Macbeth: Into The Modern Age
I worked with Fudayl Hopkins. http://scienceleadership.org/people/fhopkins22
Project Links: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Qheq6vClk77JWPIQ3n_ytvqnLnBo4Yt3SBVzhjitfs/edit?usp=sharing and https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mfjr7-r1Fuh5dVV9RO_j0U6_XeTUQZ8DVEVMyoNsy5I/edit?usp=sharing
Our Macbeth creative project is about the both of us pretending we are filmmakers who want to pitch our idea for a PG-13 modernised adaptation of Macbeth. We chose the idea because we like movies and it’s interesting to come up with an idea for that and think of how The Tragic Story of Macbeth would have played out if it was released now which is the reason for our title, Macbeth: Into the Modern Age.
The plot is how Macbeth works at a big company and he’s always wanted to be president of it. When 3 fortune tellers come and predict that he will become president of the company, with the help of his wife and his vaulting ambition he becomes convinced to kill President Duncan so he can become president automatically since no one else could president on short notice.
We chose only three important scenes from the play to adapt. There are choices that we changed from the play because it could never happen now like for example if Macduff just killed Macbeth he would go to jail. This project shows our understanding of the play because as long as you get the general message of the play across you can adapt Macbeth into anything. Even having the main cast animals in an animated film. Our script shows our understanding of the characters in how they would talk today and that was inspired from their personality. The real life actors we chose to play the characters also reflects our understanding of the characters. We like to think of our project still as the Tragic Story of Macbeth but it’s from a 2019 or 2020 perspective as if Macbeth was written in 2019 without changing the characters’ name or personalities.
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