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1	!!The play
2	* SparedByTheCut: {{Inverted}} in many productions. Roderigo is apparently killed off by Iago in the penultimate scene, but a brief line by Cassio later implies that he was OnlyMostlyDead. The line is easy to miss, and many productions cut it altogether, making it appear that Roderigo is dead after all.
3	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
4	** Creator/SidneyPoitier might have helped his acting career by forestalling his positive discrimination backlash in the 1960s if he had accepted an offer to play the title character for a TV movie adaptation. Creator/ChristopherPlummer (who later played the role on Broadway to much acclaim opposite Creator/JamesEarlJones) would have served as his Iago.
5	** Creator/JamesEarlJones was the director's first choice for Creator/TheBBC's 1981 TV version, but the British actors' union objected strongly to casting an American in such a high-profile role. In the end, the part went to Creator/AnthonyHopkins, with the character presented as being of Arabic, rather than African, descent.
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7	!!The 1965 film:
8	* DirectedByCastMember: Subverted. Along with his version of ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'', the only Shakespeare adaptation that Creator/LaurenceOlivier starred in but did not direct.
9	* FakeNationality: Creator/LaurenceOlivier appears in {{Blackface}} and speaks with an ambiguously exotic accent.
10	* NoBudget: They couldn't find a financial backer for the project, so the budget was very low.
11	* TheOtherDarrin: Most of the cast carried over from the original stage production. The exceptions were Anthony Nicolls - who replaced Martin Boddey as Brabantio - and Robert Lang replacing Michael Rothwell as Roderigo.
12	* RecycledSet: As Creator/LaurenceOlivier's regular backers for his Shakespeare films were dead by TheSixties, he had to use enlarged duplicates of the sets in his original staged version.

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