Second Essay Assignment - Macbeth

          Considering Roman Polanski's film version of Macbeth as an interpretation, I want to focus on a character and a scene from the film and the play that really effective and important. First of all, as it is also the title, the character of Macbeth is depicted very well in the film and also in the play. What I want to point out in the film is the murdering scene that Macbeth murders the King Duncan and how it is reflected to the spectators. I think it is the most important scene in the play and in the film as it is directed the rest of the play. I also want to say that Polanski's wife and his group of friends are murdered and as it is he tries to reflect his life to this play as bloody and cruel. The big difference with the play is the sex and murdering scene. There are not so sex scenes in the play but it is depicted so much in the film.

          Firstly, it is important to say that, Roman Polanski's film version is disturbing. What makes it disturbing it some bloody and cruel scenes. As I watched it twice, my general opinion is that sometimes it is not possible to watch some scenes. For example the scene that Macbeth murders King Duncan is bloody. It is depicted as a very bad and cruel scene in the film. What I think while watching it, Roman Polanski tries to give the impression of the death scene very realistic. He tries to give to full energy to these bloody scenes in the film that, he tries to make the spectators believe. However, I think that like the murdering scene, the other bloody scenes are not so realistic. For instance; in one of the scene, Macbeth cuts someone's head and as a spectator, feel disturbed and cannot look at that scene, but it does not feel so realistic. I think that Polanski exaggerates these scenes because imagine that you murders someone, I think you do not do it in a very exaggerating way, but in a very silence way. He tries to be effective but I think the more scenes are bloody and exaggerating, the less it is effective and realistic. Also, reading the play, Shakespeare does not explain this murder of Duncan in a bloody way. He explains the murder but the readers do not feel so disturbed or it is not that bloody as it is in the film version.

          I also want to point out some characters like Macbeth and Ross. As a key character in the play and that is developed in the film is Macbeth's famous image from Act V scene 7, when he compares himself to a bear being baited: "They have tied me to a stake: I cannot fly, But, bear-like, I must fight the course." This quotation is developed by having an actual bear-baiting during the play, and then the bear being carried away, focusing on how Macbeth is, by the end of the play, pictured as a bear. This scene is important I think because it shows us the real character of Macbeth. I also want to point out the character of Ross. In the play, it is obvious that he is kind of removes and not important. However, in the play he is kind of a major character that depicted.