#314: Toil and Trouble Pt. 1 — Throne of Blood

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

There are no shortage of adaptations we could pair with Joel Coen’s new THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, but for our purposes the choice was always clear: Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 classic THRONE OF BLOOD is an ideal Next Picture Show companion piece for the way in which it takes what it needs from the original Shakespeare while changing the language, setting, and performance style, and cherry-picking elements of the plot. We’re joined this week by super-podcaster and super-fan David Chen to talk through some of those elements, including a Lady Macbeth who is both more and less passive than her play counterpart, as well as the film’s unexpected jolts of humor, and a deliberate sense of pacing that toes the line between building tension and repetition. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about THRONE OF BLOOD, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to [email protected]. We may respond to it on our Patreon (patreon.com/NextPictureShow), where you can also find bonus episodes, a weekly newsletter, recommendations, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.2	it's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present you believe that someone
0:46.0	out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being we may be true with the past
0:52.8	but the past is not through with us.
0:59.2	Welcome to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
1:05.8	I'm Scott Tobias here with...
1:07.5	Genevieve Kosky and Tasha Robinson.
1:10.1	Keith Thips is lost in Spiderweb
1:11.7	Forest, which I think is what he calls his crawl space, but we're very excited to bring
1:16.6	it on a special guest, David Chen. David does videos, he does podcasts, he does looping cello
1:22.8	versions of pop songs, he hosts the film cast, formerly the slash film cast, and the Tobolowski files,
1:29.4	and he also hosts the culturally relevant podcast. We've been wanting to have him on the show for a
1:34.3	long time, and here he is. Hello, David. Hello, Scott, and I just want to say I'm not only a guest
1:40.0	co-host of the Next Picture Show podcast, I'm also a fan.
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