In this modern version of Shakespeare's Othello, Odin James (Mekhi Phifer) 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 (Julia Stiles), the most popular girl in school. Meanwhile, Hugo (Josh Hartnett) is the coach's son, but he is outshone on court by Odin, and his father (Martin Sheen) 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. Hilarity ensues.
Trivia: Some post production sound was provided by students at Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo. They added their sound to the basketball crowds, party fight scene, and the shooting scene in the girls' dorm. This film was being edited by night while O Brother Where Art Thou was being filmed during the day. This film finished production in 1999, and its original release date coincided with the Columbine High School shootings. The release was postponed because of the film's themes of violence and murder in a high-school setting. The music at the end of the movie, "Ave Maria", is from the end of Verdi's opera "Otello", which was also based on the Shakespearean play "Othello".
Okay Impman, I can't give this one to you. Although it is based on Othello, it isn't called Othello and the character's name is Odin. Besides, I gave y'all the title [Next Up: "O"]. Jealousy, intrigue, deception, sex, murder plots, man, sounds like a modern day soap opera doesn't it? It is pretty amazing that Shakespeare's plays can still translate so easily to modern day, and he was thousands of years after the Greek tragedies. So I guess human nature hasn't changed much. The movie itself was very nicely put together, there didn't seem to be any fluff.
Next Up: "P" (no, there isn't a movie called P that I know of) This week's clue: As American As Mathematicians Can Get. While you mull that one over, here are last week's guesses:
Ummm...guess
Othello - The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic...O so close, Impman
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8 comments:
Would have to be something to do with Apple Pie, but dropping the apple, if you said PI that would have the mathematician thing.
SO I would say
Pie
but then it could be
Prizzi's Honour
Plan 9 from outta space
Phonebooth
Pulp Fiction
P is surprisingly hard!
I agree with Impman, P is hard.
Pie in the Sky
Phenomonan
Wait till I get to "Q"
How about this, a story that is well wierd and shot I thin in Black and White. It won critical acclaim, but has made it to around 23 in the Weirdest Film Category, that film is
Pi
weirdest film catagory?
Yep Weirdest films list from Total Film magazine, don´t know if you get it there in the states, I may have to send you a copy!
I found their website at totalfilms.com but I couldn't find the weirdest list. I did find their top 100 movies list and I am missing 4 of them, three horror movies (Halloween, Dawn of the Dead, Texas Chain Saw Massacre) and one David Lynch movie (Blue Velvet).
The wierdest list was published in the magazine to correspond with the release of the film "23", and it just gave a list of 23 weird films.
It added that a Bona-Fide human Brain made an appearance in the film Pi!!!
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