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Discuss the opening scenes of the Polanski and Welles' film versions of "Macbeth", considering their use of audio and visual techniques and their presentation of the witches. How do you personally respond to them?
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Discuss the opening scenes of the Polanski and Welles' film versions of "Macbeth", considering their use of audio and visual techniques and their presentation of the witches. How do you personally respond to them? One of the most important aspects of a film is its opening scene. It is this that aims to engage us and it is the role of the director to make such scenes stick in the minds of their audience. How they do this is all down to style and technique. The two directors Polanski and Welles both have their own very established styles, as shown in their two versions of Shakespeare's Macbeth. The two versions of Macbeth share similarities, and yet they both have major differences. Both filmshowever use Shakespeare's original text. , but interpret the witches exceptionally differently. The Welles' adaptation, filmed in 1948 in black and white, takes a much more stereotypicalclichéd approach with...
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