The Internet Movie Database lists 48 adaptations of Macbeth–give or take a few TV versions–but Geoffrey Wright’s contemporary gangster take on the Scottish play doesn’t resemble any of them as much as a low-budget remake of Scarface. There’s lots of gunplay between drug dealers, the witches are a bunch of doped-up goth chicks, and some [...]
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The Proposition
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Posted by Jürgen on May 7, 2006
http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/05/07/the-proposition/
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