>see this
>it makes no sense
>all the words are nonsense
>the action is shit
whydid I waste my time?
>>64542052
For the same reason your parents wasted time educating and raising you.
>>64542052
op confirmed for pleb
is this online yet? i want to see it so bad and no theater is showing it near me.
>mfw Swans in the trailer
>>64542076
>>64542204
>implying you knew what was going on
>>64542342
>he hasn't read macbeth
>he hasn't seen the 4000 other versions
>>64542342
>he hasn't read macbeth
>>64542364
It can't be a very good adaptation of the story if it isn't capable of conveying the story unless you already know it.
>>64542052
Nice b8 breh
>>64542402
Usually I'd agree with you, but this is Shakespeare. Ya cant just put hillbilly accents and 3 word sentences.
>>64542402
how unfamiliar with shakespeare are you?
do kids not read shakespeare in school anymore
>>64542452
I think its too hard for kids to understand
thats why OP is confused
>>64542428
I'm surely quietly mumbling everything was a vital part of the Shakespeare experience too.
>>64542514
I didn't say it was a perfect film. Although I personally had no issue with how quiet and the way the actors spoke.
>>64542468
I'm not a kid
>>64542514
It is, actually. Brits are notorious mumblers
>using and saying the name
>not 'that Scottish play'
No wonder it flopped
>>64542873
I hate this fucking maymay
I'm happy this flopped. From now writters can stop try to be edgy and adapt the fucking text.
it was good
>The cinematic surprise of 2015 is Macbeth, directed by Justin Kurzel. Shakespeare’s intimate political intrigue is filmed as a global visionary tragedy. Kurzel depicts Scotland’s eleventh-century history while alluding to our millennial disillusionment (“I feel now the future in the instant”).
>Kurzel’s harsh, violent images link to 300: Rise of an Empire, transforming pop myth through breathtaking poetry. Both Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard look archetypal: His ruddy skin, facial scruff, scared eyes, and a smile not to be trusted complement her deep-set stare with blue eyeshadow beneath a pearl corona. Their scheming and anguish derive from deep suffering, sufficient to explain their moral fall. By literalizing “Screw your courage to the sticking post, and we’ll not fail,” Kurzel makes the play as sexual as 300, and the tragedy becomes, all the more, a human and affecting tale of ambition vs. conscience. (The mob hailing Macbeth ironically resembles the people wall-mugging in the background of today’s politicians.)
>At this moment of political division and partisan suspicion, Macbeth is a perfect vehicle to wake the biased, dehumanizing conscience, to show the worst of others in ourselves. That’s what makes Fassbender and Cotillard’s unorthodox performances so beautiful. His talent for decadent menace and her gift for wounding sorrow deliver a poetic effect even when they use contemporary cadence on the blank verse. Jed Kurzel’s shrieking, moaning strings and booming percussion — this is the year’s best music score — add tactile effect to already expressive images: The forest killings of Macduff’s family and Banquo are worthy of The Conformist, and Paddy Considine as Banquo’s ghost is unforgettable.
>Justin Kurzel’s intense understanding of the play’s essence is apparent in the welts on the witches’ faces, Macbeth’s catching embers in his hand, the revelatory edit during Lady Macbeth’s monologue, and the close-up that makes Macbeth’s “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” despair immersive. This is the most imaginative Shakespeare film in years, as we await Julie Taymor’s wonderful unreleased A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
>>64544073
BASED ARMOND
>>64544073
>One of these rare moments where Armond agrees with mainstream critics
This proves Macbeth is good beyond a doubt, right?
>>64544222
Probably
>>64544098
>Julie Taymor’s wonderful unreleased A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
That sounds interesting...apparently it's a filmed play?
Screener when
ticked I missed this in thearters
>>64542052
>all the words are nonsense
Didn't go through high school English class?
