Mark Rylance's Richard III paragraph contrasts the pompousness of the entire script. One of the problems with using the life and play of one of the founders of modern drama and modern English as an element is that if you don't get it right, your script looks so weak that it doesn't even exist. "Even the dogs barked at me". All it takes is one clip for Rylance to team up with Shakespeare to turn the pomp of the entire play into a big joke.
The scene where Richard is laughed at is horrific and heart-wrenching.
By the time the audience laughed at Rylance's Richard, the director and screenwriter had trampled on the very essence of all plays since Shakespeare in ancient Greece: the human soul.
Seeing this, it's no wonder that queens, courtiers, geniuses and prophets, in this film, are just paper people who will fall down when the wind blows. The grandfather has determined that he does not reward rice, and the director please do it for yourself.
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