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Roscoe wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 12:23 am Well, it certainly seems to be a specific take on the roles. Denzel Washington, at age 64, and Frances McDormand at 61.

knives wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2019 11:31 pm Isn't that the only bad example though? One rotten egg out of six isn't so bad.

mfunk9786 wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2019 10:15 pm Shakespeare is cancelled

Roscoe wrote: Fri Mar 29, 2019 12:23 am Well, it certainly seems to be a specific take on the roles. Denzel Washington, at age 64, and Frances McDormand at 61.

Slaphappy wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2019 9:14 am Just as I loved John Wayne in True Grit, I think Orson Welles is a hell of a Macbeth, but both of those movies are quite flat on whole and that’s where Coen magic steps in. They know how to tell a story and how to build up characters. I really can’t remember that many Shakespeare adaptations that aren’t just a bunch of scenes stiched together with nice production values. Macbeth deserves better, because the character is all about living a charmed life with lurking sense of doom and how that combination is making him insane. Such a macabre consept should not be handled as one note as the 2015 adaptation. It deserves a Coen treatment.

dda1996a wrote: Sat Mar 30, 2019 10:36 am Have you watched any of Kuosawa's Shakespearian films? The only certified adaptation is Throne of Blood, but The Bad Sleep Well and Ran are brilliant as well.

Joel Coen wrote:I use the language of Shakespeare. I didn’t fuss around or change any of that. The only thing I did, as is common in these adaptations, some more of less, there’s a certain amount of editing. But I would say the movie is about 85% of the language in the play. There’s about 15% which has been cut.

DarkImbecile wrote: Mon Apr 13, 2020 8:27 pm I had assumed this would be a looser adaptation, somewhere between the play itself and what they did with O Brother, Where Art Thou?.

aox wrote: Sat Sep 12, 2020 2:52 pm I completely understand that is necessary, but that is insane. The people I know in the film industry (granted on a much smaller scale) and fashion photography have reported similar situations on their sets as well. It really makes for a tense set that creates a slog of a day.

hearthesilence wrote: Sun Sep 13, 2020 3:26 am

aox wrote: Sat Sep 12, 2020 2:52 pm I completely understand that is necessary, but that is insane. The people I know in the film industry (granted on a much smaller scale) and fashion photography have reported similar situations on their sets as well. It really makes for a tense set that creates a slog of a day.

With smaller productions (i.e. less people) that have maybe a month left of shooting with their full crew, I think I can understand the gamble of resuming production, especially if they're very strict about sticking to stringent guidelines (as they did on Macbeth - dismissing those who refused to wear masks pretty much set the tone), but until a vaccine's available, personally I think it's too much of a gamble to start up a much larger and longer production from scratch, and that seems to be happening all over the place.