"To-morrow. and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time and all our yesterdays have lightened fools the way to dusty death.
I have to make a short (2 minutes long) film based on the above quote.
Can anyone explain the meaning in VERY simple terms or any themes for the film that echo the sentiments.
Thank you in advance.
aNDY
2007-02-24 10:16:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
A two-minute film to convey the relentless gradual grind of time towards death? Tricky.
And just that part of the speech?
... Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
In the first part, your part, it's the repetition that is that is the frustration. Each day we do that same things, and it just takes us nearer death.
It's a prisoner making daily marks on the wall of his cell, except, why is he counting since he has a full life sentence?
It is the continually shopping for food for the fridge, and eating food from the fridge... and then...
It's the treadmill, contrasted with the road that leads *somewhere*
2007-02-24 10:41:59 · answer #1 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This phrase echos one of the main overtones of the play - the futility of fighting what is already written. The first sentence is about how plans for the future are made today, but as the second sentence suggests, this is pointless and doing so will lead only to death, which a certainty anyway.
That is what I understand from this quote, however, literature is highly subjective and I'm sure there are other viewpoints!
2007-02-24 10:28:21 · answer #2 · answered by Pretty Tough Girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The treadmill idea is best if you have the person age. Use another theatrical reference by having the person start as a crawling child and then as an adult morphing into old age when he walks with a cane. (It's the answer to the riddle of the Sphinx in Oepedus Rex) Ends with a casket being shot into a grave by the treadmill.
2007-02-24 10:51:05 · answer #3 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's Macbeth speaking immediately after learning of the death of his wife. He appears to be thinking back over his life and times, and, at the end of it all, he holds the opinion that life is hollow and meaningless, and that nothing we attempt to do has any lasting significance. It's a pretty bleak sentiment.
2007-02-24 11:10:33 · answer #4 · answered by shkspr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
havent you read the play? get a copy of lambs tales or one of the exam books, do more research!! if i was working on a film(which i have done many times) i would be reading every thing possible on the subject! you should know the subject inside out if youre gonna make a film about it, its your approach to the subject matter no ours!
2007-02-25 09:40:12 · answer #5 · answered by lilian c 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Macbeth has just received news of Lady Macbeth's suicide. "Grief is not expressed by him. Instead of an elegy for Queen Macbeth, we hear a nihilistic death march, or rather a creeping of fools, of universal victims. "
2007-02-24 10:44:16 · answer #6 · answered by mariepphm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have ever tried to make a movie- This is typical of the writer's problem. Everybody has to get involved. Nightmare.
2007-02-25 05:35:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
These web-sites will explain it to you better than I can:
2007-02-24 10:38:53 · answer #8 · answered by Mushin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