From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!tihor
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re: tempest - (nf)
Article-I.D.: cmcl2.13982
Posted: Tue Sep 28 00:11:52 1982
Received: Thu Sep 30 10:59:58 1982

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cmcl2!tihor    Sep 27 15:57:00 1982

Certainly having recently read Shakespear's Tempest would have help your
appreciation of Mazursky's work.  I consider the movie to be one of the better
modern films I have seen ebcause it manages to be true to the spirit of the
Romances without simply being a modern interpretation of one of Shakespear's 
plays.  Rather it attempts to present the same sort of brooding mood and 
introspection as the original yet remain modern in conventions, focus, and
technique.  I don't think it is a strong as the play for many reasons, 
particularly the degree of ambiguity as to the motivations in the ending.
(Although it is fairly clear what the resolutions are they are presented 
in a very quick and spare style which seems inconsistent with the generally
slow and detailed style of the first half of the film.  Some of this is 
undoubtedly due to the change in pacing as the film moves into the purely
Shakespearean structure in the second half and the pacing accelerates to
cover the events of a two hour play in about 50 minutes.)