Sunday, 19 January 2014

Directing Macbeth

If I were a Director I wouldn't do Macbeth unless I received a large sum of cash from Willy himself. It's been done to death and is arguably one of of his lesser works. But, lets say I did receive this sum of cash and were doing the dagger scene, it would go something like this. First of all it would be a western, because lets be honest you can make a western out of anything. Rather then having them be in a military setting which makes no sense in any adaptation set in a different time, they would be a gang. Macbeth would rather than see a dagger would see a silver big pearl grip revolver. When he exclaims, "as this which now I draw"(2.1,41) he would bull back the hammer. As the bell rings he snaps out of it to be seen holding his own symbolical black revolver. He would then exit to kill Duncan.

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