Bone Of Blood Vs Macbeth

Shakespeare’s ultimate goal was to resonate with his audience by using his creative and artistic talent. Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood is deemed worthy of keeping this spirit of Shakespeare alive. Kurosawa took the main themes and ideas of Shakespeare and interpreted them in such a way that made it the great film it is today. Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood is the better adaptation of the Tragedy of Macbeth for the fact that the play was altered into feudal Japanese culture. The average audience of Throne of Blood has already read and analyzed the Tragedy of Macbeth. Therefore, a film such as, Polanski’s Macbeth, would be mundane. Kurosawa capitalizes on his imagination and Japanese culture and establishes them as the foundation of his film.

Director and actor, Roman Polanski, is a complex and controversial figure. Polanski’s life is filled with hardships which gave birth to his adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Polanski was born August 18, 1933, in Paris. At the age of three, he moved with is family to the city of Krakow, Poland, his father’s native land. Krakow was a ghetto in which the Jewish were sent to during Germany’s invasion. In 1941, his parents were captured and sent to two different concentration camps. His father was sent to Austria, where he survived the war. Polanski’s

Rashomon was a samurai murder story told from the perspective of four different characters. Martin Ritt remade the film as the 1964 Western The Outrage. The Outrage became the earliest of many of Kurosawa’s works that was adapted to this genre. Over the course of the next decade, Kurosawa developed some of his most influential and entertaining films. One of his most influential films was the 1954 epic Seven Samurai. Seven Samurai was made into The Magnificent Seven (1960). In 1957 Kurosawa released Throne of Blood. Throne of Blood was considered to be one of the better interpretations of Shakespeare’s