Kevin w. Will D. Joey M. V. N.













Macbeth group screen play
Int. Macbeths Castle Library-night
FLEANCE and BANQUO are walking through the library (Low angle shot from behind).
Cut To
Frontal Dolly shot of FLEANCE and BANQUO walking, exchanging glances as they talk.
BANQUO
How Goes the night boy? (eased)
FLEANCE
The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.
BANQUO pauses and stokes his chin
BANQUO
And she goes down at twelve.
RUMBLING or SCAMPLING sound coming from some direction
BANQUO
Hold! (pause), take my sword. There’s husbandry in heaven. Their candles are all out. Take thee that too.
Cut To
(BANQUO and FLEANCE are at the right of the camera, backs facing it. There is space to the left of them showing the room. Camera pans as they turn and look.)
BANQUO
A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, and yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in repose!
Cut To
(Shot of the book cases end) MACBETH and SERVANT emerge from behind the book case. Coming from the opposite side which BANQUO and FLEANCE are facing. There is then an establishing shot of MACBETH and SERVANT facing the backs of BANQUO and FLEANCE as they search.

BANQUO
Give me my sword! (pause) Who’s there?
MACBETH
A friend.
Both BANQUO and FLEANCE turn around quickly, both looking supersized and somewhat relieved.
BANQUO ( cheerful disposition)
What, sir, not yet at rest? (pause) the king’s a-bed: (BANQUO and FLEANCE walk closer to Macbeth) He hath been in unusual pleasure, and sent forth great largess to your offices.
Cut To
BANQUO is to the right of the camera, back facing it. MACBETH is to the left, facing the camera. The SERVANT and FLEANCE are for the most part out of the shot.
BANQUO
This diamons he greets your wife withal, by the name of most kind hostess; and shut up in measureless content.
MACBETH
Being unprepared, out will became the servant to defect,(pause) Which else should free have wrought.
BANQUO
All’s well (laughing, pause)
Cut To
BANQUO in the center of the shot
BANQUO
I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: to you they have showed some truth.
Cut To
BANQUO is to the right of the camera, back facing it. MACBETH is to the left, facing the camera. The SERVANT and FLEANCE are for the most part out of the shot.
MACBETH
I think not of them. (pause). Yet, (pause) when we can entreat an hour to serve, we would spend it in some words upon that business, if you would grant the time.
BANQUO
At yours Kind’st leisure.
MACBETH
If you shall cleave to my consent, when ‘tis, it shall make honor for you.
BANQUO
So I lose none in seeking to augment it, but still keep my bosom franchised and allegiance clear, (pause) I shall be counseled.
MACBETH
Good repose the while!
Cut To
Establishing shot including all the characters
BANQUO
Thanks, sir. The like to you! (BANQUO and FLEANCE bow, and exit)
Zoom to show MACBETH and SERVANT standing.
MACBETH
Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready, she strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.
SERVANT leaves. The camera zooms into a close up of MACBETHS face.
MACBETH
Is this a dagger which I see before me (looking around)
Macbeth to the left, showing back. The dagger floats to the right of the shot.

MACBETH
The handle toward my hand? (pause, pant) Come, let me clutch thee. I Have thee not, (pause) and yet (pause) I see thee still.
Shot of dagger to the left, Macbeth to the right, back to camera.
MACBETH
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight (pause) or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat- oppressed brain?
Shot of MACBETH facing the camera to the right, with the dagger behind him in the distance. MACBETH looks around frantically. Once he turns around to find it, zoom in on the dagger.
MACBETH
I see thee yet, in form as palpable as this which now I draw. Thou marshal’st me the way that I was going; and such an instrument I was to use.
Shot of MACBETH from the torso up
MACBETH
Mine eyes are made the fools o’ th’ other senses, or else worth all the rest. I SEE THEE STILL!!!
Camera pans around the room. Afterward, close up of Macbeths face, with his hands covering it.
MACBETH
And on thy blade and dudgeon (long, emotional pause) gouts of(pause) blood, which was not so before. (takes hands off face) There’s no such thing. It is the bloody business which informs thus to mine eyes. Now O’er the one half world, Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams (pause) abuse!
Zooms out as he says abuse. Then a frontal dolly shot of him pacing.
MACBETH
The curtained sleep; witchcraft celebrates pale Hecate’s offerings; and withered murder, alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf, whose howl’s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, with Tarquin’s ravishing strides, towards his design (pause) moves like a ghost.
Cut to MACBETH’S foot rubbing the floor.
MACBETH
Thou sure and firm set earth, hear not my steps, which way they walk
Cut to Extreme close up of MACBETHS lips
MACBETH
For
Cut to Extreme close up of MACBETHS eyes
MACBETH
Fear(pause). (glancing about, paranoid) thy very stones prate of my whereabout, and take the present horror from the time, which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives: words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
Bell rings, MACBETHS eyes are fixed on sound. Zoom out to show MACBETHS face and upper torso
MACBETH
I go, and it is done: the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is knell that summons thee to heaven(pause) or to hell
Cut to dagger on a desk or shelf. MACBETH picks up the dagger and there is a shot of him holding it from his torso up, staring at it. He looks forward, and walks away.
FIN