The movie "O" puts the Shakespeare play Othello onto the big screen in a great.
It is a great representation that we can all recognize.
with because the situation is something that we could see happening in today's culture. .
The creators took an old English set play that would be set in a battle field and turned it.
into an American prep school mostly set around basketball. The main character in "O" is.
Odin James a star basketball player representing Othello from the Shakespeare play. Odin.
faces many challenges in his life making him an unstable person who is easily influenced.
Odin James is the only black kid at Charleston Prep school an upper class white.
school where Odin was recruited to play basketball but otherwise is an outcast there. He.
is not from the same upbringing as all the other kids at this school coming out of a middle.
to lower class black neighborhood. Although having many friends at this school and being.
the star basketball player he is faced with a lot of pressures to fit in. Also along with.
trying to fit in with kids at his school now he is also being highly recruited from college.
scouts who are at every game watching him play, this puts even more pressure on him. .
The only thing that he feels is true to him no matter what is his girlfriend Desi who he is in.
love with and cares for very much. He shows this by just wanting to lay naked with her.
and talk or kiss and also by giving her a silk cloth passed through his family. This cloth.
that is supposed to be a sign of loves ends up being the cause of jealously. The start of.
Odin breaking down is when he is first accused by Desi's father the principle of the school.
that he forced himself on Desi. He tries to tell the father that he is in love with the.
daughter but he will not listen because he doesn't think his daughter would be with Odin.
because he is black. Desi then comes and tells the father that they are seeing each other.