Even so, if she played the opening the way she does here, I would still want a Coen movie to follow.) Hunter recites only Shakespeare’s lines, though not quite in the order that Shakespeare wrote them, and the way she disposes of her body is also not quite in the order that anyone’s body ought to be disposed in anything but a Coen Macbeth. (The former is clearly my own lack of imagination she has played Puck and even King Lear onstage, and could doubtless be anybody’s Weird Sisters. Somehow, though she appears in the role in only two scenes, the astonishing Kathryn Hunter, with her croaking voice and shape-changing contortionist physicality, incarnates the Coen aesthetic as all three of the Weird Sisters, so much so that I cannot imagine her in anyone else’s Macbeth, nor imagine Joel Coen’s Macbeth without her. Hunter recites only Shakespeare’s lines, though not quite in the order that Shakespeare wrote them, and the way she disposes of her body is also not quite in the order that anyone’s body ought to be disposed in anything but a Coen Macbeth. Though the disc of the sun does sometimes pierce the overcast skies, the stars are seen and remarked upon, and the powers of both heaven and hell are referenced throughout, what we see of Macbeth’s life plays out in a cramped, shallow space of earthly ambition and bloody deeds overshadowed by dark oracles beckoning Denzel Washington’s Macbeth to his doom. These two images roughly establish the parameters of Macbeth’s story. In the sand below are a trail of footprints streaked with splatters of what turns out to be blood. This is normally called a “God shot,” but the birds look down with anything but divine eyes: They represent the play’s three witches, and embody the opening lines heard in voiceover: “Hover through the fog and filthy air.” We seem to be looking up at three corvids circling ominously amid impenetrable haze - but then the clouds part and a tiny figure appears, revealing that the camera is looking down from above. Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth opens with contrasting shots of the sky and the earth, with a disorienting blend of both in the very first shot.
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