Othello vs. O

Many Shakespearean plays have been used by Hollywood; the text is sometimes used as an exact script for the film and sometimes the text is used as a basis for the film but not an exact replica. A version of the play Othello written by William Shakespeare that appeals to teens is director Tim Blake Nelson’s O. He uses Shakespeare’s Othello as a guideline for his powerful movie about a rich white dominated …

…s plan backfires and, in the end, he is the only one left alive. Tim Blake Nelson uses Shakespeare’s Othello as a basis for his film O; however his adaptation includes many differences from the Shakespeare text. The main ideas of the text are used in the film but there are minor differences included in the character names, the age of the characters and the setting; there are also a few minor plot changes.