and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sOyJ8pqPCU (CorkShakespeare)
“I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter / and the Moor are now making the beast with two / backs” (Othello, Act 1, Scene 1, lines 129-131) .
Upon watching this scene in class, I decided to watch another adaptation and watch how the two differ/compare to the text. From class, I thought it was interesting that this movie actually had Roderigo and Iago in the shadows because it was just something that I would not have thought of unless I had actually seen it myself. So after I decided to watch another version of the same scene on the Youtube channel called CorkShakespeare. CorkShakespeare is a Youtube channel that records their own take on a variety of Shakespeare plays and put it on Youtube. They instead took another approach but similar in that the two characters were hidden. They instead had Iago and Roderigo on the stage with Brabanito off stage to indicate that they couldn’t be seen by him. Again I noticed that the two were not noticed by the Venetian senator, but this time I connected two and two together. It made a lot of sense to me just because it wouldn’t have worked out otherwise. If they had not been in the shadows, Iago would have been noticed immediately when they encountered one another in the following scene. It was only after watching this scene did I notice Brabanito directly asks who are you. Roderigo answered while Iago didn’t which made so much sense to me. More on the CorkShakespeare video, I actually really liked the way they interpreted Iago and Roderigo’s tone of voice. I felt that they had Iago’s controlling tone down which really displays the power and control he has over Roderigo during the moment. My biggest critique for this version is the props it had and its setting. I felt that they could have done so much more instead of having a draped over background with tile floor. However, they were probably low on budget and it’s not like it’s an actual movie, so I can’t really complain. Overall, I agreed with the choices they made for this scene.
