Film analysis - Act 1 Sc 5

This is my analysis of the section of the film which roughly corresponds to Act1 Sc5

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Act 1 Scene 5

3:30 – 4:00 – Relationship between M and LM

10:15 – 11:00 – M is annoyed by Duncan even before LM’s intervention

11:00 – 11:30 – Duncan flirts with LM implying a flirty relationship.

14:00 – “Michelin stars” – M looks bothered and looks to LM for comfort. This is before she even knows about the predicition.

15:50 – Duncan ‘predicts’ his own demise by announcing he will stay in the guest room and jokes that ‘he won’t see anything of the following day’. LM looks disapprovingly.

16:30 – ‘Run over by a bus’ – LM appears in the doorway to wintess Duncan’s comment that if he goes under a bus, the restaurant will be M’s. At this point, LM still hasn’t said anything but her facial expressions show that she is thinking about the matter.

17:15 M and LM are both equally annoyed about the restaurant going to Duncan’s son. ‘He is more like a hairdresser than a chef’ LM ‘Everything we’ve built is gonna go to a hairdresser’ M

‘I hate the injustice’.

LM reminds him that Duncan will get all the glory and asks ‘Are your going to let that go?’

She flirs with him and rubs noses as she persuades him – use of sex.

Both are drunk (drinking from hipflask)

19:00 Macbeth seems happy with his working conditions. LM tells him that Duncan is paying him in ‘charm and blarney’. She tells him to his face that he is ‘too full of the milk of human kindness’ to wind him up. ‘What kind of man is it?’

Always whispers in his ear.

19:37 – M challenges her physically and goes to pull away, but she seduces him.

20:00 – LM implies to M that they should kill him. M never actually speaks. It is assumed they both know what she means.

21:15 – forces Macbeth to sack workers even though he does not want to. Shows power

25:40 – She is very nice to Duncan and acts like she is really supportive of him.

28:00-30:00 LM makes M more angry by sending Duncan out to meet guests when the food is ready to go. She engineers a reason for M to dislike Duncan. Not what she does in original.