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Banquo

Zoe Millbern      Dec. 7, 2014

I would imagine that near the time of and following his death, Banquo would have felt a great deal of betrayal and desire for revenge (as evidenced by his possible supernatural visitation to spook Macbeth). The following are a number of movies that I feel would have intrigued him concerning these aspects of his mindset.

The Crow

"The Crow" takes place in a dystopian society where a mob like organization burns the city every Devil's Night. Eric Draven, a guitarist, and his fiancee are violently killed by these individuals during Devil's Night (which happened to be a day before their wedding) and a year later he's brought back to life by a crow that leads him through land of the living to exact revenge on those who murdered him and his fiancee. (This is one of my personal favorite movies.) This movie would be recommended by Banquo not only because of the return of the dead to affect those whose responsibility their death was, but because of the way that they were killed. In the case of the Crow, there was no reason for their murder except the recreation of the murderers, but both Banquo and Draven were killed by violently deranged individuals with little logical reason, and this movie probably would have served as inspiration for coming back to plague Macbeth. It would have meant that he saw his death as truly an unjustified act of violence and that needed to be avenged. Draven used a lot of face make-up to hide his identity and connect to his purpose, which, as it pertains to Banquo, could represent the reappearance as not only personal but in vengeance for past and future transgressions against others. 

Gladiator

This movie outlines the journey of a man who was unjustly forced to become a gladiator and compete in the Colosseum. He works ruthlessly to advance in the games as  revenge against Caesar, and this movie would be intriguing to Banquo as the main character was once a well respected and high ranking military official who, once he was given access to a possible position of power, was given an almost certain death sentence. Banquo would probably have sympathized with the betrayal and applaud the work that was done to get back at the one who put him in such peril.

Red

Red is about retired CIA agents who worked dutifully for their country and have been targeted for extermination by a corrupt leader in order to cover something up. They worked to right the situation, though the betrayal done to the previously respected would be something that Banquo could relate to. The manner in which they righted the situation probably would have intrigued Banquo, being that he was a military man himself, though not able to exact the revenge that he might have desired. The threat displayed by the CIA agents based on their knowledge is similar to the threat that Macbeth believed that Banquo was, despite the fact that none of them held a imminent and evidenced threat.

What Lies Beneath

This movie is about how a man is plagued by the ghost of the woman that he has cheated with and murdered. If Banquo had seen this film before his death, it could have served as inspiration for a good way to terrorize his killer and make him pay psychologically for his actions. Even though it would be impossible to physically get back at the man who murdered it, it could be equally detrimental to Macbeth's position were his mental state to be put into question or seriously damaged.

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