I watched this movie high and coundn't stop laughing because I was imagining some unsuspecting guy with a metal detector walking along the beach and detecting the dagger then digging it up to find the severed hand
I consider this transcription scenic Polansky as one of the best ever produced. costumes and interpretation, enviable scenic environments and times. I think, having read and studied the tragedy of Shakespeare's thought that this is even better than interpreted by Welles.
Glad to see this posted, and the music you have chosen to frame it is interesting, but it takes away mightily from the VERY creepy soundtrack of the film, which is in my opinion integral to the experience.
Love this film. Down below someone points out that the witches open the play as a way of grabbing the audience's attention and someone else says there was no need as the audience had paid to see the play and would be ready for. The first post is spot on - Elizabethan audiences were rowdy; lots of Shakespeare's (and other playwrights of the time) plays have loud beginnings, basically to cut through the din and get the audience to shut up and listen - in the stage directions, the witches first appearance is preceded by thunder and lightning.
All. Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air. (They spit) First witch. When shall we three met again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? Second witch. When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won. First witch. That will be ere the set of sun. Second witch. Where the place? First witch. Upon the heath. Second witch. There to meet with Macbeth.
2 comets were known about around this time and wise minds expected a third. The witches open the play to portend to the great uncertainty brought about by these objects in the sky. That is my take.
You shouldn't have added the music. When they walk away on the beach the eerie squeaks of the tire and the odd music on the original soundtrack made the scene.
Just one of Shakespeare’s best… Honestly I have read the play and watched performances of it, but this movie seems to lay down a standard in interpretation
@zriku1 All. Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air. (They spit) First witch. When shall we three met again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? Second witch. When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won. First witch. That will be ere the set of sun. Second witch. Where the place? First witch. Upon the heath. Second witch. There to meet with Macbeth. greetz Minna
I watched this movie high and coundn't stop laughing because I was imagining some unsuspecting guy with a metal detector walking along the beach and detecting the dagger then digging it up to find the severed hand
That's legendary
Watching for school English lessons anyone? 😔
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here but a year later
here many years later
probably the most hauntly beautiful opening of any shakespearean film
I consider this transcription scenic Polansky as one of the best ever produced.
costumes and interpretation, enviable scenic environments and times.
I think, having read and studied the tragedy of Shakespeare's thought that this is even better than interpreted by Welles.
notice how the witches dont leave footprints =))
Omg!!!
Glad to see this posted, and the music you have chosen to frame it is interesting, but it takes away mightily from the VERY creepy soundtrack of the film, which is in my opinion integral to the experience.
Agreed!
Still the best version of MacBeth in film, imo.
They have the role the chorus had in the Greek Tragedies.
The Witches impress me so much... Foresaw
They were never described as witches in the play. Weird Sisters.
It literally says in the script, Witch 1, Witch 2 and Witch 3.
Love this film. Down below someone points out that the witches open the play as a way of grabbing the audience's attention and someone else says there was no need as the audience had paid to see the play and would be ready for. The first post is spot on - Elizabethan audiences were rowdy; lots of Shakespeare's (and other playwrights of the time) plays have loud beginnings, basically to cut through the din and get the audience to shut up and listen - in the stage directions, the witches first appearance is preceded by thunder and lightning.
It looks like the blind witch and the mute one are going off together, while the other one is separating from them.
@lumadhu - Is taken from the "Third Ear Band - Fleance" - Album.
Greets
oMINNAo
The scene really starts at 1:27
All. Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
Hover through the fog and filthy air. (They spit)
First witch. When shall we three met again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second witch. When the hurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.
First witch. That will be ere the set of sun.
Second witch. Where the place?
First witch. Upon the heath.
Second witch. There to meet with Macbeth.
Wicked this comes, by the pricking of my thumbs
The witches have no footprints!!!
oh yes indeed ....
Thank you - I stand corrected. :D
2 comets were known about around this time and wise minds expected a third. The witches open the play to portend to the great uncertainty brought about by these objects in the sky. That is my take.
your "take"? really? u did not get told that or see it on line...? its a take you came up with ?
He did this in Julius Caesar too
Oh definately worth it !
Omg I only just realised that they cursed him, I thought they were just doing witch business lol
Ps poor bastard never had a chance!
That's even more tragic
lookin good ladies
@oMINNAo you should hear the cover by high sciencefiction it really good with awesome electric guitar and synthesizers
You shouldn't have added the music. When they walk away on the beach the eerie squeaks of the tire and the odd music on the original soundtrack made the scene.
The film is amazing i love this, i force all friends to watch it, after ten minutes they are
hooked and don't know why
I'm going to read Macbeth at school and I'm in 5th grade :D
How was it
Just one of Shakespeare’s best… Honestly I have read the play and watched performances of it, but this movie seems to lay down a standard in interpretation
I got the original Video and I would like to divide the Video in the longest parts as I can.
oMINNAo
It's the wrong music for the film. Have a look at side one of the TEB elpea (on Harvest Records and Tapes)
cool idea for the witches. i would say that he could have gotten better actors for them but that does not discount a great vision
So Shakespeare achieved Great Sir Roman Polanski ...;)
@zriku1
All. Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air. (They spit)
First witch. When shall we three met again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second witch. When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won.
First witch. That will be ere the set of sun.
Second witch. Where the place?
First witch. Upon the heath.
Second witch. There to meet with Macbeth.
greetz
Minna
@hczxp91 That would be Trevor Nunn's
Uh this is not the witches
check this version out: ua-cam.com/video/SYRccFhkNok/v-deo.html
I dont understand
@Jeeves574 just a result of walking on wet sand.
PARTICALS
Funny how some interpreters make the witches hot and some make them ugly.
FARTICLES
Not Elizabethan. Reign of James I (VI of Scotland). A king obsessed by witchcraft.
lol
Boring