Damn, the use of a gun was AMAZING in this context. Macbeth drawing the gun, it's miraculously jammed, and he just nods, yes, of course it is. A rare instance where telling one of Shakespeare's stories in modern times makes it better.
LegendOfMorgana This movie and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet are the right ways to make more recent Shakespeare movies(Not that Branagh's was recent, it was just further in time than the actual play)
This is my favorite way of playing Macbeth. He is not weepy or pitiful, at least at the end. His wife goes from being the angry, brutal one at the beginning to mad with grief and guilt, and Macbeth has the opposite journey, moving from doubt and sorrow to pure malice. There are many ways to do Macbeth, but this is my favorite.
In the actual play, the line goes "And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'", so the "enough" forms part of the challenge to MacDuff, and isn't a separate line. Interesting how they played it here - MacBeth is winning the fight but then seems to change his mind, as though he's had "enough" of life and accepts his fate.
Though I am new to Shakespeare, and have only heard of this play, I am very interested in Shakespeare now. In the past I have tried to read some of Shakespeare, only to find myself confused. But I want to try again, and learn the meaning of some of the words. What do you think?
@@MeanGreenMotherFrom It's really not so distant from modern english, much of the time its not the language but the actual content which people find troublesome. I recommend starting with a Midsummer Nights Dream, it has some of the most wonderful wordplay all of his works, while still being fairly easy to follow. There really is something to be said, however, that Shakespeare makes the most sense when you see it performed
IoEstasCedonta Well they still aren’t that common and the witches say “Not of woman born” Which Macbeth reads as no man alive. So the surprise isn’t at the section itself but it is him finally solving the riddle and realizing this is his time to die.
@@georgeofhamilton Eh, not really. Prophecies being vague enough to be misinterpreted/self-fulfilled is and always has been a fairly standard trope in any storytelling concerning prophecy ever since the Ancient Greek myths. It's like him misinterpreting "till Burnham Wood comes to Dunsinane" as the trees themselves literally having to move of their own accord instead of just soldiers cutting down branches to use as camouflage. It was never really much of a twist ending for the audience even at the time it was originally performed (the play being based on a Scottish legend and written for King James I/VI who was said to be a descendant of the historical Banquo - the prophecy of Macbeth seeing 8 of Banquo's descendants as kings with the last one holding a mirror showing "an unbroken line of kings" is said to have originally been directed so that the mirror would reflect the King where he was sitting in the audience) so of course Macbeth was always going to be defeated. But it's still a twist for the character because he never learned not to necessarily take the prophecies literally, which is tied in to his fatal flaw.
It wasn't Macduff simply being a caesarian that unsettled Macbeth. It was that the witches prophesied that Macbeth would never be killed by someone "born of woman".....and since Macduff is a caesarian baby, that means he is technically NOT born of woman, and thus could kill him. Otherwise Macbeth couldn't have cared less how Macduff was born.
Shakespeare is one of the few authors who wrote a story with a protagonist who was also the villain yet one that was infinitely sympathetic, beauty in contradiction that's almost never (if ever!) seen today
My heart leapt into my throat at 3:11 when Macbeth's pistol jams - an incredibly brilliant bit of staging. Swords are about skill. Guns, however, are about Fate, which makes them perfect for Macbeth. See "Pulp Fiction" for another example.
Guns aren't about fate mate, Weapons Maintenance is a three day class at basic for a reason. Still, I think the use of a malfunction here's is flipping epic. Also, Holy cow speaking to you from the future bro how the hell are ya?!
@@jddunebuggy For what it's worth, it's no more fate then when a well maintained blade failed to cut, or anything malfunction happen. We just minimize it to close to 0% - but i'ts never 0% (think: "Five nines"). There is always that tiny, atomic size non-zero probability of bad thing happens.
Far and away my favorite version of Macbeth. If this is what I had been shown in high school I would have paid more attention. A master work by Mr. Stewart, it's so good I find myself watching it once or twice a year.
ocsar tobi It pains me to say it as I'm such a huge fan of Patrick Stewart, but I preferred Michael Fassbender's portrayal in 2015. This final scene I don't think has been done better than in that version, it's on RUclips called "Macbeth vs Macduff Final Fight Scene 1080p" I think.
czdaniel1 its not because of that(well some of my generation just don't care for good acting) its because its a pretty good film. Its modernised well, great actors and they kept true to the lines.
