There are at least two words in English that are closely related to him, and even specifically refer to him or his category. One of these two words is Libertine, a 17th century liberal political and philosophical organization headed by him. The other is rake, the prodigal son.
It is worth noting that the term prodigal son in English originated from him. It can be said that he is the initiator of the prodigal son in Europe. Of course, there is a word Cad that can be used to describe him, which means a liar who makes a girl's belly bigger. From these two words, you can also roughly guess what kind of style his old man is. For example, after he was exiled to the countryside by the emperor because of his disrespect, he gave himself a pseudonym called Doctor Banduo, a full-time woman with infertility. And it is said that "not unsuccessful" is the best footnote to the word cad.
The Earl of Rochester has great talent; he is clever, has a quick brain, speaks sharply, and is extremely vicious. Like all smart people, no one is convinced, one sees one and the other disappears. Regardless of the secular morals and religious beliefs, he can keep up and down the emperor at any time, drink and drink all day long, have countless prostitutes, eat all men and women, love art, drama, and write imaginative and obscene words all day long. The wife is a noble lady who was snatched by violence. Not only did he find the most famous
actress at the time as his mistress, but he was also her acting teacher.
Such a person, men really want to be him, and women want to be him. Everyone has great expectations of him. His wife loved him, and the emperor regarded him as a political right-hand man. The artistic life of his mistress belonged to him, and even his prostitutes could not help falling in love with him. What did he do?
Nothing. His old man has such great talents, and he didn't write a decent script on par with Shakespeare. Except for some dirty poems, he has not made any contribution to literature. Politically, he had no influence other than being exiled everywhere for messing around with the emperor. Family life is nothing more than half-dead his wife with anger all day long. In the end, he got a syphilis ulcer, suffered three stages of brain damage, went blind, rotted his nose, and died at the age of 33. It's over.
It's over.
This is the story told by the film Freedom. A cynic with money status, cynical, can see through all tricks at a glance, in order to live real, be a lover of personality, waste all his talents and resources. The thrill of wasting, and the wasting is unprecedented. For the audience, it is regrettable and enjoyable, and the taste is complicated.
Because of the similarity of the subjects, I can’t help but compare the movie "The Quill" by the Marquis de Thad. Thad also enjoys making up low-level novels, and there are many more works handed down than him. But at the end of the movie, he became a defender of freedom of speech. As a movie, the theme is stronger, and it seems to have been sublimated, but in terms of portraying the role of a freer who is inferior bastard, headless and opposing everything, it seems to be not realistic enough.
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