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Macbeth:

The thin line between tragedy and dark humor.

William Shakespeare's Macbeth has always been considered one of the literary worlds most celebrated tragedies. It is arguably the darkest and most gruesome of his plays. The protagonist, Macbeth, is the poster child for tragic hero, "a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy" (www.dictionary.com). And until recently we were satisfied with that… At the Cannes Film Festival in 2001, a low budget comedy was unveiled. It was called Scotland, PA. This film was written by a first-time director, Billy Morrissette, and depicts the familiar story in a surprisingly different form.
The premise of the plot is held in tact but the setting is shifted several hundred years, to the 1970s. The characters' names even remain familiar. The dialogue is contemporary English yet you can still recognize the similarities in conversation.......

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