The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)

Credits


I.
A bare plain. Very early in the morning. Wind howling. Someone coughs.
Three witches are digging a hole in the sand. Seagull crying
The 1st witch takes out a rope and a man's forearm from a cloth.
They put the forearm in the sand with a dagger in the hand.
Two witched pour some herbs over the arm and they cover everything wiith sand.
The witch pours blood/poison on the sand.


The witches spit on the ground.


Witch coughing. Noise of the chariot on the ice. Seagulls crying.

Credits rolling
(In voice over) Noise of soldiers screaming.
Noise of swords and horses.


II.
A battlefield. Soldiers screaming. A man finishes another one.
Horses and trumpets over the battlefield.


Soldiers laughing. Horse


Soldiers laughing


Horses galopping. Soldiers are leaving.


Duncan throws the royal chain to Rosse.



III.
Plain on a mountain. Mourning tunes playing.
Noise of punches and screams. Swords and horses galopping.
Macbeth and Banquo leave together on horseback.


IV.
Heavy rain falling down and a very sad tune. Wind howling. Noise of hoofs.
Macbeth and BAnquo stop under a shelter and watche the soldeirs passing.


They hear something and Banquo goes to check. They see tree witches singing.


Youngest witch screaming and showing her legs. Noise of a door closing.


Macbeth and Banquo leave on their horses.


Both laughing.


V.
Macbeth is in his tent in the battlefield/camp.


Macbeth exits his tent. He spits on the groud.
Sad tune. Some messenger approach them.


Music. Macbeth and Banquo are both surprised.


Macbeth opens a little wooden box and takes out the roayl chain.


Noise of medals and steps.

Macbeth enters the tent. Banquo stands on the "doorway".

Macbeth takes the present into his hands.


Macbeth wears chain.

Macbeth exits the tent.
Macbeth wants to leave.

Macbeth mounts the horse. He leaves followed by the others.


VI.
Castle in view. Court in Duncan's palace.
A bell tolling. Rumours of chains and footsteps.
Soldiers are taking a prisoner (former Thane of Cawdor)
up to a tower where he shall be hung.



VII.
Castle in the sunset.
Tunes of banjo/cello/pipes in the background.
Castle gate closing with a messenger leaving on horseback.
Lady Macbeth reading a letter she's just received. She reads aloud:



Lady M. folds the letter.


She puts the letter in a wooden box.


VIII.
Duncan's palace


They embrace. Macbeth wears a very dusty coat.


People laughing.


They embrace.


People laughing.

A man tapping a wooden stick on the floor three times.


A scribe gives a piece of paper to the King.


Duncan signs the piece of paper then Malcolm approaches and kneels down.
The king puts his ring on his son's finger.
Malcolm takes off his belt and servants put him on another one.

Macbeth leaves.

Macbeth stops and watches briefly the former Thane of Cawdor, who's been executed.


IX.
Inverness - Macbeth's Castle.
Music. Castle gate opening. Macbeth arrives on horseback.
The servants meet him. He greets everyone.
Lady Macbeth comes downstairs to meet him. They embrace.

He brings her upstairs. They lie on the bed.

They kiss.
Lady Macb. laughs.

They kiss.


X.
Medieval song oin air.
Men rushing around and preparing for the arrival of Duncan.
Cocks and pigs caught to be killed. Musicians arrive.
Macbeth is getting ready for the evening. Lady Macbeth gives him a dagger.
Trumpets. A raven croaking.


XI.
Lady Macb on a tower in her castle, looking at the landscape.



XII.
King and his servants approaching Macbeth's Castle on horseback.


Music in the background. Horses nighing.
Music fades to a sad tune as they go nearer the castle.



XIII.
Lady Macbeth descending from the tower to greet Duncan.



XIV.
Macbeth's Palace.
The King and his servants enter Macbeth's castle.
Lady M. greets them and kneels down.
The King and his sons get down from their horses.

Macbeth is still up the stairs and looks towards his wife and the King.
Thunder. A storm approaching.


