:20:02
Perhaps they don't go to picture galleries
and read books as much as we do.
:20:07
I think it's the effect
of how everyone looked and behaved...
:20:11
...that one got a sort of Elizabethan
feeling of period.
:20:15
Experienced classical actors...
:20:17
...have a few things that
they can use at a moment's notice.
:20:22
The understanding of iambic
pentameter, for one thing.
:20:25
PACINO:
Everybody says, "lambic pentameter."
:20:29
What is that supposed to mean?
:20:31
Some say there are no rules.
I say there are rules...
:20:34
...like the iambic pentameter,
that must be learned...
:20:37
...and can be rejected once learned.
:20:40
"Pentameter" means "meter,"
and "pen," meaning "five."
:20:44
So there's five beats.
:20:46
Which, at its worst, sounds only like:
:20:48
"Why, so. Now have I done
a good day's work."
:20:52
De-da de-da de-da de-da de-da.
:20:54
And iambic is where the accent goes.
:20:57
That's de-tum de-tum de-tum de-tum.
:20:59
And five of them:
Da-da da-da da-da da-da da-da.
:21:03
Make a pentameter line, five iambs.
:21:08
An iamb is like an anteater.
:21:13
Very high in the back
and very short, little front legs. Da-da!
:21:19
Shakespeare's poetry and his iambics...
:21:25
...floated and descended
through the pentameter of the soul.
:21:29
And it's the soul, the spirit of real,
concrete people going through hell...
:21:34
...and sometimes moments of great...
:21:39
...achievement and joy.
:21:42
That is the pentameter
you must focus on...
:21:45
...and should you find that reality...
:21:49
... all the iambics will fall into place.
:21:53
Dive, thoughts, down to my soul.
Here Clarence comes.
:21:59
Brother, good day.