Revengers Tragedy

Revengers Tragedy

Infobox Film | name = Revengers Tragedy


caption = Christopher Eccleston as Vindice
director = Alex Cox
producer = Margaret Matheson
Tod Davies
writer = Frank Cottrell Boyce
starring = Christopher Eccleston
Eddie Izzard
Derek Jacobi
Andrew Schofield
music = Chumbawumba
cinematography = Len Gowing
editing = Ray Fowlis
distributor = World Cinema Ltd.
released = 2003
runtime = 106 min.
language = English
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imdb_id = 286921

"Revengers Tragedy" is a film adaptation of the 1606 play "The Revenger's Tragedy" (attributed to Thomas Middleton in the credits, following the current scholarly consensus). It was directed by Alex Cox and adapted for the screen by Cox's fellow Liverpudlian, Frank Cottrell Boyce. The film stars Christopher Eccleston as the revenge-obsessed Vindice, with Derek Jacobi as the evil Duke, Eddie Izzard as his lecherous son Lussurioso, Diana Quick as the Duchess, Andrew Schofield as Vindice's brother Carlo (a version of the play's Hippolito), Carla Henry as his virtuous sister Castiza, and Marc Warren and Justin Salinger as the Duchess's sons Supervacuo and Ambitioso.

The original play is set in a depraved Italian court, but Cottrell Boyce's screenplay relocates it to a futuristic version of Liverpool in the year 2011, following the aftermath of a natural disaster which has destroyed the southern half of Great Britain. The city is a dystopia in which society is collapsing and where vendettas and the crude exercise of power are the norm. Jacobi's Duke is the most powerful crime lord in the city. Cottrell Boyce's script rearranges the play heavily and mixes the original Jacobean language with modern language.

"Revengers Tragedy" was shot and edited in Liverpool with an almost entirely local crew, including cinematographer Len Gowing, costumer Monica Aslanian, makeup designer Lesley Brennan and assistant director Kim Ryan. Cox's usual production designer, Cecilia Montiel prepared a visual strategy which was executed by her co-designer Remi Vaughan-Richards. The producers were Margaret Matheson (who executive produced Cox's "Sid and Nancy" for Zenith) and Tod Davies (who wrote and produced Cox's "Three Businessmen").

The movie's soundtrack was written and performed by Chumbawamba. In 2003, it was released by the band on their independent record label, MUTT.

External links

*imdb title|id=286921|title=Revengers Tragedy
* [http://www.alexcox.com/dir_revengerstragedy.htm "Revengers Tragedy" page on Alex Cox website]


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