What movies would be recommended for Macbeth?
Frozen: In this movie, there are two princesses, Elsa and Anna. Elsa is older and becomes queen, and all Anna wants is to find someone to love her. She meets a man, Prince Hans, who seems to really love Anna. However, we later find out that he is the youngest of his family and will never be able to become king. All he wants to do is be king, so he plans to marry Anna, kill Elsa and Anna, and that way he will be the only ruler. See Hans’ betrayal here! This movie would be recommended to Macbeth because he seems nice in the beginning of the play and everyone loves him. However, as the play progresses we learn that he is power hungry and will do anything, which includes killing people, to become and maintain his kingship.
Shutter Island: This movie is about a U.S. Marshal, named
Teddy Daniels, who goes to Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital (a mental
institution) to investigate the disappearance of a patient. The patient is in
the institution because she drowned all three of her children and then
pretended like it never happened and believes her children are still alive. As
the movie continues, we find out that Teddy has another motive for going to
Shutter Island. A maintenance worker named Laeddis killed Teddy’s wife by
setting their apartment building on fire, and he was apparently sent to Shutter
Island and Teddy wants to talk to Laeddis. Teddy cannot find any paperwork on
Laeddis, but he hopes to find something out about it while he is there. While
investigating the disappearance of the woman patient, Teddy has creepy dreams
that feel very real to him where people die. Teddy begins to become paranoid.
Eventually we find out that Teddy is actually the patient named Laeddis, and he
is the one who killed his own wife, the woman who drowned their three children.
He created a character named “Teddy Daniels” to try to escape what he did. See
when he figures out the truth here! This movie would be recommended to Macbeth
because there are many similarities between him and Teddy/Laeddis. First, in
the beginning of the play Macbeth seems like a good man as does Teddy Daniels,
but by the end of each story, we know each man is corrupt. Each character sees
some sort of vision that causes paranoia and reveals their true feelings about
the murders they have committed: they feel very guilty for it. Another obvious
connection between the two men is that both characters killed someone very
close to them. Teddy/Laeddis kills his wife and Macbeth kills Banquo, his good
friend.
The Proposal: In this movie, a Canadian woman named Margaret
Tate is the top editor of a publishing company in New York City. She finds out
that her American visa has expired and she has to be deported to Canada.
However, since she does not want to lose her job, she says that she is going to
marry her secretary Andrew Paxton (even though they actually hate each other).
Andrew agrees to marry her if he gets to be promoted to editor. Watch it here! This
movie would be recommended to Macbeth because it parallels his relationship
with his wife, and how his wife is the more powerful one. Macbeth and Andrew
are both convinced by a woman to do something they do not want to do because
they will get a reward of power. Andrew is convinced by a woman to marry her
even though he hates her, and his reward is that he moves up in his office by
getting a better job. Macbeth is convinced by a woman to kill King Duncan, and
his reward is also gaining power because he becomes king.
A Christmas Carol: In this movie, a man named Ebenezer Scrooge
lives by himself as a miserable old man who hates pretty much everything.
Throughout the movie, he is visited by four ghosts. Each one shows him a
different part of his life. The ghosts freak him out a little, but eventually
they convince him to be a better person in the end. Watch Scrooge’s first
encounter with a ghost here! This movie ends very differently than Macbeth, but there are still important
parallels. First, of course, is that both Scrooge and Macbeth see ghosts, and
that the ghosts are very important in both of these characters’ stories. The
next is that the ghosts make the characters rethink what they have done. The
ghosts in A Christmas Carol cause
Scrooge to look back on his life and realize he made some bad choices. The
ghost in Macbeth does the same thing.
The ghost makes Macbeth really think about the murders he has committed, and
his feelings of guilt are exposed.