MacDuff: "Turn, hellhound!" *shoots, misses* MacBeth: "I'm sitting right in front of you, how'd you miss with a full clip?! If that's the case, why the hell am I avoiding you?!!"
But Pistol was in Henry IV, Henry V, and I think the Wives of Windsor....This is Scotland. Talk about 4th wall breaking. "You expect me to run through time & space to grab a character from another play and bash you over the head with him?"
The greatest aspect of this scene is the final appearance of the Three Weïrd Sisters before Macbeth meets his demise. The play begins and ultimately ends with the presence of the witches, who catalyzed Macbeth’s rise and eventual downfall. Therefore, their addition to this scene is very fitting, as they are arguably the force that drives the course of the entire play.
Astonishing. Beautiful. Inexplicable. I've played a lot of Shakespeare.... This might be the hardest thing ever written. But Mr. Stewart demolishes it. Bravo, and thank you all.
Oh no they really went for it in the play. Although, Macbeth and Macduff ended up rising in an old lift as Macbeth died...when Macduff returned he held the head :P
A terrible king, but a terrific soldier. He does not flinch easy, even in the face of his prophesied death. Of course, he’s lost a great deal already, by this point his continued existence is of no consequence to him. Indeed, it might be something of a relief to come to the end of his nightmarish “fate worse than death.” I am quite impressed he didn’t take “the last way out” to escape being killed or captured by his enemies. Many dictators take that way out even in modern times. At least this one stands and fights to the death, and takes his just desserts like a man.
I enjoy that both of them fail at what should be easy targets for different reasons. MacDuff misses MacBeth who is seated because of rage and adrenaline at the sight of him and thus sprays and prays. MacBeth only wounds MacDuff who comes at him in a straight line, because of his intoxication, then of course the failure to fire at close range. The first two taking place within 7-10 meters.
PS360Million Isaac Asimov speculates in his two volume companion to Shakespeare that Shakespeare put all the supernatural stuff in for the benefit of the new king, James, who was very much into suchlike. In fact James quite fanned the mania about "witches", "witchcraft", and other horrors related to the Inquisition and witch hunts.
What can I say: in almost every adaptation of Shakespears the director wants to bring something new to the table in order to add a signature to his/her work. Adding "enough" and the witches to this climatic fight was Rupert Gold's signature. I'd liked it.
If I'm not mistaken, the original line before they begin fighting is "And damned be he that first cries 'Hold, Enough!'". When he stops and sees the witches, it is basically telling him to remember his fate (which is implied that he be murdered by MacDuff, the man not 'woman-born'). Him saying 'Enough' refers to that original line meaning the same thing as 'Hold', i.e. he's giving up...and at last yielding to his fate, no longer resisting it. That's what I took away from it, at least.
Something about making it a knife fight is so much scarier. Not that swords aren't scary and it obviously wouldnt have fit with the setting to use swords ,but still....it's so much colder and more savage because it's so....intimate? I don't know...but... a very good choice.
In the next scene MacDuff reappears to Malcolm's troops' commanders, bearing the head of MacBeth. In this case, it was an unsettlingly lifelike, perfectly rendered head of Patrick Stewart.
They tricked Macbeth into thinking that he couldn’t be killed. But during this scene they appear to show how Macbeth was getting ahead of himself and screwed up.
@@spencermanning9994 It depends. If you are coldly rational, sure. But if you’ve been driven semi-mad yourself with an urge for revenge, this makes sense. You’d want to get close and personal.
It sounds old English because... It's Shakespeare. Do you not know what this is? The bald guy is Macbeth. It's an adaptation of the play. By Shakespeare...
Damn, the use of a gun was AMAZING in this context. Macbeth drawing the gun, it's miraculously jammed, and he just nods, yes, of course it is. A rare instance where telling one of Shakespeare's stories in modern times makes it better.
Then you have the infamous...
Leonardo Dicaprio Romeo and Juliet...
And my least favorite... O!
