Editing Richard III (play) (section)

===Other quotations===
The film ''[[Being John Malkovich]]'' has many Shakespeare allusions, including a scene in which [[John Malkovich|Malkovich]] is shown rehearsing ''Richard III''{{'s}} lines "Was ever woman in this humour woo'd? / Was ever woman in this humour won?" where Richard is boasting about using power, lies, and crime to seduce Lady Anne. As Visual Cultures professor Lynn Turner notes, this scene anticipates a parallel scene in which Craig uses deceit to seduce Maxine through Malkovich.<ref>[https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/LynnTurner/Papers/106030/Translating_John_Malkovich "Translating John Malkovich" by Lynn Turner originally published in ''Translations – Performance Research'' 2002 – Volume 7, No. 2, June]</ref> Mariangela Tempera has noted that the subservience of Lady Anne in the scene contrasts with the self-assertiveness of the actress playing Lady Anne as she seduces Malkovich offstage.<ref>{{cite book |title=Shakespeare on Screen |last=Hatchuel |first=Sarah |year= 2005 |publisher=Publication Univ Rouen Havre |isbn=9782877753890 |page=78 }} Essay: "Winter and Horses: References to ''Richard III'' on film and television"</ref>

In [[Adam Sandler]]'s 2011 film ''[[Jack and Jill (2011 film)|Jack and Jill]]'', Al Pacino reprises his role as Richard III, although the scenes are modified as Pacino interacts with the audience in a heavily comedic way.<ref>[http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/37403/just-how-good-is-al-pacino-in-jack-and-jill Just How Good Is Al Pacino In Jack and Jill]</ref>

In '' [[V for Vendetta (film)|V for Vendetta]]'' when V confronts Father Lilliman, he quotes the line "And thus I clothe my naked villany in old odd ends stol'n forth of holy writ, and seem a saint when most I play the devil."

In ''[[Freaked]]'', an arrogant movie star who has been transformed into a "hideous mutant freak" makes use of his deformity by performing the opening soliloquy, condensed by a local professor in subtitles for the "culturally illiterate" to the more succinct "I'm ugly. I never get laid." One reviewer mentioned this as the best example of how the film seamlessly moves between highbrow and lowbrow culture.<ref>[http://spectrumculture.com/2011/02/wtf-freaked.html/ "WTF:Freaked"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112142308/http://spectrumculture.com/2011/02/wtf-freaked.html |date=12 November 2011 }}. ''Spectrum Culture''</ref>

In ''[[The Goodbye Girl]]'', an ambitious actor played by [[Richard Dreyfuss]] is forced by his off-Broadway producer to play Richard III as a caricature of a homosexual.<ref>{{cite book| last = Brode| first = Douglas| date = 2001| title = Shakespeare in the Movies| publisher = Berkley Publishing Group| pages = 237–238| isbn = 0-425-18176-6}}</ref>

In the 1975 film ''[[L'important c'est d'aimer]]'', directed by [[Andrzej Żuławski]], a production of ''Richard III'' in French is a ''[[mise en abyme]]'' for the drama enveloping the characters in the film.{{cn|date=April 2023}}

The [[manga]] ''[[Requiem of the Rose King]]'' by [[Aya Kanno]], which began in 2013, is a loose adaptation of the first Shakespearean historical tetralogy. It depicts Richard III as [[intersex]] instead of hunchbacked.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-07-04/viz-media-adds-jojo-bizarre-adventures-battle-tendency-requiem-of-the-rose-king-manga/.76272|title=Viz Media Adds JoJo's Bizarre Adventures: Battle Tendency, Requiem of the Rose King Manga|publisher=[[Anime News Network]]|date=2014-07-04|access-date=2015-03-12}}</ref>

The title of the [[Alistair MacLean]] film ''[[Where Eagles Dare]]'' is inspired by Richard's complaint that the "world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch." (Quoted in Act I, Scene III)

====Lincoln's assassination====
US President [[Abraham Lincoln]] was renowned for his love of Shakespeare, and of ''Richard III'' in particular.<ref>See Carter, Stephen L, [https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2013-02-07/what-abraham-lincoln-liked-about-richard-iii#xj4y7vzkg "What Abraham Lincoln Liked about ''Richard III''"]</ref> This fed [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] propaganda, especially in Virginia, where residents of [[Richmond, Virginia]], saw Lincoln as a Richard-like tyrant and identified their capital city with the [[Henry VII of England|Earl of Richmond]], the hero of Shakespeare's play. Some interpreted Richard's Act IV speech as an omen favourable to the South{{cn|date=April 2023}}:
{{poemquote|a bard of Ireland told me once
I should not live long after I saw Richmond.}}

Within a fortnight of the president's visit to the defeated city, he was [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln|assassinated]] by [[John Wilkes Booth]], a Shakespearean actor known for playing both Richard and Richmond. Booth's notorious final words from the stage were "''[[Sic semper tyrannis]]''".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.biography.com/people/john-wilkes-booth-9219681 |title=John Wilkes Booth |website=[[FYI (U.S. TV network)|Biography]] |access-date=31 October 2018}}</ref>