Citizens, particularly some in the U.S. would think it tragic that these folks did not have access to cable news or to the Internet! There are no landlines, cell phones or telegraphs or modern-day postal service; nonetheless, the people received news from their government--directly from their government! In this case, news is disseminated by Buckingham, a "Secretary of State." And the two "thugs" Gloucester and Buckingham, as one of the actors acknowledges, create a narrative of lies that needs the silence of easily influenced lords and dukes as well as the people. Even when people have access to news other than the State, they seem to prefer the State news disseminated on cable television or at "public" television and radio.
Kevin Spacey's response to his character Buckingham is insightful: "Every time there's an election in this country, whether it's for mayor, president, or city council, it is always that the people are sick and tired of the way it's been and they just want change."
But, as Pacino observes, "the politicians offer complete lies and innuendos. It's an act these people buy it. It's a complete lie."
The British actress Vanessa Redgraves captures what the American actors have come to learn in their journey: The "truth beneath all this is also the opposite" of whatever those in power say or do. "The Truth is that those in power have total contempt for everything they promise, everything they pledge"That's really what Shakespeare is all about."
The American, Fred Kimball, one of the writers and producers along with Pacino, speaking to Pacino, sums up:
I heard you talking about Richard as a man who cannot find love. A person in the final scene knows that he does not have his own humanity. That he's lost it. That he has let the pursuit of power totally corrupt him and that he's alienated from his own body and his own self.
King Richard is killed in battle. The war is over and "peace lives again."
We hear at the beginning of Looking for Richard and here again, while the closing credits roll: Our revels, now are ended. These our actors/As I foretold you, were all spirits, and/Are melted into air"" [3]
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