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| Christopher Walken visits Scotland Pa. |
But Christopher Walken is awesome.
MacBeth is not one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. I always felt it was a little linear ... no real surprises. I recall my college final on the play started like this:
The point of MacBeth is that evil is a bad career choice. Advancement opportunities are limited and the retirement benefits are very bad.I wrote just a little more after that ... another hundred words tops, maybe just 50. But I doubled down on the Hamlet essay and did alright in the class.
Over the years ... MacBeth has been adapted to film many times ... Throne of Blood stands out in my memory.
Scotland Pa. may supplant that memory. Set in a burger joint in nowheresville, the film is a winner for sheer weirdness and, surprising faithfulness to the original paly. Yeah, it's got problems ... mainly you're never quite sure to take it as tragedy or camp, or a bit of both.
But the acting is all top notch ... lady, eh, Mrs. McBeth is particularly good. And then there's Christopher Walken, as wacked vegetarian detective Lt. McDuff. Proving once again that anything with Christopher Walken in it can only be so bad ... because let's face it, he's awesome. Weird and awesome.
