The Tempest - "Caliban" Clip

[samurai0rezurii]

I always pictured Caliban as more of a monstrous being. That or a deformed man. Well...whatever. The director interprets it their own way, I suppose.

[Thedarkbluelight]

Yh, Calliban was most likely based on some views of how english saw/treated black people. However in the book he is more of an actuall animal, which i think they should have conveyed more, he seems too human.

[endersgame55]

@Thedarkbluelight Well, maybe. That's the common modern interpretation, but nothing in the text supports that. Caliban's mother was driven to the island from Algiers, though where she was a native of originally is never addressed. Really all of this business about colonialism is modern readers projecting our socio-political sensibilities onto the play. Hell, even if this was the intended effect, in Shakespeare's day Caliban would have been just as likely a stand-in for the Irish than Africans.

[LittleCrowProduction]

Don't freak out, Caliban is pretty boss

[justBEEable]

i find that really offensive. the only black person in the movie is the slave.

[Chia1432]

@justBEEable

Ariel is actually a slave to prospero as well. But I do agree. That's what movie makers think anyway. Whites are more good than other races.

[cornsnoggle]

@justBEEable then you find shakespeare offensive. don't watch it then.

[Chocmarywarren]

@justBEEable this guy chose it. He may actually be using it to make a point of anti-slavery . this role has been coveted by african actors in the stage play to make such a point. and he's not being ridiculed.

[DobermanCrew]

@justBEEable then you must be white XD lol

[8r4do]

@justBEEable I find it figurative, not literal. The pigment of his skin, perfect physique, and cultural body language all bring out the role, and the role does not put him down. He gives the monster a beauty. And viewers may be more attracted to the character than repulsed (which is how it normally would have been for the reader). I like how movie producers use race to an advantage.

[8r4do]

@justBEEable His skin color is almost the color of the island, making it more believable that he is a creation of the islands itself, of the earth. If it were a white man he would only be painted the same color.

[shadowcrow5]

@justBEEable and i find it really offencive that you focus too much on that and less on the video you twat -_-

[XMilliePudX]

@justBEEable That's how some people think Shakespeare meant the play to be interpreted. They think he meant Caliban to represent how the English treated/saw black people back when he was alive. 

[MatalicMaternia]

@justBEEable

 I absolutely agree

[MatalicMaternia]

@justBEEable

But then, of course (in Shakespearean times) it was only natural to think of any person of African descent that way. Of course, considering the era (1500-1600's)...

Besides all of this, I'm sure this movie will be a hit with anybody (and everybody)...

[Jacobitess]

What a supremely racist interpretation. Doesn't this flippant director realize what she's walking into concerning the history of this character?

[LOUCOSPORFILMES]

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