Macbeth 1971 - Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

[berner]

Oh damn! She dead! She RRREEEAAAAAAL dead!

[yennek1993]

lulz on the crossbow headshot..

[captainbackflash]

Ouch!- How she lies there, it can't be good for her spine!

[PineappleBobTheGreat]

I recently had to read the part of Macbeth in my English class, great story!

[exmerion]

I need to mix this into a song for a class project and I'm not sure what style to do it in.

[erinl400]

@exmerion ahah mix up the 'tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow' and put it all into a dubstep grime remix with a drop around the 'full of sound and fury' ahaha i can imagine this so epic.

[mushmax]

There is a Cadence..

[TheBarackClinton]

"Thou was't born of woman."

Badass.

[bravogeorge]

7:26 "Thou'll be afraid to hear it."----I love that Macbeth puts on his crown just before he begins to fight. Completely reinforces all the themes of ambition. AND it wasn't at all included in Shakespeare's stage directions. Brilliant, yet so effing subtle.

[morbentfel]

@bravogeorge

i love this portrayal of macbeth as well. makes him much more... noble/badass

[alqazzafi]

who could have described life and sensitive man,agony in such brilliant words ?it,s only shakespeare

[alqazzafi]

who could have described life and sesitive man,agony in such brilliant words ?it,s only shakespeare

[GordonMorrice]

Best fight scene, I feel. Ridley Scott's THE DUELLISTS has many sublime challenges, also.

[khawajaarslanahmed]

The best version of macbeth

[GordonMorrice]

@khawajaarslanahmed Indeed it is. I uploaded the witches' coven scene. Please view it. A most splendid entertainment.

[MaserSports]

Young siward got destroyed

[khawajaarslanahmed]

Shakespeare is the best...Roman Polanski has done good.

[khawajaarslanahmed]

MACBETH. "Fear not, till Birnam Wood Do come to Dunsinane," and now a wood Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out! If this which he avouches does appear, There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here. I 'gin to be aweary of the sun And wish the estate o' the world were now undone. Ring the alarum bell! Blow, wind! Come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.

[heliotropezzz333]

@khawajaarslanahmed Truly impressive if that's all from memory.

[khawajaarslanahmed]

MACBETH. Why should I play the Roman fool and die  On mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes Do better upon them.

[khawajaarslanahmed]

MACBETH. Thou losest labor.  As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed. Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born. MACDUFF. Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb Untimely ripp'd.

[Mazdak1]

that crossbow sounded like a phaser gun at 4:20something

[brilliantwatson]

THE HEADS OF SOVERIEGNS ARE YOUR MEAT AND WEALTH.NOW GO AND MAKE WORK.MY CROWN.MAKE GOOD BREAD OF THE DAY.TO GOD WITH THE REST.

[caustic77755]

this was very well acted

[KSmoothSaxG]

lol mr.cambels soup head...and its tomato! 

[Pikazilla]

you shall not pass!

(arrow'd)

[senatormari]

Don't dash my brains out for this but Macbeth looks like the Burger King.

[GrinEvilly]

@senatormari I lol'd. So hard.

[obiwanobiwan13]

You know, I'm not a great fan of this production--not terrible, I just don't think they did the best job capturing the raw Gothic element that is so much a defining characteristic of "Macbeth," amd that's partially not their fault given the limits of film at the time...my favorite "to-film" adaptations of Shakespeare are Branagh's version of "Hamlet," Julie Taymor's version of "Titus Andronicus" and Shakespeare Re-Told's "Much Ado About Nothing"--but that was a decent version of the Monologue.

[VaniaCasacaRoja2009]

shakespeare was a GENIUS

[godfreemorals]

Used to love this, but can't help but feel it's helplessly naive now.

[heliotropezzz333]

@godfreemorals That's an odd description to use about a Shakespeare play

[godfreemorals]

@heliotropezzz333 I only meant this film version.

