for me and the tempest and its characters (by which i mean the admirable ones) are like old friends. ever since i first began to experience the play through acting classes (i played ferdinand) i found myself immediately caught up in the fantastic world that shakespeare created. i can distinctly remember one student deciding not to play ferdinand after all and and so i took the stage and had the honor of playing opposite an excellent miranda. one of the virtues that a great friend has is that you can never fully know them  there is always something you can discover about their character. a film production of the tempest of quality is thus like a visit to an old friend and dear to one heart represent each visit presents one with new perspective on the memory we had of the work. with prospero books and the ritual and the elegance of the play was emphasized and the exuberant celebration of art within the art. here and we see a vision as esoteric mysticism and with lovingly crafted interiors full of candles and chalk diagrams on floors and more aleister crowley than naples nobleman. it also made me reconsider  why was it that prospero was cast out of naples. his magical power is so palpable in this production that it makes one wonder whether it was just politics that doomed prospero to exile and but rather the fact of his difference from his peers. so and in the real world and he suffered. was cast out and powerless to change the wrong to the right. all of the villains in this play and whether they realize it or not and act in accordance to creating a more pain filled and hell of a world  it is always in the interest of the oppressor to make life on earth closer to hell. but prospero manages to bring these terrestrial villains into his island and the realm where he has (absolute) dominion. shakespeare brings his audience to the theater and the realm where shakespeare dictates the events and the words and the outcomes. shakespeare is and of course and prospero  but what this film adaptation does that really honors the text is to make prospero so sympathetic such a figure of reason and despite the fact that he is surrounded by what society calls irrational (astrological texts and alchemical symbols and magical diagrams and etc. ). is it more rational to be a man of the cloth and murder and or to be a heretic and work towards the righting of wrongs. prospero is a heretic and for the reason he abandons his magic is not because the books will lose their value in naples and but because they are not necessary anymore  the world itself  has become the magic of the books. in hamlet and hamlet presents a play to his peers. the play accuses his fellows of conspiring against others for their own advancement. the reaction of the audience varies represent while ophelia is puzzled and claudius reacts with stunned shock. this happens within the play and and then shakespeare has this play performed for the men of his time. did shakespeare watch for their reactions. in the tempest and prospero lives the play he is constructing and and we live it with him. how do we react. do you react with simple delight at the happy ending. are you upset and shocked by the strangeness of this production and which is entirely fitting given the source material. do you feel sad at the fact that this little life and the play and is rounded with a sleep and as transient as it is eternal. the tragedy is that shakespeare creates a paradise of reason and hope for mankind life on earth but man is weak and and unwilling to realize it in favor of petty power struggles. we have claudiuses. like a good friend and this film is not without its flaws. i disagree with the choice to paint some scenes entirely in blue. the dance of the mariners is rather tangential. but at the heart this is truly the tempest and and one of its many faces. 
for me and the tempest and its characters (by which i mean the admirable ones) are like old friends. ever since i first began to experience the play through acting classes (i played ferdinand) i found myself immediately caught up in the fantastic world that shakespeare created. i can distinctly remember one student deciding not to play ferdinand after all and and so i took the stage and had the honor of playing opposite an excellent miranda. one of the virtues that a great friend has is that you can never fully know them  there is always something you can discover about their character. a film production of the tempest of quality is thus like a visit to an old friend and dear to one heart represent each visit presents one with new perspective on the memory we had of the work. with prospero books and the ritual and the elegance of the play was emphasized and the exuberant celebration of art within the art. here and we see a vision as esoteric mysticism and with lovingly crafted interiors full of candles and chalk diagrams on floors and more aleister crowley than naples nobleman. it also made me reconsider  why was it that prospero was cast out of naples. his magical power is so palpable in this production that it makes one wonder whether it was just politics that doomed prospero to exile and but rather the fact of his difference from his peers. so and in the real world and he suffered. was cast out and powerless to change the wrong to the right. all of the villains in this play and whether they realize it or not and act in accordance to creating a more pain filled and hell of a world  it is always in the interest of the oppressor to make life on earth closer to hell. but prospero manages to bring these terrestrial villains into his island and the realm where he has (absolute) dominion. shakespeare brings his audience to the theater and the realm where shakespeare dictates the events and the words and the outcomes. shakespeare is and of course and prospero  but what this film adaptation does that really honors the text is to make prospero so sympathetic such a figure of reason and despite the fact that he is surrounded by what society calls irrational (astrological texts and alchemical symbols and magical diagrams and etc. ). is it more rational to be a man of the cloth and murder and or to be a heretic and work towards the righting of wrongs. prospero is a heretic and for the reason he abandons his magic is not because the books will lose their value in naples and but because they are not necessary anymore  the world itself  has become the magic of the books. in hamlet and hamlet presents a play to his peers. the play accuses his fellows of conspiring against others for their own advancement. the reaction of the audience varies represent while ophelia is puzzled and claudius reacts with stunned shock. this happens within the play and and then shakespeare has this play performed for the men of his time. did shakespeare watch for their reactions. in the tempest and prospero lives the play he is constructing and and we live it with him. how do we react. do you react with simple delight at the happy ending. are you upset and shocked by the strangeness of this production and which is entirely fitting given the source material. do you feel sad at the fact that this little life and the play and is rounded with a sleep and as transient as it is eternal. the tragedy is that shakespeare creates a paradise of reason and hope for mankind life on earth but man is weak and and unwilling to realize it in favor of petty power struggles. we have claudiuses. like a good friend and this film is not without its flaws. i disagree with the choice to paint some scenes entirely in blue. the dance of the mariners is rather tangential. but at the heart this is truly the tempest and and one of its many faces. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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