:12:00
Let me say it again, then.
:12:02
Now...
:12:03
...is the winter of our discontent...
:12:07
...made glorious summer.
:12:10
PACINO: I said the opening speech
from Richard to a group of students...
:12:15
"Our discontent made glorious summer."
Anybody know what that means?
:12:23
...who were interested, because I meant
something, didn't know what I meant.
:12:28
"Now is the winter of our discontent."
What am I saying?
:12:32
He is referring to their part...
To the Wars of the Roses.
:12:35
Before the play Richard III starts...
:12:38
...we gotta know a little bit
about what happened before.
:12:41
What happened is, we've just been
through a civil war...
:12:44
...called the War of the Roses...
:12:47
[SWORDS CLANGING]
:12:48
...in which the Lancasters
and the Yorks clashed.
:12:53
[HORSE NEIGHS]
:12:54
Two rival families,
and the Yorks won.
:12:56
They beat the Lancasters, and they're
now in power. Richard is a York.
:13:00
PACINO:
My brother Edward is the king now.
:13:04
And my brother Clarence...
:13:06
...is not the king,
and me, I'm not the king.
:13:09
I wanna be the king. It's that simple.
:13:12
Key word, clearly, is...
:13:15
Right from the start, is "discontent."
:13:17
So Richard, in the very opening scene
of the play, tells us...
:13:23
... just how badly he feels
about the peacetime world...
:13:26
... he finds himself in
and what he intends to do about it.
:13:30
Now is the winter of our discontent
made glorious summer...
:13:37
...by this sun of York.
:13:42
And all the clouds
that lour'd on our house...
:13:46
...in the deep bosom
of the ocean buried.
:13:50
Part of the trouble is
that the Wars of the Roses...
:13:53
...the wars for the crown,
are now over...
:13:56
...because the crown has been won
by the Yorks...