Orson Welles, one of the great Hollywood directors, wanted to make a production of Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, he brought upon him a huge task of trying to live up to people's expectations. Welles succeeded remarkably and the movie is still viewed today. He was able to interest his viewers by his ideas of how the acts and scenes should be viewed. Many times he changes the scenes to what he thinks the play would make more sense to the audience. Throughout the film the viewer can observe these conversions and make it interesting to watch.
             A big change in the acting in the movie is that two of the characters are shown dead which are not portrayed in the play. Lady Macbeth's committs suicide by her jumpimg off of a cliff. She is dreadfully sick and can not get rid of the guilt that was brought upon by murder. By killing herself it freeed herself from all the guilt that she had. The other scene that is not explained in the play was when Seyton's shadow was shown of him hanging dead by a rope. He was as crucail as anyone else and not willing to follow Macbeth's orders anymore. He would do anything to not serve Macbeth and help in anyway of the king's corruption. In the end of the movie, Macbeth stands all alone to defend himself after all of his servants and loved ones have left his side.
             Welles changed speeches around in the movie to make it fit better with his idea of the play. Many of the speeches were not needed and just were not put in the script. Many of the speeches of character development were also not put in. Shakespeare had put them into the play to let the audience know what the envirement was like. In the movie they were not needed due to the special effects. Welles added to the mystery of the characters by not introducing them properly and let the viewers make their own opinion of the characters. He allowed the actors to act out these traits rather than telling the audience what the characters were like. This
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