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 GREAT MOVIE EVEN IF IT'S AN ADAPTATION!!!!!! | |
| I saw this movie and Jeepers Creepers on my birthday (a week before the 9/11 tragedies) and thoroughly enjoyed this feature. I thought Jeepers Creepers was the worst and the stupidest movie I'd ever seen. Anyway "O" has the makings of a remarkable film: great acting, great plot, original cinematography, and some pretty good music. For the running time of this film, I temporarily forgot that it's a modernized adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello. Mekhi Pfifer can count this as a milestone and breakthrough film of his career. This is Shakespeare at its finest and Mekhi carries the movie brilliantly as 'O' (the modernized Othello). The characters are layered and, unlike many of the films that were released betwenn 2000 and 2001, you're able to understand why things happened the way they did. You understand why Iago (Hugo - played brilliantly by Josh Hartnett) is jealous of 'O'. Think about it. The coach (Hugo's father) seems to favor 'O' more than his very own son. Julia Styles is both wonderful and beautiful as Desi (an updated Desdemona). I understand the controversy that surrounded this film. After all, it was filmed in 1998 and was scheduled for release in 1999. But, who would want to see the death of teenagers knowing that the real-life tragedy of Columbine High School was still fresh upon the release of the film. But, the fact that the film still remained current even after it was filmed, edited, and ready for release two years prior to its final release date is a credit to both the cast and crew of this film. I now own this remarkable masterpiece on DVD and I must say that I enjoy it even more everytime I play it. I highly recommend this film to anyone who wants to see a film that is well-acted as well as well-written whether its Shakespeare or not. | |
 Poetic and disturbing... | |
| "O" is a brilliantly portrayed update to the classic play "Othello" written by Shakespeare. This movie will make your skin crawl because it can be so chilling. The music at the beginning and ending of the movie both make you feel kind of anxious. The whole story revolves around three central characters, Hugo (Josh Hartnett), Odin or "O" (Mehki Pfeifer), and Desi (Julia Stiles). Hugo is the self-involved son of the high school's basketball coach. He wants everyone to love him and shower him with the attention that they give to "O". "O" is the high school basketball team's star player and is the coach's favorite on and off the court. Desi is the girlfriend of "O" and the headmaster's daughter. Hugo is jealous that "O" has the perfect life, and doesn't even act like he really cares. Hugo tries desperately hard to ruin "O"'s life and finally comes up with a scheme to do such a thing--he must ruin the relationship of Desi and "O". In order to do this, he not only ruins their love lives, but the lives of those around him...and eventually causes the controversial school shooting scenes. Personally, I don't like violence, but the killings in this are done (in some of the cases) rather poetically. This movie can make you question the consequences of your actions. I'd recommend you check it out. | |
| great cast | |
| This movie is the best remade, Shakespeare movie I think I've ever seen. It doesn't have Shakespeare's script, but it is based on the play very well, except that it is modrenized. Odin, which is the character based on Othello, is played by Mekhi Phifer, and did an excellant job protraying him, is a star basketball player, at his all-white school. Julia Stiles, (Save The Last Dance,) plays his girlfriend Desi. Hugo, who is played by Josh Hartnett (Pearl Harbor,) does a wondeful job of playing everyones friend, and making Odin jealous, becuase he makes Odin think that Desi is cheating on him with his best friend Mike, who is played by Andrew Keegan (10 Things I Hate ABout You / 7th Heaven,) which starts this whole plan to get revenage on Mike and Desi. Very tragic ending, and very well written. |
