Did you tell the citizens of Richard's bastard children?
-- [W]hen my oratory drew toward end/I bid them that did love their country's good/Cry, God save Richard, England's royal king!"
And did they, the impatient Duke wants to know. The actor Kevin Spacey says to Pacino as they rehearse the scene: You would expect "boisterous" outburst and "rallies" but no!
Buckingham: The citizens "spake not a word/But, like dumb statues or breathing stones,/Star'd each on other, and look'd deadly pale."
"Whatever their reaction, it didn't matter. We had this plan," says the actor Spacey. He continues: "So they are told right before your very eyes that here is the man who will make it better." Then we see, Spacey's Buckingham on the balcony of the castle shouting to the people below. Your man is Richard, the royal Duke, and out comes Richard, humbly agreeing to take on "the burden" of King!
And so with good conscious, the newly crowned King, Richard III orders the execution of the former King's sons--by Buckingham's hands! But the latter dares to tell King Richard that he needs to think on it! When he returns to the King and receives a chilling response, he knows he needs to escape the kingdom with his head still on his body. The deed will get done, by another "hit man." There is always someone will to sell their soul.
"I am so far in blood that sin will pluck on sin," says the King, speaking into the camera.
But to war! He instigates conflict with Richmond (Lancaster), deploying lies in the mouths of his emissaries. And, of course, it works. All is well in the world, once again! Men will fight and more blood will spill.
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