the scottish play 

For a very long time I've had ideas for a corporate version of Macbeth, selectively using the original text, in which nobody really dies. It would focus on the cutthroat nature of a business world populated by people who would not starve if they lost their job but still treat every objective of it like life and death. It would be a comic, because I can't make a film. But I have come to realize that as a whole, it is too intractable a puzzle to fill in, and also that pages and pages of old men in business suits would be even more boring to draw than to look at. Instead, I can take a crack at the individual ideas I've had for it as isolated exercises when the mood takes me, which in a way might be better.

the scottish play 

@Cerulean I think there was a 2000 film version of Hamlet with the aesthetic you are going for: Bill Murray is Polonius! youtube.com/watch?v=F39CYBE6-K

the scottish play 

@eredien

I saw that one when it was released, it was good! Better than that trailer makes it look. But, perhaps inevitably, it struggles with some choices. Laertes whipping out a gun in the middle of a fencing match feels like the movie saying, "look, we got this far but we give up."

I have also seen "Scotland, PA". It's wacky. Leans real hard on the McDonald's thing. Cleaves closer to the story than Strange Brew or The Lion King, but not by a whole lot, all things considered.

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@Cerulean @eredien OK, the Wikipedia summary of Scotland, PA won me over no later than "three stoned hippies, one a fortune teller..."

re: the scottish play 

@Cerulean @eredien I also found both these factoids very charming:

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