EACH VERSION IS OF A DIFFERENT MEDIA SHOWING THE EVER-CHANGING ADVANCES IN SOCIETY. SHAKESPEARE 'S OTHELLO WAS PERFORMED ON OPEN-AIR STAGES WITH MINIMAL PROPS AND SCENERY. SAX 'S OTHELLO WAS A FUNDED ENGLISH TV FILM FOR A MUCH LARGER AUDIENCE TO VIEW. SAX USED CAMERA ANGLES TO PORTRAY POWER AND…
However after Jago places his suspicious thoughts about Dessie and Cass into Othello’s head, the use of high dramatic non-diegetic music emphasizes Othello’s change in thoughts about Dessie. His suspicious behavior is clearly depicted through the use of close-up shots when Dessie is sleeping. The use of a close-up shot depicts Othello’s intrigue with what Dessie is dreaming about. In the next scene, when Cass enters the apartment the next morning, the use of long shot depicts Dessie and Cass out of focus eating breakfast together, whilst Othello is foregrounded and in focus standing alone. This shot depicts Othello as a third wheeler and not as Dessie’s wife. The long shot also emphasizes the growing distance between Othello and Dessie. Furthermore, when Othello finds Cass in his gold robe, there is a medium shot of Cass and Dessie suggesting slight intimacy and this shot is representative of how Othello perceives the situation.…
Iago, in his soliloquies, informs the audience of his plans to deceive Othello and bring about his fall from grace. It is his use of language, rhythm, length and delivery that cause the greatest impact, instilling fear into the audience and creating a sense of tragic inevitability as Iago’s plans will come to fruition, with no one to stop them. The dangerous thing about Iago is that he not only brings down Othello, but he also wrecks anyone else that he can along the way.…
From the onset of Othello, the audience is unknowingly subject to Iago’s manipulative customs. Despite being a stereotypical Shakespearian antagonist, Iago is a complex, two faced, yet three dimensional, character. Despite being an eponymous play, suggesting Othello’s importance, his absence in light of Iago’s presence allows the audience to be influenced and therefore misled by Iago’s representation of Othello…
Shakespeare portrays Iago’s character in the play ‘Othello’ with villainous content by using dramatic effects and specific representations of speech in order to engage the audience to witness this deceitful, dishonest and disturbing man.…
Watching the film a second time, with commentary and certain scenes pointed out, Welles’ vision became more apparent. As the film went on it was easier to spot the deep focus or triangle shots, and the allusions to earlier scenes. Welles also used the lighting to portray the characters, their mindsets, and how they change during the course of the film.…
Facts from the film that relate to the play is that at the end of the play and movie some of the characters in the end had the same fate. Shakespeare would agree with the modernization because it would it would be related to this play but in modern time play than his own time. If I was creating a rating system, I would rate the movie 5 out of 5 because I really liked the film so much it really describes the Othello play in a way people today would understand. Like people today if they watched or read Othello they really wouldn’t really understand the way they talk because English back when was different.…
The main story plot that remained true was that of Iago. He was truly insane and jealous and was the main reason for the tragedy. (Insert quote here). The movie keeps him the same. Even to the point where Iago speaks to the audience, in the film he speaks directly to the camera and in one scene even touches the camera. Kenneth Branagh’s Iago was played perfectly in comparison to Shakespeare’s Othello. He was even nominated for a Screen Actor’s Guild award. In Kenneth Branagh’s portrayal of Iago, he displays the same qualities in the original play and stays true to Shakespeare’s initial…
Dualism is a view that what exists is either physical or mental, and spirtual for some things like humans. It views the mind as nonphysical substance and a human as physical and a mental component which is the mind. Materialism is a view that focus on the physical.This view believes that only the physical exist. This theory believes if the object is not in motion it is not real. Idealsism is a view that believes in only the mental or spirtiual exists. It is not the object we experience but rather our perception or ideas of it. If For example if its there then that mean it exists.These three views dont have much in common because they are unlike in their own ways. The similarites between all of these views is that they are all have perceptions and have to do with ideas.…
The film Othello by director Oliver Parker, is based on the Shakespearean tragedy based on the insecurities of one man, being played upon leading to his undoing at the hands of the one he most trusts, ?honest Iago?. In this essay, we look at how this age old play is dealt with by the medium of film, reviewing the director?s ability to provide an effect caused by insight into the play?s mechanization and interpretation of such affected by visual mastery. This analysis focuses mainly on techniques and devices used to achieve this and their effect.…
The play Othello by William Shakespeare revolves around protagonist, Othello, as he is continuously deceived by a villainous mastermind posing as his most loyal friend, Iago. Although Othello is technically the protagonist of the play, Shakespeare takes a unique approach by allowing the reader to spend most of the play inside the mind of the psychotic Iago as he slowly destroys the life of not only Othello, but everyone who is in a close relationship with him. Many to this day are still unsure of the motives of Iago, and question his twisted pursuit of the destruction of the people around him. His actions; however, can be explained as an irrational and psychotic reaction due to the envy that he held towards those closest to him. Throughout…
In the poems written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Ulysses” and “Odysseus” written by W.S. Merwin we can compare and contrast both poems. In Tennyson’s “Ulysses” and in Merwin’s “Odysseus” they are talking about the same person, Odysseus. But the poems are also different because, Tennyson’s poem is about Odysseus talking about how his son would be a better fit king than he was, and that he would rather sail to find another world. In Merwin’s poem Odysseus talks about his journeys from one island to the other and how he is still sailing and trying to get home. So how can we compare and contrast both poems? Easy, because one poem is written about Odysseus and his adventures he encounters while trying to get back home. The poem “Ulysses” written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s, explains that Odysseus would rather much be happier sailing and searching for new lands, rather than just be the king of his homeland. Are there similarities and also differences between both poems, I believe there is and will explain why.…
Through its portrayal of human experience, Shakespeare’s Othello prepares us for an inevitable tragedy. How is this revealed in the first 3 acts of the play?…
The following are two speeches that I found to be most meaningful to me. Both quotes are said by Othello, whose character I believe made the most impact on my perception of the first great black protagonist in Western literature.…
In addition Shakespeare extends the theme of appearance vs reality to include the art of playwriting and acting. As he develops his plot against Othello, Iago creates scenes within scenes. He sets up encounters between two characters and putting a third in…