[heliotropezzz333]

@godfreemorals How is it naive? How could it be less so? I think it's great. Perhaps the film techniques are a bit dated, but there's a lot of charm in that and a lot or heart and soul in the film

[AlwaysAbiggerFish]

I remember when I was in this play how I thought his one liner "Thou was born of woman" was awesome and how I always joked he should kill a few more people before Macduff shows up, well I guess this version does that haha

[Wartler]

I can't help but feel sorry for the pigs at the 4 minute mark and the poor SOB who Macbeth stabs in the neck at 8:30.

[FeignofCordor]

Sleep no more

[yourass117]

Doesnt he look like the guys from "Rock'N Rolla" and "Take him to the greek"?

[TheFlyableGiraffe]

Out out brief candle



:)

[balrog13571]

That scene with Birnam Woods advancing to Dunsinane Hill is breathtaking!

[manhidnatao]

who's tht girl in 0:23? is she one of the witches?

[Blairinator]

that would be his wife... lady macbeth

[manhidnatao]

@Blairinator oooooohh tnx. :)

[dez10ify]

i love how those pussies just sat and watched young siward fight macbeth

[DirkMcgee]

This play to movie translation is spectacular.

[mymozart]

Too much beautiful. It's our life. We are body for few years, after just shadow.

[jmharrison51]

I think it's wrong to take this speech as a pessimistic comment by Shakespeare on life in general - he's too fond of life for that. It's Macbeth speaking; his wife has just died and he has realised that despite all his efforts, all his attempts to secure better tomorrows and a dynastic succession, he is going to die childless, 'no son of mine succeeding', that the witches promises were empty, that everything he has done has been a waste of time. All that remains is to clutch at a glorious death.

[MTakarabe]

very nicely said.

[kealyc]

Being but a mere butler, you will not know the great theatre tradition, that one does never speak the name, of the Scottish play.

[chronix131]

Macbeth

[DublinaThe]

They say this play is about what it means to be a man and that you are meant to emapathise with Macbeth himself but to tell you the truth the passgae that has the most resonance for me at this stage in life is the bit where Macduff, after losing his wife and children vows vengeance on the usurper 'if he escapes may god forgive him too' he says , or something like that. Don't much like Shakespeare anyway, good thing that Joyce took his crown.

[floppykid]

@DublinaThe

Go back and learn proper english, your writing is appalling.

Joyce was good but not better than Shakespeare.

Maybe when you are older, more educated and parochial in your viewpoint you may realise that.

[Lolzygag]

This is my favourite scene in both the movie and the play: "As I extend my watch I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought the wood began to move!" You know what that means: Bye-bye Macbeth =)

[NASCARJoe389]

Who axes somebody in the balls? That's just so wrong. lol

[TheTubeMouse]

Not a fan of Polanski as a man (for obvious reasons) but as a director this remains fine version of Macbeth.

[heliotropezzz333]

Another good moment is when Macbeth looks out of the window to the darkening night having murdered Duncan (or contemplating doing so) and says: Light thickens; and the crow

Makes wing to the rooky wood:

Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;

While night's black agents to their preys do rouse.

- very atmospheric!

[jmharrison51]

It's Banquo's murder he has in mind, but I agree, the images compliment the poetry perfectly.

[alexdude901]

the english costumes are because the english helped with the invasion

[dez10ify]

I feel sorry for Young Siward and the other knights that get killed instantly by Macbeth.

[today20080523]

This is a great movie, but there are two things that I do not like. The costume. Why are they dressed as English when they're Scottish? Secondly, the witches....why???

Anyways I love Shakespeare and would have like this better if Polanski just used the original script like Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet 1996.

[bettygoodbody]

the witches are in the script, you really know alot about period clothes. i never noticed anything like that.

[today20080523]

What I meant was uh...Yes I know there are witches in the play. Three witches in fact and they are very important characters. I meant that in this Polanski movie there are 30~50 witches...naked.

[IronbreakerFTW]

The part on the ramparts is the best. I love his facial expressions as he sees the forest army coming for him. At first it is absolute terror, like he has seen a ghost. Then it changes to despair as he realises the true significance of what this ultimately means. After that it changes to grim resignation/anger. He knows what will happen but he isn't going to sit their cowering.

What an excellent actor.

[redchthonic]

It interesting to see the big what's all this about!!! has lots of rap etc on their page. They should really understand the last part of the speech, "told by an idiot, signifying nothing."

