so it's almost 3:00am now
Watching clips of rare Hamlets and Double Rainbow Song remixes is a totally legit reason to stay up this late, right? Right?
...Fuck it.
Anyway, I've started reading Othello (FFFFFFFFFFF), and so looked it up in The Friendly Shakespeare, because I can, and that is an awesome book. There is a section on Iago (how do you pronounce his name? Ya-go ( Read more... )
...Fuck it.
Anyway, I've started reading Othello (FFFFFFFFFFF), and so looked it up in The Friendly Shakespeare, because I can, and that is an awesome book. There is a section on Iago (how do you pronounce his name? Ya-go ( Read more... )
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Speaking of which, I usualy say 'ee-ah-go', but it often gets shortened to something in between if I say it fast.
But, shocking as it may be, I've never subscribed to the 'Iago-was-totally-in-love-with-Othello' theory. Personally, I find him far too badass when he basically has no motive other than 'I want to fuck with these guys' lives, because I can'. To me, he's always been a psycopath, who's put on these acts of emotion or closeness to Othello or Roderigo or whoever so as to manipulate them to his will. I adore how he keeps rattling off these excuses and motives, until he eventually just admits that, yeah, he's just doing it for fun. And [SPOILER ALERT] the moment he kills Roderigo - "oh villain!" - oh god, he's so amazing.
Also I totally voiced him in class, so I'm probably a little biased, because it gave me the opportunity to shout "Villainous whore!" in the middle of english. It was awesome.
Oh god I love this play so much.
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Me neither, actually, even though it's fun - if we don't take him at his word when he's talking about Desdemona, or saying how honest he is, and we're even wary of him in his soliloquies, why should we believe him when he says "I love you" or the like? (Although to be honest, "I am your own forever" chokes me up a bit.)
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Oh god, now I just want to read this whole play over again, what have you done, at least my trials are over, but still. Don't really have time to re-read Othello. Maybe I can get some year elevens to discuss it with me...
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(still cracks me up.)
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Also, I think it's "ee-ah-go". That's how it's pronounced in Aladdin, anyway. :P
And now I have the Reduced Shakespeare Company's Othello rap stuck in my head...
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OH MAN I LOVE THE RSC. I just saw The Complete Works Abridged last week! I... should mention that here, probably. Anyway. They did that whole rap in post accents. And played up the Oedipal subtext in Hamlet to a ridiculous extent. Also Twilight references. And one Hamlet/Horatio reference. And yeah it was really good.
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Aaaah lucky! YES, YES YOU MUST POST ABOUT THAT. I heard the radio version first, then got the DVD. The super-abridged backwards Hamlet cracks me up like nothing else. "FRANK SINATRA IS GOD!"
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OOH OOH OOH this is unrelated but you like Eddie Izzard right? RIGHT? "Hallo, I am God. I sound like James Mason."
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