Sunday, December 13, 2015

Netflix Queue for Idiots

  1. Macbeth (British Netflix)
    1. How to Get Away with Murder
      1. Summary: A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their lives.
      2. Justification: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is kind of new to the whole murder thing,as far as we know, in the beginning of the play. Macbeth let his wife have pick a movie on his account during their netflix and chill night and she decided to watch some murderous tv. Macbeth got hooked after the first episode Sometimes the account holder lets someone borrow your account and they start watching a bunch of shows that you would not normally watch. Then  the suggestions that are shown are something that the account holder would never watch based on the shows that they watch and we all know strong Macbeth is against the power of suggestion (not very). So, he added this to his queue...and then he probably killed Duncan.
    2. Ferris Bueller’s Day off
      1. Summary: Teenage Ferris convinces his entire school he's at death's door, then hits the streets of Chicago with his girlfriend and best friend for a day of fun. But the school's fed-up principal is determined to catch him and put an end to his field trip.
      2. Justification: In this movie we analyzed Ferris as Macbeth, Sloane the girlfriend as Lady Macbeth, Cameron the best friend as a murderer, and  Mr. Rooney the principal as Macduff. Ferris goes against good moral behavior as a student and skips school. He avoids getting caught by Mr.Rooney and his parents. This is similar to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth sneaking around killing people, avoiding Macduff. Both Macbeth and Ferris keep up the appearance of a moral person. Macbeth tries to put the blame on other people like Duncan’s sons and Ferris creates a doll device to keep up the appearance of being sick to avoid being caught by his mom. Both Macbeth and Ferris have other people do immoral deeds for their own benefit. Macbeth hires the three murderers to kill Banquo as well as other people and Cameron pretends to be Sloane’s dad to get her out of class. Ferris is kind of like the king of his high school and Macbeth is the King of Scotland. Macbeth would want to watch this movie because he sees a lot of himself in the comical stylings of Ferris.
    3. Hercules
      1. Summary: Hercules, son of the Greek God, Zeus, is turned into a half-god, half-mortal by evil Hades, God of the Underworld, who plans to overthrow Zeus. Hercules is raised on Earth and retains his god-like strength, but when he discovers his immortal heritage Zeus tells him that to return to Mount Olympus he must become a true hero. Hercules becomes a famous hero with the help of his friend Pegasus and his personal trainer, Phil the satyr. Hercules battles monsters, Hades and the Titans, but it is his self-sacrifice to rescue his love Meg which makes him a true hero.
      2. Justification: First of all Hercules is based off of Hamlet a shakespeare play and Macbeth was written by shakespeare. Hercules becomes this great hero on the basis of the fact that he is suppose to be a greek God. Hades and Macbeth both had the supernatural, the weird sisters in Macbeth and the Fates in Hercules. Hades is told a prophecy that benefits him by the Fates. Macbeth becomes king based on the prophecy that is told to him by the weird sisters. Hades and Macbeth are similar in the fact they both tried killing people to fulfill the prophecy. Hercules is a strong warrior. Macbeth is a moral military man at the beginning of the play. However, Hercules seeks to purify his soul where Macbeth is destroying his. We see Macbeth fade from hercules to Hades. Meg fools Hercules, like Lady Macbeth fools Macbeth. Hades controlled meg...lady macbeth controlled by the witches...or is a witch?? Initially, Macbeth adds this to his queue because he associates with Hercules’s god-like attributes, but then he keeps watching to see if Hades’s prophecy comes true, to see if his own prophecy will actually hold out.
    4. Gossip Girl
      1. Summary: Kristen Bell provides the voice of an anonymous blogger who narrates the action in this hit series set in an exclusive New York City boarding school. The plot centers on the day-to-day dramas of the school's most privileged students.
      2. Justification: Macbeth is very in touch with his feminine side and connects with a main character Blair, the powerful queen bee of the prep school and like Macbeth does immoral things to benefit herself as well as get other people to do them for her. Lady Macbeth is Chuck (Blair’s lover) and he gets her do things that go against her morals (losing the v card to Chuck instead of Nate) (prostituting herself to help Chuck...not really). Chuck also goes insane after Blair starts becoming more independent, similar to Lady Macbeth after Macbeth plans to kills others without her aid. Blair has a lot of ambition she creates her own prophecy to fulfill like getting into Yale, starting her own clothing line, becoming societally relevant in New York. Macbeth of course has his own prophecy to societal hierarchy in Scotland. Both Blair and Macbeth are willing to step on whoever gets in their path to get what they want. Macbeth would want to add the to his queue because he
    5. Harry Potter
      1. Summary: A boy named Harry is a wizard and he needs to kill Voldemort.
      2. Justification: Harry Potter is told at a young age that he is one of the greatest wizards of all time for not being killed by Voldemort. Macbeth would watch this, because it’s about witches and wizards. He would use this new knowledge about the supernatural in order to learn how they work, so he can control them and use them for his own greed.
    6. The day my butt went psycho
      1. Summary: A boy and his best friend -- his newly detached butt -- embark on wacky adventures in a world where humans and their butts live side by side.
      2. Justification: Macbeth is Macduff’s butt, because Macbeth is psycho. He sees a lot of himself in this show.
    7. iZombie
      1. Summary: When over-achieving medical resident Liv Moore attends a party that turns into a zombie feeding frenzy, she ends up joining the ranks of the living dead. Determined to pass as human despite her pale appearance and newly listless demeanor, Liv forms a plan to resist her drive to consume fresh human brains by taking a job at a coroner's office, where she can secretly snack on the brains of corpses delivered there. Soon discovering that she absorbs the memories of those she feeds on, she finds new purpose by posing as a psychic and working with a detective to help solve their murders.
      2. Justification: This show is about solving murder crimes. He would watch this show, so that way he could analyze it and figure out what he has to do to get away with all the murders he performs.
    8. Bates Motel
      1. Summary: Everyone knows what happened in "Psycho," but this chilling series takes viewers inside Norman Bates' world before Marion Crane checked in.
      2. Justification: Norman Bates goes psycho, just like Macbeth. Macbeth would watch this show to see if he’ll turn out like Norman. Or to avoid turning out like Norman.

1 comment:

  1. I really love the shows/movies that you picked here. I never would have thought about Ferris Bueller's Day Off or Hercules but your justification is pretty solid. I especially love that you chose Harry Potter because it seems like Harry is the EXACT younger embodiment of Macbeth, considering he was told how special he was very early on (as you mentioned) just like Macbeth was. On a side note,"The Day My Butt Went Psycho" sounds like a weirdly interesting movie that I'm now gonna go watch since you've mentioned it lol. Thanks for the unintended recommendation Chloe!:)

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