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fiveseconddelay showed it to me the other night, and while it was an ok movie on its own merits, as a take on Macky-B it was awesome. Mac's always been my least favorite of Shakey's top four (Hamlet, Othello, and the relatively-underappreciated King Lear), and this was mainly due to the fact that I just... didn't find any of it interesting. I mean, I really just didn't give a shit about any of these people. If I don't care about these characters on some level, then the tragedy is lost, right? Well, I think I get it now.
Mac's a schmuck. He's fortune's true fool. He's Destiny's bitch. He's God's kickball. He's a noir antihero, a poor dumbfuck who gets compromised and suckered into a situation and then scrambles madly to get out of it, ending up fucked over and dead. At least, that's how he was in SCOTLAND, PA, and y'know, after seeing that, I went, "Now THAT I could play."
That said, all you people who find Lady Mac sympathetic... ummm, no, I still don't see it. The text has never supported it for me. She's an evil, power-mad rhymes-with-witch-but-isn't-actually-one-of-the-witches, and I can't wait to see her driven nuts by her own evil deeds. She's not a villain you love to hate, like Aaron or Iago or Richard, charismatic types who are fun to watch be evil... no, I just want to see her get what's coming to her. She's Richard, post-dead-princes. She's like Livia from "I, Claudius."
Although I still think it lacks the epic sweeping nature of Hamlet and Lear or the utterly visceral punch of Othello, I finally have *some* foothold now on Macky-B. We'll see if I get a chance to further explore it, or if my soul will be utterly choked by Chekhov before then.
Stupid Cherry Orchard crappy play whining Russians curse you Richards bah.
fiveseconddelay showed it to me the other night, and while it was an ok movie on its own merits, as a take on Macky-B it was awesome. Mac's always been my least favorite of Shakey's top four (Hamlet, Othello, and the relatively-underappreciated King Lear), and this was mainly due to the fact that I just... didn't find any of it interesting. I mean, I really just didn't give a shit about any of these people. If I don't care about these characters on some level, then the tragedy is lost, right? Well, I think I get it now.Mac's a schmuck. He's fortune's true fool. He's Destiny's bitch. He's God's kickball. He's a noir antihero, a poor dumbfuck who gets compromised and suckered into a situation and then scrambles madly to get out of it, ending up fucked over and dead. At least, that's how he was in SCOTLAND, PA, and y'know, after seeing that, I went, "Now THAT I could play."
That said, all you people who find Lady Mac sympathetic... ummm, no, I still don't see it. The text has never supported it for me. She's an evil, power-mad rhymes-with-witch-but-isn't-actually-one-of-the-witches, and I can't wait to see her driven nuts by her own evil deeds. She's not a villain you love to hate, like Aaron or Iago or Richard, charismatic types who are fun to watch be evil... no, I just want to see her get what's coming to her. She's Richard, post-dead-princes. She's like Livia from "I, Claudius."
Although I still think it lacks the epic sweeping nature of Hamlet and Lear or the utterly visceral punch of Othello, I finally have *some* foothold now on Macky-B. We'll see if I get a chance to further explore it, or if my soul will be utterly choked by Chekhov before then.
Stupid Cherry Orchard crappy play whining Russians curse you Richards bah.
