Reactions to PoA (the film) Re: On to other issues

[Katty Geltmeyer]

Carol wrote:
I actually liked the
(uncanonical) chorus, complete with
toads, because of the explicit
link to Shakespeare. (The lyrics, I'm
sure you know, are straight out
of Macbeth, if not verbatim at least
very close to the song of the
Three Witches as Macbeth approaches.)

Katty:
I'm puzzling on the fact why the 
filmmakers had chosen this particular 
passage of Macbeth for the scene 
(transport to school, beginning of the 
feast). This passage in the Macbeth-saga 
is the receipt of a witch's brew (making 
a potion), but I like the music and the 
chosen rhymes snipped from Shakespeare's 
text and rearranged. But why that song 
at that specific moment in the film? 
After that, the song returns as a 
leading-theme.

Best, Katty