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Article: Jean-Luc Godard and The Ill-Fated `King Lear'
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- The Washington Post
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- September 4, 1988
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"Golan and Globus are merely bankers who believe they are true
film producers. They are just ill-mannered sharks," says French film
director Jean-Luc Godard in his Paris office. According to the
iconoclastic "Nouvelle Vague" filmmaker, Cannon Films' handling of
his "King Lear" movie is a good example of what caused Cannon to
crash.
And yet at the May 1985 Cannes Film Festival Golan, Globus and
Godard had amicably signed "King Lear's" much publicized contract on
a table napkin. The $1 million movie based on Shakespeare's tragedy
was scheduled for 1986, but to this day "King Lear" has not been
released in France. "It's not being shown because it's just a bad
film. Godard made a bad ...
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Article: King Lear: Act III, Scene VI
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... ... Enter GLOUCESTER, KING LEAR, KENT, Fool, and EDGAR.} GLOUCESTER ... madman be a gentleman or a yeoman? 10 KING LEAR: A king, a king! Fool: No, he ... sees his son a gentleman before him. KING LEAR: To have a thousand with red burning ...
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