My Initial Reaction

Before we started watching the movie, I was under the impression that the plot of Shakespeare's Othello would not be quite as obvious in the movie. I thought that it would be harder to find the similarities between the two plots; like how The Lion King could be a modern twist on Shakespeare's Hamlet. The plot in The Lion King takes some careful analyzing to really see the connections to Hamlet. This could be because we say the movie long before any of us even knew that Shakespeare existed and therefore could not have possible picked up on the similarities. Or even upon reading Hamlet, we still didn't make the connection because we first saw The Lion King, we were probably pretty young. Our depiction of that movie will never change as we grow up and learn new things; it will always stick in our minds in the same way that we viewed it as young children. Maybe this logic could be applied to why the plot in "O" is so much like the play. Because we just got done reading Othello and I was expecting the movie to be a modern twist on that play, the plot stood out more clearly to me.

I believe that I had a hard time seeing the differences between the movie and the play because all I could focus on was the similarities. It wasn't until we started talking about the movie that I was able to feed off what everyone else was saying and realize the differences. For example, (besides the obvious differences) how my reaction to each character may have differed from the movie to the play. Like how Oden came off as much more jealous and more of a show-off in the movie where in the play I felt as if he were more humble and set back from the other characters. This is just one example of many that aroused in my thought process after listening to the discussion after the movie that could go on for much long, but I will stop here.