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Dick Terrapin
Nice one due to start. Did you ever see the King Lear adaptation set in modern day Liverpool with Richard Harris? Twas not bad, not great but not bad.
MY KINGDOM (18):
Don Boyd's lurid version of King Lear reworks the well-known Shakespearean tragedy into a 'murky Liverpudlian thriller'. Following the rest of his wife, Richard Harris's gang boss Sandeman decides to divide his 'kingdom' among his three daughters.
The Times (Culture): ".Sadly, better versions by Jocelyn Moorhouse and Akira Kurosawa mean that this reworking of King Lear is never much better than an also-ran. .There are strong characters in Boyd and Nick Davies's screenplay, but it succumbs to the inevitable clichZs: bent cops, heavies and willing whores. Louise Lombard is excellent as Kath, but the film is mostly held together by the almost calm deterioration at the heart of Harris's performance, his best since The Field."
The Mail on Sunday: "A ghastly mess of a movie that seeks to combine the Liverpool underworld with the plot of King Lear, and fails completely. .The blood-splattered plot, complete with ludicrous storyline about smuggling drugs in golfballs hidden in cows' stomachs, makes almost no sense at all."
The Observer: ".An ingenious relocation of King Lear to present-day Liverpool gangland. .Much of the fun comes from seeing the way Boyd reworks the plot and the characters. The Fool, for instance, becomes Sandeman's mixed-race grandson; Gloucester and Kent are conflated into Tom Bell's customs officer, while Aidan Gillen's bent cop is both Edmund and Edgar. There is a nice sense of modern Merseyside and occasionally there's a variation on familiar Shakespearean lines - from Richard III (the film's title), The Merchant of Venice, Othello and Lear itself." --