Lady M. stands up, Duncan kisses her. She smiles.

They all go up the stairs/upstairs. It starts to rain quite heavily.
Everybody runs to get things and horses under a shelter. Macbeth observes the scene from above.


XV.
Dining room in Macbeth's palace. Servants bringing logs, bread and meat.
Musicians playing. Everyone's eating. Macbeth looks worried.


Meanwhile, they all stand up to cheer.
The King remains seated, Macbeth stands up.


They drink. A window opens suddenly due to the strong wind.
The curtain flies away. Noise of a thunder. A man closes the window.
Another one brings the fire to lit the candles which went off as the window opened.



XVI.
Stables in Macbeth's Castle. Doors opening and horses escaping.
Thunder, lightning and heavy rain over Macbeth's Castle.


XVII.
Inside the palace: they are all seated around the table listening to Fleance who is singing.
Macbeth is outside in the dark, looking out at the rain pouring down.


Macbeth goes nearly behind his wife.
She is disappointed to hear that he has changed his mind.


Macbeth goes inside the house.
She follows him and she stops himon the doorway, she takes arm.

Lady M puts her right hand on M's neck.


Macbeth tries to turn away and looks inside the house.
He tries to enter, Lady M is still talking to him but he seems not to pay attention to her.


They both enter the room where everybody are in a cirle
looking at two men dancing around some swords and daggers.


Lady Macbeth nearly weeps and sighs.


Macbeth goes to have something to drink.
The two men are still dancing around the swords and knives.
Malcolm hands a cup/glass to Macbeth.
He pours some wine in it and after he pours some in his own glass.
Malcolm rises the glass in order to cheer.


Malcolm drinks and goes away.
Macbeth drinks too. The two men are still dancing.
Macbeth goes towards his wife.


Music still in the background. Someone whistles.


Meanwhile the two men (Duncan's chamberlains) have stopped dancing.


Lady M wipes her tears away and smiles.


Duncan approaches them, and takes Lady M's hand to invite her to dance.
They dance together. Medieval song in the background.

He looks at the party dancing.


XVIII.
Chamber where Duncan sleeps seen from the outside.
One of his two chamberlains turns off the candles in his room and the other closes the shutters.
Opposite, Lady M and Macbeth are watching them.
Now, looking at each other, they prepare a potion.
Macbeth holds a carafe and Lady M pours in it some poison.
She then takes it and brings it to the two chamberlains.
She stops in a doorway as she hears voices approaching. She tries to hide.


Banquo gives the candle to his son.


Banquo goes upstairs and Macbeth runs towards him from the back.
Banquo hears the steps.

Banquo gets down the stairs and Macbeth goes towards him.

Meanwhile Lady M. runs towards the chamberlain's room.


Macbeth shows Banquo and his son up the stairs. Banquo stops.

Banquo and his son go away. Macbeth tries to stop them.


Macbeth goes away. Meanwhile Fleance prepares the bed for the night for him and for his father.
Macbeth stops outside, leant on a wooden pillar.


Macbeth, surprised, sees a shining dagger stuck in the wood and he goes near it.


Macbeth tries to catch the dagger but he cannot.
It seems it is just a vision. Macbeth covers his face with his hands.


Macbeth uncovers his face, turns and sees the dagger flying, now.

Macberth draws his dagger out of its sheath.
He proceeds towards the flying dagger with his own in hands.


Macbeth tries to get hold of the dagger but it is stil just a vision.
Now he looks at his own dagger. The other seems to disappear.

Macbeth looks again to the other dagger, which has now reappered.


Macbeth turns away. The dagger disappears again.

Macbeth stops leant to a wall. In the meantime, Lady M is pulling down a rope (a knell?).
He watches her from behind.



