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Simply A Masterpiece

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Excellent. The story, plot, and (in my opinion) production is awesome. The direction great. I always felt I was watching people from those times, more or less... The less is because of Connery and Slater, which I think they both sucked not at acting, but talking. They just didn't nail the tones and ways of speaking. The clear Sherlock Holmes tones and references weren't good.

The name of the Rose was adapted from the Uberto Eco novel of the same name and it is a monk and his pupil as they stay in a monastery in which shocking and strange death take place and it is up to William of Baskerville (Sean Connery) to find out what and why is happening.To begin with the script ,you know that it will be close to excellent as it from one of the best writers of the our time. The script as well as the characters in it are 100% fit in to the era ,a time in which life was usually hard and short, prejudice against anything that they couldn't explain was in every mind and the fear of God's Wrath was routed in everyone alive. Europe back then was quit different from the later centuries and nowadays we usually have little to no idea how was life back then and we unfairly simplify it to swords, battle, death and after the Renaissance. But here as with few occasions we see a widow in to the workings of this world.Continuouning Sean Connery gives us a monk who isn't as in line as the rest of his order, he is a man in love with the works of the Classicals and the idea of first reason then result and from his student Adso of Melk we see how odd that ideas were seen as almost magic. Now you may think that a monk to use these ideas in 1327 when the story takes place is inaccurate ,but the monasteries were basically the economic, cultural and educational centers of Europe then so person like William ,would exist here and there. The knowledge of the Classical period may was suppressed ,but the large portion of it was stored in monasteries all over the place, in order to be read by the bishops for understanding better the essence of God and then came a Martin Luther and the printing press and all that knowledge came out and the Reformation began. OK it wasn't as simple but that is the basic idea, for that William ideas aren't as out of place as they may seem. Also he is from Baskerville where centuries later another investigator would have a certain case with a dog ,or better a Hound if you will ;).One other fact ,which the film addresses is the power of the Catholic Church back then, which literally power over life and death and if you weren't in line with them then you were a heretic and death! To that I think Mr. Eco intentionally set the story in 1327 ,for if you a history buff like me, you definitely are familiar with a certain invent in not only European but World History, the spread of the Black Death which hit Europe in 1347, just two decades later. To put it differently this work ,is a representation of the might of the Catholic Chirch in its prime, just before the plaque came in and start its decline. If you don't like that thought , it is my speculation and my alone nothing official.All in all it is a great mystery would watching and thinking about and definitely check in out as this year marks its thirtieth anniversary!

The author's unique and thoughtful plot, which introduced a portion of the enlightenment coming that would pull the dark out of the Dark Ages within its 600+ pages, as well as sui generis dialogue, were handled better than well by screenwriters Andrew Birkin, Gérard Brach, Howard Franklin, and Alain Godard in Jean-Jacques Annaud's wonderful production. All the actors delivered fine performances, particularly the elder statesman Connery (whose career was faltering a bit at this stage), along with the young Slater. Rising up against the inequity of the Church's authority, to fight the shadowy conspiracy lying within the monastery, using only guile and intelligence, The Name of the Rose proved to be one of the most underrated movies of the 80s. I'd say that one of Sean's best performances, in a career of them, helped to make that so. P.S.Need thinking!

I've notice that the original title of this film is 'Der Name der Rose' which suggests that it was originally a German film, despite the fact that it is in English and that it has English actors. Maybe it is because the book was originally in German, though I have not read the book, so I cannot really comment on that (and I am not so sure about the origins of this film, though I have always believed that it was an English film).The thing that stands out for me in this film is not just the setting, which is a very dark and dirty Medieval monastery where the actions of the monks are basically ignore by the inhabitants (there is a suggestion that one of the monks is a pedophile, and there is another scene where one of the main characters has sex, and even though the main character works it out, he says and does nothing about it). If our belief of the medieval monk is a pious and saintly follower of God, then this film goes about and completely destroys it.The Name of the Rose is basically a murder mystery, and Sean Connery, a Franciscan monk, comes along and begins to use his investigative skills to try to uncover what is going on. The murders, however, have a lot of religious undertones, and we have here a debate between whether laughter is actually spiritual or not. We have the Benedicteens, who believe that laughter is sinful and should be avoided at all costs, and then we have the Franciscans who believe that laugher is a gift from God that should be embraced and experienced. We even settle down to a theological debate over that very point.However, the film is about a book, or a very specific book, and that is Aristotle's second part of the Poetics, and that is the one that deals with comedy (which, by the way, we do not have, but we do have his first part, which deals specifically with tragedy). It is suggested that this book is actually in possession of the monks in their library, where they keep a collection of all the books that they deem to be dangerous, but because they are books, they will not destroy. However this book they consider to be exceedingly dangerous, and will go out of their way to actually kill anybody who as looked inside.When I was much younger I started watching this movie but ended up becoming bored with it because it did not portray the medieval setting that I wanted to see, and that is of shiny castles, beautiful heroes, and magical feats. Instead what we have is a medieval world that is dark, dirty, and probably much closer to what life was really like back then rather than our rather fantastic views of this world.