Othello
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Movie Reviews of Othello
Movie Review: othello review by bp walker
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent performances made available to me. A better brochure or written introduction would have been helpful.Movie Review: Othello
Summary: 5 Stars
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Summary: 5 Stars
The product was received in short order, in excellent condition, and was just what I wanted.Movie Review: Fascinatingly lurid (if a bit brief) adaptation!
Summary: 4 Stars
Yeah... Chances are, your local theatre group isn't going to trump this anytime soon. Yes, it's a viciously truncated version Of Shakespeare's play. But hell, this is a movie, folks. I seriously doubt you've committed the first folio to memory that well. In all honesty... nothing too important is ommitted and the taut pacing/implied sensuality makes up for The Bard's missing lines. Moreover, if you're going to chop any of Shakespeare's tragedies, this would be the one to hack at; if only because Iago's real motivations are never fully revealed... He hints at jealousy and The Moor's possible adaultery with his wife, Emilia... but those are rather too minor to warrant why he does what he does (he doesn't even like his wife that much...)
I don't think Iago knows the real motivations for his villiany- he doesn't want to face himself, all the more reason to lose himself in a tangled web of inrigue... Branagh takes the role and runs with it masterfully: he's so alive and passionate when involved with the other characters and so quietly monotone and intensely sinister when delivering his soliloquies!
Anyway, my amateur psych profiles aside, this is a wonderful film version. The performances are as smoldering as they are riveting. Fishburne is his sensual best, Branagh is coldly intense and creepy, his stop-on-a-dime two-faced portrait of Iago is superb. The chick who plays Desdemona is competent, she suffers and dies well enough. The actress doing Emilia is great as well. Cassio is the dumb stud we all know and love... Everyone who's not Iago or Othello is more or less delegated to the background so the film can focus on their interaction and Iago's machinations.
Well-paced and directed with great settings and locales and a lovely soundtrack that is understated in all the right places and bombastic in all the right places...
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Movie Review: A perfect film adaptation of one of Shakespeares best plays
Summary: 4 Stars
As with most Shakespeare tragedies, it is difficult to make the magnificent play "Othello" into a film without making it seeming overly dramatic and haughty. This film is neither,and draws you in from the first scene taking place on a dark night in Venice.When a director takes on a Shakespeare play, he has a slight advantage in that he already has an incredible stroy to work with that he does not have to (and should not) alter it at all.
The daunting part is finding actors who can play these characters, who have been read about and loved for centuries.
Laurence Fishburne's Othello is more sympathetic and noble than many would imagine the play's Othello to be. This works out nicely, as the viewer feels for Othello the entire time, and fears his downfall. Fishburne makes a remarkable transition in the film, and his love for Desdemona is very convincing.
Desdemona (Irene Jacob) is the picture of innocence and love. Irene Jacob and Laurence Fishburne have a great on-screen connection.
Kenneth Branagh (who plays Iago) brings yet another eye-catching Shakespeare character to the screen. He plays Iago with restrained anger and hate...you can see it bubbling through his calm demeanor.
If you enjoyed this film, you must rent Branagh's other Shakespeare films such as "Much Ado About Nothing" if you are in the mood for a comedy, or "Henry V" for an emotional epic.
Rated R for Sexuality and some violence