Summary Of Macbeth By Roman Polanski

“The actor's performances, while far from classic, are not detrimental to the film, though his choice to portray Lady Macbeth as soft-spoken and quiet downplays the manipulative nature Shakespeare established for her in the play... In an effort to preserve realism in the film, director Roman Polanski opted to change the traditional conveyance of Shakespeare's soliloquies and asides... The opening scene with the witches was rather poorly done. Polanski made the women look so grotesquely ugly that they distracted the audience from the important plot element of the scene: what they were saying. Unfortunately, this too was clouded: their screeching voices and constant giggling made them difficult to understand. A witness to the film unfamiliar