Word: macbeth
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...Swallowtail's elegant tearoom. As I move to sit at our table, a second butler, named Mikami, materializes to ease me into my chair. "Good day, princess," he says to my dining companion--and not, I assume, to me. I order the Earl Grey tea and the Macbeth--a petite ham-and-cheese panini, the preferred snack of bloody-minded Scottish tyrants. Mikami leaves to prepare the tea but not before showing us a golden bell we can use to summon him. We hunger. We ring. He runs. Six seconds. Jeeves would be proud...
...That's when the darker dramatics start to seep in. Blair suddenly goes all Lady Macbeth, washing his hands obsessively, having psychotic visions of a Union Jack-draped coffin on the kitchen table, a knife-wielding Arab assassin, a dead Iraqi child. Instead of enjoying the simple pleasure of skewering a politician, we're suddenly asked to sympathize with a man whose honest intentions have been cruelly scuppered by fate and faithless friends...
Dench: Oh, I don't know that it was harder than Lady Macbeth, for me. Or Cleopatra. But there are aspects of it ... My husband--when he was alive--and I did Mr. and Mrs. Nobody. We were playing [a married couple] the Pooters. I remember we said, "Oh, this is going to be an absolute breeze." But it was one of the hardest things we've ever done. We were absolutely shattered. So, always, I go into something thinking, Oh yes, I think I know how I'm going to do this, and that's the moment that somebody...
Director Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) and his screenwriting collaborators seem to have swiped bits from Shakespeare's four main tragedies: the conniving wife from Macbeth, the jealous husband from Othello, the raging father and three skirmishing children from King Lear and the pileup of dead royals from Hamlet. There's swordplay and a supporting cast of warriors in the CGI thousands, but the most thrilling spectacle is the clash of ids and egos...
...phrase in Macbeth properly summarizes Latin America’s difficulties with democracy: “vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself” and clouds leaders’ minds when annoying electoral results or too rigid constitutions come between them and power. And just like Macbeth, Latin America’s patriarchs lose sight of their humanity through equivocating terms and definitions...