- When Amamba wrote the script, he assumed Rachel Weisz to be Hypatia.
- The film was shot in Fort Rikka Sorri, Malta, and the crew specially built a "Grand Port of Alexandria" for this purpose.
- Hypatia was originally scheduled to starring Nicole Kidman, but she was criticized by Christians because she played a femme fatale in the movie "The Golden Compass". To avoid this happening again, Ni Can voluntarily quit the filming of the film.
- Rachel Weisz originally didn’t know who Hipatia was, but she decided to act in the film right after she read the script, because the script describes the weak female character between religion and the scepter wrestling, which deeply moved her. .
Agora behind the scenes gags
2022-05-23 17:34
Extended Reading
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Heladius Dignitary: The majority of us here... have accepted Christ. Why not the rest of you? It's only a matter of time and you know it.
Hypatia: Really? It is just a matter of time?... As far as I am aware, your God has not yet proved himself to be more just or more merciful than his predecessors. Is it really just a matter of time before I accept your faith?
Heladius Dignitary: Why should this assembly accept the council of someone who admittedly believes in absolutely nothing?
Hypatia: I believe in philosophy.
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Hypatia: Ever since Plato, all of them - Aristarchus, Hipparchus, Ptolemy - they have all, all, all tried to reconcile their observations with circular orbits. But what if another shape is hiding in the heavens?
Davus: Another shape? Lady, there is no shape more pure than the circle; you taught us that.
Hypatia: I know, I know, but suppose - just suppose! - the purity of the circle has blinded us from seeing anything beyond it! I must begin all over with new eyes. I must rethink everything!... What if we dared to look at the world just as it is. Let us shed for a moment every preconceived idea - what shape would it show us?