From the start, the two scenes appear to be rather different and look like they almost represent alternate scenarios.  At this moment of the play, Othello has finally reached his limit with the treachery from Desdemona although there is actually none at all.  The lies planted in his head by Iago have built up the rage and distrust in his heart to the point where Othello has made his mind to go and kill his wife so that she may never betray him again.  Right before Othello ends Desdemona’s life, Othello gives a speech expressing how he didn’t want it to be like this but now he must do what he has to.  Othello also seems to want a confession out of Desdemona although regardless of her constant denials he still is set on ending her life.

This scene is depicted in both films and although the story remains the story, the attitude and tones of the two seem different.  It all begins with the entrance of Othello in both films (Laurence Fishburne one and Orson Welles one).  In Fishburne’s production, he enters the bedroom weeping and almost regretful for the action he is about to commit.  He tone, when speaking to Desdemona, is anger yet, in more of a disappointed voice, rather pure anger.  This production make Othello and Desdemona seem more like actual lovers compared to the Welles one, where they seem more like killer and victim.  In Welles’ edition of the play, Othello enters with a menacing force (and menacing entrance music).  Othello’s first words are “Put out the light and…put out the light.”  In this Othello, Othello does not seem sorry or regretful for what he has come to do, but rather, he slowly kills the lights and then kills Desdemona as simple as the candle.