{"id":502688,"date":"2022-10-21T16:42:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T13:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-voodoo-macbeth-review-a-usc-student-project-earns-a-passing-grade\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T16:42:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T13:42:58","slug":"watch-voodoo-macbeth-review-a-usc-student-project-earns-a-passing-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-voodoo-macbeth-review-a-usc-student-project-earns-a-passing-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Voodoo Macbeth&#8217; Review: A USC Student Project Earns a Passing Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f678a22b8e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f678a22b8e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-voodoo-macbeth-review-a-usc-student-project-earns-a-passing-grade\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Voodoo_Macbeth_Review_A_USC_Student_Project_Earns_a_Passing_Grade%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Voodoo Macbeth&#8217; Review: A USC Student Project Earns a Passing Grade&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-voodoo-macbeth-review-a-usc-student-project-earns-a-passing-grade\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Voodoo_Macbeth_Review_A_USC_Student_Project_Earns_a_Passing_Grade%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Voodoo Macbeth&#8217; Review: A USC Student Project Earns a Passing Grade&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Voodoo_Macbeth_Review_A_USC_Student_Project_Earns_a_Passing_Grade%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Voodoo Macbeth&#8217; Review: A USC Student Project Earns a Passing Grade&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Voodoo_Macbeth_Review_A_USC_Student_Project_Earns_a_Passing_Grade%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Voodoo Macbeth&#8217; Review: A USC Student Project Earns a Passing Grade&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cVoodoo Macbeth\u201d credits no fewer than 10 directors and eight screenwriters, all of them students of or recent graduates from the USC School of the Cinematic Arts. And arguably the most impressive thing about the USC-produced movie \u2014 a fanciful dramatization of Orson Welles\u2019 historic 1936 New York production of \u201cMacbeth\u201d with an all-Black cast \u2014 is how smoothly it plays as all of one piece. To be sure, you might quibble about certain dramatic liberties the creatives have taken to embellish real-life events \u2014 or, in some cases, to completely rewrite history covered in Orson Welles biographies and documentaries. And yes, the film overall is more diverting than stirring. Still, there is a good deal more than novelty value going for this group effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Set during the Depression Era, \u201cVoodoo Macbeth\u201d begins with an introduction to the Negro Theatre Unit, an innovative federally funded offshoot of the Works Project Administration, and its two co-administrators: Rose McClendon (Inger Tudor), an accomplished Black thespian eager to fulfill her long-cherished dream to play Lady Macbeth, and John Houseman (Daniel Kuhlman), a savvy producer who insists he knows just who can make her dream come true: Orson Welles (Jewell Wilson Bridge), a 20-year-old dynamo and self-proclaimed genius who <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears to be gainfully employed only when recording radio commercials. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Welles initially turns down the gig, questioning how many Harlem residents would flock to a Shakespearean tragedy. The movie benefits greatly by subsequently minimizing any racial insensitivity on his part \u2014 but that doesn\u2019t mean Welles is depicted in an altogether flattering light. After he is talked into accepting the directorial assignment by Virginia (June Schreiner), his actor wife, and gloms on to her suggestion that he transfer the Scottish Play to a stylized Haiti where voodoo priestesses fill in for the Weird Sisters, Welles behaves badly as an obsessive egomaniac who drinks to excess (and beyond), makes major casting decisions with a whim of iron, drives his cast \u2014 composed of a few professional performers backed by untrained novices \u2014 with little regard for their emotional state, is \u201cinappropriate\u201d (as he puts it, one of the film\u2019s few dialogue anachronisms) with a female cast member, and, not surprisingly, chronically neglects his wife. Come to think of it, he doesn\u2019t even give her credit for the Haiti idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    And here, inevitably, is where we have to face the question: Is \u201cVoodoo Macbeth\u201d merely the latest in a long line of \u201cwhite savior\u201d scenarios? If the answer is a qualified no, that\u2019s mainly because Houseman, Virginia and Welles himself indicate that the \u201cBoy Wonder\u201d is hardwired to be self-absorbed and self-indulgent, by turns charmingly persuasive and unreasonably demanding, with everyone in his orbit, regardless of race, creed or color.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In that regard, Bridges\u2019 star performance \u2014 and let\u2019s face it, this may be an ensemble cast, but he is every inch the star here \u2014 is a well-nigh fearless piece of work, as the actor, who often looks and sounds like a younger and more abrasive Jim Carrey, somehow generates a rooting interest without any noticeable concern about being likable. Indeed, when he\u2019s called upon to convey a Mr. Nice Guy side during the final scenes, it\u2019s hard to tell whether this is intended to be just another ruse on Welles\u2019 part to get his way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Bridges is first among equals in an ensemble of relatively little-known actors, with other standouts including Inger Tudor as McClendon, the Harlem Renaissance mainstay who insists that the show must go on; Wrekless Watson as Cuba Johnson, a boxer who becomes an improbably effective Macduff; Jeremy Tardy as Maurice, a repressed gay novice actor who surprises no one more than himself when he rises to the occasion after getting a serendipitous break; and Gary McDonald\u00a0as Jack Carter, an alcoholic actor who, in real life, fared much better in Welles\u2019 \u201cMacbeth\u201d than his fictionalized counterpart does here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The production values are at the very least on the level of a better-than-average made-for-DVD movie, with only a few interiors suggesting the pinching of pennies and stretching of dollars. And there is genuinely discomforting relevance to a subplot involving a racist and red-baiting senator (played with apt sliminess by Hunter Bodine) who wants to cut government funding for any \u201csubversive\u201d theatrical production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There also is an undeniable inside-baseball quality to \u201cVoodoo Macbeth,\u201d which probably will prevent it from reaching an audience outside of theater aficionados \u2014 and, perhaps, student filmmakers. 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