#I have not read macbeth

[hunter-sylvester]

I was talking with my friend about Hunter’s emotional state throughout the film (as you do) and we came to the following conclusion.

Disclaimer: I know full well that Metal Lords (2022) is a lighthearted comedy & coming-of-age film of which Kevin is the main character. Like, I get why the film goes the way it goes and I love it as it is. However, I obviously hyper-focus on a certain character and I just like exploring the ‘ifs’ in films & shows, so here’s the thing:

Getting dumped at rehab by his dad should have triggered a Macbeth level breakdown in Hunter and here’s why.

Quite early in the film it’s established that Hunter’s mom left. The only explicit text we get on the subject is in Kevin’s voice-over. “He’s been into a lot of things since I’ve known him, but he’s stuck with metal longer than any of them. When his mom left in seventh grade, he decided it was the key to everything.” And two shots of the picture frame Hunter has in his room that his mom has literally been ripped out of.

So there isn’t much to go off, but there’s implications. You could just read it as him being a temperamental little shit that ripped up a photo in anger. But I think it’s more interesting to go a little further.

We know how Hunter feels about his dad, once again being something touched on in part by Kevin’s voice-over. “Sometimes he’s not so nice to people when he’s uncomfortable. And being around his dad makes him uncomfortable” It’s a line that is cut off by Hunter being a little shit in DnD but we know the word is uncomfortable. Then, obviously, Hunter and his dad are mostly seen mid-shouting match. They don’t get along. They can’t communicate productively. They just don’t get each other. There’s a lot of yelling and his dad makes him uncomfortable.

And with all of that he still has a photo of him and his dad on his shelf. What that tells me is that Hunter has to fucking hate his mom. We don’t get much of an indication as to why but one factor that would make sense is that she abandoned him. She left. And she left him.

If we assume that Hunter and his dad have always butted heads to some degree, his mom leaving him with his dad would be even worse. She rejected him, she didn’t want him and now all he has is someone who makes him incredibly uncomfortable to be around. His dad is a cunt, but at least he didn’t abandon him.

Now, Kevin. Bare with me here, it’s about to get gay. That’s how I see the character, however, it can still apply if you do see Hunter as straight (I don’t know how you manage it, but go off, cis)

Hunter is clearly very very attached to Kevin. Possessive of him, even. I think it beams off the screen that Hunter is in love with Kevin. But even that isn’t entirely necessary to acknowledge for it to be clear that Hunter sees Kevin and himself as a package deal.

“We’re Skullfucker” Skullfucker isn’t just their band to Hunter. It is them. It’s them against the world. They’re not particularly shown to have many/any other friends. One can infer that Hunter has people he plays DnD with. But that doesn’t necessarily make them his friends.

“you are afraid of everybody” It doesn’t matter that Kevin says this in the heat of a fight. I think he’s dead on.

Kevin is the only person Hunter feels safe with. The only person he’s not scared of. And then Kevin abandons him too. Not explicitly. Not to Kevin. But Hunter deeply feels like he has. Kevin getting a girlfriend, trying to get her to be a part of the band. Not to mention drumming for a different band. It would shatter the image Hunter has in his mind of their band being them. Of them, and their bond, and the time they spend together being something uniquely special. 

And then his dad is so fed up with him he dumps him at a rehab facility for no other reason than just not wanting to deal with him anymore.

I don’t buy even for a second that Hunter was dropped off at rehab for being ‘addicted to metal’. His dad didn’t wanna deal with trying to be a parent to a delinquent child that stole his fucking credit card. So he dumped him somewhere where he wouldn’t have to deal with him. In a “they’ll fix him” kind of move.

What I buy even less is that it fucking works. Hunter is portrayed as doing better after rehab. Like it was a wake-up call to someone whose main issue was just being an asshole.

No. Fuck that.

That was the last person he could rely on abandoning him too.

His mom doesn’t want him. His best friend/crush doesn’t want him. His dad doesn’t want him. There is no way in hell he is doing better after that. Hunter spends the entire movie an anxious (autistic) mess that automatically shoves down any emotion that isn’t anger. Being abandoned by everyone he had left would have been more than enough to break him.

There is just no fucking way that Hunter is okay.

[chronically-chaotic-cryptid]

And the reasons behind each are pretty different...

