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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
docknow
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Saw it in a theater a few months ago.  Did notice I was understanding much more of the dialogue by the end of the film, which suggests my brain was adapting to the old English.

erik_squires OP
15,861 posts
 

See, I actually love Shakespeare and iambic pentameter.  This movie, to my mind relies too much on mood and not enough on acting.  Am I dead inside?

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bander
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I saw "Belfast" in a theater. I wondered if I 

would have trouble understanding the Irish English

and not surprisingly that was the case. Most frustrating.

I'm of the mind that subtitles should be included

under these circumstances.

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onhwy61
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Akira Kurosawa's "Throne Of Blood" is an outstanding adaptation of the Scottish play.

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