A Man of Fear or of Will? What better way to summarize the themes of Macbeth than through a movie where the themes are apparent not just through words but also through actions and appearance? Justin Kurtzel the director of the latest movie adaptation of Macbeth is charged with making the play enjoyable to watch while still maintaining most of the play’s original dialogue and meaning. Through his choices in the scene of the murder of Duncan he has maintained the original theme of the play. Kurtzel makes the same comment as Shakespeare did on how man will do whatever he deems necessary, even the murder of his friends, to protect his own self-interest. In order for the themes Shakespeare meant to show in Macbeth to be understood it is vital
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Scrambling the dialogue is slightly more acceptable. When Malcolm walks in on Macbeth he begins a monologue of his collective lines which he speaks to Malcom in the Shakespeare version of the play after the discovery of Duncan’s body. While the change of position for these lines makes sense there is one additional line brought from the scene in which Macbeth meets the witches in Shakespeare’s version. Macbeth approaches Malcolm and in a threating manner as he wipes a tear from Malcolm’s cheek with a dagger says “Live you or are you ought that man may question” (Kurtzel). The line is a threat toward Malcolm in which Macbeth effectively states that he will kill Malcolm as well if he were to stay for much longer. This again changes the perception of Macbeth within Kurtzel’s version of Macbeth. The perception of Macbeth has shifted to an unfavorable one of a lack of sympathy for Macbeth who now a murderer has just threatened the son of the man he just killed. Threatening Malcolm is also a way for Kurtzel maintain Shakespeare’s original play in which Malcolm flees to England while also using his creative license to better the plot with a better reason for Macbeth’s actions later in the play. This threat toward Malcolm creates a perception of Macbeth as an unsympathetic villain which is essential to both Shakespeare’s and Kurtzel’s theme of man doing anything he sees as important to his …show more content…
Macbeth shows us the immoral answer to the question that man has faced for every second he has existed, how far are we willing to go for our own self-interests? Kurtzel realizes this and this is why he has made the changes to the scene he did at the beginning of the scene he showed us a part of Macbeth which would make us feel more sympathetic toward Macbeth which he promptly rips way from us as he shows us through his adaption of the scene what he believes most people decide when faced with that fundamental question, as far as is necessary to achieve what they
Scrambling the dialogue is slightly more acceptable. When Malcolm walks in on Macbeth he begins a monologue of his collective lines which he speaks to Malcom in the Shakespeare version of the play after the discovery of Duncan’s body. While the change of position for these lines makes sense there is one additional line brought from the scene in which Macbeth meets the witches in Shakespeare’s version. Macbeth approaches Malcolm and in a threating manner as he wipes a tear from Malcolm’s cheek with a dagger says “Live you or are you ought that man may question” (Kurtzel). The line is a threat toward Malcolm in which Macbeth effectively states that he will kill Malcolm as well if he were to stay for much longer. This again changes the perception of Macbeth within Kurtzel’s version of Macbeth. The perception of Macbeth has shifted to an unfavorable one of a lack of sympathy for Macbeth who now a murderer has just threatened the son of the man he just killed. Threatening Malcolm is also a way for Kurtzel maintain Shakespeare’s original play in which Malcolm flees to England while also using his creative license to better the plot with a better reason for Macbeth’s actions later in the play. This threat toward Malcolm creates a perception of Macbeth as an unsympathetic villain which is essential to both Shakespeare’s and Kurtzel’s theme of man doing anything he sees as important to his …show more content…
Macbeth shows us the immoral answer to the question that man has faced for every second he has existed, how far are we willing to go for our own self-interests? Kurtzel realizes this and this is why he has made the changes to the scene he did at the beginning of the scene he showed us a part of Macbeth which would make us feel more sympathetic toward Macbeth which he promptly rips way from us as he shows us through his adaption of the scene what he believes most people decide when faced with that fundamental question, as far as is necessary to achieve what they