Macbeth / McKellen, Dench, Royal Shakespeare Company
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• Closed-captioned
• Color
• NTSC
In Theaters : 1978
Video Release : 20 July, 1999 |
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Macbeth / McKellen, Dench, Royal Shakespeare Company Customer Reviews
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Mostly excellent!
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My 2 cents: I found this version gripping. Ian McKellan and Judi Dench really made me feel the agony of the Macbeths' foolish and self-imposed moral degeneration, and consequent madness. Dench's performance of the famous "sleepwalking scene" has got to be one of the finest-ever. Ian McDiarmid (later Star Wars' "Emperor"), as Ross and as The Porter, was a fun surprise and excellent in both of those small parts. Seeing all these wonderful actors when they were younger was fun. And the minimalist sets and dark, dramatic lighting worked for me.
A few criticisms:
-- McKellan and Dench had no sexual chemistry, which made their attempts to kiss and nuzzle (in some scenes) just annoying.
-- The actor who played Macduff was flat and unconvincing.
-- A "Subtitles" option would have helped. As with all Shakespeare, language is an issue and I had to refer to a written _Macbeth_ often.
-- The costumes were a senseless jumble. |
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