'1. How Does Tim Blake Nelson Represent the Character of Hugo\r'

'Tim Blake Nelson’s moving-picture betoken â€Å"O”, modernised the original Elizabethan shape Othello into a 21st century American look at to suite the values and night club of the modern audiences. It becomes noticeable in the film that Hugo is always upset and shows his tawdryness by manipulating Odin. Hugo’s family relationship highlights his jealousy for Odin as his own father, who is also the coach of the basketball game game team, devotes more(prenominal) time and shows only dear for Odin rather than his own son.This is noticeable with the scene when Hugo is having dinner with his parents, the close ups on each single’s faces portrays the mortifying atmosphere. The mother’s facial conceptualisation portrays the innocence and weak female, whilst the father appears more dominant and confident. The awkwardness between family members show that Hugo is living in a violent and unloving environment which causes him to wear anger ag ainst Odin for taking his fathers love away. This provides us a reason why Hugo might nauseate Odin so much.In contrast, Iago shows jealousy towards Othello, but he is not jealous because of his profession, it is just the fact that a dumber, black person is loose orders to him to do things. Shakespeare emphasis Iago’s execration for Othello because his simply black and different. We only neck that Iago is simply evil and deceptive from the beginning. But, Tim Blake Nelson interprets in a different way by giving us the clue of Hugo’s jealousy olibanum manipulating the audience to have some sympathy for the antagonist as well.Also throughout the film, Tim Blake Nelson purposely makes Hugo to be disconnected from others to separate him. This is illustrated in the scene when the basketball team is having a meeting in a room and Hugo is noticeably farthest away from his father and rest of the teammates, crouching next the door by himself. The use of spacious shot o f Hugo represents his disconnection with others as it shows Hugo’s the nearby surroundings to exhibit that no one is sitting near him and thus suggesting that he is separated from others all the time.This is equal with the original text and Iago’s disconnection with others. The use of soliloquy by Iago throughout the text shows the power of being aside. He purposely separates himself to talk about his deceptive plans to manipulate Othello and, it is apparent that Iago is the only one that has a soliloquy. So it is apparent that Tim Blake Nelson has interpret the notion of disconnection and applied film techniques to reinforce it.\r\n'