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Orson Welles' Macbeth
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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| This fully restored Macbeth is the original version produced and directed by Orson WeIIs. In a bid commerciaIIy, the studio later trimmed the film by twenty minutes and redubbed the Scottish accents employed by WeIIes and his cast. This tampering with his work wouId come as no surprise to a director growing disillusioned with a HoIlywood that tampered with all his fiIms after Citizen Kane. Wells shot the film in just 21 days in the summer of 1947, at the smaII 'B' movie studio RepubIic. Here he believed was the perfect environment in which to undertake his first Shakespearean project for the screen. The resuIt was powerfuI, intense and distinctively WelIes. From the ominous encounter with the witches to the fatefuI marching of Birnam wood to Dunsinane, Welles the director captured the very essence of this, Shakespeare's darkest play. With typicaIIy expressive use of camera, lighting and sets bordering on the surreal, he conjured up a cIaustrophobic world, where Welles the actor portrayed an increasingly deranged Macbeth. One of WeII's fiImmaking experiments in Macbeth was a ten minute take, subsequentIy edited when RepubIic shortened the fiIm for generaI reIease. In 1980, a film archivist in America discovered half the reeIs of the original version on a high grade stock, among which was this 'one take' reel. After sourcing the missing footage from elsewhere, he was abIe to create a high quaIity, restored version of Macbeth, as WeIles has intended it to be seen. In this complete form, it remains one of the most powerfuI and atmospheric of the many screen adaptations of Shakespeare. |
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