01-16-2022, 12:48 AM
http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...9#pid52349
This Will Shakespeare guy writes some very-Coen brothers-esque tragic material.
Denzel Washington as Macbeth and Francis McDormand as Lady M. Francis is good and Denzel is serviceable, better than I expected.
Katherine Hunter kills it as the 3 witches (and the old man).
Coen regular Stephen Root makes a brief appearance as the porter.
Shot in black and white, in a non-standard aspect ratio (is it old-school TV format? It has rounded corners like a ViewMaster frame). The sets were almost expressionistic, a la Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and the lighting is strong.
![[Image: Cabinet-of-Dr-Caligari-3.jpg]](http://www.midnightonly.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Cabinet-of-Dr-Caligari-3.jpg)
It looks great although something happens on my TV with B/W colorized video: some of the greys are warm tone and others are cool tone. I suspect it's my TV trying to auto-correct the picture. I find it disturbing.
The Shakespeare dialog is hard to hear in some places. I watched without subtitles, but would turn them on next time.
Sword fight, but mostly just hacking claymores. The fight with Siward and Macbeth is pretty good, but can't be called a sword fight as Macbeth was unarmed...
Recommended for the witches and the sets/lighting!
--tg
This Will Shakespeare guy writes some very-Coen brothers-esque tragic material.
Denzel Washington as Macbeth and Francis McDormand as Lady M. Francis is good and Denzel is serviceable, better than I expected.
Katherine Hunter kills it as the 3 witches (and the old man).
Coen regular Stephen Root makes a brief appearance as the porter.
Shot in black and white, in a non-standard aspect ratio (is it old-school TV format? It has rounded corners like a ViewMaster frame). The sets were almost expressionistic, a la Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and the lighting is strong.
It looks great although something happens on my TV with B/W colorized video: some of the greys are warm tone and others are cool tone. I suspect it's my TV trying to auto-correct the picture. I find it disturbing.
The Shakespeare dialog is hard to hear in some places. I watched without subtitles, but would turn them on next time.
Sword fight, but mostly just hacking claymores. The fight with Siward and Macbeth is pretty good, but can't be called a sword fight as Macbeth was unarmed...
Recommended for the witches and the sets/lighting!
--tg