Patrick Stewart Talks About Macbeth

[Deanbass77]

Is this just a play or was it a movie? It looked like a movie when I saw a clip of it.

[k1llk1ngph30n1x]

Did I hear right? There are less gun restrictions in England than a state in the US??

[Deanbass77]

@k1llk1ngph30n1x England, it seems, takes a more measured approach to reacting in a crisis. I think they realize that if someone plans to go crazy with an Ak-47, they're not going to care if they have permission to carry it or not. In the US, however, as soon as the tinniest thing goes wrong in any way, we just start banning things left and right in a desperate attempt to make the problem disappear instead of dealing with the problem itself. Our government is pretentious in the extreme that way.

[Cassio227]

@sodano You seem to believe that Shakespeare endorses the type of behavior exhibited by Macbeth, when plainly, he does not. How can I not see Shakespeare as primitive? This is why. Because I've read him. I've acted in his plays. I've produced and directed them as well, and I can tell you, unequivocally, that his writing far surpasses most modern writers, in poetry and in ideological exploration, and that his genius has yet to be repeated on this earth. Primitive? Maybe to a primitive mind

[Unknownboi88]

did anyone else get a flash of Patrick Stewart as just going nuts and shooting AK-47 into a crowd of people and laughing.....

[RoronoaEmi]

@Unknownboi88 hmmm not quite. But the image of Picard killing Borg drones with a Thompson on the holodeck did occur to me. :D

[test123ok]

@Unknownboi88 and then breaking some glass...

[epsteinsmutha1]

1:35 Charlie Rose cursed YouTube by saying the name of the play aloud. Thanks loads, Charlie, you terrible cunt.

[MorrisseyRT]

Do you think that the witches in Macbeth inspired Dickens in A Christmas Carol?

[demonbarber17]

the weight of the machine gun becoming lighter seems a metaphor for the actors becoming more comfortable running the play

[benzspeculus]

Steve jobs?

[sondano]

it's actually sad that today's human still find something to be enjoyed in such

a primitive story with primitive characters written in such a primitive era. Gimme Picard over Macbeth anytime

[Jitpring]

@sondano Your chronological snobbery is repulsive. Alas, it's also very common. 

[sondano]

@Jitpring I wonder whether you said the same if a time machine threw you back into the dunghill of the 16th century. You would go mad after a few days.

[Jitpring]

@sondano Again, your trite chronological snobbery is duly noted. You've been fully processed.

[sondano]

@Jitpring so you think that humans who torture and kill oppress and dictate like it's the most natural thing in the world are somehow admirable or even equal to us? OK name one thing 16th century humans did better than modern democrats

[Jitpring]

@sondano You've absorbed the myth of progress and its attendant chronological snobbery so deeply that I couldn't possibly say a thing to convince you otherwise. The effort would be futile. You're utterly conformed, fully processed, totally assimilated. I wish you well.

[Lemmyisgod20]

@sondano to call Shakespeare primitive is just plain stupid. Yeah I like Star Trek as much as the next guy too but Shakespeare is so damn insightful and enlightened that to call his plays anything like primitive just makes you look dumb.

[docterphreak]

@Lemmyisgod20 I think this gets back to the whole argument between Sci-Fi fans and Fantasy fans.

[Lemmyisgod20]

@docterphreak haha you might be right although I think its more ignorance vs. being openminded

[sondano]

@Lemmyisgod20 not to see Shakespeare as primitive is stupid. He lived in the fucking 16th century when torture, wars oppression were commonplace when noone knew about viruses or other galaxies and you tell me he of all people was so different? He was not. Just look at what he was writing about. He had insight into what? The ridiculous affairs of dark age human animals. Other than that he was dumb as a rock like everyone at the time -- except a few scientists.

[Cassio227]

@sondano I see you as primitive.

[sondano]

@Cassio227 just enjoy murder and torture like a any well-advanced creature would do

[david552]

@sondano you're a man standing on a mountain and calling a giant short.... you look ridiculous...

[anjyp]

@sondano His plays, on many levels, explore what fundamentally makes us human. Characters say what they mean and mean what they say; they are written full of truth and intention. Compare that to a modern play, in which subtext often takes the front seat to both plot or anything else remotely relevant. The human mind has become so much more internal and un-tuned to physical reality - people don't speak the truth, they're too busy masking it with subjective stories. I prefer honest simplicity.

[enjoixander]

Too bad this Stewart wasn't inflicted with obsessive compulsive hand washing. "Out Damn Spot, Out!" So did you know how to they spell cast that upon people? What a shame really!

[bentbob09]

IF they had the nobel prize for THE BEST actors who've been around (for lack of a better word) Patrick stewart gets right off the bat (also did he get knighted?

[marxmith]

Macbeth has machineguns? I might have to give Shakespeare another chance.

[OmegaWolf747]

I saw a Shakespeare in the Park production of Macbeth and they used machine guns and BDUs as their costuming instead of Medieval garb.

[Tubyubber]

it gets better

there's a movie called Men Of Respect with John Turturro as 'Mike Battaglia', a modern day version of Macbeth set in the Mafia. it's very close to the story, however.

[mwai72]

@marxmith they did a 'modern' take on it...even his castle had elevators...hmmm!

[VampireYoshi]

@marxmith

The Royal Shakespeare Company has been doing modernistic versions of the plays. The two universally known thus far are Hamlet and Macbeth, with Stewart having played primary roles in both.

[NosferatuD]

It's rather interesting that his Received Pronunciation English has evolved into a more American accented English.

[texasdallasbill]

Stewart is such a great greater, and it was fun and insightful to listen such a great actor. Thank you for posting this. Listening to him gives me insight and I thank you.

[Selendomono]

i saw a photo of him as othello and desdomona was black. did thye like flip it so everybody BUT othello was black?

[maverickfilmmaker]

Yes they did. It was a very famous production of that show.

[tyso7540]

Yes, that's the colour negative Othello.

[Selendomono]

wow he speaks very deliberatly. he seems smart

[LickinFlames]

It's so true about becoming a character when you are handed your prop. As as actor you take so much time rehearsing with it and making it part of you that you give it a history and the prop starts to have a life of its own. Stewart is dead on!

[TheThornbirds]

he´s an actor, you fools!

[poof2124]

Stewart looks HAWT with the 'stache.

[SonOfSam60016]

Picard shouldn't have a stache.

[Tionois]

He has to :) His Macbeth is built on Joseph Stalin...