XIX.
Macbeth approaches a door and enters the room. He is now in front of a fire.
He sees the two chamberlains laying on the ground.
He tries to touch them and discovers they are both sleeping heavily.
He kicks one of the two, and then moves the one who was in the way.
He takes out from the pocket of one of them a dagger and opens the door of Duncan's chamber.
He stops in the doorway and looks at Duncan, who is sleeping on the bed.
He approaches him and with the dagger he uncovers him.
He points the knifeto his bosom but he trembles with fear. He stops and Duncan wakes up.
He open his eyes, sees the dagger and screams.

Duncan screams and Macbeth puts his hand on his mouths, to silence him.
Macbeth stabs hims more than once. Duncan is now lying in the bed full of blood.
He screams. His crown falls on the ground. Duncan falls on the ground with his blankets around.
Macbeth finishes him by stabbing him in the neck.


XX.
Outside the rooms, in the court.
Lady M hears the howl shrieking.


She hears the owl again and she is frightened.


She smiles a bit and looks up, hearing some footsteps.


Macbeth appears with the dagger in his right hand.
He descends the stais and meets his wife. He is dirty with blood.


Macbeth looks around quite frightened.


Macbeth hears the owl.

They both look at his right hand which is covered with blood.
Lady M looks frightened.

Lady M embraces him.


He tries to seat down.


Lady M. takes his husband's hand and sees that he brought daggers with him.


She is on the point of crying.


She stretches her hands towards him to get the weapons. He gives her the daggers.


She leaves. Macbeth goes to wash his hands. He takes a pot from the pit.
He hears someone knocking at the gate and he lets the pot with the water falling down.


He hears nothing else and turns again to the water.


He hears again someone knocking but this time he doesn't let the water falling down again into the pit.
He puts his hands into the water.

Meanwhile Lady arrives near Macbeth and she shows her hands covered in blood.


Lady M washes her hands.


The owl shrieks.


Macbeth pours the water, now full of blood, on the muddy ground.


Noise of someone knocking. They both stop and look at the door. Now they look at each other.


Lady M tries to get hold of Macbeth. They still hear someone knocking.


They both go inside.


XXII.
In the morning. Macbeth's palace. Cocks crowing.


The porter stops to pee in a corner.


Knocking continues.


He goes towards the door.


The porter opens the gate. Macduff and Lenox enter.


In the meantime everybody is let in and they have closed the gate.
The Porter closes the gate.

In the meanwhile they have reached the court in the palace.
Macbeth has risen and greets them from upstairs.

Noise of a dove/pigeon flying away. Macbeth descends the stairs.


He descends the stairs and shows Macduff and Lenox to the King's chamber.
Cock, horse, cocks. They mount the stairs.

Macduff knocks at the door.


Macduff, in the meantime, opens the door. Door cracking.

Noise of someone knocking at something.


Macbeth and Lenox turn to the door and stare in amazement.


Bells ringing. Macbeth opens the shutters of Duncan's chamber.
Dogs barking and bells ringing. The two chamberlains awake
and discover that their hands and faces are covered in blood.
They also see their daggers covered in blood.
In front of such sight, Macbeth takes out Lenox's sword and wants to kill them.
In the courtyard they are all rushing around. Lady M, on hearing the bells, awakes
and joins the others in the courtyard.


Macbeth appears upstairs and they all look at him.

Malcom and his brother Donaldain are awaken.

Dogs barking. Macduff, Banquo, Rosse and Lady Macbeth stare at him surprised.


While he speaks everybody goes upstairs.


They all go to see the dead body of Duncan.
Steps and screams. Lady M faints as she sees the blood.
The servants wash the body of the king.

All the men go outside to discuss the matter.
Only the servants and Duncan's sons remain in the chamber.



They both stand up and go towards the door.


They carefully exit.


XXIII.
A group of men on horseback are leaving the castle.
They are carring the dead body of the King on a chariot.
Rosse, on horseback is watching them from far and then reaches them.

Macduff reaches the other man while Rosse stays back.


XXIV.
A barefoot man with a white gown is walking on a big stone
and stops where there are two footsteps carved in the stone.
It is Macbeth who is being made king. He is wearing the crown.

Macbeth is given a sword and a scepter by two men. He now holds them.

