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:04:01
- It what?
- It sucked. I saw it live.

:04:03
- It sucked?
- Yeah.

:04:04
PACINO: Anything in Shakespeare that
made you think it's not close to you...

:04:10
...or connected to you in any way?
- Yeah, it's boring.

:04:14
A bank in England uses
Shakespeare as...

:04:19
Cover my account number.
See, it's a hologram.

:04:21
They use it as ID to prove
it's a real card.

:04:24
PACINO:
What do you think of Shakespeare?

:04:26
He's a great export.
:04:28
Who's moving in on Shakespeare?
The Japanese.

:04:30
Because they're kicking
the Americans' ass.

:04:33
And they're all interested
in Shakespeare.

:04:36
You know Shakespeare?
William Shakespeare?

:04:39
We're peddling him on the streets.
:04:43
I remember our English teacher
sent us to see...

:04:45
...a local college production
of King Lear.

:04:49
I went with my girlfriend...
:04:52
...and after about 10 minutes
of these people:

:04:54
[BABBLING]
:04:55
They were doing this kind
of Shakespearean acting.

:05:00
I just tuned right out. We made out
in the back row and left at intermission.

:05:04
I was brought up in a school...
:05:07
...where Shakespeare was taught
very kind of...

:05:11
...straightforwardly and dully,
to be honest.

:05:14
We read it aloud and it made no sense,
because there was no connection made.

:05:19
My own experience...
:05:21
...was in the fields in Michigan,
where I was raised on a farm...

:05:26
...and an uncle, who was a Northern
guy, black Northern guy...

:05:30
...came out of the field one day
and started narrating...

:05:32
...Antony's speech, the funeral oration.
:05:36
- From Shakespeare's Julius Caesar?
- Yeah. We'd heard stuff from the Bible...

:05:40
...but my first time as a kid,
I was hearing...

:05:44
...great words having great meaning.
:05:48
KIMBALL:
What brings us to Montreal?

:05:51
To Paris? To London?
:05:53
What takes us into dungeons,
to parapets...

:05:56
- To Japan next.
- To Japan, maybe, is a quest.


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