Macbeth & Film

Take out Film Clip Analysis wkst

#4 & #5 = 2 Adaptations of Macbeth Act 1, sc 1

Adaptation: the transfer of a written work (in part or whole) to the screen or the stage.

Analyze Orson Welles’ opening scene (1948)

Now, Analyze Polanski’s Adaptation

Opening Macbeth

Consider the 2 directors’ choices for Act I, scene i

-What do the 2 adaptations of this scene have in common?

-How do they differ?

How do these choices affect your understanding of Macbeth?

To Adapt = to interpret

-Each director puts his own spin on the original text

-creates a “vision” of the text through the specific techniques they choose to use.

-each establishes the setting, mood, characters (witches), plot (foreshadows conflict), and theme (supernatural vs. humans).

EQ: How do directors’ choices affect our understanding of literature?

-Take out Journal Entry #1

-with a partner, share the movie scene you analyzed.

-How do the director’s choices affect the way you perceive the story/setting/characters/themes?

Consider this song/poem...

-Translated from the Japanese

-Appears in Akira Kurosawa’s Macbeth adaptation (Throne of Blood, 1957)

-NOT found in Shakespeare’s original text, but VERY relevant to major themes

-Kurosawa = interpreter / translator

Fold a blanks sheet of loose-leaf. Write….

KurosawaPBS

mise-en-scene

shots

editing

lighting/visual effects

sound

reflection

What part of the plot did you just see?

Plot Structure:Exposition - establishes background, setting; introduces major characters, sometimes foreshadows coming conflict (Act 1, sc. 1)

Rising Action - develops conflict/complications (Act 2)

Climax - turning point, crisis, moment of highest tension (Act 3)

Falling Action - results or effects of the climax (Act 4)

Denouement - “tying up loose ends”; leads to resolution (Act 5)