Macbeth is now standing on a circle platform
and he is held by several men (Rosse, Banquo etc). He is proclaimed king.


XXV.
A massive castle in view.


XXVI.
Court in the palace. Several dogs are barking in front of cage where.
there is a bear imprisoned and everybody is teasing it. People cheering.


Lady M laughs.


People laughing. Dogs barking.


Fleance comes.

Macbeth and his wife want to go upstair.
Lenox follows them. Macbeth stops to ask him something.


Now Macbeth and his wife mount the stairs.

Now they are in a corridor in the palace.


They want to go upstairs but they are followed by servants.
Macbeth alone mounts some steps and turns towards the servants.


Macbeth is alone in his chambers and looks down to see Banquo and his son leaving on horseback.

Macbeth takes off his cloak.


Someone knocks at the door.
Macbeth goes towards the door and opens it.
Two men enter the door and one stays outside. The twos bow in front of him.


Macbeth shuts the door.


Macbeth claps his hands. 


Macbeth takes some cups to drink.


Macbeth pours some wine in the cups.
The two murderers go to the table and drink with him.
Macbeth pours some wine in his own cup.


The 1st murderer tries to say something to the second.


Macbeth pats on their stomac.

Machbeth shows them outside and opens the door.


They both exit and Macbeth closes the door. He continues to drink from his cup.
He puts the cup on the table and the crown on his bed.
Now he sits on the bed and falls asleep.
Macbeth dreams that Fleance appears in front of him and mounts on the bed.
Macbeth tries to reach for his crown but Fleance takes the crown and puts it on his head.
Also Banquo appears and is sitting on the bed and watches his son with the crown.
A second shot shows Fleance in an armour, jumping on the bed and subsequently taking out an arrow.
He tries to kill Macbeth with the arrow, while his father, Banquo silences him by putting a hand on his mouths.
Macbeth awakes all sweated and frightened and finds his wife embracing him. He understands he had a nightmare.


Macbeth pours some water in a basin and washes his face.


Macbeth kisses her. She seems afraid of something.


Macbeth opens the window.

Music starts. It is a very sad tune

They're watching outside the window. A beautiful sun setting in view.



XXVII. 
In a wood. Rosse is riding in the wood.
He rides on a bridge till he joins the murderer who is cutting a tree.

the 1st Murderer is fixing a rope on a tree. they're making a trap for Banquo and Fleance.
Banquo and his son are riding quietly in the forest. Pheasant singing.


Thunders.


They both stop suddenly as they see someone on horse back with a pike and a rope in his hand.


The 1st Murderer cuts the rope which kept the tree up and, by cutting it, it lets the tree falling down.
Thus, it blocks Banquo's passage in the back.


Banquo and his son begin to ride.
Banquo takes out his bow and tries to hit the men. They fight violently.


The 1st Murderer tries to hit Fleance's horse.


Fleance goes quickly away, while his father stays and fights against Banquo


Banquo sees that Rosse is trying to kill Fleance so he hits Rosse's horse with an arrow.
The horse falls and so does Rosse. Fleance manages to escape.
Meanwhile Banquo is hit in the back with the axe by the 2nd murderer.
He screams, falls on his knees and he's kicked in the river by the 2nd Murderer. He is dead.


XXVIII.
Court in Macbeth's palace.
A bear is giving spectacle. Several dogs are set free towards him.
Macbeth and his wife are watching them. Lenox arrives and sais something into Macbeth's ear.
Macbeth goes away. Lenox takes a torch and shows Macbeth through a door.
Door closing. Macbeth meets the 2 murderers.


The murderer wipes the blood from his face.


Macbeth leans to the wall and sighs.


Macbeth pats the murderer on his back. The murderers leave.
They meet Lenox who shows them out.
Then, Rosse joined them and they are shown through a room.
There, they find other two men who show them through another door,
which in reality is a hole where they are thrown.


XXIX.
Macbeth's palace.
The bears have been killed by the dogs and they are dragged into a room, followed by several
men and dogs. In the meantime, other men clean the ground which is dirty with blood.


