Differences Between Macbeth Movie And Play

Throughout Roman Polanski’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth play there have been many noticeable differences between the play and the movie. Some of them are the brutality of the film, Duncan was murdered off stage in the play but in the movie we were allowed to witness Macbeth’s betrayal. However, the movies gori graphics helped us understand the raw emotions that Shakespeare wrote about. A couple of other examples are that some soliloquies changed to inner monologues in the movie for the sake of psychological realism, and that the play had only 3 witches however in the movie there were a group of them. Out of all the differences between the movie and the play the biggest distortion is that the closing scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth