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Xenophobia | Jealousy
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Best Director | 2001 | Tim Blake
2001 | Tim Blake
Box Office Collection 16,017,403 USD
This film finished production in 1999, and its original release date coincided with the Columbine High School shootings. The release was postponed because of the film's themes of violence and murder in a high-school setting.
The studios were initially hesitant about giving the film a one-letter title. The original title was "Odin". But they eventually decided the one-letter title was better because it was unique. The "O" also resembles a basketball hoop, which Mekhi Phifer appears to be holding on the poster.
Both Julia Stiles and Andrew Keegan appeared in a previous high-school adaptation of a William Shakespeare play - 10 Things I Hate About You (1999).
The music at the end of the movie, "Ave Maria", is from the end of Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello", which was also based on the William Shakespeare play "Othello".
Third modern William Shakespeare adaptation with Julia Stiles. The others being 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) and Hamlet (2000).
"[last lines] Hugo: All my life I always wanted to fly. I always wanted to live like a hawk. I know you're not supposed to be jealous of anything, but... to take flight, to soar above everything and everyone, now that's living. But a hawk is no good around normal birds. It can't fit in. Even though all the other birds probably wanna be hawks; they hate him for what they can't be. Proud. Powerful. Determined. Dark. Odin is a hawk. He soars above us. He can fly. One of these days, everyone's gonna pay attention to me. Because I'm gonna fly too."
"Odin: My life is over, that's it. But while all ya'll are out here livin' yours, sitting around talking about the nigger who lost it back in high school, you make sure you tell them the truth. You tell them I loved that girl! I did! But I got played! [Points to Hugo] Odin: He twisted my head up. He fucked it up. I ain't no different than none of ya'll. My mom's ain't no crack head. I wasn't no gang banger. It wasn't some hood rat drug dealer that tripped me up. It was this white, prep school motherfucker standing right there! You tell them where I'm from... didn't make me do this. [Shoots himself in the chest, collapses]"