Lion King wasn't bad if that counts.
***** Ah yes, Romeo and Juliet, where a sniper rifle counts as a "longsword". Lol.
LegendOfMorgana This movie and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet are the right ways to make more recent Shakespeare movies(Not that Branagh's was recent, it was just further in time than the actual play)
*****
Branagh's was awesome, I agree.
I liked that part as well.
Macbeth is so drunk that he thinks the alcohol is a shield and pours it all over himself lmao!
He should've used it as a photon torpedo and threw it at him, would of been more effective lol.
It is in a sense...
i think it's brilliant because it shows how far gone macbeth's mind is
I mean the booze will help with wound infection after the battle and applying it prior to injury “might” help
It's a symbolism, for a man who falls so low to his own pride is to hide himself behind the veil of ego which is the prophecy that Macbeth coveted.
This is my favorite way of playing Macbeth. He is not weepy or pitiful, at least at the end. His wife goes from being the angry, brutal one at the beginning to mad with grief and guilt, and Macbeth has the opposite journey, moving from doubt and sorrow to pure malice. There are many ways to do Macbeth, but this is my favorite.
In the actual play, the line goes "And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'", so the "enough" forms part of the challenge to MacDuff, and isn't a separate line. Interesting how they played it here - MacBeth is winning the fight but then seems to change his mind, as though he's had "enough" of life and accepts his fate.
Though I am new to Shakespeare, and have only heard of this play, I am very interested in Shakespeare now. In the past I have tried to read some of Shakespeare, only to find myself confused. But I want to try again, and learn the meaning of some of the words. What do you think?
@@MeanGreenMotherFrom It's really not so distant from modern english, much of the time its not the language but the actual content which people find troublesome. I recommend starting with a Midsummer Nights Dream, it has some of the most wonderful wordplay all of his works, while still being fairly easy to follow. There really is something to be said, however, that Shakespeare makes the most sense when you see it performed
A problem with modern adaptations of Shakespeare is that you have to have a 21st-century man brought to tears by a cesarian.
IoEstasCedonta Well they still aren’t that common and the witches say “Not of woman born”
Which Macbeth reads as no man alive.
So the surprise isn’t at the section itself but it is him finally solving the riddle and realizing this is his time to die.
@@xeagaort Yeah, but that makes Macbeth look stupider and stupider as the years go on, and it's not such a twist to the audience anymore either.
@@georgeofhamilton Eh, not really. Prophecies being vague enough to be misinterpreted/self-fulfilled is and always has been a fairly standard trope in any storytelling concerning prophecy ever since the Ancient Greek myths. It's like him misinterpreting "till Burnham Wood comes to Dunsinane" as the trees themselves literally having to move of their own accord instead of just soldiers cutting down branches to use as camouflage. It was never really much of a twist ending for the audience even at the time it was originally performed (the play being based on a Scottish legend and written for King James I/VI who was said to be a descendant of the historical Banquo - the prophecy of Macbeth seeing 8 of Banquo's descendants as kings with the last one holding a mirror showing "an unbroken line of kings" is said to have originally been directed so that the mirror would reflect the King where he was sitting in the audience) so of course Macbeth was always going to be defeated. But it's still a twist for the character because he never learned not to necessarily take the prophecies literally, which is tied in to his fatal flaw.
It wasn't Macduff simply being a caesarian that unsettled Macbeth. It was that the witches prophesied that Macbeth would never be killed by someone "born of woman".....and since Macduff is a caesarian baby, that means he is technically NOT born of woman, and thus could kill him. Otherwise Macbeth couldn't have cared less how Macduff was born.
@@georgeofhamilton imagine that. People aren't surprised by a plot twist that wad revealed four hundred years ago.
Shakespeare is one of the few authors who wrote a story with a protagonist who was also the villain yet one that was infinitely sympathetic, beauty in contradiction that's almost never (if ever!) seen today
I dunno....Tony Soprano? Tyrian Lannister? Captain Janeway? (
You find a guy who had his best friend murdered infinitely sympathetic?
VideoMask93 you obviously missed the whole point of Macbeth.