[pinguman13]

it signifies nothing

[Imnothecrazyone]

I just finished reading macbeth and it is awesome. I loved it.

[TheAssist]

I like the bravery of the dude with the axe who is shot with the crossbow. Rather remarkable, standing up to a small army of your allies.

[redchthonic]

This is a fantastic version of a virile King, unlike the Ian McKellen who seems very old in comparison. Macbeth is a firebrand who finds himself destroyed by fate. He chooses to die in armour, not as a broken man but as a man past the period of reflection (the speech). Watch the whole film, really a ethereal feel to it.

[sugarkaneandchloe]

I totally agree.

[lukemccurry]

It's good. But he is no Ian Mckellen.

[worcesterwombat]

I often think of this soliloquy when I'm at work.....

[docterphreak]

@worcesterwombat I think of it all the time. It's the second most famous one in all the universe.

[Kubrickfan1]

@worcesterwombat perfectly describes the work a day world doesn't it?

[sweetsenorita4life]

@worcesterwombat Why?

[obiwanobiwan13]

@worcesterwombat We ALL do...

Tomorrow...AND tomorrow...and--oh, GOD!--TOMORROW...

On and on and on...and if ever there was "a tle told by an idiot" it's an instruction fron a boss that wouldn't know Shakespeare from shit.

[Friendo1231]

"No, though thy call call thyself a hotter name than any that is in Hell!"

MY NAME'S MACBETH.

[Trullx0xman]

4:17

BOOM HEADSHOT

xD

[IronbreakerFTW]

Lol, L-L-L-L-Ludicrous Kill kill kill

[roaminggator]

I LOVE the look on his face at 2:03. He can't believe what he is seeing. Plus, the eery music and faces of the soldiers as they see the wood coming over the hill makes this scene.

[pjwuzhere3]

i could whoop MacBeths ass. my mom had a c-section

[RebelAzura]

same!

[MANJYOMETHUNDER111]

HEYO! Me too!

[Rockguitarhero462]

@pjwuzhere3 ha that's funny,lol.

[mng8ng]

@pjwuzhere3 lol I too was 'untimely ripped'

[azianangel89]

@pjwuzhere3 lmfao wow nice xD

[bulldog01209]

" What is thy name "

" Thou'st be afraid to hear it. "

" NO, Though thy call thy self a hotter a name than any that is in hell ! "

"My name is Macbeth !!"

Best exchange in the whole movie. Finch's performance is feisty and unapologetic .

Bravo man.

[lidiapark]

For me, this is the best line ever. And Oddly enough,it is also my slogan of life.

[manxlucky]

Great swordplay

[miegerko123]

help me to teach the literature..thanks a lot

[LeSexisme]

damn Roman Polanski is the man. Hes got a vision

[casfetes]

7:56 -9:40 RAPEFEST!

[geezyou1]

When I read Macbeth and came across this quote I couldnt help but question if Shakespeare was an existentialist. "Life is but a walking shadow...it is a tale told by and idiot full of sound and fury, signifying NOTHING" asserts that life has no meaning.

[CanucksLuo]

I think Macbeth is addressing that the way he lived his life (now looking back) isn't much how he wanted it to be.

[roaminggator]

I think it is, now that he believes that he is immortal and all the evil he has done, he sees life as useless or shallow, boring and unfulfilling.

[Apollo5600]

It is something that all men, who think for too long, come to be troubled over at one point or another. The idea that life has no meaning, that when you pray to God you are praying only to the air.

[MANJYOMETHUNDER111]

Either that, or he REALLY knows how to get into the minds of his characters.

[RoboTurkeyNinja]

remind me: lady macbeth killed herself after her final encounter with the witches, correct?

[johnvbellis]

No. Lady Macbeth never had encounters with the witches.

She just went mad after the blood of her murder wouldn't wash off her hands and infected her mind.

The Witches spoke only to ambitious men and they spoke truths, though only partial, cursed truths.

[casfetes]

she went mad with the guilt of her sins!

