Tonight at 21:00 will be broadcast on Sky Cinema 1 and at 21.30 on Sky Cinema 16 / 9, the film "The Crusades".
The film will air as well:
Tuesday, May 9 - 14:00 - Sky Cinema 1
Wednesday, May 10 - 21:00 - Sky Cinema 3
Sunday, May 14 - at 17:55 - Sky Cinema 1
Monday 15 May - 09.00 - Sky Cinema 1
Thursday, May 18 - at 00:55 - Sky Cinema 3
Monday, May 22 - 16:00 - Sky Cinema 1
Saturday, May 27 - 21:00 - Sky Cinema 1
Sunday, May 28 - 11:25 - Sky Cinema 1
In The Crusades the past is present. Not so much because with film historians as Alexander or Troy, reminds us of the need to have memory. Not only because the first occurs - as in the philosophy of Vico - the second in a contemporary (such as not to read between the texture images The Crusades reference to what happens in (our) world: the invader that tries to impose his notion of civilization in the name of an operation does not request restoration of legality, while the film wonders what civilization as law to be valid for all). But especially since Ridley Scott wants to try now the same storm at the box office and won five years ago made with Gladiator .
Two stories from the same epic, two endless wheat fields to stress once again the dualistic as inseparable lump of life and death that permeates the lives of everyone (the grain highlights the theme of growth and opportunity to bear fruit, but also reminds the perverting power of money and dehumanizing ), two men and Balian Maximus who lost their family, two heroes of their own, who enjoy two hard without having the need to ask anything, while around them rattle the swords shining armor, slashing blades come in the flesh, blood rises fleet and fire arrows hovering in the sky. As in the past, as in Gladiator , even here, even in Crusades, Scott is the real star of the show of the film: action, vision, image, special effect. Total special gift before reaching the floor / pool, drop veils and masks as epiphanies of that other with whom we have to do costantemnte.
The ego is another. Balian and Saladin. With the help discover the true intent of Rimbaud free indirect, Ridley Scott: respect for others. Respect as a knowledge tool to reach understanding of utopia. Respect the other (Scott is the public), which is always a reflection of himself. Balian, driven by existential doubt very beginning of his journey of initiation, continues during all his training to become another, to be reflected in the enemy until it no longer separable from that of becoming, and to be confused with a people that did not belong to him and who now leads the battle to recover lost a collective identity. At the end you do not need to win. Its function is not to defeat the enemy, but to do exactly the actions that we expect him to greet a Muslim hopes to bring a part of its culture. And 'the gesture of the wrestler who won the world made manifest his defeat, is the ancient mask that demonstrates the tragic tone of the spectacle of war.
Ridley Scott will try again then. And he is not true the assertions of futility of looking to the past as not taught us anything. For him this is the past. The Crusades is Gladiator . Balian is Maximus, a story that repeats itself. For the love of money.
The Crusades was to be called The Crusaders be directed by Paul Verhoven and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The project has remained for years in the drawers of Twentieth Century Fox before being recovered by Ridley Scott, who has edited the story, the scenery and the title became Kingdom of Heaven.
The Arab historian Ibn al-Athir (1160-1233), a witness Eye firms Saladin, Balian gives the speech:
"Know, O Sultan, we are in this city in large numbers, known only to God: all are now warm to fight for the hope that it saves lives, thinking to get it from you as you have given to others, and this repugnance to death and love of life. But if we see the inevitable death in the name of God, we kill our children and our women, and burn the our wealth, of which there booty to leave for one dinar or of a drachma, or to capture and enslave a man or a woman alone. will be reduced in the ruins of the Rock shrine and Al-Aqsa Mosque and the other sacred places, we will kill the prisoners Muslims have, and are five thousand, we will not let a horse and an animal without killing it with us, and coming out against all of you to fight you, as someone who fights for his life, when the first man to fall killed kills her like, and we die with honor, win or nobly. "
Adapted from FilmFilm.
Release Year: 2005
Length: 145 minutes
Country: USA / United Kingdom /
Spain Genre: Adventure / History
Directed by: Ridley Scott
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