

It’s a heady rollercoaster towards earning the “III”. If Death waits for no man, then Richard also waits for no woman to turn him down (while also sneaking a kiss with the mother): his audacity is both shocking and utterly compelling to watch. With Richard, we have a proactive master manipulator that discards women and enemies as soon as it is convenient and takes action before anyone else has had time to wonder why Richard is making sexy-plays towards a grieving widow in a morgue over the body of a man he has killed. Richard has too many stratagems to execute, and he doesn’t want us slowing him down as he lays his traps and snares. Most of the speeches are made as Richard is moving from place to place, casually throwing his plots over his shoulder as scraps for the viewer to feed on. In this adaptation, co-written by McKellen himself, Richard gleefully cackles to the viewer, inviting us into his private inner-sanctum of two with a repulsion/attraction dynamic, but he doesn’t hang around waiting for the viewer to fully comprehend and process the implications of his abbreviated monologues: he doesn’t have that luxury of time. Richard even talks directly to the play-goer, using his charms as a self-assured charismatic leader to coerce them into following his bidding with the same Puckish delight that he takes in his own machinations. In Shakespeare’s play, words and power transform the position of the “rudely stamp’d” villain. This isn’t McKellen’s Gandalf, casually puffing a pipe until the world resets itself and order is restored, this is full-on bi-polar Magneto: one-part stiff and calculatedly unmoving façade (compounded by his physical infirmities), to one-part joyfully skipping through the daisy fields of fallen victims with nary a care in the world. Now newly remastered and released in HD by the BFI, in director Richard Lonzcraine’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III, half of the play’s text has been stripped away, but what we are offered instead is Sir Ian McKellen as Richard of York: in fine form and assuredly ripping his way through each scene in the brisk 104-minute running time.
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1592) to have a crack at pleasing his Tudor Elizabethan nation with a tale of hump-backed hijinks (if by that we mean directly plotting the murder of everyone around him, including the Princes in the Tower) until the whole enterprise comes undone by nemesis-induced hubris, or, the Roadrunner of Henry VII to Richard’s Wile E.


Luckily, William Shakespeare was on hand 100 or so years later (circa. I guess they don’t cover that in science class. What the memory aide fails to account for, however, is the sheer amount of Machiavellian bastardry that Richard possibly brought to his A-game of thrones in getting that far. The game ends once all cards are moved onto the foundation piles.This is full-on bi-polar Magneto: one-part stiff and calculatedly unmoving façade, to one-part joyfully skipping through the daisy fields of fallen victims with nary a care in the world. Top card from the waste pile can be moved onto the tableau or foundation piles.1 redeal is allowed so when all cards from the stock pile are moved to the waste pile, it can be moved back to the stock pile by clicking on empty stock pile. Player can click on the stock pile anytime which deals 1 card face-up onto the waste pile.Whenever a card is moved from the reserve pile, face-down top card of the reserve pile is turned face up. Top card from the reserve pile can be played to the foundation or, the tableau.If there is no card in the reserve, then it can be filled with a card from the waste pile or another tableau pile. Empty tableau pile is always filled first with top card from the reserve pile.Only top card of a tableau pile is available for play.Cards to the tableau piles can be played from the reserve, waste pile, or another tableau pile.On the tableau, cards are played in descending order by suit.Foundation piles are built up by suit starting from Ace to King.
