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Slightly OT: The Tragedy of Macbeth

Some one I follow on Twitter was just gobsmacked by this play on AppleTV, which stars the great Denzel Washington as Macbeth.

I tried watching it and found one problem, the sound, and another, the acting.  The former allows me to talk about it here. :)

I found the voice often mumbled and too hard to hear.  In terms of the acting, and diction, the line delivery was on a metronome, and I wondered if the actors knew the words they were using or rushing through them.

Can any fans of the bard help me get more into this production? 

erik_squires
theaudiotweak
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An increase in laminar flow the opposite of a box of foam. Laminar tubes capture air flow at one end and direct that air out the other overcoming boundary interference.. and will help to unravel words hidden in a box sitting on a shelf. You are smart, drop the software and look around and be creative. Tom

emailists
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I didn’t have any issues hearing the dialog. Perhaps due to my center channel being concentric? (Elac Adante)  I believe the actors were speaking in iambic pentameter. What was interesting was the choice of aspect ratio.
We didn’t finish the movie, but may return to it.

 

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falconquest
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I read an article a few months ago that asked if you are having a problem hearing movie dialog? But not so much "hearing" it as being able to distinguish the words. Apparently it has a lot to do with the sound production at the time the movie is made. This is a pervasive problem and there is not much we can do about it. If you saw saliva emitting from the actors mouths then you know they are using proper volume and diction with the Bard’s work.

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