Forthcoming: Romeo and Juliet in Harlem.Please note that the material in them, even though I have done some editing to remove more objectionable content, may not be acceptable to all audiences.Ĭlip One: The men try to persuade Ray to date Eva. I've chosen three representative clips to give you a feel for the film. I feel that this is not a fair reading of Katherine or of women, and the film suffers as a result. Once she does, the shrewishness will be all gone. And the idea they all have in mind is that Eva is shrewish because (not to put too fine a point on it) she hasn't had a man sexually. The younger sisters need to get Eva (our Katherine analogue) out of the way so that they can enjoy their own relationships the men in those relationships hire Ray to get her to fall in love with him, move away with him, and then be dumped by him in some faraway location. I think part of it is the overall interpretation of the story arc. Unlike O, which, as far as I remember, involves African-American culture by way of contrast to white American culture, Deliver Us From Eva is a derivative of The Taming of the Shrew that sets itself entirely in Black culture in America-or, rather, what passes in Hollywood as Black culture, which isn't quite the same thing. I wish there were more derivatives like this it recasts Shakespeare in African-American culture.
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