454. The Coen Brothers Brothers: The Tragedy of Macbeth
Added 2022-01-24 14:01:04 +0000 UTC
Coen Brother (?) Brothers is back, baby! We take a break from our normal deep dive Ander’s Sons to jump back to the podcast series that made it all happen. This time to cover the recent release by Joel Coen, starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. Get ready for some old (high) school literature class because it’s about to get SHAKESPEABEAN up in here! Listen to the sound and fury now.
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Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty
Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP
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Comments
I was super excited about this movie, and then after I saw it, I was super excited about this episode, and I was not let down by either of them. Great work, everyone!
Damien Lupo
2022-02-16 23:43:56 +0000 UTCAbsolutely terrific episode!
Sam Gillis
2022-01-27 15:27:19 +0000 UTCRegarding Ross and Michael’s question about him: He is traditionally a very minor character, one who is for most of the play aligned with Macbeth for standard feudal reasons, and eventually defects to Malcolm and Macduff amidst the general psychological/moral collapse of Macbeth. Joel completely reinvents the character, making him far more prominent and simultaneously acting out of self interest and as a kind of pseudo-supernatural engine of upheaval and fate (similar to the witches). The most meaning-laden scenes of Ross are ones where he is not actually saying anything and would not be present in most stagings. The movie also has him kill Banquo, which in the original text is performed by an unnamed character, followed by the whole film-only Fleance stuff which will presumably result in further tumult and bloodshed. Joel basically makes Ross into a part of the Anton Chigur/Charlie Meadows/Loren Visser/etc taxonomy of emissaries from the void.
Arlo
2022-01-25 15:35:46 +0000 UTC“In the United States, the series aired on HBO and featured live-action introductions by Robin Williams.” Good lord, I vaguely remember that. 😮
HPLoveshaft
2022-01-24 21:33:17 +0000 UTChttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare:_The_Animated_Tales?wprov=sfti1
HPLoveshaft
2022-01-24 21:32:13 +0000 UTCI imagine that Joel is Abe, seeing as Joel seems to be the primary force behind the directing of the Coen Bro’s movie. So if we’re doing parallel Bro to Bro, Joel = Abe and Micheal = Ethan.
Andrew Duck
2022-01-24 21:28:47 +0000 UTCAlso, everything I know about Shakespeare I learned from watching Gargoyles (and HBO’s animated Shakespeare program for children).
HPLoveshaft
2022-01-24 21:14:42 +0000 UTCThis may be apocryphal, and you may get to it (I’m still in the recap), but I had always heard that as a young boy, JRR Tolkien was so disappointed in Macbeth, specifically that “the wood marching on Dunsanay” was a bunch of soldiers with sticks tied to them, it would be the seed of inspiration for the Ents destroying Isengard.
HPLoveshaft
2022-01-24 21:12:09 +0000 UTCMacbean?
Joylesstiger
2022-01-24 17:53:40 +0000 UTCShakesBeanian was right there the whole time ;)
Gary Oaks
2022-01-24 15:03:01 +0000 UTC
