i need to watch this, but I'm a few minutes in and already I feel bored. I need to watch this for AP European History, along with Luther, The Mission, Dangerous Liaisons, Marie Antoinette, Atonement, and Lives of Others. I already finished Dr. Zhivago (which is a well made movie :cheers:) please, tell me!!!!!
Quote from: El Toro Loco on July 27, 2011, 01:54:06 PM
i need to watch this, but I'm a few minutes in and already I feel bored. I need to watch this for AP European History, along with Luther, The Mission, Dangerous Liaisons, Marie Antoinette, Atonement, and Lives of Others. I already finished Dr. Zhivago (which is a well made movie :cheers:) please, tell me!!!!!
I've seen every movie listed except Name of the Rose. Sorry.
Interesting that you're watching so many movies, as opposed to actual documentaries. Historically based movies are almost always very biased.
It's okay, I guess.
Sherlock Holmes As a monk, with an impressionable young superstitious libidinous paranoid teenage sidekick.
The Movie isn't bad, nor is the book (the book is a bit slow, but thats that author). The auther was my Italian Buddy's literature teacher in Bologne.
-Ed
Quote from: Ed on July 27, 2011, 03:29:46 PM
The Movie isn't bad, nor is the book (the book is a bit slow, but thats that author). The auther was my Italian Buddy's literature teacher in Bologne.
-Ed
Yeah, well, my literature teacher was from Salami.
Sorry, BOLOGNA! The place in Italy
Quote from: Ed on July 27, 2011, 03:34:56 PM
Sorry, BOLOGNA! The place in Italy
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
Oh, dude. I was just messin' with ya. I've been to Northern Italy twice. I know Bologna.
If my buddy heard I calle dhis home lunchmeat, I'd be dead.
NAME OF THE ROSE is very good. Give it a chance.
did and boy was it fun! :thumbup:
I really enjoyed the book. A medieval mystery that attempts to get into the mindset of the monks of a monastery of that time period. Grafted onto that is a mystery that touches upon many aspects of philosophy, which of course can only be solved by the avatar of the modern mind, William of Baskerville.
Great stuff.
The movie I also enjoyed, but to a lesser extent, as it lost most of the philosophical ponderings and theological crises to focus on the mystery. Still a good story well put together.
Fun fact: "The Girl" went on to play a cenobite in Hellraiser IV.
Anyway, if you liked the movie, you might check out the book. Forewarning, the book is not the easiest of reading. In fact, Eco wrote the first hundred pages of the book as something of a test to weed out less dedicated readers (kind of a jerk move). Great book, though.
If you are selective and aware of bias, a good historical film or novel can do more than any documentary or history book to put you into another time period. I am actually re-reading FIRST MAN IN ROME right now; I'm not sure if I am up to re-reading all six books in the series, but I might. Colleen McCullough is a brilliant novelist and a pretty thorough scholar. Her Romans actually think and act like Romans in the First Century BC, not like Americans transplanted to a historic setting.
Bias can be very hamfisted, though. KINGDOM OF HEAVEN is so pro-Islamic you wonder if the screenwriter was Muslim - not a single Christian character in the movie is admirable, and none of the Muslims are particularly villainous. The hero is, of course, a 20th century agnostic mind in the body of a 12th century knight.
NAME OF THE ROSE is a pretty entertaining movie, if you can get past the slow opening. I'll admit the explicit and prolonged sex scene did catch me a bit offguard the first time I saw it - not what you'd expect in a film about a bunch of monks!
That film proves without doubt that you should never lick your fingers when turning book pages. :buggedout: :buggedout:
Quote from: Trevor on July 28, 2011, 01:24:00 AM
That film proves without doubt that you should never lick your fingers when turning book pages. :buggedout: :buggedout:
That was taken from the book.
While I did enjoy the film, I don't think it was as good as the book, which told a more complex story than the film.
Actually, because of the complexity of the book, I think it would have worked better as a TV miniseries. Even at 130 minutes, which is long for a film, the film had to reduce so much of the book's complexity to get it into that time span.
And having read other of Umberto Eco's novels, I have found this is probably his most accessible for most modern readers.
Fouicault's Pendulum is good, but much less straightforward.
-Ed
Agnes of God was sort of similar: religous / mystery. I can't remember Name of the Rose all that well though I recall really liking the settting in the old monestary /castle whatever it was.
Quote from: Flick James on July 27, 2011, 02:09:09 PM
Interesting that you're watching so many movies, as opposed to actual documentaries. Historically based movies are almost always very biased.
So are most documentaries because the filmmakers concentrate on what they believe is important in order to make whatever point their documentary is trying to make. Ya can't believe nuthin!