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(5 pp) In the Orson Welles' 1952 film, Othello
begins where it should end, with the funeral
procession for Othello and Desdemona The horizontal
Othello and Desdemona are glimpsed between the tall
vertical spears of armored soldiers, other times
in long shot. Then viewed from an overhead,
probably a crane shot, suddenly there is a wretched
man, a rope around his neck, being dragged through
the crowd toward a heavy and primitve-looking cage.
Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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man, a rope around his neck, being dragged through the crowd toward a heavy and primitve-looking cage. Bibliography lists 2 sources. BBiagMLR.doc Michael MacLiammoir Plays Iago
Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., November 2000 Introduction In the Orson
Welles 1952 film, Othello begins where it should end, with the funeral procession for Othello and Desdemona. In this film beginning, Othello is not only dead but is shown
upside down. We could wonder if he shown this way to emphasize those reversals that occur through the play, as Welles likes his images to have at least one
meaning if not several. Black figures of the funeral procession are silhouetted against the stark, unrelieved whiteness of the sky over the roaring sea. Has the sea started to
wail, or is that the background chorus? The horizontal Othello and Desdemona are glimpsed between the tall vertical spears of armored soldiers, other times in long shot. Then viewed
from an overhead, probably a crane shot, when suddenly, we see, a disheveled man, a rope around his neck, being dragged through the crowd toward a heavy and primitive-looking cage.
Iago - played by Michael MacLiammoir Iago is roughly thrust into the cage, and by means of a creaking iron wheel and pulley, the cage is hoisted skyward to dangle
in front of the high stone wall. Framed by the bars of the cage is the bleak, unknowable face of the arch-villain, Iago himself, whose schemes of entrapment and manipulation
have backfired on him. "I am not what I am," he has said when the original play began,(1.1.65), but now he will have "daws to peck at" him. He begins
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