Word: jacobi
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Branagh deftly plays with the intersection of art, cinema and the theater. He opens the movie with our narrator, Derck Jacobi, playing the role of the chorus. He lights a match and by doing so invokes the predominant motif of fire, which flickers throughout the darkness of the film. In his shady-looking black trenchcoat, he them saunters across the set of the movie, surrounded by cameras, sets and lights--all the contraptions of film-making. We are clearly made accomplices to the fact that this is a constructed story. Rather than allow us to be lulled by the illusions...
Hopkins, of course. No other actor of his generation need apply. Alan Bates, Albert Finney, Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi -- each brings the handsomely monogrammed baggage of an outsize personality. They would be too big for the role, tell too much. Hopkins is just the man for this. For much of his career, as a prissy Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter (his first film, 1968) or the Rupert Murdoch-like press baron in the 1985 play Pravda, he had his own suitcase of mannerisms: the clipped elocution, the run-on sentence, all the pensive ahhs and umms...
...always, the West End is also a showcase for revivals: Our Town with Alan Alda and Robert Sean Leonard; Becket, with Derek Jacobi as the saintly bishop and Robert Lindsay as his carousing King; Tartuffe, with Paul Eddington as the dithery paterfamilias turned acolyte to a charlatan and Felicity Kendal as the saucy, commonsensical maid in a cheerily broad staging, almost willfully devoid of undertone or relevance, by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
Nielsen is standing firm. We've checked out the people meters, they say, and found no methodological problems. "We've been at this long enough to be able to reach the conclusion that the audience decline is a real one," says a top Nielsen executive, William Jacobi. Still, the company is continuing to study the mystery and will issue a new report in the next week...