Othello - Act 1, Scene 3 "I hate the Moor"

[TvGyrl]

Best breaking of the 4th wall, by ANY actor.

[leeleec27]

how love grows bitter and produces the very worst...ken branagh is phenomenal. 

[XXxshaboomxXX]

i love how he just stares at the camera when he has solioquis at fisrts it was funny but then its just like holy shit amazing.

[TheSuperfuzzyfish]

i should not be watching this

[itssooty]

I have to learn this fucking shit..

[themagicofbooks]

I was awed by his Hamlet, admired his King Henry V, laughed myself silly at his Benedict and now his Iago scares the hell out of me. Gotta love Branagh - brilliant Shakespearean actor!

[dream24680]

I love how he says "I hate the Moor" so dramatically!

[KITTYclaws10]

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!

I have do do a whole frickin' essay on this one soliloquy.

WISH ME LUCK! :D

[ConfusedLolita]

@KITTYclaws10 There are worse soliloquies to be writing essays on. Best of luck to you. =D I'm actually memorizing it for an exam. O_O

[MrNightshade689]

i need to make up a monologue as Iago and recite it for english and i need some peoples advice on what to do

[dorkandproudofit]

The way he says the titular line in this clip... it's just DRIPPING with hate and malice. It almost reminds me of Palpatine in Star Wars, who had an equally hate-filled voice. the difference is, Iago has no drug-like force that makes him addicted to evil--He's just evil, for the hell of it.

Come to think of it, that almost makes him WORSE than a sith lord, huh?

[soccersprincess]

Brilliant

[MDkid1]

Brannagh is so devilishly excellent in this role! Very good actor!

[JEHIAHjustdoit]

whats the best way to describe the mood????

[Goldenface30]

Iago isn't psycho.

Lack of empathy + excessive jealousy = Iago's actions.

[harpy212]

if only he wasnt a physco. ^_^

[lewis3651]

Please tell me where act 3 scene 3 is it is where iago is putting doubt in othellos mind

[obiwashere]

they cut half of the movie which is the reason laurence fishburne didn't even read the whole play

[swannavon]

@obiwashere What?  If Fishburne didn't read the whole play it has nothing to do with the movie. Please.

[obiwashere]

@swannavon direct quote from Laurence Fishburne: [On why he didn't read the complete play of "Othello" before acting in the film version in which more than half of the dialogue was cut:] "Why should I read all those words that I'm not going to get to say?"

[swannavon]

@obiwashere OK, so it was obviously Fishburne's choice not to read the play.



[obiwashere]

@swannavon didn't I say that in the begininng?

[swannavon]

@obiwashere No. You said the reason Fishburne didn't read the whole play was because they cut the text for the film. This fact would not prevent Fishburne from reading the whole play. It was his choice, not the"fault" of the film having cut the play. Hello?

[retread01]

@obiwashere *If* that's true, I find that shocking. He must a be 'turn up and say I remember' type actor, rather than one that actually cares about the craft. Natural curiousity would make any normal person read the whole thing and perhaps a few other Shakespeare plays on top to understand it properly.

[SpiderXxPirate]

@obiwashere Wow. That's dedication, eh?

[warning221]

I wish we could watch this version in my class. The one we're watching is really cheesy and depressing, and the guy who plays Othello doesn't look like he's from anywhere near North Africa.

[vizardlord01]

Genius.

[moviehypno23]

What act/scene is this from?

[ivettexxx]

at fisrt, i dind't like how he looked at the camera when he talked, but now i really like it. it's different! and Kenneth Branagh is an amazing Iago!!

[claymate176]

I love Kenneth Brannagh! He did so well with the role of Iago. I think they cut out so much of his monolouge in hopes that the scene with the chess pieces would fill in the blanks in a dramatic way.

[anticliche321]

"I hate the moor" chills down my spine when he said that and looked right at me. o.o

[86rosstheboss]

@23421432143 I was thinking the same! :)))) only an Othello couldn'y like it!

[AnonomysPerson]

We watched this in my senior english class, and the teacher said that only Brannagh could've pulled off this role as well as he did because he's got the same type of ego that Iago has. XD

[MrGallaghers]

Happy Birthday Kenny :D

[Noodles37UK]

Did Ewan McGregor play him? Was it a stage play? Thanks.

