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Baz Luhrman Red Curtain Genre
To a large extent Baz Luhrmanns film The Great Gatsby is considered as an example of Red Curtain cinema. Baz Luhrmann is a uniquely talented producer who bases his movies on a Red Curtain Theme. This theme is represented in The Great Gatsby with his use of unrealistic scenarios to captivate his audience and remind them that this is a unique mad up story and has no facts.
In the film The Great Gatsby many red curtain techniques are used by Baz Luhrmann as they have been used in his older films. The Great Gatsby starts with a golden frames and an introduction to the narrator of the story, Nick Carraway. This is the start of all Baz Luhrmanns Red Carpet films. This form of introduction helps the audience understand
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The witches tell him his prophesy and what lies ahead. They mention right in the beginning that he will be killed by only that who is not born of a women. Many quick cuts take place in this scene to show the chaos of the witches. This technique gives a small outlook to the audience to highlight that Macbeth will die and that is not the important factor in the film. The importance is what leads to his death. at this time spotlight by Lil Peep is being played. This song will create anachronism and is fitting as Macbeth is now in the spotlight.
Macbeth is told by the witches for him to seek the throne the only thing in the way is king Duncan. Macbeth then tells his wife about the witches prophesy. Lady Macbeth then eggs Macbeth on into killing king Duncan to take the throne now. Lady Macbeth tells him she will slip drugs into the guards drinks and will give Macbeth the clear signal when he can murder king Duncan.
No more quick cuts take place and the setting is quite and still with many up to date set designs such as flat screen TV and cell phones and iPads by the bed. Macbeth puts a pillow over Duncan head and shoots him with one of the guards
Macbeth had been encountered by three witches that told him and Banquo of their future, banquo's son is to be king someday, and macbeth was to become king and take Duncan's place only if he were to kill him. Initially macbeth wanted to let things play out on their own, but his wife Lady Macbeth was fixated on the crown and wanted end Duncan's life after he came to greet Macbeth at their home. He was to be a kind host but in the end take Duncan's crown by framing the drunken guards and playing
Macbeth begins on a bloody note: a battle rages from which Banquo and Macbeth survive bloodied, but heroes. They are the generals of Scotland; the country’s future is in their hands and in their blades. However, when one clutches once to such power, it is hard to let go. Macbeth cannot let go. Macbeth also ends on a bloody note: Macbeth’s head is cut off and presented to Malcolm, his replacement. Peace is restored through war; bloody injustice is righted finally with bloody justice. What falls between these two notes—the beginning and end of the tragedy—is a symphony of treachery, deceit, and murder. The images of nature gone awry spread all through the play—from the gardens that have turned to weeds to the horses that have turned to cannibalizing each other—for murder of one’s king is so unnatural that the entire landscape, all that is natural, is affected. Macbeth, by killing Duncan, is himself made an enemy of nature. Macbeth murders sleep, the ultimate embodiment of peace and nature, when he murders Duncan. However, the title character is not as evil as is first suggested; Macbeth is only led to his evil deeds by those who surround him. Macbeth’s only crime may be that he is weak minded and afraid. Macbeth was lured and cajoled into his mistakes by his wife and the weird sisters.
The opening for the Red Curtain trilogy was established by this film. The opening of the films consist of a red curtain being opened much like one would in a live theatre performance. As per Baz Luhrmann’s style, it makes it clear to the viewer that they are watching a performance and not a slice of real life.
Lady Macbeth gets a letter from Macbeth, in which she learns that the three witches had told Macbeth his destiny was to become King.
All of the scenes leading up to these two have been advancing the plot in such a way that scenes seven and eight are able to take the audience completely by surprise. For example, the supernatural plays a large role in this play and the audience knows that it will have something to do with the destiny of Macbeth and the outcome of the story. It is this prediction that makes the audience remember what the witches said to Macbeth: "The power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth."
At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is a trusted soldier, who is honest and noble. Unfortunately, he meets three witches who tell him three prophecies; that he will become thane of Cawdor, that he will become king and that Banquo’s sons will become kings. These three prophecies slowly change his opinions on life and turn him into a greedy, dishonest, tyrant, full of ambition. Lady Macbeth’s thoughts change as well when she is told about the three prophecies that were told to Macbeth. In the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth is ambitious, controlling and domineering. She is the one who encourages him to kill the king, she not only encourages him, she makes all the plans herself, which shows her determination and persistence."Yet I do fear thy nature, it is too full o’th milk of human kindness. To catch the nearest way thou wouldst be great. Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it." (Act 1, scene 5). Lady Macbeth is the force behind Macbeth’s sudden ambition and she tries to manipulate him into feeling guilty and unmanly for not following through with the murder, by using her husbands emotions, she manages to convince Macbeth to murder Duncan.
Fitzgerald’s use of symbolism and colors in The Great Gatsby is prominent in every chapter of his novel. To fully understand the meaning of his color use, a reader must recognize the situations in which these colors are used. Throughout the novel Fitzgerald uses the color green. Green has many possible interpretations, and its’ use to reveal insight into Gatsby’s character is probably the most meaningful.
King Duncan arrives with his party to Macbeth's castle, being welcomed by Lady Macbeth, without knowing what will come. She being the one who wants her husband to rightfully be king
At home, Lady Macbeth reads the letter from Macbeth, and even she herself begins to fantasize what it would be like for her to be in power. Before heading to the castle to celebrate Macbeth’s heroism, she devises a plan to help Macbeth earn the title of king by talking Macbeth into killing him. Lady Macbeth successfully gets the
What Lady Macbeth said, made Macbeth snap and therefore he used her plan to attack Duncan.
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Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to kill king Duncan, and this action causes Macbeth to commit his first crime.... ... middle of paper ... ... Lady Macbeth seems to be telling him the right thing to do, and Macbeth listens to her.
When Macbeth was off at war, and told Lady Macbeth that the witches greeted him as Thane of Cawdor, and King of Scotland before he received those titles, she was probably scheming on how to fulfill those before he returned home. Once home, they had King Duncan stay at Dunsinane. Lady Macbeth then b-tches at her husband and ridicules his masculinity in order to make him commit murder (Friedlander). Macbeth reluctantly murders Duncan, even though he wanted to wait and have it all play out without killing anyone. When he went to the well to wash off his hands he speaks of his remorse, and lady Macbeth finds out that he did not implicate the guards, so she tells him to go do it.
Macbeth’s ambition to obtain power convinces him that it is his destiny to become King of Scotland, and that he should do anything to fulfill that destiny, even if it involves him committing tremendously immoral acts such as murder. After Macbeth realizes that the witches may actually speak the truth due to the second prophecy (Thane of Cawdor) becoming true, he begins to have an eerie and frightening thought of him killing his king and friend, Duncan, in order to ac...
THE GREAT GATSBY: IV PARAGRAPH IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS An Entertaining experience is mostly impossible when it comes to me reading a book; but ¨The Great Gatsby¨ is an exception. One of the strongest points in the film ¨The Great Gatsby,” directed by Baz Luhrmann is the casting choice. One member of the cast who shines the most is the brilliant actor Tobey Maguire as the humble Nick Carraway.