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Othello did not translate well..

posted 14 years ago by groovalisciousman
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This movie was stupid, the characters were erratic and made decisions that are not feasible.

Why the in the @#$% would you vow to kill someone after you found out they've been cheating on you, especially if you have no history of mental illness anywhere in your family, which he exclaims before killing himself.

Absolutely ridiculous, perhaps this Shakespearean play would have entertained the masses of the day, but the translation over, the principles on which the play was founded made it so uninteresting as a modern film.

I've been in more relationships than Hugh Hefner can shake his wang at, and in such situations the crap said in this movie just makes me laugh. What's more, Josh Hartnett's character, Hugo, is no mastermind by any means. It's called simple manipulation, his plan in no way was intelligent. I first watched this movie when I was 11 and remember my parents saying how devious Hugo was, which NOW makes me very sad. Stupid people.

Horrible plot translation with HORRIBLE attempts at continuity (oh noez I'm a druggy wah wah [are you serious?]). Overrated and simplistic "mastermind", overrated rape scene(Last House on the Left made my stomach turn). Please tell me I'm not the only one who shares this mindset, how can anyone deny any of this? What is the reasoning for such a high rating on such a horrible movie? I would probably give it 3/10 at most.

[–] naci-asi 14 years ago

I can agree with some of what you're saying.. I didn't believe a modern day Othello set at a high school was possible upon hearing about O.. and while this film is good and gets the jist of the story more or less (a great way to get younger people interested in the source material at least) it misses the mark in a lot of ways.. the themes don't exactly translate, andit's obvious at certain points how the writers are willing to expend believability and authenticity for the sake of making the movie's events coincide with the play's.

Anyway I just wrote to say you're missing some of the point as to why Odin was willing to go along with Hugo's plan. Odin didn't just think he was being cheated on, Hugo had him believing he was being humiliated, degraded, backstabbed by his friend, called a *beep* by the person he loved. He started to believe he wasn't as accepted in his all white prep school as he thought, that everyone thought of him as some *beep* I can't imagine having my dignity destroyed like that so I really can't comment about his actions being believable or not.

It kind of astounds me that you would call your parents stupid over something like that, but I don't want to get personal.

And are you talking about the original Last House on the Left or the remake? The remake's rape scene was pretty tame compared to the original. If that one made your stomach turn, Irreversible's would make you vomit in terror.

S&M. Lick the windows outside our house. It's as close as you'll get to being one of us.

[–] cheluzal 13 years ago

Yeah, I'm at the part where O kills himself, blubbering on how he loves her and got played.
Listen, I don't murder people I love, and I certainly would NEVER be talked into, even if they WERE cheating.

Unstable freaks.
I have no sympathy for any of them.

Define "opinion" then get back to me.

[–] Archeoterrex 13 years ago

You never heard of someone killing their partner because they thought they were cheating on them? Are you a moron?