At the beginning of the film, Professor Langdon is lying in a hospital bed, muttering to himself, a young and beautiful doctor is doing a routine examination for him, and then he asks the doctor to turn off the lights in the room, and the scene outside the window makes him Finally know where I am at the moment - Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Vecchio (Palazzo Vecchio), more known as the "Old Palace", is a bunker-style defense complete palace built in the 13th century. During the Florentine Republic, the palace was the seat of municipal institutions, and during the Grand Duchy of Tuscany of Cosimo de' Medici, it became the private palace of the Medici family. Professor Langdon was all too familiar with this, and he knew nothing about medieval history and art. However, chaotic, shaky, and incomplete pictures kept appearing in front of his eyes. He tried hard to remember something, but it seemed to be in vain. The past two days seemed to have disappeared from his body.
The filming locations are Florence, Italy, and Istanbul, Turkey, two charming and rich cities. Professor Langdon found himself in Florence and he didn't know how or why he got here from Boston. When someone started chasing him, the female doctor in the hospital helped him to escape, and the whole film fell into a mysterious and eerie atmosphere. The constantly emerging clues related to the Middle Ages stretched the film a little bit. It is also beneficial to have not read the original book, simply accept what the film wants to express, without having to compare and ponder too much. When Professor Langdon took the female doctor Sienna to look for clues in the Palazzo Vecchio, it was a beautiful and attractive part of the movie, and the works of art from the Italian Renaissance were shown one by one. Dante's "The Divine Comedy", Gogol's "Dead Souls", the famous "Grey's Anatomy" and later Botticelli's "Inferno" that appeared from the beginning of the film are the treasures of world art. Sandro Botticelli was an artist of the Florentine school in the early Renaissance in Europe. Famous works include The Three Magi, Spring (La Primavera 1477) and The Birth of Venus (Lanascita di Venere 1485).
In the history of world painting, there are many works depicting spring, but there is no one that can compare with this "Spring" by Botticelli. It is no exaggeration to say that this painting has perfectly expressed the intoxicating beauty and incomparable elegance of spring. In this painting, Botticelli arranged the nine figures on the screen in a horizontal row from left to right, without overlapping or interspersed, and arranged appropriate actions according to their different roles in the painting. The goddess Venus, who is the protagonist, is a little later than the others. The whole picture seems to be a stage play being staged, and the setting is a small forest of dark brown with golden color. What Botticelli is showing here is the description of spring in the long poem "Calendar" by the Roman poet Ofantius.
The plot and imagery in this painting are based on the long poems of Polisiano, the imperial poet of the Medici court. The poem describes that Venus was born from the Aegean Sea, the wind god blew her to the quiet and deserted shore, and the spring god Frona greeted her on the shore with a brocade woven from stars, behind the boundless blue sea and blue sky, Venus. Standing melancholy and melancholy on the shell that symbolizes the source of her birth, her body looks weak and weak, and she has no passion for the goddess of time and the world who greet her, and she is equally dismissive. Another meaning of "The Birth of Venus" is the philosophical trend of Neo-Platonism that was popular in Florence at that time, which believed that beauty could not be gradually perfected or produced from non-beauty. Comparable, in fact, is: beauty is immortal and immortal.
However, the first thing shown in the film is his "Hell", which is projected on the wall of the female doctor Sienna's house, showing a huge and complete funnel shape. The male and female protagonists began to search and discover little by little from this painting. This picture of hell (La Mappa dell' Inferno) is a work that Botticelli is not too mentioned. Basically, this painting was created according to the description and interpretation of hell in Dante's "Divine Comedy". Hell is divided into many levels, and each level houses people who are punished for different crimes. The hero and heroine found several letters scattered everywhere on this painting, which is the deciphering method of alphabetical arrangement commonly used in Dan Brown's novels.
This painting based on Dante's "The Divine Comedy" reproduces Dante's imaginary hell, which is a huge and unfathomable abyss under the holy city of Jerusalem in the center of the northern hemisphere, leading from the ground to the center of the earth , shaped like an amphitheater or a funnel wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. After entering through the gate of hell, the plain that can be seen is the corridor and outer area of hell. Passing through the Akeron, this is the real hell, which consists of circles clinging to the inner wall of the huge abyss formed by the funnel. Each ring is smaller than the previous one, there are nine in total, that is, "nine levels of hell".
This piece of Vasari's work is one of the important clues in the film. I have always admired mystery novelists. To write such a work that can be published and then adapted and put on the screen really needs meticulousness. thinking and high intelligence. In the film, the 2 words found on this painting solve a little bit of the mystery. At that time, Professor Langdon and female doctor Sienna stood in the hall of five hundred people in the Palazzo Vecchio, looking at this picture. The painting hanging high on the wall is eager to find out the hidden meaning inside. There are no spoilers here. If you already know the result of this kind of film, there is really no need to watch it. It is the kind of constant search in the fog and then the emergence of various possibilities. The confusing and intriguing feeling is the charm of reasoning and suspense films.
Giorgio Vasari was a famous painter, art historian and artist in the Italian Renaissance. He founded the Diano Academy (now the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, Italy) in 1562 and is known as the founder of world art education. He is also the founder of Michelangelo. Kiro's favorite protégé.
Vasari was born in Arezzo on July 30, 1511, and died in Florence on July 27, 1574. Vasari was sent to Florence to study art at a young age, and then served the dukes of the Medici family in various eras throughout his life, especially when he was the court architect and painter of the Grand Duke Cosimo I in his later years. Vasari was well-known and knowledgeable. He was a painter and architect. He admired the master Michelangelo in art and regarded himself as a protégé. However, his artistic style is chaotic and pursues formalism, which belongs to the style of style.
Dante's death mask and the sculpture made of human bones hidden in the biological tube once again led to many clues, but every time they thought it was a breakthrough, they found that there were more puzzles waiting for them to solve. Each link is the only way to the next puzzle.
In fact, in addition to Dan Brown's novels, the mysterious and exotic culture is also full of puzzles and attractive to me: the city like an open-air museum is full of beauty but I don't know it. Architecture; a few years ago, on a chilly afternoon in Vienna and Prague, a large group of teenagers in dresses gathered around the street and sang, so I was puzzled what a special day was that day, under those strange and grand buildings. Confused about how and why they were built, in front of those magnificent and splendid frescoes, I was confused about what thoughts and meanings the painter wanted to express. At this moment, I think of the quote from the first page of The Lost Talisman: "Living in this world without knowing its meaning is like wandering in a great library without touching the books."
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