1. Joel Coen's adaptation of Macbeth is pretty great. It works well as both a Shakespearean movie and also, despite being Ethan-less, a Coen movie. Worth asking how this Coen/Shakespeare fusion came about. Here's one reason.https://twitter.com/AryehCW/status/1485703677482610690 …
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3. "Morons with grandiose dreams" is one Shakespeare/Coen thematic link. But also the pathos of infertility (Raising Arizona, Man Who Wasn't There, the Macbeths being very much a post-menopausal childless couple) & demonic intervention in human affairs.
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4. Finally, a Coen-esque MacBeth because it brings together both new actors with some familiar faces from Coen troupe (McDormand, Harry Melling) as well as frequent backstage collaborators (Carter Burwell, Ellen Chenoweth)
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5. I talked to
@bellye66 about all the ways MacBeth fused the Coen world with Shakespeare:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-something-wickedly-good-this?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …Show this thread
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The “moron with grandiose dreams” thing works so well when played completely stone serious (No Country) so I’m not surprised it worked with MacBeth too
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I was very glad that miller's crossing topped a recently announced ranking of coen brothers films : hammett's book (the glass key) is one of my favorites, and their adaptation is truly genius - original and true to both hammett and themselves.
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