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Another one of my "late at night having just watched a movie and need to scrawl down some reactions immediately" posts.
200C MACBETH. FUCK, that was a good movie. I mean, maybe it's just that it's the only film version I've seen of it (or the only full-length anything of it post reading/understanding the play).
I loved how it was so -- intimate. There wasn't really a kingdom he was fucking up, it was very, very personal. Everyone was so close-knit, after Banquo everyone knew that it had been Macbeth. (This was made apparent by a distinctive earring that Banquo owned, which went to Macbeth after B's murder, then to... Ross, I think, after Macbeth dropped it during the banquet scene, which he showed to everyone.) It was "You killed my friends/family and you have hell to pay for it." Not that, in addition to "You are a very, very bad king." It was pure revenge. And all the more fucked up for it. (There was a fantastic wordless scene at the end, where Fleance - poor, little Fleance, after sneaking to the fight at Macbeth's house - picks up a gun and goes to shoot Macbeth, who lies bleeding and dying next to his wife's body. (the end was all a bit strange) He hears a noise, turns, fires, and kills Lady M's gentlewoman. God, this poor kid. Malcolm and Macduff come in, take the gun away, and exit with poor, wounded Fleance, just trying to pay back his dad - FUCK, I can't even. THIS MOVIE.)
What can I talk about that won't send me off on a current of sad, despaired non sequitur? I'm not left with a lot of options here.
Okay, the setting. Perhaps it was just the production that I just did (fuck yeah cops), but damn did I love that modern setting. Although I lol'd a little at "The Cawdor". And at "Birnam Lumber".
The witches were - ehh. I loved the opening sequence with them vandalizing the graveyard, and Macbeth seeing them while Lady M's paying a visit to (presumably?) her parents (and maybe her/their son? I saw the word 'son' on a tombstone somewhere). The whole 'sexy schoolgirl' thing was an interesting twist. It would have been nice, if there'd been a point where Macbeth had been more "OH FUCK WTF IS THIS" and less "Woo, triplets!" (Well, they weren't triplets, but...) Instead, he was... pretty jazzed to see them, every damn time. I don't know, maybe it was just to show that... that the seeds of fucked-uppedness, of eeeeee~vil, if you will, had been there all along?
The orgy was a little much, though.
(haha I was going to write more but that is just a hilarious way to end a post. Well anyway I am going on a family road trip tomorrow and will not be back until Wednesday! WOO, FUN.)
(Oh, also - I saw Ian McKellan's Richard III. Dear god. "Hand-in-hand to hell" - SO MANY CHILLS. I feel bad, because I'm poised to watch both the 55 RIII soon and Polanski's Macbeth, and I feel as if I should watch the ~originals~ befoer I see the more modern versions. IDK? I mean, 2006 Macbeth was pretty changed from the original text, and McKellan's Richard was... well, there were some bits that were obviously changed. And I'd already seen part of the movie, anyway. Am I making sense? Well, what I'm saying is, maybe the old and the new versions are so different that they can be simultaneously good, and me liking the new versions isn't OMG HERESY. I'm not sure why it would be, because they were both brilliant movies. Mostly, I'm just worried about Sam Worthington as Macbeth. At least he wasn't blue? (poor guy, he'll never live that down))
(Damn, now I've ruined my perfect hilarious ending. Let's try that again)
The orgy was a little much, though.
200C MACBETH. FUCK, that was a good movie. I mean, maybe it's just that it's the only film version I've seen of it (or the only full-length anything of it post reading/understanding the play).
I loved how it was so -- intimate. There wasn't really a kingdom he was fucking up, it was very, very personal. Everyone was so close-knit, after Banquo everyone knew that it had been Macbeth. (This was made apparent by a distinctive earring that Banquo owned, which went to Macbeth after B's murder, then to... Ross, I think, after Macbeth dropped it during the banquet scene, which he showed to everyone.) It was "You killed my friends/family and you have hell to pay for it." Not that, in addition to "You are a very, very bad king." It was pure revenge. And all the more fucked up for it. (There was a fantastic wordless scene at the end, where Fleance - poor, little Fleance, after sneaking to the fight at Macbeth's house - picks up a gun and goes to shoot Macbeth, who lies bleeding and dying next to his wife's body. (the end was all a bit strange) He hears a noise, turns, fires, and kills Lady M's gentlewoman. God, this poor kid. Malcolm and Macduff come in, take the gun away, and exit with poor, wounded Fleance, just trying to pay back his dad - FUCK, I can't even. THIS MOVIE.)
What can I talk about that won't send me off on a current of sad, despaired non sequitur? I'm not left with a lot of options here.
Okay, the setting. Perhaps it was just the production that I just did (fuck yeah cops), but damn did I love that modern setting. Although I lol'd a little at "The Cawdor". And at "Birnam Lumber".
The witches were - ehh. I loved the opening sequence with them vandalizing the graveyard, and Macbeth seeing them while Lady M's paying a visit to (presumably?) her parents (and maybe her/their son? I saw the word 'son' on a tombstone somewhere). The whole 'sexy schoolgirl' thing was an interesting twist. It would have been nice, if there'd been a point where Macbeth had been more "OH FUCK WTF IS THIS" and less "Woo, triplets!" (Well, they weren't triplets, but...) Instead, he was... pretty jazzed to see them, every damn time. I don't know, maybe it was just to show that... that the seeds of fucked-uppedness, of eeeeee~vil, if you will, had been there all along?
The orgy was a little much, though.
(haha I was going to write more but that is just a hilarious way to end a post. Well anyway I am going on a family road trip tomorrow and will not be back until Wednesday! WOO, FUN.)
(Oh, also - I saw Ian McKellan's Richard III. Dear god. "Hand-in-hand to hell" - SO MANY CHILLS. I feel bad, because I'm poised to watch both the 55 RIII soon and Polanski's Macbeth, and I feel as if I should watch the ~originals~ befoer I see the more modern versions. IDK? I mean, 2006 Macbeth was pretty changed from the original text, and McKellan's Richard was... well, there were some bits that were obviously changed. And I'd already seen part of the movie, anyway. Am I making sense? Well, what I'm saying is, maybe the old and the new versions are so different that they can be simultaneously good, and me liking the new versions isn't OMG HERESY. I'm not sure why it would be, because they were both brilliant movies. Mostly, I'm just worried about Sam Worthington as Macbeth. At least he wasn't blue? (poor guy, he'll never live that down))
(Damn, now I've ruined my perfect hilarious ending. Let's try that again)
The orgy was a little much, though.