XXX.
Lenox washing his face in Macbeth's dining room.

Men laughing.


Macbeth holds a cup and takes a look at Rosse.


Everyone raises their cups.


Lenox and Rosse show the vacant seat to Macbeth.
Macbeth sees that the ghost of Banquo is sitting there. The ghost turns.
Macbeth drops his cup and spills all the wine on the ground.
Lenox immediately gets the cup and cleans the ground.


Banquo, all covered with blood, stretches his hand towards Macbeth.


Banquo's ghost nods.

Lady M rises from his seat and goes towards Macbeth. She wishpers to his ear.


Banquo's ghost advances while Macbeth retreats. He stumbles onto a step and falls.


Banquo is now holding a hawk on his right arm
and Macbeth is so frightened that he covers his face and looks away.
He now hides on the floor. Lady M reaches him.


Macbeth rises and tries to see more clearly if the ghost is still there.
He has gone and now he sees all the assembly which is staring at him.


Now the assembly stares at him both preoccupied and surprised.

Lenox taps his stick to the ground and shows eveyone off the room.


Everybody exits. Macbeth takes a seat. Lady M opens the shutters to look outside.

Lady M joins his husband at the table. She seats opposite to him.


Lady M takes the candle and they go to sleep.
They mount the stairs.


XXXI.
In Macbeth's chamber. He is talking to his Lady on the bed.
There's a red light which illuminates the room.


They try to sleep.


XXXII.
Court in Macbeth's palace, daylight.
Lady M looks at Macbeth who is leaving on horseback.
He is going to meet the 3 weird sisters. 
Sad tune playing.


XXXIII.
A dark, gloomy and sinister place in a plain.
It's night. Macbeth arrives on horseback.
The weird sisters are singing. He approaches their refuge.
One of the three, the yougest, is naked and waits for him.
She shows him into their refuge.
He enters and sees lots of naked women
and in the middle there's a boiling cauldron.

All the witches are laughing.


Macbeth advances.


She puts a frog into the cauldron.


She throws into the pot some liquid.

She throws into the pot all these things.


Macbeth looks at them, disgusted.


A witch takes out a cup from a bag. She pours into it some of the liquid they are boiling into the cauldron.


She pours the blood into the cup. They all bring the cup to Macbeth.
He takes it in his hands and drinks it. He is about to faint.
The witches take him and bring him in front of the cauldron.
He looks into it and sees his face reflected.


Tha apparition disappears. Then comes another one.
Someone is cutting and opening a belly.
Someone takes out a baby and puts him into the arms of a woman.
Another woman smiles. Then a boy appears.


The boy is now wearing an armour and he takes the voice of another man.

3rd Apparition (someone in an armour is offering a sword to Macbeth).

Macbeth takes out his sword.


Macbeth kills with his sword the man in the armour who falls into pieces.
The armour lies now in a forest, it is all covered with blood.
From the head snakes are coming out. Macbeth looks at him a bit frightened.
Two men (Donaldbain and Malcolm) dreesed with white gowns, applaude.

2nd man laughs. Now they both laugh and go away.


Music jingles.

Macbeth tries to makes his way in the forest.


Macbeth manages to get out from the intricate trees and reaches a place where he sees a throne.
Upon it, sits a man, with a crown which spreads light.


Now it is clear that the man is Banquo. He takes out a mirror and holds it.
Macbeth sees his face on it and then he seems to enter a room,
where there's still Banquo holding another mirror.
The scene repeats several times until Macbeth sees in the mirror Fleance,
wearing a royal gown and a crown, smiling.


Macbeth sees in the mirror Banquo all wet,
trying to take the axe out of his back.
Banquo turns, sees M and smiles.


Macbeth takes out his sword and breaks the mirror.
Now the room becomes a dark old place which seems a cave.
There's a cauldron and Macbeth is lying on the floor.
Rain is falling on his face. He awakes and stands up.


Macbeth hears his horse neighing. He goes outside. It rains heavily.



