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GoldenBallz · 24-11-2003, 12:02

The 2002 Film "My Kingdom" put an interesting new spin on Lear. It stars the late lamented Richard Harris with cameos from Lynne Redgrave and Jimi Mistry playing a sword/meat cleaver wielding psychotic Sikh. Basically Harris plays a Liverpool underworld boss called Sandeman whose downfall starts with the fatal shooting of his wife in a "motiveless" mugging. WW3 breaks out when Sandeman finds the lad who did fer his missus and the Turbanator accidentally brutally chops the kids into bit sized pieces prompting Sandeman to pack up and hand his dirty empire over to his even dodgier dynasty of daughters. A right royal scouse bitch fight ensues while Sandeman narrowly escapes being bumped off by his daughter's henchmen givibng them the slip by cunningly hiding in a chippy. The film culminates in everyone dying and Harris looking thoroughly battered and weary with the whole thing. It wasn't the best film I've ever seen but you can't go far wrong with anything involving Richard Harris plus I like the idea of making Shakespeare more bearable and accessible. Personally having to trawl through incessant tragedies and sonnets for my English Lit O-Level was enough to put me off for life. Definitely worth watching especially if like me you're a massive fan of the Guy Ritchie genre  8)

24-11-2003, 12:02	#6
GoldenBallz Junior Member+ Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 13 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 0	Re: For Jo - King Lear (a synopsis) The 2002 Film "My Kingdom" put an interesting new spin on Lear. It stars the late lamented Richard Harris with cameos from Lynne Redgrave and Jimi Mistry playing a sword/meat cleaver wielding psychotic Sikh. Basically Harris plays a Liverpool underworld boss called Sandeman whose downfall starts with the fatal shooting of his wife in a "motiveless" mugging. WW3 breaks out when Sandeman finds the lad who did fer his missus and the Turbanator accidentally brutally chops the kids into bit sized pieces prompting Sandeman to pack up and hand his dirty empire over to his even dodgier dynasty of daughters. A right royal scouse bitch fight ensues while Sandeman narrowly escapes being bumped off by his daughter's henchmen givibng them the slip by cunningly hiding in a chippy. The film culminates in everyone dying and Harris looking thoroughly battered and weary with the whole thing. It wasn't the best film I've ever seen but you can't go far wrong with anything involving Richard Harris plus I like the idea of making Shakespeare more bearable and accessible. Personally having to trawl through incessant tragedies and sonnets for my English Lit O-Level was enough to put me off for life. Definitely worth watching especially if like me you're a massive fan of the Guy Ritchie genre  8) __________________ Why bother changing the lightbulb in the first place? I can pee on the carpet perfectly well in the dark!