[iNW09]

Im using two of Iago's monologues for my drama school and uni auditions. This one and the one ending "Enmesh them all". I just love this character. One of my all time faves.

[JamoeMills]

LOVE <3

[burrowsshreds]

Brannagh's amazing, one of my favorite actors. I am disappointed however, that a certain number of lines in this speech were cut, mainly because I need to work with this speech for a competition.

[LizSmiles1]

Kenneth Brannaugh is such a good actor

[cooldude628]

That last line killed me!

[CptStormfield]

lol nice lightning.

[matx33]

I love Kenneth Brannagh.

But why on earth did they cut out a huge chunk of this monologue?

[NevRav]

@matx33 Probably not to make the audience lose any interest or get lost in the wording.

[lloydbarker]

@matx33 I think so it wouldn't give away what he's going to do for people who aren't familiar with the play. Its an understandable cut, it builds the suspense making the audience wonder "Whats he planning?" and then he illustrates it with the chess pieces, putting the white knight between the black king and white queen. Great stuff.

[malichi912]

@matx33

well movies need to be tmed and i guess they figured the audience woud falll asleep if iago's full monolouge was in it

[matx33]

@malichi912 It's not that long a monologue...they pretty much showed the rest of the monologue with the chess action anyway. I'm just attached to the monologue I suppose.

[malichi912]

@matx33

same. i friggin love shakespere

[witness124]

@matx33 I think that the visual metaphor with the chessboard does enough to explain it. But I still agree; they should have kept out the bit where he talks about his plan.

[witness124]

@matx33 I know. I really hate it when this sort of thing happens. Somehow they think it's better to put some unbelievably silly metaphor on the screen than to let someone show off their real acting talent.

[Therapy44me]

@matx33

Because that chunk describes his plan to make Othello think Desdemona is sleeping around. By cutting that we discover what's going on as the movie unfolds

[matx33]

@Therapy44me

Good call, certainly an important enlightenment. Definitely an interesting cinematic choice on his part in that sense. Though I have attachment to the monologue, a script is always meant to be a guideline and not necessarily used verbatim - thus placing it a the director's interpretation.

[KenFromBeara]

@matx33 I never understood that myself. Branagh would have delivered the speech brilliantly. He's the best Iago I've ever seen on stage or screen.

[sirhonestharry]

@matx33 After some time to abuse Othello's Ears that he knows his wife too well he hath a person and a smooth dispose to be suspected..FRAMED to make women false the moor is of a free and open nature and thinks't men honest that but to be so and as tenderly led by the nose As asses are * * * All of that cut!

[Mongoosedog15]

@matx33 I'm pretty sure they cut all that because it's kind of unnecessary here. Brannagh quotes that part if the speech with the chess pieces. Saying that chunk out loud would be redundant.

[Yoso11]

@matx33 cause its still a movie and they want don't want to make it so obvious, so he basically describes it with chess pieces... lol

[priyankasethi96]

@matx33 they din't cut the monolauge

this video is short

[iamarabianprince]

i am a moor

[LSR1963]

There's a line from SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER that totally explains why Branagh is so pathetic as Iago. "You couldn't kill a crab louse." Does ANYONE think this twit is mean enough to hurt a fly?

[richiii14]

@LSR1963 wow your retarded.. kenneth Branagh was one of the best iago's in history, you know your shakespeare clearly..

[TheMiketh1]

we watched this in english today, and i was surprised how good the film was. laurence fishburne was brilliant as othello (esp. the ending) but branagh steals the show as iago. the acting is just perfect, and this is one of the best scenes in the film =]

[Xodyc]

I watched this in my theatre class, awesome film. Iago was truly a brilliant villian, cunning and deceitful

[NiktorMatfield]

best iago everr

[pcwcawwrestling]

one of the greatest villians of all time

[catherinemjfan]

@NiktorMatfield totally agree with u !!!!!!!!!!!

[lolman105]

THANKS ALOT bro im doing this scene for my english class

[pcwcawwrestling]

me too...every time i try to find a clip its a homemade one for english. lol

[rj232222]

good story by shakespeare

not entertaining but for sure intresting

[pcwcawwrestling]

othello is fuckin aawesome

[mawhar]

bah people have no attention span these days plus interesting and entertaining are often one and the same.