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⌈ Secret Post #2945 ⌋

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[Not a Harem Heaven, It's a Yandere Hell]

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[Game of Thrones]

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[In the Flesh]

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[Hudson Leick as Callisto in Xena, Warrior Princess]

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[Plebcomics]

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[Great British Bake Off]

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[Captain America: The First Avenger]

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[Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE!]

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[Queen]

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I like the Ian McKellan one (1979) a lot. It has this very successfully creepy/claustrophobic feel, and has fairly abstracted black box-style staging (this is a filmed theatrical performance)-- just a few chairs/props-- and when actors are not in a scene, they all sit around the edge of the stage, they don't exit. I like just about everything about it, except for the witches and the Porter, which are both only okay. But nobody does the witches right.* Roger Rees is a standout as Malcolm.

Quick thoughts:

-The John Finch one (1971), Polanski directed it. MEH. Dated looking effects (dagger scene, ketchup blood). Oh and tits!

-The Kenneth Branagh one (2013), theatrical performance screened for NT Live and not commercially available because NT Live is full of idiots. Interesting staging in a theatre that was once a church; so there's a performance area consists of the top alter area and a long aisle between the two banks of seating. And the aisle is full of mud. Surprisingly not good wrt the relationship of the Macbeths (Branagh and Alex Kingston). Hated their witches.*

-The Nicol Williamson one (1983). This is the one in the BBC full Shakespeare series. I have seen this and literally cannot remember a single distinguishing feature of it. Okay actually, I vaguely remember Jane Lapotaire's Lady M.

-The Patrick Stewart one (2010). Aka, STALIN-MACBETH. Modern-dress that is heavily influenced by 1930s style, but not exact enough for me to call it '30s (like the McKelland RIII). Very dark and bloody, with a creepy soundtrack. Kate Fleetwood is a very strong Lady M, which is great at first, then leave you confused with her character's decline.

-The animated one (1992). I don't know if you're familiar with this series of abridged, animated Shakespeare tales, but they're pretty fun and always have great voice casts. This one is Brian Cox and Zoe Wannamaker.

Some Macbeths I haven't seen:
-Sean Pertwee (1998), Sean Connery (1961), Antony Sher (2001; I want to see this one because of Harriet Walter as Lady M), Orson Welles (1948), and this year there will be a new one with Michael Fassbender.

*In case you haven't seen it, I'll also recommend the short Canadian tv series Slings & Arrows, about a Shakespeare festival. The second season is about a production of Macbeth, and there's a running gag of complaining about how the witches are never done right.

This is super helpful. Thanks! That's disappointing that the Branagh one isn't available and that they got the relationship wrong because I adore Branagh's Shakespeare adpations most of the time, and he and Kingston are among my favorite actors.

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