XXXIV.
A room in Macbeth's palace.
His wife is sitting on an armchair, asleep.
Enters Lenox and speaks to Angus, Menteth and Cathness.


Lenox pours some wine into his cup, then Cathness adds some wine and Lenox drinks it.


From the window it can be seen that a man on horseback is approaching the castle.
A maid wakes up Lady Macbeth, who, very frightened, shouts. She looks at her hands and sees blood in them.


The four man stand surprised. Now they look at each other.

They all smile.

They all laugh.


Everyone laughs.


Everybody stands up as Macbeth enters the room. He is accompanied by Seyton.


Lenox goes towards him and bows.

Macbeth gives his gloves to Seyton.

Macbeth goes to see his wife, who is mending something but seems unwell.
He turns off the torch with his hand and sits next to her. He looks outside the window.


View of men with their horses near a cart road, a castle in the background.



XXXV.
Court in Macduff's palace.
A pond with some ducks.
A man shaving off the wool of some sheeps.
A man and children playing. The children are laughing.

Rosse kisses her twice on her cheeks.


She nods, as for approving. They both look briefly at the children playing.
Then Rosse takes his leave.


The children playing have reached Rosse.
One is wearing a cap which covers all his face and makes him blind.
A man removes it from his face and the child sees Rosse.
Rosse takes the child in his arms.


Lady Macd takes the child in her arms.


A servant shows him off and opens the gate.
Rosse, on horseback, goes out of the gate.
He gives a last glance at the servant and nods.
The servants lets the gate opened and goes away.
Now a group of men, on horseback, approach the castle. They enter.


XXXVI.
A room in Macduff's palace.
Lady Macd is washing his son.


In the meantime she covers him with a cloth/towel.


Lady Macd mimes someone cutting the throat to someone else.


In the meantime Lady Macd prepares his bed.


They both hear someone shouting and turn instantly.
Shouting continues. Lady Macd goes out the room to see what's happening.
She sees a man approaching on the stairs.
She drops what she had in her hands and runs into the room.
She tries to protect her child. Two murderers enter the room.
One, with his sword, drops the carafe which breaks into pieces.
He approaches then the two hawks on the pedestal.
He then takes in his hands a toy which was on the mantelpiece.


The 2nd Murd laughs.


The child goes towards the murderer and tries to beat him.


The 1st Murd laughs and with his swords he lets the toys
on the mantelpiece fall on the ground and breaks them.
Lady Macd is frightened and turns around.


The 2nd Murd pierces the child with the sword in his back.
The son, still alive, goes towards his mother. He is about to die.


Lady Macd embraces him and sees all the blood coming from the wound in the back.
Someone outside is still shouting. The 1st murd sits on a chair,
whereas the 2nd lets the child fall to the ground and takes Lady Macd.
They fight, she scrapes the murderer in his face and she manages to escape.
She goes to the other room where a group of men are raping a servant woman.
She goes into another room and sees the corpse two children, all covered in blood.
The rest of the palace is all in flame.


XXXVII.
Lady M's chamber.
The doctor is seen through the holes of a screening.

The man is writing something. They both catch sight of Lady M who is watching them.
She is walking naked in her room.


Lady M seats at a table and pretends to be washing her hands in a bowl.


The man goes towards her. She is still "washing" her hand.
The man puts a hand in front of her face
to see if she realises something but she continues.
She stops trembling and she looks at her hands.


The man signals something to the maid.


She is still wiping her hands very vigorously.
The maid brings a bag and the man takes out a piece of paper and a feather.
Lady M looks at him.


Lady M looks in front of her. The man stops writing.


She stands up.


She walks towards the curtain and stops.
She has a fixed and lost gaze.


She looks again at her hands.


She leans to the curtain. Her tone changes.

She begins to cry.


She cries and screams.


Lady M turns towards them.

She backs off towards the maid and the doctor.


She grasps the gown of the doctor.


They help her to bed.


He takes his bag and leaves.


