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3	''King Lear'' is a 2018 film directed by Richard Eyre based on Creator/WilliamShakespeare [[Theatre/KingLear play of the same name]]. Set in a heavily militarised [[AlternateHistory alternate version]] of present-day England, Lear (Creator/AnthonyHopkins) decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. But when Cordelia doesn't submit to his requests for flattery in order to earn her share of the kingdom, he cuts her off. While Cordelia leaves England to marry the King of France, Lear opts instead to rely on his eldest daughters, who both regard him with thinly-veiled contempt.
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5	!!Provides examples of:
6	* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Goneril and Regan act annoyed when Cordelia asks them to look after their father as leaves for France.
7	%% * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
8	* EyeScream: The film doesn't skimp on the {{Gorn}} when it comes to the blinding of Gloucester.
9	%% * HappilyMarried
10	%% * HonoraryUncle: Kent appears to have this relationship with Cordelia, as they embrace warmly when they first see each other at the meeting at the Tower of London
11	%% * InLoveWithYourCarnage:
12	* KilledOffscreen: Both Goneril and Regan meet their ends offscreen. Averted with The Fool whose death is shown onscreen despite dying offstage in the original play.
13	* MusicalWorldHypotheses: If you listen carefully, there are a few snippets of dialogue done as normal contemporary speech rather than in the Shakespearian style (e.g., Regan and Cornwall whispering to one another in the Tower of London, the French army planning their next offensive). This suggests that the dialogue taken from Shakespeare may be non-diegetic and is instead used as a metaphor to convey the drama of the situation.
14	* SettingUpdate: The play is set in what appears to be an [[AlternateHistory alternate version]] of 2018, where Lear rules England as the head of a militarised dictatorship.

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