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=Imagery for Othello=

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=Films that can be used:=


 * O (2001**)

In this modern version of Shakespeare's 'Othello', Odin James is the black star of the basketball team at an otherwise white boarding school. He is headed for big time with his sport and is in love with Desi, the most popular girl in school. Meanwhile, Hugo is the coach's son, but he is outshone on court by Odin, and his father says he thinks of Odin as a son as well. Hugo's feelings of envy and neglect lead him to construct a plot to make Odin doubt Desi's love for him, a plot which Hugo is willing to take to its most extreme consequences. //Written by [|Peter Brandt Nielsen]// IMDb

This version of Othello is currently being taught @level 3 within NZ high schools. Here's a review from The Onion A.V.Club

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Some advantages of this film is it's fairly contemporary, set in a High school, cast are a similar age to the students and could work as a contrast to original text. Here's an example of dialogue


 * Othello (1995)**

Othello directed by Oliver Parker
It seems that hardly a year goes by without a new cinematic adaptation of one of Shakespeare's plays, and, of late, Kenneth Branagh's name has become intimately entwined with that of the Bard. While Branagh, who helmed //Henry V, [|Much Ado About Nothing]//, and is now working on [|//Hamlet//], does not sit in the director's chair for this latest version of //Othello//, he is very much in evidence on screen in the key role of Iago. To condense //Othello// into a reasonable, two-hour running time, writer/director Oliver Parker has lopped approximately 50% of Shakespeare's original text from the screenplay. Yet, even with so much gone, the movie remains faithful to the play's central themes and conflicts, and the streamlined narrative is surprisingly easy to follow (well, as "easy" as anything written by Shakespeare can be). For sheer impact, this //Othello// can stand side-by-side with the versions brought to the screen by Orson Welles (as restored in 1992) and Lawrence Olivier. A Film [|Review by James Berardinelli]

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