Honors+B+Question+18

In an 500-word response please compare the following scenes provided in the links below...all depict Act 1, Scene 1 from //Macbeth//. After detailing the similarities and differences between the video-clips, choose which you feel would be the most stimulating, the most illuminating, the most entertaining. Which best captures what you consider to be the spirit, energy or theme of //Macbeth//? Please do not just tell me what you see in each video... use some specific and concrete adjectives which best describe the tone, the feel of the clip. How do those adjectives support or work towards your reading of the play? make sure that you identify each clip with a reference to the director or the producer or even the number provided.

The objective of this Wiki is to both to begin to identify the different thematic components possible in one text and to adequately compare discrete things in writing.

The deadline for this Wiki is 2pm, Friday 25th February. Remember, if you choose to post your initial response after 12pm on the Thursday before you will receive no feedback.

Thanks.

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1_I36qHDts

(This is a version from 1948 by Orson Welles)

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1lHYvxieB8

(This is a version from 1971 by Roman Polanski)

3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbEVrXlxHcc

(This is a version from PBS made in 2010... It is highly graphic and violent)

4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0zm4jzImu8

(This is obviously an amateur production of the play)

5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFydNpk2Y4I

(This is a filmed stage-version by Nicol Williamson. You need to only watch the first 1.25)