On one side, England's historic Bamburgh Castle loomed up on a craggy promontory above the North Sea. On the other, hundreds of movie extras, dressed as medieval soldiers, crouched behind uprooted spruce and pine trees. Suddenly, groaning and clanking, huge siege catapults hurled fireballs through the air toward the castle. The climactic battle scene in a new film version of Shakespeare's Macbeth was under way. As black smoke billowed into the sky, the extras threw down their camouflage and charged the spiky fortifications with a battering ram and scaling ladders. Exciting stuff? "These...
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