Macbeth.1948.Orson.Welles.103Min

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1. Thanks! An atmospheric (Orson Wellesian) version of the Scottish Play

2. Great film–horrible music. Sounds like John Williams.

3. I love the American-Scottish accents!!
   I did this for GCSE English in 1988! Along with Romeo and Juliet I think it's the best play Shakespeare ever did.

4. Taking online english because you thought it was gonna be easy but turns out the end of the semester is tonight and the last assignment you need to bring your grade up relies on you watching this entire thing✌️

5. 44:30

6. 1:03:42 The witches tell him the Macduff prophecy (Act 4, Scene 1)

7. At 26:58, did the witch have a bird IN her that just flutter?!?

8. 57:20 Banquo comes back to haunt Macbeth (Act 3, Scene 4)

9. 23:05 Macbeth sees the dagger as he prepares to kill Duncan (Act 2, Scene 1)

10. All films and records should be made on a shoestring budget! It works better that way. You get honesty, effort, urgency and integrity, instead of ego trips, tantrums of "stars", delays and exaggeration.

11. "oh full of Scorpions is My mind, dear wife…"

12. Jennette Nolan's as macbeth's wife is just chilling! How'd you like to have that bitch on your back.

13. Shoutout Mr. Fischers class

14. Best Macbeth! Orson Welles great.

15. 2. In scene two, explain what Macbeth has successfully achieved? How does Duncan respond and why?

16. Jeannette Nolan does a perfectly good job as Lady Macbeth, but it's still a pity that we don't have Agnes Moorehead's performance on film. (She had played the part opposite Welles onstage a few years earlier.) Anyone who has seen Moorehead in the few films where she was actually given something to do ("The Magnificent Ambersons", "Dark Passage", "Jeanne Eagels") knows that she was a formidable dramatic actress, fully the equal of Bette Davis and Barbara Stanwyck. It's a sick joke that the only thing she's remembered for today is her vaudeville turn as Endora on "Bewitched". And she could have done THAT one in her sleep.

17. I have a theory on the Thane of Cawdor "prophecy." My theory is that the Three Witches heard from a source ahead of time that Duncan was going to name MacBeth as the new Thane of Cawdor. The source might have raced to tell the witches what he learned, and since MacBeth and Banquo weren't in a hurry to get to the meeting-place, MacBeth wouldn't have heard the news. He then mistakenly took the witches' words to be prophetic. That would be consistent with the idea of the witches speaking half-truths to MacBeth.

18. pov: ur here for english/history classsssssss

19. https://archive.org/details/ThroneOfBlood IN JAPANESE W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES!!! Akira Kurosawa's rendition of William Shakespeare's MACBETH – done samurai style. The story of a man who lets his ambitions get the best of him. Toshiro Mifune does a magnificent performance in this movie

20. Absolutely dire for so many reasons.

21. Roddy McDowell as Malcolm !!

22. Fabulously great movie. Orson is hot.

23. I generally get annoyed at the way Shakespeare is done. I just find it always horribly overacted. But Orson Welles just kills it. This movie is positively frightening. I mean wow. I love Welles' Othello too. Hopefully I'm not being just a dumb American about this.

24. Que bonitas películas…… fascinada.

25. Saw this version in high school.. made me a fan of William Shakespeare for life. Visited Shakespeare's hometown when I studied abroad in England in 1997.

26. I have no words, my voice is in my sword

27. Anyone have 10-15 differences between this film and the text they'd like to share with me?

28. Queria que fosse legendado ><

29. Act IV starts around: 1:03:40

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