The bathtub scene of the movie... Orsino:How will she love when the rich golden shaft Hath killed the flock of all affections else That live in her--when liver, brain and heart ...are all supplied...with one self king! (1.1.34-38) Viola: Sir, shall I to this lady? Orsino: Ay, that�s the theme. To her in haste. Tell her my love will give no place, bide no denay. (2.4.122-4)
Taking lines from two different scenes, Nunn creates a new one, as he has been doing through the whole film. Like the first fragment of the "O Mistress Mine" sequence, many of the lines are from 1.1--but Viola has to hear them, because she is our lens through which we see Orsino. By taking lines from the very first scene and putting them nearer the end, Nunn emphasizes that Orsino's love for Olivia has not undergone any change throughout the story--it is stagnant, the same idealized, unrequited and unproductive relationship from the beginning to the end. Juxtaposed with Cesario, this is even clearer: we have seen Viola's love for Orsino grow throughout the story, just as we have seen Orsino becoming friends with his new servant. We see that their relationship is a changing one, and thus a richer and more rewarding one, than Orsino's non-relationship with Olivia.
(God that's long. It's the whole "non changing relationship = lines from beginning" that I was all proud of.)
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okay, an edited version, cause it's long
Date: 2005-12-02 07:24 am (UTC)Orsino:How will she love when the rich golden shaft
Hath killed the flock of all affections else
That live in her--when liver, brain and heart
...are all supplied...with one self king! (1.1.34-38)
Viola: Sir, shall I to this lady?
Orsino: Ay, that�s the theme. To her in haste.
Tell her my love will give no place, bide no denay. (2.4.122-4)
Taking lines from two different scenes, Nunn creates a new one, as he has been doing through the whole film. Like the first fragment of the "O Mistress Mine" sequence, many of the lines are from 1.1--but Viola has to hear them, because she is our lens through which we see Orsino. By taking lines from the very first scene and putting them nearer the end, Nunn emphasizes that Orsino's love for Olivia has not undergone any change throughout the story--it is stagnant, the same idealized, unrequited and unproductive relationship from the beginning to the end. Juxtaposed with Cesario, this is even clearer: we have seen Viola's love for Orsino grow throughout the story, just as we have seen Orsino becoming friends with his new servant. We see that their relationship is a changing one, and thus a richer and more rewarding one, than Orsino's non-relationship with Olivia.
(God that's long. It's the whole "non changing relationship = lines from beginning" that I was all proud of.)