Far in the distant past I had the wonderful opportunity to play Iago, in a production of Shakespeare's “Othello.” I'm also an avid film lover and a filmmaker. What do these two things have in common? Well, there's a certain 'movement' in film over the last decade (and before anyone reminds me of other times this has occured I'm well aware but since it's happening 'again' now, I thought I'd use it as an example.) The movement is this idea of 're-imagining' villainous characters from other films/books/plays/fairytales/comics. Trying to empathize with them. To re-write them from a modern viewpoint. Not anything intrinsically wrong with that. But…
Evil Is
Evil Is
Evil Is
Far in the distant past I had the wonderful opportunity to play Iago, in a production of Shakespeare's “Othello.” I'm also an avid film lover and a filmmaker. What do these two things have in common? Well, there's a certain 'movement' in film over the last decade (and before anyone reminds me of other times this has occured I'm well aware but since it's happening 'again' now, I thought I'd use it as an example.) The movement is this idea of 're-imagining' villainous characters from other films/books/plays/fairytales/comics. Trying to empathize with them. To re-write them from a modern viewpoint. Not anything intrinsically wrong with that. But…