#macbeth 2015

[shieldmaidenofsherwood]

I'm a fake Macbeth fan because I'm only now finally watching the 2015 Macbeth but holy shit it's GOOD. The decision to open with the Macbeth's child's funeral?? We're doing THEMES. And the delivery of "If we should fail?" "We fail." LITERALLY made me gasp out loud.

[1irvtebhyp]

Macbeth (2015) dir. Justin Kurzel Michael Fassbender as Macbeth

[ninewheels]

I have too much to say about Macbeth (2015, dir: Justin Kurzel) to do it all here at once, but suffice it to say that I am very familiar with Macbeth, I have seen so many goddamn versions of this show, I played Macbeth in high school, I revisit the text occasionally (though not in several years) to plan and revise how I would adapt or direct it; honestly I might know the material even better than I know Hamlet, if only because Hamlet has so much more material in it.

But even so, this film kept finding ways of surprising me, of doing something different with the text without being high-concept or gimmicky about it, and also while being true to the text in such a way that I wonder at how I'd never thought of that or seen it done. For years I've considered the subject of the Macbeths' implied dead child to be something every production needs to do something with, but somehow I never imagined a Macbeth entirely about a couple of grieving parents taking their pain out on the world and specifically on people with living children. But even on the smaller moments and individual lines: this reading of "What, will these hands ne'er be clean?" alone rocked me. It hasn't even been that long since I've watched a Macbeth, but it really made me the text feel fresh to me.

I could seriously ramble my opinions (almost all positive) on this movie for pages, so I'm gonna cut it off there, but honestly I might make a video. [threat]

[ripley-stark]

"Sex With the Devil," from Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany by Lyndal Roper | suspiria (2018) | nosferatu (2024) | penny dreadful (2014-2016) | the first omen (2024) | the rings of power (2022-) | the vvitch (2015) | merlin (2008-2013) | hereditary (2018) | macbeth (2015)

[married-to-a-redhead]

“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.”

[ellipsis-dotdotdot]

you freaks (affectionate) would love Macbeth (2015) it's got themes it's got motifs it's got sacrilegious tones, it's got emotionally significant hallucinations, it's got surprisingly steamy, sometimes-at-knife-point kissing, it's got peculiarly intimate murder and I haven't even seen the whole thing yet, I mean it has something for everyone. go watch it

[medievalandfantasymelee]

Too lazy to scroll down to the post it was mentioned in, but I noticed that Michael Fassbender Macbeth is on Tubi if anyone wants to watch it for free (along with some other medieval movies)

!!!!!

[bookholichany]

I wish I could go and thank him in person for being born!