Macbeth

Terrifying Macbeth
Isabel Ruiz Clemente

The shortest and most intense of Shakespeare’s plays has always attracted filmmakers and theatre. There are listed more than 50 different adaptations named“Macbeth”. Kurosawa adapted Macbeth into Japanese Middle Ages, Geoffrey Wright into Australian drug traffickers, Leonardo Henríquez into a Venezuelan crook clan, Mark Brozel into a high classrestaurant, Rupert Goold into Russia, Ionesco to Cold War and Welles into Haiti. The greatest part of them maintained the original text in original Elizabethan English, and it totally worked at allscenarios, however, the most transformed aspect where the three witches, who always where engaged in macbethian productions. In this text will be discussed Goold’s 2010 adaptation and vision aboutShakespeare’s Macbeth.
Unlike other Shakespeare’s works, Macbeth is maintained at all times, in all accommodations. Director Rupert Goold created metal scenarios in cool blues and rusty oranges, took off coloursthat appear faintly on black backgrounds, alluding to a military bunker. Again the story of ambition and crime has no problems in adapting and witches are where the difference lies, Goold embodiedthem in three nurses or three servants, perfectly sinister, not only prophesying, but determining other moments, such as the preparation of the table where the Banquo’s ghost appears. The revelations ofthe fourth act are performed through dead in a morgue. Rupert Goold's version also borrows the supernatural from current representations of horror films. The last part of the 2000s were abundant grayproductions, using soft colors, rusty pipes, nylon and tiles, a clinical setting for movies such as Saw series or video clips of Marilyn Manson. Goold even filmed the witches with cuts andaccelerations to give the feeling of unnatural movements, inspired in Sadako’s Ringu or the grotesque creatures of The Beautiful People. There are inspired details where Shakespeare's text says that the...