My heart leapt into my throat at 3:11 when Macbeth's pistol jams - an incredibly brilliant bit of staging. Swords are about skill. Guns, however, are about Fate, which makes them perfect for Macbeth.
See "Pulp Fiction" for another example.
Guns aren't about fate mate, Weapons Maintenance is a three day class at basic for a reason. Still, I think the use of a malfunction here's is flipping epic. Also, Holy cow speaking to you from the future bro how the hell are ya?!
The gun jamming is more about bad ammo or the drunk just let his standards drop and that got him killed
@@jddunebuggy For what it's worth, it's no more fate then when a well maintained blade failed to cut, or anything malfunction happen. We just minimize it to close to 0% - but i'ts never 0% (think: "Five nines"). There is always that tiny, atomic size non-zero probability of bad thing happens.
Macbeth: haha, you can't kill me. No man born of a woman can.
Macduff: It was a c-section
Macbeth: Ah fucking hell...fine print...loopholes...fml
Far and away my favorite version of Macbeth. If this is what I had been shown in high school I would have paid more attention. A master work by Mr. Stewart, it's so good I find myself watching it once or twice a year.
ocsar tobi It pains me to say it as I'm such a huge fan of Patrick Stewart, but I preferred Michael Fassbender's portrayal in 2015. This final scene I don't think has been done better than in that version, it's on RUclips called "Macbeth vs Macduff Final Fight Scene 1080p" I think.
AK-47's are surefire way to get kids attention!! Shakespeare knew that, and that is why he filled his plays with AK-47's & lusty winches!!
czdaniel1 its not because of that(well some of my generation just don't care for good acting) its because its a pretty good film. Its modernised well, great actors and they kept true to the lines.
This is what I was shown when we did Macbeth
We actually saw this today in my senior year nice movie
As a non-native-english speaker, I have found my limits of this wonderful language. Now I can hone my skills and try to comprehend this masterpiece.
Learn olde English
MacDuff: "Turn, hellhound!" *shoots, misses*
MacBeth: "I'm sitting right in front of you, how'd you miss with a full clip?! If that's the case, why the hell am I avoiding you?!!"
Nick Craig lol
He wasn’t trying to kill him with the gun. That was just theatrics, showing him he was serious. He intended to kill him 1 on 1.
Nick Craig *magazine not a clip
Lmao why did I read that in Patrick Stewarts voice? xD
0:38 Looks like Picard remembered to turn on the safety protocols for his holodeck simulation, the bullets don't actually harm him.
"Red alert, Captain Picard to the bridge." "Damn it!! Computer, end program!"
Amazing performance by stewart. Even more amazing mustache
He really overacts in this movie, though.
I get shivers after he tries to shoot macduff...the music in the background gets me too...
These plays are good but the moment u realize that there were perfect times for macduff to kill macbeth
I only discovered this version recently, and I've already added it to by drama classes. This is excellent.
2:03: HIT HIM IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD WITH THE PISTOL, YOU GODDAMN IDIOT
(I love this scene so much)
But Pistol was in Henry IV, Henry V, and I think the Wives of Windsor....This is Scotland. Talk about 4th wall breaking. "You expect me to run through time & space to grab a character from another play and bash you over the head with him?"
This is one of the best Macduffs I have ever scene! His rage is intense!!
I've never seen Macbeth, why was Macduffs angry? and who is he?
Arthur Linden Macbeth had his entire family killed.
@@VulKus117 Why?
Arthur Linden Because he was paranoid that Macduff was plotting against him, since the latter left for England.
@@VulKus117 ohhh. thanks.
The greatest aspect of this scene is the final appearance of the Three Weïrd Sisters before Macbeth meets his demise. The play begins and ultimately ends with the presence of the witches, who catalyzed Macbeth’s rise and eventual downfall. Therefore, their addition to this scene is very fitting, as they are arguably the force that drives the course of the entire play.
He should have brought back Captain Kirk from the nexus to help him fight Macduff.
My english teache just showed us the Ghost scene yesterday, and now I am seeing the end, lol oops.
My class laughed at this movie, and asked what the fuck we were watching exactly.
Honestly, I liked it. I mean, it gave me a good visual.
Seems that Gurney forgot his own lesson: the slow blade penetrates the shield.
