The Tempest

Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Release Year: 2010
Country: USA
Runtime: 110
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Julie Taymor
Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS
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Writing by: Julie Taymor – (screenplay)
William Shakespeare – (play)

Produced by: Ronald M. Bozman – executive producer (as Ron Bozman)
Anthony Buckner – executive producer
Beaux Carson – co-executive producer
Robert Chartoff – producer
Lynn Hendee – producer
Rohit Khattar – executive producer
Jason K. Lau – producer
Phyllis LaVoie – associate producer
Tino Puri – executive producer
Greg Strasburg – executive producer
Julia Taylor-Stanley – producer
Julie Taymor – producer
Stewart Till – executive producer

Cast: Felicity Jones – Miranda
Jude Akuwidike – Boatswain
Reeve Carney – Prince Ferdinand
David Strathairn – King Alonso
Tom Conti – Gonzalo
Alan Cumming – Sebastian
Chris Cooper – Antonio
Helen Mirren – Prospera
Ben Whishaw – Ariel
Djimon Hounsou – Caliban
Russell Brand – Trinculo

Music: Elliot Goldenthal
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Plot Outline:

In Julie Taymor's version of 'The Tempest,' the main character is now a woman named Prospera. Going back to the 16th or 17th century…
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Plot: In Julie Taymor's version of 'The Tempest,' the main character is now a woman named Prospera. Going back to the 16th or 17th century, women practicing the magical arts of alchemy were often convicted of witchcraft. In Taymor's version, Prospera is usurped by her brother and sent off with her four-year daughter on a ship. She ends up on an island; it's a tabula rasa: no society, so the mother figure becomes a father figure to Miranda. This leads to the power struggle and balance between Caliban and Prospera; a struggle not about brawn, but about intellect.

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• The decision to switch the gender of the lead character was a diving board to a whole new appreciation of the play. It had everything to do with Helen Mirren and a coincidental exchange that Julie Taymor had with the actress. When Taymor encountered Helen Mirren at a party, she had already envisioned Mirren in the role and their conversation cemented her decision. "We were talking Shakespeare," Taymor recollects, "and she had no idea I was planning this film when she mentioned that the first Shakespeare she ever did was Caliban in 'The Tempest,' and she actually said to me, 'You know, I could play Prospero-as a woman.' And I said, 'Do you want to? Because I've been preparing a film version of "The Tempest" with exactly that in mind.' And, fortunately, she said yes."