Similarities between O/Othello

• similarities that both the movie and play focus on are themes of racial tension, jealousy, manipulation
• Othello/Odin is seen as different by the rest of the community
•  Iago/Hugo are jealous of Othello/Odin's success and want to essentially bring them and Cassio back to earth, and knows he can manipulate them using Desi and Odin's pride as the targets. 
• Iago/Hugo knows that he can use his skill and pick on the weaknesses in each character in order to get what he wants
• a prop of significance in both the play and the movie is the handkerchief
• It was a gift, and when it ends up in the wrong hands, Othello/Odin becomes furious about it
• Othello/Odin is manipulated into believing that Desdemona/Desi has been cheating on him
• Othello/Odin promises Iago/Hugo that he will kill her for what she has done.
• Desi/Desdemona holds true to her word when she says she hasn't cheated on him, but he still does not believe her and strangles her at the end of the movie.
• main difference between the play and the movie is the setting. 
• Othello is set in Venice and the island of Cyprus while there were wars between Venice and Turkey.  "O" is set at a modern day prep school
• In the play, Othello and Desdemona marry while in the movie, they are only high school lovers bound by a rubber band ring on Desi's ring finger.
• drug use becomes a factor in the movie that contributes to how the characters act
• Hugo uses steroids and Odin uses cocaine