This is exactly how they should have delivered the Shinzon, Picard fight at the end of Nemesis!
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes...
That realization at the true meaning behind his fate. Stewart’s reaction with the music is angelic.
Astonishing. Beautiful. Inexplicable.
I've played a lot of Shakespeare.... This might be the hardest thing ever written.
But Mr. Stewart demolishes it.
Bravo, and thank you all.
Oh no they really went for it in the play. Although, Macbeth and Macduff ended up rising in an old lift as Macbeth died...when Macduff returned he held the head :P
In the original: macduff is a lord of a Scottish country
In this 2010 version: he is a Scottish soldier in the US army
MICRθWAVE SQUID No, this actually takes place in Russia, symbolizing Joseph Stalin.
Edwards Baron oh its just that macduff clothes look like military winter clothes
@@edwardsbaron3935 oh that's so trite
@WaddleSenpai oh then it's anti communist trash, so evil Soviet scotland huh :/ damn now I don't like it at all
@@RoyalKnightVIII Stalin was evil.
Как все сильно меняет пауза: «и будь проклят тот, кто первым скажет стой... ДОВОЛЬНО».
0:37-0:47
that shits a divine intervention.
It would have been hilarious if the movie ended right after 1:18
In medieval version yeah. This is the best modern one.
TOP 10 SADDEST ANIME DEATHS
1 person is of woman born
A terrible king, but a terrific soldier. He does not flinch easy, even in the face of his prophesied death. Of course, he’s lost a great deal already, by this point his continued existence is of no consequence to him. Indeed, it might be something of a relief to come to the end of his nightmarish “fate worse than death.” I am quite impressed he didn’t take “the last way out” to escape being killed or captured by his enemies. Many dictators take that way out even in modern times. At least this one stands and fights to the death, and takes his just desserts like a man.
What Spectacular performances !!!
I love the music in this.
Before my body, I throw my warlike shield
Is that warlike or woes like shield?
That moment at @2:00 when Macbeth realizes the prophecy of his death has been fulfilled....
Computer freeze program.
Turn? he's facing your direction... that's just really annoying
ENiGMA It’s old English for “look at me”
Brilliant.
Absolutely amazing scene.
I enjoy that both of them fail at what should be easy targets for different reasons. MacDuff misses MacBeth who is seated because of rage and adrenaline at the sight of him and thus sprays and prays. MacBeth only wounds MacDuff who comes at him in a straight line, because of his intoxication, then of course the failure to fire at close range. The first two taking place within 7-10 meters.
What is the name of the music played from 2:00?
1:11 can play the guy pixie from attack on titan
holy shit
bryan cranston and aaron paul would be amazing in these roles
Joseph Green. I see Aaron as banquo somehow
Abraham del valle turn bitch turn
@robert thaler In what way is Breaking Bad pop art? Bryan Cranston by all accounts is thought of as an excellent actor, both on stage and camera.
So were the witches supposed to be his reapers or something? They only appeared in the play three or four times. They were never here.
Shakespeare used the witches in the play because his audience believed in them so heavily. He also seemed to be fascinated by them personally.
PS360Million Isaac Asimov speculates in his two volume companion to Shakespeare that Shakespeare put all the supernatural stuff in for the benefit of the new king, James, who was very much into suchlike. In fact James quite fanned the mania about "witches", "witchcraft", and other horrors related to the Inquisition and witch hunts.
What can I say: in almost every adaptation of Shakespears the director wants to bring something new to the table in order to add a signature to his/her work.
Adding "enough" and the witches to this climatic fight was Rupert Gold's signature.
I'd liked it.
in the version the dunsam wood line makes zero sense
Maybe being head to toe in camouflage/disguised with twigs counts?
What happened at that point in this movie?
this interpretation was great
What was the ending with the witches suppose to mean when he says "enough".
If I'm not mistaken, the original line before they begin fighting is "And damned be he that first cries 'Hold, Enough!'". When he stops and sees the witches, it is basically telling him to remember his fate (which is implied that he be murdered by MacDuff, the man not 'woman-born'). Him saying 'Enough' refers to that original line meaning the same thing as 'Hold', i.e. he's giving up...and at last yielding to his fate, no longer resisting it. That's what I took away from it, at least.
