How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
#1How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
Posted: 2/13/11 at 6:22pm
I'm curious to know what the Patrick Stewart revival was like, with the setting change and everything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DorcFBk4sf8&feature=related
Judging by this is looks pretty terrifying, though I don't know how much was changed from the play to the movie.
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#2How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
Posted: 2/13/11 at 6:26pm
I wouldn't say scary, but it was a very intense production.
I loved it. Brilliantly acted, and the change in setting worked fabulously.
#2How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
Posted: 2/13/11 at 6:51pmEh. The only scary part was the ineptitude of Rupert Goold's highly stylized concept production. Aside from Kate Fleetwood's brilliant Lady Macbeth, the entire thing fell flat.
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#3How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
Posted: 2/13/11 at 6:55pm
Scary? Not at all. It was eerie and creepy, sure, but didn't get any scarier than "mildly unsettling". I've had scarier bowel movements, if you'll pardon the lowering of the tone. (And I loved this production rather a lot and also am permanently on the lookout for properly scary theatre. 
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#4How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
Posted: 2/13/11 at 7:28pmI found the production to be incredibly scary. In fact, I passed out and died from fright in the last act.
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#5How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
Posted: 2/13/11 at 7:32pmThus confirming our suspicions.
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#6How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
Posted: 2/13/11 at 8:26pmThe only "scary" element of the production is how horrifying the characters portrayed, particularly from this cast, truly are. I am studying the piece currently, and would rate Goold's Macbeth as the finest of the adaptions.
#7How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
Posted: 2/13/11 at 9:47pmThe Folger's production a few years ago was incredible. Teller co-directed it.
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#8How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
Posted: 2/13/11 at 9:54pmI wish I had gotten to see this production. I think I'll order it on Amazon, if only to see Kate Fleetwood's sleepwalking scene.
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#9How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
Posted: 2/13/11 at 10:00pm
>>"Thus confirming our suspicions."<<
That wasn't a nice comment at all! You're supposed to respect the dead!
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#10How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
Posted: 2/14/11 at 6:40am
its funny that you bought this up because i have recently done this play at school in english and i was oping to see it... 
is it really that scary? :S
#11How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
Posted: 2/14/11 at 10:14am
To my mind, "Rupert Goold's highly stylized concept production" was fairly brilliant from beginning to end (and I believe most critics agreed). I agree, though, that Fleetwood was excellent.
I actually found it very unsettling, and it was the first time I've ever found the witches frightening.
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#12How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
Posted: 2/14/11 at 11:20amIt is currently available on Instant Play on Netflix.
#13How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
Posted: 2/14/11 at 11:38am
Kate sleepwalking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNRKgKg2dwU
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#14How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
Posted: 2/14/11 at 12:44pm
Thanks, doodle. I'll check it out when I get home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOkyZWQ2bmQ
There's also this. Dench > Streep. There I said it.
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#15How Scary Was the Most Recent Macbeth?
Posted: 2/14/11 at 12:44pmDouble post
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