@unibcarlson Ex Machina uses the same themes such a manipulation, women vs men, oppression and corruption of power. Ava and Caleb’s relationship is also alike Lady M and Macbeth’s. However, this movie uses those ideas and creates something entirely new for their creative purposes
@unibcarlson “is to make it part of one’s own mental furniture as well as to extend the solitary self out towards the broader world of Shakespeare and what Shakespeare touches” (14)
@unibcarlson MACBETH: “Had I but died an hour before this chance./ I had lived a blessed time, for from this /instant. There’s nothing serious in mortality./ All is but toys. Renown and Grace is dead./The wine of life is drawn, and the mere/lees/ Is left this vault to brag of” (II.iii.67-74).
@unibcarlson LADY MACBETH:
“Come, you spirits/That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,/And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full/Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood./Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
@unibcarlson /That no compunctious visitings of nature/Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between/The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,/And take my/milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers” (I.v. 30-38)
@unibcarlson Gender and sexuality is explored a little more through this film than the play but not because of script changes, just because time has slowly become more progressive which allows expression to be played a bit more in the film.
@unibcarlson Which this causes Viola to act in fear of this new place because she is now a refugee in a place cover in police. This is a change of motive compared to the play.
@unibcarlson This film has few differences script wise this the original. There is some extra dialogue at the beginning that skips the court scene and a few minor changes to the history that is said in the play but besides these the changes are not very grave.
@unibcarlson FOOL: “No, indeed sir. The Lady Olivia has no folly. She/ will keep no Fool, sir, till she be married, and Fools/ are as like husbands as pilchers are to herrings: the/ husband’s the bigger. I am indeed not her Fool but/ her corrupter of words” (III.i.34-38).