to a woman?". He seemed to have a sense of grief that he knew that he was not talented enough, so he gave up on himself, and simply put all the grief.
By doing this, it is obvious that the movie version of Richard III is more at ease, as if he wanted to tell the audience. Even if he is physically disabled. Wanting to get a woman, even in hell mode: proposing to her over her ex-husband's body, and he did it. That made me think, what can he not do?
If I mentioned in the analysis of the previous version, Richard was inexhaustibly demanding from the world because of his lack of love, in order to fill the emptiness in his heart. Then in the processing of the movie version, Richard's character design seems to be more game life. Even in the end, he was cornered by Richmond Dodd. Between his death in the fire and the life and death of the duel, he still smiled and stretched out his hands to Richmond, as if to greet him: "Let's charge, if we can't. When you go to heaven, you enter the gate of hell hand in hand."
After he finished speaking, he jumped into the sea of fire, leaving an intriguing smile.
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