>>64542052
>>64542076
>>64542204
>>64542452
>>64542468
>>64542514
>>64542873
>>64547971
To be fair, Fassbender had no idea how to pronunciate Shakespeare correctly
So a lot of it made less sense that it should have.
Should have gotten an actual stage actor like Branagh
>>64548089
>pronunciate
>>64548127
It's actually a word believe it or not
>>64548089
>like Branagh
Sure, if you wanna go full ham
The last scene was fantastic
>>64548148
>Shakespeare isn't meant to played hammy
What's your favorite Shakespeare film adaptation, lads?
Pic possibly related.
>>64548133
Yeah but no one uses it.
Pronounce comes from "prononcer" no need to use an inferior cognate
>>64548206
Yet here we are discussing Shakespeare
>>64548148
>Branagh
>Ham
PICK ONE FAGGOT
>>64542539
>I'm not a kid!
With that attitude, yes you are, you little fag
>>64548195
Branagh's Hamlet and Henry V are really the creme de la creme.
His over the top hammy Hamlet is GOAT
>>64548195
1/2
>>64548195
Chimes at Midnight stands so far above everything else...
>>64548735
>>64548762
These two and Branagh's films are the GOAT adaptations
Laurence Olivier's are up there too
![tumblr_noviwnZ54U1uqkf7co6_r2_1280[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/90hpYj6.jpg "tumblr_noviwnZ54U1uqkf7co6_r2_1280[1].jpg")
>>64548735
This one was brilliant
>>64542052
the same director behind this is going to make AC as well
interesting
>>64548195
>>64548195
I watch this one every spring when the weather starts to turn nice, top comfy.
>>64549478
saw this in theaters on release.
it played like gangbusters.
>>64542402
then go watch throne of blood, it's the best macbeth version
this is some good shit rite here
A good version of Macbeth that never gets talked about is Men of Respect with John Turturro. Sets the play in modern times with a mafia backdrop.
>>64549654
>>64549654
forgot to mention this. UNDERRATED
Watch/read Titus Adronicus. It's pretty brutal.
Is there any screener for it yet?
>currently, there are no showtimes in your area
>bothering to adapt Macbeth again when we've already best blessed with perfection
Has a screener been released yet?
>>64547971
It's Elizabethan
Well, can we get one in English?
Sean Harris plays Macduff, so might be worth seeing.
>>64542052
Looks like a Sith
Does anyone else find it weird this is the 2nd role Fassbender has done, that was made famous by Ian McKellen?
>>64548735
That. Fucking. Cast.
Even the most minor characters (ie not on the header), were played by well known english tv actors
Gnomeo and Juliet
>>64548195
Coriolanus.
Because I had never even heard of the play, let alone read it. Supporting actors like Nesbitt, Chastain, Cox were amazing.
>>64548195
I love Branagh's Hamlet and R&G are Dead, which isn't truly Shakespeare
>>64542052
>movie adaptations of literature
>>64548735
God, I wish this had been made with an actual budget
Everyone's performance is staggering. If it had been lit and shot better than an average 1990s BBC TV show it would've dominated.
Still so unbelievably good.
>>64550758
>movie adaptations of plays
>>64550695
>see Gerard Butler performing Shakespeare
>expect the worst
>he actually kills it
That whole cast was fantastic actually, Brian Cox sinks his teeth into that dialogue with such gleeful relish it's just a delight to watch. And of course Finnes is a titan as the lead.
>>64542052
I'm a fucking pleb but you sir, god.
It was a great movie, great adaptation, great acting, and great fucking cinematography.
Go watch newest "swords in space" or whatewer this shit s called.
>>64548195
Throne of Blood
>>64550695
>>64550573
I think he just emulates that kind of role in general.
He literally played Peter OToole's Lawrence of Arabia, in Prometheus. And to a lesser degree in Inglorious Bastards
>>64542364
>watching shakespeare adaptations
>not going to the theatre
pleb
>>64550183
It's excellent, but the new Macbeth did a really good job.
Shakespeare is overrated.