+Chiros Ie I assume that's correct.
MHP Le Basically it’s showing how Macbeth is realising that he’s an idiot and has screwed up on so many levels so he’s saying “just kill me”
As brilliant as this portrayal is, it is kinda funny when Young Siward is just shot, or when Macduff is just shot
Macduff when Macbeth shot him: ok u shot me I will just get up after you finish your speech and brush it off 5 seconds later
Does anyone know what the song is called at 2:08?
Defo Impressed.
Bro has Stormtrooper aim💀
shout out to sir patrick steward
He had macduff dead to rights.
1:56 OH SNAP!
So.. X-men has been transformed in to macbeth . We got Professor-x And Magneto already .. Now we play the waiting game ....
He looks like Barry Chuckle!
Macbeth looks like a far cry villian
The original braking bad
What is the music called when it starts around 2:00
...wait, is there a reason the witches look like nuns? I mean, if you want to modernize it, make them look like hippies...
IoEstasCedonta They weren't Nuns. They were wartime British nurses.
This version is weird
Best version for studying exams as it's word for word comparison to the play
Like the three sisters? ... Get it?
Something about making it a knife fight is so much scarier. Not that swords aren't scary and it obviously wouldnt have fit with the setting to use swords ,but still....it's so much colder and more savage because it's so....intimate? I don't know...but... a very good choice.
Uncharted 3 anyone??
Three goddamn bullets!? How the hell did you do this with three bullets!?
is this a movie?
The Soap Pope TV Movie
Macduff was not born from a woman well he was a c section which is why he could kill Macbeth
Nothing can top the Polanski version of the play.
Where can you watch this fully?
And he has an ak47
0:38
Why- why are there ALWAYS the two recycled sound effects of AAAWWWWEEEUUUU and AAAAAUUUU?
Brave.
go patrick
KHAAAAN!!!
4:21 THAT'S IT?!??!?
I don't get it :/
obviously in the play Macduff evidently kills Macbeth , yet in this adaption we're sort of left hanging a bit ... any clues anyone ?
nah. if you watch it all. you'll see that Macbeth was beheaded
Oh...thats a nice touch
Admiral Horatio Nelson Yes, Admiral. Let the Dark Side flow through you.
Before you ask , yes I know the power of the dark side
In the next scene MacDuff reappears to Malcolm's troops' commanders, bearing the head of MacBeth. In this case, it was an unsettlingly lifelike, perfectly rendered head of Patrick Stewart.
Two Macs beth and duff
pretty good movie, but WAY TOO MANY lens flairs!
nice
It seems like Macbeth kills Macduff
Why did the witches show up here?
They tricked Macbeth into thinking that he couldn’t be killed. But during this scene they appear to show how Macbeth was getting ahead of himself and screwed up.
Macbeth didn't die in this clip
That turned hellhound turn wasn't that great it wasn't powerful enough I think it should be barked
I know it would have made the fight pointless, but Macduff TOTALLY could have killed Patrick Stewa- I mean, MACBETH, with the rifle, earlier!
he wasnt trying to kill him with the rifle. he was just trying to get his attention.
@@sexydudeuk2172 Oh, ok. Still kinda stupid, though.
@@spencermanning9994
It depends. If you are coldly rational, sure. But if you’ve been driven semi-mad yourself with an urge for revenge, this makes sense. You’d want to get close and personal.
3:11
Call of Duty: Medieval Warfare.
i moustache thee a question
I want his blood
Why did he stop when he saw the nuns?
1:14-1:20 epic fail
Wtf he dies?
Is every character in this movie on drugs ?
reddit
+Maurice Kalevra fucking silvers man
Ah yes apparently some guy had to make a Russian war from a Scottish Play
It sounds way too old English for that century
It sounds old English because... It's Shakespeare. Do you not know what this is? The bald guy is Macbeth. It's an adaptation of the play. By Shakespeare...
@@tylerchambers6246 Yeah but they still spoke normal English during Shakespeare. I meant like the timeline like 1000
this looks so dumb bro
u dumb bro
It's a work of art that goes over most peoples' heads.