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 #R:cmcl2:-1389200:cmcl2:7700001:000:1029 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.)