Warned you!!!
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Ken Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> That's not like "On Gazing into Chapman's Homer."
>
> I can't believe I wasted bandwidth downloading this.
>
> It was misrepresented.
>
> The big scare scene, the slaughter of the Macduffs, was nasty: but if
> Polanski was trying to purge the demons of Sharon Tate's death, he had to go
> some greater distance.
>
> The climactic fight was okay but Macbeth did not suffer enough. Then again,
> with John Stride as Macbeth, why bother? He was the ultimate lightweight,
> and appeared to be totally over his head. I have loved the language of that
> play forever and Stride sounded like he was reading his grocery list.
>
> What can one say about Francesca Annis except OMG? She was beautiful, had a
> lovely voice, the sleepwalking scene was a Big Deal, but she had all the
> evil and burdened soul of a piece of paper. I adored her as Lily Langtry
> but the ghastly Lady Macbeth was a few miles beyond her.
>
> Wonderful mise en scene. Some really clever and chilling moments, e.g., the
> ambush of Banquo and the silencing of the two murderers. Yet Macbeth
> himself never seemed capable of the weight of vileness required to make this
> stuff work.
>
> The bear-baiting scenes: I almost threw up. An oddo commentary that animal
> cruelty was truly horrible here while cruelty to human beings hardly
> registered.
>
> Where o where can one obtain videos of the Peter Brook Lear and McKellan's
> Richard III. I'll even take Hopkins' as Titus Andronicus. Anything to
> cleanse my head of what Polanski did to Macbeth. All the perfumes of Arabia
> will never get that crap out of it.
>
> ken
>
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