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This post was found to be inappropriate by the moderators and has been removed.Who says the wicked line in the trailer?
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FYC:
Best Picture: Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Decision to Leave
Best Director: Park Chan-Wook Todd Field
Best Original Screenplay: Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Best Actor: Colin Farrell
Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh, Cate Blanchett, Tang Wei
Best Supporting Actor: Brendan Gleeson, Ke Huy Quan
Best Supporting Actress: Kerry Condon, Nina HossInteresting thing seems to be the one major difference between this and most other movies/ plays is this is an old guy at the end of his age doing all this as opposed to a young up and comer.
I think you’re thinking of Hamlet. The role of Macbeth is typically played by older or middle-aged men. Just look at the RSC adaptation with Patrick Stewart.
ReplyCopy URLI think you’re thinking of Hamlet. The role of Macbeth is typically played by older or middle-aged men. Just look at the RSC adaptation with Patrick Stewart.
I’ve always seen macbeth as in his prime. Even in the older macbeth and the fassbender macbeth. They might not be young, but they def dont come across as old either
ReplyCopy URLShakespeare adaptations only get nominated for Oscars when they resonate with something that is going on in the zeitgeist or they have a fresh new talent involved in them. Since 1968 we have had Romeo and Juliet nominated for BP and Best Director, and Henry V nominated for Best Actor and Best Director. Various other Shakespearean film adaptations have failed to be nominated in major categories. (I think Branagh’s Hamlet got an Adapted Screenplay nomination?).
I am adopting a wait and see the movie first attitude about this film. The trailer only tells me that it is visually interesting because the trailer that is out is too short. I am not a Denzel Washington fan and I think it’s too soon for McDormand to get another nomination when she just won her third this year. But it’s going to depend on how the other potential contenders fare. I don’t see this film as doing well at the box office but that doesn’t always matter with the Oscars and other awards shows too. (but it helps!)
ReplyCopy URLDenzel Washington is absolutely miscast as Lord Macbeth.
Black people who were Lords in Scotland didn’t exist.
And plus, a 66 year old Afro-American guy as the 30-40 year old white Scottish Lord Macbeth???
Come on!!!
I agree. But miscasting doesn’t seem to bother most people these days. Everything you say is accurate – this role in FILM needs to be played by someone in their 30’s to early 40’s. Hardly anyone lived to be 66 in the time this play is set. I have heard the reasons (excuses) that Joel Coen has trotted out – but the real reason is that he wanted to cast his wife in the role of Lady Macbeth. I think there is plenty of competition so that this film and performers are definitely not locks for nominations yet.
ReplyCopy URLI agree. But miscasting doesn’t seem to bother most people these days. Everything you say is accurate – this role in FILM needs to be played by someone in their 30’s to early 40’s. Hardly anyone lived to be 66 in the time this play is set. I have heard the reasons (excuses) that Joel Coen has trotted out – but the real reason is that he wanted to cast his wife in the role of Lady Macbeth. I think there is plenty of competition so that this film and performers are definitely not locks for nominations yet.
Frances was cast in the role on stage at an older age and she wanted to make this into cinematic reality. It’s very intentional and there is literally nothing wrong with imagining these roles differently.
I’ve always seen macbeth as in his prime. Even in the older macbeth and the fassbender macbeth. They might not be young, but they def dont come across as old either
Fassbinder and Cotillard as casting made way less sense than what they’re going for in this adaptation.
ReplyCopy URLBlood and betrayal, toil and trouble — filmmakers from Akira Kurosawa to Roman Polanski have taken on “Macbeth.” In his stripped-down version, Joel Coen pitches his expressionistic tent between cinema and theater, taking a lead from Orson Welles, whose 1948 adaptation was one of his last Hollywood films. Is this an ill omen from Coen? (This is the first movie he’s directed without his brother, Ethan.) Whatever the answer, the play is still the thing and so is a volcanic Denzel Washington, who ferociously embodies, as Welles put it, “the decay of a tyrant.” — MANOHLA DARGIS
“Denzel Washington is a good actor, with a special flair for Shakespeare. Bruno Delbonnel’s black-and-white cinematography emphasizes the salt and pepper in Washington’s beard, and he plays the Thane of Cawdor as a weary, haunted old soldier, a tender soul pitched into cruelty and madness by ambition — his own and Lady Macbeth’s. That would be Frances McDormand, bringing viperish eloquence to this lean (under two hours), mean and lyrical reading of the Scottish Play” — A.O. SCOTT
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I don’t think this will be an Oscar player, but I’m very excited for it.
ReplyCopy URLHardly anyone lived to be 66 in the time this play is set.
Do you think if someone did live to 66 back then they would look like Denzel Washington? Lol. They would look like a 90-year-old from today. Denzel looks good for his age even now; hardly anyone would think he was 66 without looking it up beforehand.
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