Film Recommendation: Name of the Rose

Based on Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, "The Name of the Rose" is a medieval whodunit set in a 14th-century Italian monastery. Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and a young novice arrive for a conference to find that several monks have been brutally murdered. In his attempt to solve the crimes, William must challenge the authority of the Catholic Church by eschewing religious fervor in favor of rational thought.

I've been thinking a lot about this movie lately, in light of the Christian Taliban influence. Sean is great. Christian Slater's first role. You will see the irony of what is occurring today. The more things change......

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it kinda love.

Eco is easy enough to get through...

*snicker*

*snicker, snicker*

compared to Joyce. I still don't understand how a primer was named book of the century.

Yikes! Not my cup of tea.

try following that sober. It's like listening to a drunk girl at a bar, it doesn't really make sense, but you smile and nod hoping to get some reward.

only it never comes. and the next morning, you wake up with a blinding headache, and you have no idea what she was talking about.

Joyce.

LMAO!
:toast:

Everything old is new again.

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it...

LOL.... Thinking about the story brings all sorts oof cliches to mind.

I grew up in the town of New Rochelle NY. New Rochelle was settled by French Huguenots from La Rochelle. They left France to escape persecution at the hands of the Catholic majority. Why can't people learn?

We watched that movie in a World History class I took in college. The professor was a Jesuit who was kicked out for being too liberal. Later in the semester that show O'Reilly was on before he went to Fox came to film one of our classes. We were watching Madonna videos and the professor was using it to illustrate the way she flippped traditional sexual mores. The whole theme of his class was how the ruling class of dominant males had used sexual domination and access to information to control society. O'Reilly's show came to our class thinking they would make my professor look like an idiot. Quite the opposite occurred.

Along with makeup, costume design, and production design, they paid homage to the "health care" (and sanitation) of the day. The cast was deliberately chosen to depict a variety of Dark Ages physiognomies and dental care archetypes.

I'm more than tired of the Disneyfication of such times, all scrubbed up and robustly healthy.

Call it what you want, its coming.

let'em come. I'll either be hunkering down in the bunker or positioned up in the bell tower.