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Post by kolchak92 on Aug 22, 2020 16:54:02 GMT
Thinking about watching it.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Aug 22, 2020 16:59:39 GMT
Yes
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Post by Archelaus on Aug 22, 2020 19:47:30 GMT
I watched it during the lockdown back in March, and it was a really good faithful adaptation.
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Post by dwightmachinehead on Aug 22, 2020 19:52:42 GMT
Yeah, it's pretty good. I might just order it right now actually.
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Post by claudius on Aug 22, 2020 20:59:23 GMT
You get to see Francesca Annie as the first nude Lady Macbeth!
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Post by bd74 on Aug 22, 2020 22:16:53 GMT
It's got beautiful cinematography. I don't remember much else about the movie tho.
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Post by Vits on Aug 22, 2020 22:46:43 GMT
MACBETH 1971 4/10 The war scenes in MACBETH 2015 are well-filmed. The extensive slow motion and silence make them intense. Too bad that the other scenes aren't intense or even dramatic. MACBETH 1971 also had an eerie atmosphere, but it was more consistent. Neither version worked for me, because they felt like filmed plays rather than movies. I'm starting to fear that a good movie can't be made from the source material. At least not a faithful adaptation. I hope I'm proven wrong. Michael Fassbender conveys the pain of his character, but it's a one-note performance. Marion Cotillard does a much better job, but her French accent is distracting. Look, either cast a Scottish actress or re-write the character's nationality (which wouldn't really affect the plot), but to pretend that this version of LADY MACBETH is Scottish is as possible as finding good speakers and headphones around here. I've bought several and I've tried plugging them at the same time, but the sound never comes out from both. 4/10 ------------------------------------- You can read comments of other movies in my blog.
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Post by wmcclain on Aug 23, 2020 15:43:17 GMT
Macbeth (1971), directed by Roman Polanski. A brutal presentation of the story, but a fine reading of the text and -- strange to say -- a lovely film version. Dark, lurid and sometimes perverse, but beautiful in its way. Reviews at the time were not so kind. I think the factors were: - Excessive, explicit violence when that was still pretty new in film.
- Coming so soon after the Manson murders of Polanksi's wife and others, people uncomfortably wondered if he wasn't playing his personal horror out on screen.
- A younger than normal cast in the leads.
- Nudity by Francesca Annis, a boy in his bath, and a coven of withered, toothless crones. Only the first of those is appealing.
- Funded by Hugh Hefner, meaning it couldn't be a serious film.
The actors are all fine, and actually expert in something important in filmed Shakespeare: in enacting the words rather than always speaking them. Traditionally Shakespeare is text-oriented, but movies that are filmed stage versions where the actors declaim tend to be dull. Modern treatments that have become more "filmic" are a good development. Polanski uses a combined approach. Many voiceover narrations of the text give more flexibility to the staging. Misc notes: - I last saw Jon Finch as the unlikeable protagonist of Frenzy (1972). He's a fine Shakespearean and I wish he had done more. He played Bolingbroke/Henry IV in three plays of the BBC Television Shakespeare series later in the decade.
- Lovely Francesca Annis is an unusual Lady Macbeth. She does not have a villainous persona: those eyes, that porcelain skin make her seem totally innocent. Her nude sleepwalking scene is very mild now, but much more exciting at the time.
- Martin Shaw as Banquo: he later starred in many UK TV series.
- The Macbeths switch places after murdering the king: he had been hesitant, she bold. Both go mental and neither can sleep.
- I always thought the "knocking at the gate" after the murder was meant to suggest the Devil come to collect souls. The porter plays it that way for comedy.
- Everyone instantly suspects the Macbeths: each word and gesture points to their guilt.
- I like what they do with character's attitudes in this version. Often, to accentuate the nightmare quality of the story, everyone is oppressed and cowering. Here the doctor and nurse make ironic comments during the sleepwalking scene. The Scottish lords laugh together about the dangerous times: "a man must not walk at night". Sure, Macbeth is tough, but so are they.
- When it is clear the cause is lost, Macbeth's few remaining retainers flee the castle. That's life.
- The invading soldiers have a supernatural dread of Macbeth, a nice touch.
- These are grim times of serious warfare, with mass executions after the battles are lost and won.
- On the other hand it's not all war: we have realistic looking scenes of busy castle life.
- We have a scene of bear-baiting.
Criterion Blu-ray.
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Post by mstreepsucks on Aug 23, 2020 15:45:58 GMT
I'd say it's worth it for the sword fighting alone. Can't say if the story was good, couldn't always tell what was going on.
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 23, 2020 18:51:00 GMT
The Tragedy of Macbeth / Roman Polanski (1971). Just about everybody in the English speaking world turned amateur psychiatrist when this film was released. It was about as bloody and gory as anything released (at least mainstream) up until that time. It was Polanski’s first film after the death of his wife Sharon Tate, their unborn child, and four others at the hands of the so-called Manson Family. It was obvious to millions of people who had never even seen Polanski in person that he was working out issues related to the horrific real-life deaths. Two generations later, the film should be considered on its own; the only history to be discussed is how it shocked audiences who expected a film of a Shakespeare play to be as dry and academic as they wanted it to be – suitable to screen for bored high school students. The other aspect that shocked traditionalists was the room full of naked older and, shall we say, not conventionally beautiful women. Other than violence and nudity, Polanski’s “Macbeth” is, in many many ways, that conventional Shakespeare movie that was expected. The time period is correct, the scene and set designs play up the dirt and grime, the witches are the wizened old crones of many a stage production over the centuries, and all the famous and important speeches are there and intact (although sometimes heard as a voice-over interior monologue). Another small innovation is the youth of the Macbeth couple (“the Macbeths as hippies” chorused the armchair analysts). Jon Finch was 29 and his Lady, Francesca Annis, was 26. For the first half of the film they indeed seemed too young. Finch never looked like a military leader and hero. But in the last part, when guilt, dissipation, and mental decline takes over, they are both fine and fascinating. This has to be near the top of the list of the theatrically released Macbeths. I much prefer it over the 2015 film with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
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Post by faustus5 on Aug 23, 2020 18:57:22 GMT
I loved it and have watched it several times, just not in a long while.
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Post by Sophiefoxx on Aug 24, 2020 4:15:08 GMT
yes. it's exceptional.
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Post by rudeboy on Aug 24, 2020 5:31:29 GMT
Yes, it’s very good.
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Post by avocadojoe on Aug 24, 2020 6:02:46 GMT
Cold, bleak and violent. Very much worth viewing and skillfully presented. Polanski knows how to make the film work and make every scene count, as he did earlier with Rosemary's Baby - 68'. I would agree with this. It depressed me.
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Post by jonesjxd on Aug 25, 2020 10:56:43 GMT
In my opinion it's the definitive film version of Macbeth.
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