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Othello loves not wisely but too well. Desdemona epitomizes unconditional love. Coming between them is their most trusted friend iago orchestrating an entire chain of fateful events. He is perhaps the most cunning villain of all time. Studio: Castle Rock Hm Video Release Date: 09/19/2000 Starring: Laurence Fishburne Kenneth Branagh Run time: 125 minutes Rating: R Director: Oliver Parker
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Oliver Parker, a stage and film actor (Hellraiser), made his directorial debut with this scaled-back version of Shakespeare's play about the paranoid Moor, Othello (Laurence Fishburne), and his manipulative friend, Iago (Kenneth Branagh). Parker gets the story so lean he starts running a little short on the author's subtext, and if it's possible to overemphasize the banality of Iago's scheming and Othello's malleability, he does so. The director throws out what is universal in the story and makes it all seem merely ordinary, human, and unfortunate, which is the opposite of what watching Shakespeare should be. In the end, it's hard to care what these characters have done to one another. Branagh's Iago is a little flat and unfocused, while Fishburne is excellent as a quieter Othello than we're accustomed to. With Irčne Jacob (Red) as Desdemona. --Tom Keogh
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Othello
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The product was received in short order, in excellent condition, and was just what I wanted.
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Finally a black Moor...Mr. William would have been pleased
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Like Laurence Olivier, Branagh is another talanted actor, whose name is forever linked to the name of William Shakespeare in the movie industry. However, it's Fishburn who truly carries the film on his shoulders. A very good interpretation of the Shakespearean classic standing in a row with Olivier's, Welles' and Bondarchuk's Othellos with one very major plus - finally a black Othello. For his directorial debut Oliver Parker has chosen a great cast: the always incredible Laurence Fishburn as Othello, and the famous Shakespearean "maniac" Kenneth Branagh as Iago. His portrayal of Othello, with all that mixture of love and hate, devotion and betrayal, passion and intense jealousy, growing slowly into paranoia, makes a deep impression and a strong understanding of who Othello truly was.
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Great movie for the classroom!
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I'm a teacher who taught Othello this semester and this video REALLY helped bring the script alive. Excellent choice for the Shakespeare buff or someone looking to expand their horizons.
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21st Century Shakespeare?
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Exciting bedroom games for some, I suppose, but for me it was Shakespeare made vapid. In what I take to be an effort to make Shakespeare accessible to audiences raised on Bruce Willis and Matt Damon, director Oliver Parker delivers something emotionally incoherent, clumsy, shallow, and crass. Branagh, Fishburne, and Jocob seem to inhabit different dramatic universes. This was particularlyand painfullytrue of the scene in which Fishburne's Othello deflowers Jocob's Desdemona. I should, perhaps, disqualify myself as a reviewer of this admittedly lush production, because I found the first twenty minutes of it so dismayingly bad that I did not care to watch the rest. I was unable to believe that their characters had any real connection with one another.
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