[beggo321]

lady macbeth reminds me of Euripides medea

[tzoyia1]

Yes, there can be drawn comparisons between them. Nevertheles Lady asked to become unsexed, whereas Medea wanted to be a mother and a wife. When those things were taken away from her, she resulted to murder.

[256risenstar]

There was an actual Macbeth that did exist in that time. The actual Macbeth was just good as king Duncan. Shakespeare just made the opposite of what is real

[tzoyia1]

Just like in Richard the third

[doctorw2]

the sad thing about this play was how lady macbeth used macbeths noble qualities against him in order to lead him into the abyss of moral depravity. macbeth was not evil but, lady macbeth made him that way.

[s45ghj]

Perhaps an interesting interpretation is liking the Macbeth story to Adam and Eve and how she is constantly tempting him to gain power/knowledge that he doesn't deserve.

[goutmasterdarryl]

No the statement below is completely false. It was written because King James not (King John) was Scottish, so Shakesphere picked a random Scottish King and decided to make him into a character. It was written to please the new Scottish King. Plus Banquo is an ancestor of King James. Gunpowder Plot has no relevence to Macbeth, just obscure parallels.

[RoCk4LiFe90]

No it's absolutely true, and i meant king James. I just learned this from my english teacher who is earning his masters in British literature. Other authors, who were writing at the same time as Shakespeare, works reflected the events and people of the Gunpowder plot as well. Shakespeare was too brilliant to just pick a random king and make a play, with obscure parallels. Read the play again and you will see, the word "equivocation" used multiple time. Equivocation was used by the Catholics

[RoCk4LiFe90]

in England when asked about their faith. No one in England used equivocation, because it was known that Catholics used it. Catholics in England were being persecuted; no english citizen wanted to be lumped in with the catholics, so they didn't use it. They saw catholics as evil and they believed catholics used equivocation to deceive and trick people. The gunpowder plot conspirators(catholic) used equivocation in their trials. So there is some factual proof for you goutmasterdarryl.

[goutmasterdarryl]

well, i don't want to start a fight or anything but just because equivication is a word in the play (can't recall at the moment) , does not mean it's about the Gunpowder plot. I am an English professor and I have read this play countless times. That is an interesting parallel between the Catholic regime and Shakespeare but still, and I am sure there was a nod toward the Gunpowder Plot, that has nothing to do with the actual play. The information you gave me was just about Catholics, not Macbeth

[goutmasterdarryl]

But i digress, Shakespere did exactly what I mentioned, he chose a random King, go ahead look up the real MacBeth, and wrote the story, making sure Banquo, the King's ancestor, was shown as a good character. Your teacher has an interesting point, but that is his only piece of evidence. I have studied every aspect of this play, and it does not suggest the Gunpowder plot. It had nothing to do with the Scottish Play, only that Catholics used ONE identical word as Shakespere. NO FACTUAL PROOF.

[princessgurl4eva101]

Very well said!

[heliotropezzz333]

It's interesting how Shakespeare creates plays that are relevant to what was happening at the time, and to please the monarch of the time. For instance James I believed in witchraft and was a bit obsessed with that, and fears of assassination I believe so this must have touched lots of chords with him

[RoCk4LiFe90]

Macbeth was written around 1605, the time when the gunpowder plot was discovered in England, the Macbeth play is a whole reflection of the events and people from the plot. Macbeth is a parallel to the catholic conspirators who tried to asassinate parliament and King John I, to overthrow the government. the conspirators failed however when the plot was discovered the day before it was set to go off. look it up online " macbeth and gunpowder plot" and you will find more info.

[Rael0505]

I love what Polanski did with the two major fight scenes in this movie. When Macbeth faces Siward's son, his strength stems from his overbearing confidence and he has a clear advantage.

The Macduff fight scene is entirely different, however. He loses all of the confidence that gave him his power when he learns Macduff was not born of woman. He becomes nervous and his movements are indecisive and clumsy. It makes you wonder how the battle would have turned out if Macduff had not answered him.

[halorulesyourface]

i saw this in english class; the fight was so epic and funny at the same time

[JFMJJ]

0:41-1:03 are some of the the truest words ever written in the English language. Shakespeare at his best.

[DikkeAmerikaan]

Why does macbeth say ''tomorrow and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps.. etc'' ?

please tell me?

