I thought Macbeth was played a little too sarcastically (and I was talking about this with KoT afterwards: the Stalinist symbolism in which this show was drenched sort of constrained Stewart, I thought. Because the point is that Macbeth doesn't start out as a bloody tyrant - he starts out as a good and trusted soldier, who's drawn ever more deeply into murder until he becomes a murderer and not a soldier any more. And his murders are very personal betrayals of friendship and family - not really comparable to Stalin, IMO!) I thought the Bean version I saw was much better at emphasizing how someone like, well, Sharpe, could go so badly wrong. (And I thought Bean and samantha Bond had much more of the necessary sexual chemistry and Stewart and this Lady M. did.)
The witches were AWESOME - I loved how they were the servers at the banquet and in one vision they're holding knives behind their backs while in the next version, they're just servers. That part was great.
And although jaydk said she didn't like Macduff, I thought he was excellent! (And very nice - we ran into him at a coffee-shop afterwards and chatted with him for a while.)
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Date: 2008-03-18 01:59 pm (UTC)The witches were AWESOME - I loved how they were the servers at the banquet and in one vision they're holding knives behind their backs while in the next version, they're just servers. That part was great.
And although jaydk said she didn't like Macduff, I thought he was excellent! (And very nice - we ran into him at a coffee-shop afterwards and chatted with him for a while.)