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While I'm going to talk about the poster for it is what this section is about, I always want to talk about my ideas for this specific movie would be different from the play and why I would have made these changes. First, you notice in my tag I say they killed the president rather than the king. This helps show the different setting of the movie. It takes place in modern day America where Duncan is the President of the United States, Malcolm the vice-president, and Macbeth is the speaker of the house with Lady Macbeth still being his wife. Rather than defeating Macdonald in battle, he will have just pasted the important Macdonald Defense Bill (dealing with traitors against the country) through the House and Senate with Banquo being an important member of the House that is friends with Macbeth. The witches would be Macbeth's campaign managers who happen to be high on acid (he's a democrat). They tell him he'll be the speaker of the house. Then he will be the most likely to be president. Then he will be the president. When the second prophecy comes true, Macbeth starts plotting with his wife who name will actually be Lady to kill Duncan. They drug the secret service who guarding his room and stab him to death with a military knife which they then plant on the body of the secret service. When Malcolm finds out about the president's assassination, he flees to Europe. Macbeth eventually kills Banquo because he is becoming to influential in the House and sends three assassins after him. At his inaugural dinner, Banquo's ghost comes back to haunt him for his crimes. People start to wonder about Macbeth like Macduff, President pro tempore of the Senate, Ross, Secretary of State, and Lennox, Secretary of Defense for all the strange stuff Macbeth is doing. Macduff decides it's necessary to find where Malcolm has gone to find out why he fled the country. Macbeth thinks that Macduff is going against him and orders his family killed for this. Macduff finds out about this and Malcolm try to get Macbeth arrested for his crimes. The campaign managers predict that Macduff will be a threat, that no man who born of a woman can stop Macbeth, and Macbeth will not be stopped until the Statue of Liberty walks to the White House. Macduff and Malcolm rally up the people and walk on the Mall to White House with a giant blow- up Statue of Liberty covered in blood. Macduff and Malcolm have Macbeth arrested for they found footage of him killing Duncan and Macbeth yells at Macduff that he can't stop him for he is of woman born which Macduff replies that he was born from a c-section. Macbeth is given the death penalty outlined in the Macdonald bill and Malcolm becomes the new president with Macduff as his vice-president. It's pretty similar to the actual plot, but with some slight changes. For the poster I wanted to keep it simple. I'm not a fan of all those gaudy posters covered with images. Those are collages. Movie posters are meant to draw someone in and for people to want to see the movie so if you only have a little information but just enough to make them wonder. They are more likely to go see the movie. That is why I only have one image which is the hands covered in blood. I wanted the movie to focus a little more on Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's guilt which the blood on hands symbolizes. I want Macbeth to come off as a more sympathetic character at first doing what he thinks is best for his country for he believes Duncan is a bad president and he would be a much better choice that could actually help the country. Lady Macbeth agrees with him and wants to watch him succeed and that is why she pushes him so hard. That is also why I choice the title, The Macbeths. I want to be an emphasize on the relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth for it is such an interesting one. The play focused more on Macbeth, but I would add some scenes in the movie that would showcase Lady Macbeth more so that her suicide( because she realized that she failed her country and her husband which both she loved deeply) even more tragic. I put the tag firstly for who can resist something like that. Somebody killed the president and they are the protagonists. Now that is something that will draw in an audience especially with the bloody hands on the poster with links back to the line in the tag about hands stained with blood. Also the tag shows how in the movie no matter what they do, the death of Duncan is still hanging over them. Each of their actions afterwards is somehow related to Duncan's death. Duncan's is the single most important part of the movie even though it happens in the beginning. []