Othello
by Oliver Parker
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Actor: Ir?ne Jacob, Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Maloney, Nathaniel ParkerDirector: Oliver Parker
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: David Johnson
Writer: Oliver Parker
Editor: Tony Lawson
Producer: David Barron
Producer: Jonathan Olsberg
Producer: Luc Roeg
Writer: William Shakespeare
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-01-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Othello
DVD Review: Great Service
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent film. My order was exactly what I asked for and it was delivered very fast. Thank you so much for your wonderful service.DVD 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.DVD Review: dvd
Summary: 5 Stars
Great movie if you appreciate Shakespeare. It is so fananating to watch. Great Shakespearean workmanship of actors. Thanks for quick and easy sales and delivery. A++++++++++DVD Review: My, what great big teeth you have...
Summary: 5 Stars
I've read other plays by Shakespeare, but Othello remains my favorite...if only because Iago is one of the most interesting villains I've come across. I was very pleased with Kenneth Branagh's performance. I thought he nailed the part of Iago. The rest of the cast was good, but this was really Branagh's movie.
Iago is not what he seems to be...which makes him so compelling...and so dangerous. He comes disguised as a friend, a mentor...a man you can trust. The only person who witnesses his true disdain for others is his wife, Emilia, but nonetheless becomes one of his many puppets. Towards others, though, it's a friendly smile...but behind his gentle smile lies envy, prejudice and unspeakable rage...rage he cowardly gets others to express for him.
I won't begin to analyze the movie line by line, scene by scene. I'll just quickly point out the two scenes I thought were well executed.
First, I really liked how the director interpreted the scene where Iago first begins poisoning Othello's ear with thoughts of Desdemona's infidelity. Instead of the dialogue occuring in one scene, it's spread out in several scenes...so the poison has a better chance of sinking in.
Second, I liked the interpretation of Iago's last line in the movie. At the end of the movie, Othello is worn out & defeated. When he turns to Iago and demands to know why he tortured his soul, Iago replies, "Demand me nothing; what you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak word." One interpretation is that Iago is just as perplexed as Othello as to why he does what he does and, therefore, can't explain any better than Othello could. However, in this movie, the line is interpreted as Iago's final punishment for Othello. Not only does he deny Othello his true love/happiness, but he also denies him any closure. That was the way I interpreted the scene, too, when I read the play.
Overall, I was very pleased with the interpretation of this play.
DVD Review: Othello
Summary: 5 Stars
Othello arrived quickly and in good condition. A very seamless, convenient procedure. No snags.
Description of Othello
Writer/Director Oliver Parker (An Ideal Husband) adapts Shakespeare's towering tragedy of passion and jealousy with shattering performances by Kenneth Branagh (Iago) Irene Jacob (Desdemona) and Laurence Fishburne as the title-role warrior who ruled armies but not his own heart.Running Time: 125 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?R UPC:?053939253023Oliver 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 Ir?ne Jacob (Red) as Desdemona. --Tom Keogh
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