[maju72]

what a *** question.

*** answer: best there is to say, right?

[arizon111]

i read about this in english..it means that life keeps going on in a meaningless way

[axeslinger01]

Macbeth is facing the biggest battle of his life in order to keep the throne. He is informed of his wife's (who he loved) death, instead of crying and grieving he gives this speech about the futility of life. he realizes his actions are leading to his downfall.

[GeeMs22]

jon finch is so cute in this movie

[princessgurl4eva101]

isn't he just.

[JackolynSparrow]

I can listen to this speech over and over, and it gets better every time...

[musicman1700]

What a GREAT TRAGIC HERO STORY!

[bulldog01209]

Tragic hero ? Don't think Macbeth is suppose to be a hero of any kind. He is impotent king devoid of morals and his actions were determined by his fears. Everyone flees him and the ones that stay are corrupt or fearful of him. He is a failed leader and commits horrible acts to hold on to power.

Macbeth is the story of a dictator not a hero.

[NGS712]

bulldog: You could say he's an anti-hero.

The person who's the focus of the story, yet we can't sympathize with him.

[bulldog01209]

Anti-hero's are hero's that use questionable methods to reach their ends Macbeth is a tyrant. He is the epitome of evil.

[NGS712]

bulldog: I would say Macbeth is evil, but not the epitome of it.

While he does have ambition, I'd say he's more of a puppet or rather he's influenced by others. He never would have thought of killing Duncan if the witches hadn't given him the prophecy or without Lady Macbeth's pushing him.

[bulldog01209]

Evil is selfish and fearful. He killed a good king, which he acknowledged, to grab power. Then out of paranoia he kills his closest friend.

The only saving grace is that he apparently has a conscience, but in one scene he remarks that he is in to deep and that going forward or back would take the same effort so he chooses evil.

You could find good in anyone but in the end you judge people by their actions and he was a horrible person.

[NGS712]

bulldog: Yes, I see what you mean. And putting it that way you could say he was the Nixon of the middle ages. ;)

[heliotropezzz333]

@bulldog01209 Macbeth is a hero at the beginning of the play having won a battle for Duncan and been rewarded by being given the title "Thane of Cawdor" ,but tragedy in it's classical definition is about a character brought down by a flaw in his or her own nature.

[bulldog01209]

A war hero is a professional killer good at military tactics and the application of them. Being a war hero doesn't mean you are a "good" person and clearly the choices Mac Beth makes is as far from good by anyone definition.

No clue to what comment you were replying to by I stand by the assertion that selfishness is the true face of evil.

Heroes help others even to their detriment. Mac Beth's actions only serve to further himself even if it means killing a "good" king, best friend and his son

[evadiprivero]

i think shakespears was phenomenom incredible play...

[dreamno9uk2001]

Why do you not remove it because it is a curse upon my heart each time I bloody see it Jerswin.

[belsy009]

Mcbeth is awesome

[DEM1571]

macbeth is badass

[CountArtha]

One of the earliest anti-heroes.

[bradenk08]

will u post the rest plzz!

[bradenk08]

im doing the play macbeth and im playing macbeth, im wondering what i should do for a costume?

[bradenk08]

im doing a macbeth and imwondering what i should do for a costume?

[kingd1ngl1ng]

Im performing this at the greek theater may 16... im lpaying macbeth... nervoussss haha

[Rael0505]

Amazing fight scene with siward's son. One of the most epic parts of the movie.

[Wuzzi55]

i sooooo like this version more than the fucking BBC

[seiji]

haha omg i need to memorize this too haha but i'm done memorizing it... i just have to say it and act it XS

[ByandFar]

I'm getting 'Act V, Scene V' tattoo on my b-day.

[popcorn6]

you need to post the rest of this^^

[MrCarMaster]

i have to memorize this soliquy for school on wed lol thanks for the post

[XxSfbxX]

can you post the rest, too?

[pachelbelscanon81]

well, yes... i can ^^

[wgoco]

Thoughtful portrayal in the soliloquy and bit bloody in fight scenes...nice production all round, though...in all ways...good of you to post it.