The switch of the main role from male to female was never an issue for me and the tweaking of the adaptation was a bold move that did pay off. Russell Brand as the jester is a misfire, you think he is just playing himself and feels rather off when the actors are putting more efforts in their respective parts.Ī noble attempt to bring a difficult play on to the screen but not successfully done. The film never really grabs you by the lapels and hence you find yourself wandering off. Djimon Hounsou is imposing as Caliban waiting for a chance to gets his own revenge on Prospera. The visuals are sumptuous, we see Ben Wishaw flying about as Ariel. Helen Mirren is great as Prospera and delights in reading text reserved for a male actor. Some years later Propsera gets the chance for vengeance as Ariel causes a tempest wrecking the ship that carries the people who wronged Prospera to the island. She raises her daughter Miranda and enters a power struggle with the human beast Caliban who she has enslaved and wrested control of the spirit Ariel. The ship she is in ends up in a remote island.
Helen Mirren takes centre stage and Prospero from the original text becomes Prospera the wronged wife of the Duke of Milan, accused of witchcraft and exiled with her baby daughter as her brother takes over the dukedom. Julie Taymor re-imagines Shakespeare's The Tempest but I am not sure that despite the visual imagery it has been made any more accessible. Reviewed by Prismark10 6 / 10 Tempting enough
This leads to the power struggle and balance between Caliban (Djimon Hounsou) and Prospera a struggle not about brawn, but about intellect. She ends up on an island it's a tabula rasa: no society, so the mother figure becomes a father figure to Miranda (Felicity Jones). In Taymor's version, Prospera is usurped by her brother and sent off with her four-year daughter on a ship. Going back to the sixteenth or seventeenth century, women practicing the magical arts of alchemy were often convicted of witchcraft. In Writer, Producer, and Director Julie Taymor's version of "The Tempest", the main character is now a woman named Prospera (Dame Helen Mirren).
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