My Dad was nice enough to bring this movie home when it came out on DVD. Dad was always doing nice things like that. He and Mom and I watched it together as a family. It's still a classic. I had a really nice Dad.
This part of the movie speaks to my soul. As a classicist, this scene brings anguish and tears when I think of what was lost and what managed to survive.
@ no. Me too. The discovery of this cache of knowledge is like dying painlessly and going to heaven. Beautiful friend the end. Of everything that stands. The end
True...except libraries do not have traps or are traps themselves - projected to to hide the knowledge in their insides. Anyone who made the project for that place was vary smart, very cunning and very sick in the head.
@@2serveand2protect the church created many labyrinths and trap doors in there libraries so any thief wouldn’t be able to sell or steal them and share the knowledge with the common folk. The church thought to control information and in the end by suppressing it set mankind thousands of years, as it wasn’t until the Protestant Reformation and the invention of printing that knowledge began to be spread outside of church libraries
the book is really insane... I'm italian and studied latin and greek at school, something you must have a good knowledge to understand the whole fil rouge of the story... the movie is also enjoyable, especially for the performances of sir Sean Connery and Ron Perlman, but that's nothing compared to the terrifying ambiences and scenarios you fell when you read the book.
The wisdom that we need is inside us. Before our schooling teaches us to memorize it, we know instinctively how to treat others because we know how we wish others to treat us, and we know that all people are one.
No. Children are selfish unless you teach them what poverty is. No child will have discipline to obey and understand what is lack of something. Anything.
So much history, so many tales and ideas. Let your mind expand and flourish. You can believe in God but take in an array of views and ideas that earthly gatekeepers deem wrong. Christ laughed and God made us to persue knowledge.
William calls it «The Beatus of Liebana», though that is the name of its writer, Saint Beatus of Liebana. The book’s actual title is Commentaria In Apocalypsin - Commentary on the Apocalypse - but is often simply referred to as the Beatus. Fun fact, the Umberto di Bologna that William mentions, is a reference to Umberto Eco, the writer of the original book this movie is based on.
A pretty foolish assessment. His weak point was not doing a better job with his accent - and audiences didn't require him to - but he did a good job of inhabiting his characters with charisma.
