Blog Entry 21: Scene Response

Scene Response to Othello

I watched quite a few little clips from Othello movie made in 1995. I found that even though I recognized some of the actors they did a very good job making it seem old. The story is hard to understand due to the dialect but after reading it, then watching the movie clips it all comes together. After watching these clips I wish that I had not seen the movie O. It is a “bad” version of this play I think. It was changed to match this day and age but in doing so they lost very important parts of the story line. You would very rarely see the same happen today as it did in the slap scene. I found that having their old dialect and costumes made it much easier to understand and find entertaining than O. It was easier to connect with these film clips than O even though I feel like I should connect with the new age film easier. It is built on raw emotion, before any of our technology that changes our way of felling, pure raw emotions. I am going to have to go rent this movie now, it is not so hard to follow when you can see what they are doing. Viewing the video and following their dialect was not as hard as it was just reading the play. It is a very emotional and interesting play/movie. William Shakespeare was way ahead of his time, he is an amazing writer.