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How do different productions of "Macbeth" convey the themes of the play and portray the witches?
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James Gallimore How do different productions of "Macbeth" convey the themes of the play and portray the witches? In Shakespeare's "Macbeth" the opening scene conveys the themes of reality, illusion, fate, destiny, good and evil. These themes can be conveyed through the way the director, producer and editor produce the film. In Orson Welles' version of "Macbeth" is a horror. The mise-en-scene in the opening scene is the cauldron, the rocks and the witches. The cauldron connotes the themes of supernatural and evil. The witches connote evil and the supernatural. And is iconicity because of the way the witches are shown as old women with screeching voices suggests they are evil. The scene starts with mist which is slowly zooming out. This connotes the idea of mystery, which links with the theme of evil. This then dissolves into a shadowed set consisting of 3 figures (the witches) and some rocks. The dissolve...
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