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Macbeth By William Shakespear - Paper

Macbeth By William Shakespear


e Year 10 GCSE English Coursework: Media
Compare the two films of Macbeth. How do they differ and in what ways are they similar? Which film do you prefer and why?
William Shakespeare wrote Macbeth the play. Many directors in their own style have interpreted this play. I will be comparing two films played by different directors. Different directors make the two films. The two films are based on the same story but the differences occur in the way each director has interpreted the text. The traditional style of Macbeth was done by Roman Polanski and the modern version was done by Penny Woolcock. The traditional version was made in 1979 and the modern BBC vision was made in 1997. The ...

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King and this leads him to kill Duncan the King of Scotland. He becomes more and more involved in murder and terrible deeds. He arranges for his friend Banquo to be murdered because he is afraid that Banquo’s after sons will become Kings. Macbeth goes back to the witches who tell him that "no man of woman born will harm him”and until Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane (his castle) he will not be harmed. Macbeth gets so obsessed with this prophecy that he has Macduff’s wife and children murder. Lady Macbeth who encourages Macbeth to kill the King goes mad and dies. Then Macduff comes back to seek revenge for his family and kills Macbeth because Macduff was "from his mother's womb untimely ripped".
The two films were set in very different settings. Polanski’s Macbeth was set in the open countryside in Scotland and his castle was more like the setting of the play, which made it more traditional, and there were the mountains and woodlands where the whether ...

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of the play. The budget for Roman Polanski would have been much larger than Penny Woolcock’s because Penny Woolcock’s vision was made to be put straight onto television and not for the big audience. So there were no special effects unlike in the traditional version where the film was for a worldwide audience and so to make it more interesting special effects were used and more money was spent to hire settings and weapons.
The actors in the two films were very different to each other. The two directors had a very large difference in their budget. Polanski had a lot of spending money so he had the money to pay for some big famous actors and actresses but Penny Woolcock the ...

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