#dt macbeth

[dyketennant]

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

tumblr user dyketennant has seen (the cinema release of) dt macbeth

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I just liked what @aq2003 said so much I wanted to be able to stick it on my blog :3

[buff-dunerunner]

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

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New boy new boy! He’s a pickpocket who relies on his twin brother maybe a bit too much to get by. He lives with the guilt that he’s holding his brother back, but fights it off with a veneer of cockiness and humor (bad jokes).

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I don’t know how I feel about Macbeth and Lady Macbeth looking at and speaking directly into camera in the recorded performance during their monologues….

Like in the theatre they very well may look you right in the face, right in the eyes and speak to you, but they’re also more often, not, and doing so into space from your vantage point

Idk something about the frequency of the Absolute Directness coupled with the zoomed in vantage of some of the recorded camera angles is kind of… jarring when I see these previews

I hope it feels more natural when watching the cinema release in whole, because I’m really looking forward to it!

anyone else feeling this?

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Macbeth cinema/Donmar recording thoughts (Harold Pinter as my reference). Would love your help with remembering some things

*Spoilers* for the productions if you haven’t seen any version of this one yet and are planning to

Also first of all I loved it, I’m just a perfectionist with some ocd so being critical is in my nature, please do not mistake this for hating

HP was def better than the recording no contest, but it was still good

The blood dripping into the bowl was Cool but I preferred the pitch black for the first encounter with the witches—I think it made the first visual of the actor so much more striking

It really Really frustrated me that they zoomed inside the box. Like in the theatre this part of the production was *SO* fucking 😗👌 effective, because it loomed in the background and looked over the stage, and it lost effectiveness when they zoomed in and filmed from inside the box on individual speakers imo. Like it fell kind of flat where it was so powerful before

The pause/slow-mo to place Macbeth looming and monologuing over Malcolm as Macbeth is leaving was significantly less refined and effective than in the HP performances I saw. Like it still kinda worked but it worked so well when I saw it at HP and it didn’t quite meet that—edit: or maybe it’s because they filmed it from a higher angle so it didn’t have the same looming over effect? Idk but it wasn’t quite as good

So Casper was the only child actor I hadn’t seen, and everyone’s Scottish—but Cush as Lasy Macbeth was, the talk around the production went, the only English person. So I was really excited to get to see Casper but yo I was so distracted by his very southern English accent and a lil disappointed ngl

Was wondering how they were going to make the Porter’s scene work. For some reason I thought it was filmed without an audience. Glad it held tho. Probably wasn’t any Trvmp assassination joke in 2023 which I should’ve thought of before bc I was wondering what they’d do with that

Def preferred the rump slap for the “here you may roast your goose” than what was recorded but eh

Cinema/Donmar version was def more chilling when he switches back from the jokes and into the “I pray you. Remember the Porter.”

Annoyed that the short converstion between the Porter and MacDuff about drunkenness was cut. Was it performed and cut for editing timing for the cinema?

Was Banquo in the box during the dinner scene at the Pinter? I don’t remember him being in the box during that scene in the cinema… pls remind

I think the Lady MacDuff scene was more intense here than at the HP? Remind me other people who saw it, but I thought she was dragged off screaming in the Pinter production? Also I think what the child did was different between the two? Help my memory out 🙏

The scene where he summons the witches I liked way better in the HP version, tho I wish I remembered more details of it beyond the convulsing which was 👌

The David Tennant monologuing to camera didnt jar and bother me like I was afraid it might’ve. I think I still would’ve preferred more wide shots interspersed—especially and definitely where there were things happening in the box at the same time

Yayyy Blood 🩸

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Seeing Macbeth in the cinemas with my two friends and they really enjoyed it but they don’t have the obsessive type of brains that I do so I’m mentally gnawing my arm wanting to talk about it specifically the depiction of the Macbeths’ relationship

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Why is I the minute you go looking for a post, you can’t find it?

I used to see this post in the tag all the time, and now I ant find it for the life of me

If anyone can direct me to that one post where OP posted recordings of the music in the DT Macbeth production—there’s something in the post about them trying to remove the dialogue—I would love you forever 🙏

(And I know someone posted rips from the vinyl—I’m not looking for that, I’m looking for the bits of dialogue they might not be been able to remove so I can use them to place the music in the scene and annotate my script book)

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Anyone here experience Donmar/David Tennant Macbeth in the front row of the cinema? If so how was that experience?

My ma agreed to come with me to go see it on Sunday on my offer to drive (4 hours… yes I’m a bit insane), and the showing that would let me wake up 1 1/2 later only has front row available, otherwise I’d have to get up at like 6 😖