He leaves her room. Door closing.


XXXVIII.
Macbeth is on a tower and looks at the panorama.
The doctor reaches him.



XXXIX.
Court into M's palace. Some messengers arrive with letters
and a royal chain. They exit immediately.
A man of the court brings the letter and the chain to Rosse,
who brings them to Macbeth.


XL. In Macbeth's palace.
Macbeth opens the 1st letter and,
after having read it, he tears it into pieces.
Rosse gives him the second letter.
Macbeth takes it and throws it into the fire.
Everyone laughs.

He goes out of the room.


Everybody laughs and leaves the room.
Just two men stay in the room.
They stand up in silence and look at each other.


XLI.
Macbeth goes on a tower and looks at the sourrounding area.
He notices the messengers going away.
He seems afraid or scared in some way.


Macbeth points to Rosse the Royal chain.
Rosse gives it to him and M puts it onto Lenox.
They all go in except Rosse, who stays a bit longer.


XLII.
Groups of men walking down a cart road.
A battlefield in sight.

A man on horseback is coming down from a hill.

The man approaches them. It's Rosse.


Rosse bows and embraces Macduff.
Malcolm signals to the guards to take Rosse's horse.

They begin to walk.

They stop and look at two men fighting with the sword.
Around them a group of men are gathered and are watching them.


The group of men supports the men fighting. Rumours of swords.
When the men fighting see Malcolm, they stop a while and bow in front of him.
Malcolm nods and the men start fighting again.


The three of them walk in the camp.
Rosse walks slowly than the others and stops to watch a catapult. Then he rejoins them.


Macduff is shocked. Malcolm is surprised too.

Macduff kneels down and cries.


Malcolm takes his sword out and gives it to Macduff.
Macduff rises his head slowly and takes the sword in his hand.

Macduff rises.



XLIII.
Two men on horseback in a valley are joining some soldiers in the camp.
They all cheer when they see them.


XLIV.
A room in Macbeth's castle. He is talking to a servant.

Men at court laughing. The soldier pants.

Macbeth is eating but he doesn't seem very shocked or surprised.

Men laughing.

Macbeth becomes serious and drops what he is eating in the plate.
All the men at court have become serious too. Macbeth knocks his hand on the table.


The soldier bows and leaves. Macbeth takes his cup in his hands,
a man pours something to drink into it.


Macbeth drinks and then stands up.

Macbeth goes outside onto a small balcony.


Macbeth goes back into his palace, Seyton and another servant run to get this harmour.


Some men are rushing around, one hurts the doctor and a boy who fall on the ground.


Macbeth spreads his arms and waits for the servants to put on his armour.


The servants dress him up with the armour.

Macbeth and his servants laugh.
Macbeth advances towards the doctor,
while the servants are still dressing him up.


Macbeth retreats and his servants follow him.


The doctor and the boy pick up their stuff which had fallen on the ground and leave.


XLV.
A land force is advancing in a battlefield.
Thousands of men on foot and on horseback
are advancing with the sound of drums in the backgroud.
In the middle of the valley they meet the rest of the army,
which comes from the other hill.
All the soldiers cheer as they meet the others.
Some soldiers hold  some pikes, others hold flags. Birnam wood in view.


XLVI.
In the wood a group of men are cutting some pine trees /firs.


XLVII.
Macbeth's palace in view.
Sound of flutes and pipes in the background.
The music becomes deeper and deeper. (more and more pealing.)
The camera tightens the shot on a window.
The shot displays now Lady M who opens a little wooden box and takes out a letter.
She unfolds it and reads it.


Lady M sobs and weeps.



XLVIII.
The palace in view.
Now the scene moves into the castle.
Macbeth is sitting on his throne and next to him sits Seyton.


Macbeth and Seyton nod.

They stop talking because they are interrupted by the cry of a woman,
which comes from inside the palace. They look at each other.


Seyton goes to have a look. Macbeth looks very worried.


Macbeth stands up, goes towards the wall and grasps a log.


