Word: iago
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...interpreted as media by McLuhan's rules. "Backward countries are cool, and we are hot." Autos are hot. The "blurry, shaggy texture of Kennedy" was a natural for cool TV, which is why "sharp, intense" Nixon lost the debates. Private enterprise is hot; public debt is cool, Iago is cool, but Othello hot. Girls who wear glasses don't get passes-because they...
Thus begins the Orson Welles version of Othello, with the joint funeral of the Moor and Desdemona, and the imaginative execution of Iago. The entire film is prefigured by this non-Shakespearean opening sequence: the sense of evil leading to tragic death, the theme of innocent beauty wronged, the symbolic imprisonment of man in a cage of passion...
Symbolic prison bars recur throughout the film, but never in a blatantly intrusive way like the self-conscious symbols of La Dolce Vita. Othello overhears Iago's baiting of Cassio through a barred casement, he looks in upon Desdemona through her leaded window, and finds out the greatness of his guilt behind a barred gate in the castle. His only escape from the cage of his passion is suicide, and one he has stabbed himself with a dagger, he leaves his prison, free to die in the bedroom beside his wife...
Micheal MacLiammoir's Iago is properly evil, although his tendency to spout his lines rapidly is at times distressing. Suzanne Cloutier is decorative as Desdemona. Her part has been cut down so far as to make it impossible for her to present a whole person, but she attempts, with near-success, to achieve a realistic portrayal...
...undergraduate, Daniel Selzer, acting director of the Loeb, was president of Theatre Intime, "an affected name for the Princeton equivalent of the HDC." And as an actor in student productions, Daniel Selzer, widely acclaimed for his performance as Falstaff last spring portrayed Tartuffe, Iago, and Henry...