King Lear
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Movie Reviews of King Lear
Movie Review: Amazing how some just don't get it
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fine production of one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. The spare sets add to the poignance of this version as we aren't caught up in some exotic location so much as in the fact that it is actually a play. I chuckle whenever I hear someone say Olivier is too old for the power of Lear. I suppose it never dawned on ANYONE that Lear is an old man. He is supposed to be very old and Olivier fills the part. Who would know better how an old man would play it than an old man himself and the world's greatest actor on top of that? I can enjoy Ian Holm's version and Paul Scofield's version, but this is the definitive version. The cast is well chosen. The comments someone made about a poor cast are laughable. Don't let them fool you, this is great Shakespeare. Olivier knows just what he is doing. John Hurt as the Fool,Diana Rigg as Regan and Leo McKern as Gloucester are amazing. Get this and enjoy it!Movie Review: Unbeatble Lear !
Summary: 5 Stars
This Shakespeare drama in particular has had sublime adaptations: in the screen Ran of course of that japanese genius:Akira Kurosawa of 1985 ; the version of Peter Brook of 1971 and at last , this colossal adaptation originally conceived for the British TV .
This is a full blooded , credible and superb playing , the camera work , the characters and the illumination worked out in the highest level .
Olivier was simply overwhelming as Lear . All the cast was in the top of the line but deserve apart mention : Diana Rigg as Regan ; Anna Colder Marshall as Cordelia ; Brian cox as Burgundy ; Jeremy Kemp as Cornwall , Robert Lang as Albany and John Hurt .
You will be rewarded always with this superb production , fundamental story of a king torn apart for the ambition and treachery .
Lear shows till the saciety that you must never delegate the authority ; just only the duties .
Movie Review: King Lear at its best!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is for anyone who knows anything about Shakespeare.I think this is an excellent Lear...the cuts that were made are not excessive and the acting is superb pretty much all around.
Sir L of course is wonderful....rising to the part and the occasion. His daughters are all well cast and the only strange acting came from Lear's Fool...a British actor who took the role to the dark and mysterious place( who's the real fool?) ...a good choice..but the play is so dark and sad anyway..why not have some humor to spice it up? Shakespeare didn't write the fool in this play with great lines or funny lines....
overall the production is an utter Shakespearean success.
Movie Review: Masterful
Summary: 5 Stars
So soon before his death, Olivier here simply towers overthe material. I don't think I have ever heard Shakepearian
verse spoken so clearly, with such immediacy and with such
insight and humanity.
Acting is such a strange, fickle and quite unnatural profession,
after all most of us in our lives strive to be ourselves, not
someone else. It is hard to believe that Lord Olivier made the
movie ( the truly excreable movie ), "The Betsey" and he could
then turn around and be this King Lear.
This is the greatest Lear you will ever see on DVD.
Movie Review: One of the All-Time Great Lears
Summary: 5 Stars
Olivier's delivery of the text is brilliant. I must disagree with the American critic Robert Brustein who was unable to see the forest for the trees. It is a thoroughly enjoyable & stimulating production captured on dvd, even for intelligent people. For those of us who have sat through many dull productions of what we are told is a great play, this is a welcome revelation.