Macbeth, By William Shakespeare - 1416 Words

William Shakespeare’s tragic play Macbeth is widely renowned and respected as one of the most influential works in history. Taylah Thirlwall compares Geoffrey Wright’s 2006 film to Roman Polanski’s 1971 film, and scrutinizes the portrayal of Masculinity. Using guns for swords and drugs for poison, the Melbourne’s Underground becomes a frolicking pitch for Wright’s Macbeth. Daggers, illusion and battling provides a framework into the highlighted theme of masculinity. What is masculinity, and the relation of this cohesive concept to Shakespeare’s classic Macbeth? William Shakespeare was truly a master at idolising the masculinity of a character. Throughout Roman Polanski’s 1971 version of Macbeth, he demonstrates an accurate masculinity†¦show more content†¦In the accumulation to the famous battle scene, set in the castle of Dunsinane, Macbeth embroidered â€Å"I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack’d.Give me my armour† (5.3.30-32). Within this scene Polanski is viewed as a loyal and vigorous man and gives the audience a visual understanding on the masculinity of the character. Geoffrey Wright’s amateur film version of Macbeth, delivers the audience a cringe worthy adaptation of masculity, to the character Macbeth. Costuming within Wright’s film, provides the views with an impression that Macbeth as an acquisitive egotistical man. A scene in Wright’s film where Macbeth is at his haughty banquet, he wears a black velvet buttoned up jacket, with an embodied floral pattern, stopping only half way up to show his stubbly chest. To match the exotic black shirt, a pair of straight slick velvet disco pants are shown off†¦ Now is this really masculine? This quivering, perplexing representation of masculinity towards a modern audience is distressingly incorrect. Polanski’s visual of costuming, gives the audience a real description into how masculinity should be represented in the modern society. To top off the cringe worthy appearance, Wright attempts to use cinematography, to portray masculinity towards his noble Macbeth. Instead within the scene, at the banquet held for Duncan, Macbeth is viewed upon with unnatural and unpleasant buttery lighting with limited close up shots of his face.