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Starting a month of MacBeth adaptations with Scotland, PA. Silly-ass movie.
Mar 2 at 3:24amWeb
Show threadtaShepardMar 10

This week we watched the 2015 Fassbender Macbeth. Beautiful but we were both kind of ultimately disappointed in it.

But then we also watched this episode of an old BBC animated Shakespeare series with some sick Russian animation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tzpboZuMXw

Animated Shakespeare - Macbeth - 1992 - Multiple Subtitles - Restored 2026 - 4K

YouTube
Show threadtaShepardMar 10
I've always been more of a Hamlet girlie but you know I'm here for some wild depictions of the Wyrd Sisters
Show threadtaShepardMar 17
This week's Macbeth is the minimalist stage production with David Tennant and Cush Jumbo and absolutely loving this so far
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yeah no this kicked ass
Show threadtaShepard2d ago
doing Joel Coen's Tragedy of Macbeth this week. can already tell I'm going to have Opinions about this one. definitely the most unique interpretation of the wyrd sisters so far.
Show threadtaShepard2d ago
Does it make sense to say there's a difference between performing Shakespearean material and delivering it.
Show threadtaShepard2d ago
I don't think it's a strike against any of these actors' skills but it feels like they're orating their lines at each other more than inhabiting the character. And this layer of artifice is only enhanced by all the composite 'sets' looking like the 11th-century Scotland version of Sin City.
Show threadtaShepard2d ago
Banquo's eyebrows keep making me wonder if this is going to swerve into a secret werewolf sideplot
Show threadtaShepard2d ago
Maybe not as much as Annie but ultimately I did like that one a lot. I feel like anything I want to talk about are the negatives since what did work for it was mostly keeping it a very stark, straightforward adaptation, minimalist in a very different way from Tennent's, but Denzel and McDormand were excellent and it had some stellar shots.
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And now next week, the GOAT
Show threadYa Girl, Chimerelda E. ErrorMar 2
@TreeAndStorm I really liked it! I just always think of Christopher Walken playing MacDuff
Show threadtaShepardMar 2
@chimerror We really enjoyed it, yeah, great performances.