Macbeth puts the piece of wood/log into the fire.

Seyton rejoins Macbeth and he stops between the two colums.



Macbeth exits the room and goes down the stairs.


M arrives in the court where the servants are all joined together.
They kneel in front of the Lady's corpse.
The Lady's maid is crying. Macbeth looks at the sky.


Macbeth cries slightly and walks back into the palace.

Macbeth stops, leaning to the wall.

 
Macbeth climbs the stairs and goes to have a look himself.
He stands on the stairs of the little tower and looks towards the wood.
He doesn't appear to see nothing. He turns to the messengers.


But the messenger is not speaking false.
He points to the right direction and shows Macbeth the army.
Macbeth looks again more attentively. He seems amazed and shocked.
He remembers what he heard in his dream.


Every soldier stand amazed on the tower,
looking in the direction of the wood which is moving towards the palace.

Macbeth goes down the stairs in a hurry.

Seyton rings the Bells. A man opens the castle's gate and exits on horseback.
Everyone is packing up their stuff and moving quickly to leave the castle.
Seyton wants to prevent them from running away and he stands in front of the gates with an axe in his hands.
But a soldier casts an arrow to his forehead and kills him. Now everybody can escape.
Everything that is left in the courtyard is the corpse of Lady Macbeth and of Seyton.


LIX.
A misty morning. The army/wood is lined up in front of the castle.

A man raises his left arm and the soldiers begin to play their trumpets.
Nobody in the castle replies. They begin to throw some blazing balls to the palace.


Some soldiers begin to play drums.
Others, on horseback, go towards the castle gates.
The gate is open. Macduff enters the first. Apparently, nobody is in there.


Macduff discovers the corpse of Lady Macbeth,
which is lying under a cover. He uncovers it and the covers it again.


Some soldiers have now entered the rooms in the palace, but no one is in, apparently.
Then they arrive in M's room and see him sitting on his throne.


Siward approaches to Macbeth, Macbeth pulls out his sword and they begin to fight.
Siward falls repeatedly. Macbeth is the strongest fighter. Macbeth puts his sword on the ground and takes his dagger out.
With this, he stabs Siward on the neck. All the other soldiers are afraid and watche the fight.


Macbeth goes towards the other soldiers who partly want to fight and partly back off.
One who tries to fight is gashed in his face.
Macbeth takes the axe that the soldiers was helding in his hands and then hits the soldier in the stomach.
Macbeth kills everyone who tries to fight with him. He then stops and watches at a stake.


Macbeth arrives on a little balcony and watches at the court, which is completely invaded with soldiers.


Macbeth turns to his left and sees Macduff. Macbeth descends the stairs.

They begin to fight. They both fall on the ground
but Macbeth is quicker tha Macduff and stands up,
then he points his sword to his throat.


Macbeth removes the sword from Macduff's throat.


Macbeth wants to leave. The crowd of soldiers opens to let him pass.


Macbeth throws his axe who takes away Rosse's helmet.

Macbeth stops and remembers the dream he had
when he saw a child being taken out of his mother's womb.


Macbeth goes back towards Macduff.


Macbeth stops. Every soldiers offer Macduff his sword/dagger. He takes none of them.
He fights without weapons. They fight until Macbeth is mortally wounded.
Macbeth manages to climb the stairs. When he has reached the top Macduff
finishes him by beheading him. His head falls on the ground.


Macbeth's head in sight.


Rosse takes the crown, cleans it a bit from the blood.
He raises it and the crowds shouts. He then gives it to young Siward.


Young Seward takes the crown and puts it in his head.
In the meantime some soliders have taken Macbeth's head and put it on a stake.
They bring it around the court and all the men in the crowd laugh at it.
The sound of the laughters is not heard but it's replaced by some deep music.
Macbeth's head is held on a high stake and it's shown to the crowd of soldiers
which remained outside the castle. The crowd cheers aloud.


L.
The place where Macbeth met the witches the first time. Very deep music.
Donaldbain goes to meet them. It rains heavily.

End credits.