Romeo and Juliet: Literally written in the stars. Throw shade at the speed but has your first conversation with someone ever formed a perfect sonnet?? I think not.

Macbeth: Some witches fucked up and told him he could be king and then his wife decided the best way to do this was murder.

Y'all can keep at it with that “Romeo and Juliet fell in love in five days how immature” shiz but Macbeth went from no murder to yes murder in like one afternoon and I feel like one of those is a significantly bigger problem than the other

[zangoonse]

amab guy who starts questioning his gender after successfully killing macbeth. and then it turns put he was actually cis and he was born to a trans man

[tonydaddingham]

Unhinged ask: crowley gets french mistaked in the middle of a performance of david tennant macbeth. Drops right into tennant’s body. What happens next

okay im directing all possible brainpower towards this it's so important

so it happens during the song of the witches- accidental demon summoning and bam he's in david tennant's body. what ensues actually isn't all that different from the original performance, you just hear "stop it that tickles" occasionally over the headset

crowley would kinda twig that he's somehow in the middle of macbeth (just because he likes the funny ones doesn't mean he hasnt seen macbeth a thousand times... even if only to take the piss out of it each time afterwards to annoy aziraphale), and he kinda like. dips in and out of remembering the lines. the audience doesn't care about (or lbr, notice) his ad-libs bc as far as they're concerned, rsc legend david tennant can do what he fucking likes

sword fight, he makes light saber sound effects to each blow. then eventually we come to the curtain call, and he is actually pretty pleased with himself but mainly because whilst 'dead' he drew a penis on the stage in the fake blood

the pièce de résistance however is that he spots michael sheen in the crowd, and swan dives off the stage to be carried towards him, thinking it's aziraphale. the audience happily passes him over their heads, bc honestly david tennant crowdsurfing his way to michael sheen is probably the least ridiculous thing either of these freaks has done to be in each other's company

[chao-mp3]

if you don't make 2p!nyo! Poland like Balladyna I don't want her

[kazz-brekker]

apparently ava reid is going on tour in the uk for lady macbeth and i am. very curious. how the good people of scotland are going to react to a book that so badly stereotyped all scottish people as evil brutes and the country as barren and ugly that i was genuinely shocked and uncomfortable reading it

[downtoplaybass]

okay yall my parents are pissed bc im up a whole dramatic gasp 15 minutes later than they normally cut off my internet and i dont have an explaination for them because i cant say gay sex rp threads or i may have my entire internet access revoked. anyway i, mod izza, must depart.

[withasideofshakespeare]

I’m curious about something…

[socialc1imb]

Some unrelated but not really all that unrelated set of clue au doodles. :)

Do NOT repost my art without asking/without credit.

[evan-buck]

when all the rich people with memberships have bought all the tickets before thursday and we're back to fighting for our lives in october then what??

[devilsskettle]

thinking about the way that lady macbeth convinces macbeth to kill duncan and yeah she talks about power and cowardice and what he owes to himself and to her, but at the heart of the whole thing is how their child died and she has nothing else to pin her hopes for the future on. unfortunately the fact that they no longer have an heir is also the driving force behind macbeth’s violent paranoia toward banquo which ultimately dooms them

[itspileofgoodthings]

I have some kids who are excited to read Hamlet after reading Macbeth, that has never happened before lol.

[fiendishartist2]

jon becomes an english teacher in their somewhere else and is completely baffled by how much highschoolers hate english class

transcript:

(left): "mr. sims, can we pls watch you play chess.com?" (macbeth essays submitted: 5/27) [i'm too old for this shit"]

(right): "and they're like obsessed with chess? but only on the computer" "at least they're engaged?"

[yepthisiskay]

Wrote a 5 paragraph essay about how lady Macbeth and light yagami are similar.

Link to the essay

[the-busy-ghost]

God I'd forgotten that "who could refrain, / That had a heart to love, and in that heart / Courage to make 's love known?" is not only from Macbeth but that he says it because he's just murdered Duncan's guards (to cover up his crime) and feels the need to explain himself.

Anyway I absolutely think people should keep misusing it in romantic contexts, personally I would love to get that on a Valentine's Day card

[oh-boix]

she eat on my insane root til I commit regicide