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Article: SHAKESPEARE ON FILM.
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- Quadrant
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- November 1, 2000
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TITUS, RICHARD III AND LOOKING FOR RICHARD
THIS MEDIUM could not take a real performance," Laurence Olivier exclaimed to director William Wyler during a break in the shooting of Wuthering Heights. Wyler turned on him in a fury, fuelled no doubt by the multiple takes that had been required to sweat the ham out of the actor's brilliant Heathcliff. "There is nothing you can't do in film, you just have to find the way." Convinced by this plus a lot of "patient talking" from Wyler, Olivier came to believe you could even put Shakespeare on film. The story, told by the great man in the 1960s, is less than fair to his distinguished predecessors, Max Reinhardt, William ...