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...central motivations of most of the other characters, with the notable exception of Aaron the Moor (Harry Lennix), are more obvious. Tamora is (and is repeatedly represented as) a lioness, bestial in her pursuit of pleasure and fiercely protective of her young. Saturnius, the young emperor foppishly and petulantly embodied by the fine stage actor Alan Cumming, simply seeks to protect his authority and to be loved. Tamora's two younger sons (Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Matthew Rhys) are simply bored and callous, devoted to violence and provocation out of sheer idiocy and for want of a better option...
...past; his rival, the emperor Saturninus (Cumming), is pure oil of modern politician, oozing endearments and threats, riding through Rome in an open limo with a bubble top, seizing and betraying Titus' daughter Lavinia (Fraser). Tattoos abound, on the royal Goth captives led by Tamora (Lange) and on the Moor Aaron (Lennix). A big band plays at Saturninus' Saturnalia; heavy metal accompanies the Goths. A tiger stalks the forest...
...well, you. Breaking down these types of barriers is exactly what director Patricia Rozema attempts to do in her rather unorthodox adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Indeed, Rozema crashes through the "garden party" of archetypal Austen movies (think Emma Thompson and Kate Winslett running breathless over the moor in Sense and Sensibility) to present a more richly satirical piece full of innuendo, witticism, and blatant sexuality. Yes, you heard right: sex in a Jane Austen movie...
Salman Rushdie, born in Bombay, India, is the author of The Moor's Last Sigh
...three most dramatically com- pelling figures--Titus, Tamora and Tamora's lover, Aaron the Moor (Uche Amaechi '99)--Sherrod, as the vengeful Tamora, is the most successful. Exuding an air of darkly brooding, smouldering bitterness mingled with a strangely tragic Cleopatra-like dignity, she somehow makes one feel she's as much sinned against as sinner...