Slightly OT: The Tragedy of Macbeth


Some one I follow on Twitter was just gobsmacked by this play on AppleTV, which stars the great Denzel Washington as Macbeth.

I tried watching it and found one problem, the sound, and another, the acting.  The former allows me to talk about it here. :)

I found the voice often mumbled and too hard to hear.  In terms of the acting, and diction, the line delivery was on a metronome, and I wondered if the actors knew the words they were using or rushing through them.

Can any fans of the bard help me get more into this production? 

erik_squires

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I didn’t have any issues hearing the dialog. Perhaps due to my center channel being concentric? (Elac Adante)  I believe the actors were speaking in iambic pentameter. What was interesting was the choice of aspect ratio.
We didn’t finish the movie, but may return to it.