the man in the iron mask is a 1998 american action drama film directed , produced , and written by randall wallace , and starring leonardo dicaprio in a dual role as the title character and villain , jeremy irons as aramis , john malkovich as athos , gerard depardieu as porthos , and gabriel byrne as d'artagnan .

the picture uses characters from alexandre dumas ' d'artagnan romances and is very loosely adapted from some plot elements of the vicomte de bragelonne .

the film centers on the aging four musketeers , athos , porthos , aramis , and d'artagnan , during the reign of king louis xiv and attempts to explain the mystery of the man in the iron mask , using a plot more closely related to the flamboyant 1929 version starring douglas fairbanks , the iron mask , and the 1939 version directed by james whale , than the original dumas book .

like the 1998 version , the two aforementioned adaptations were also released through united artists .

the man in the iron mask ( 1998 film )

the man in the iron mask ( 1998 film ) <EOT> a still from the 1939 film about the historical mystery , “the man in the iron mask . ”

" the man in the iron mask " soundtrack ( 1998 ) - nick glennie - smith track 01 , surrounded .

[ in the following essay , goodkin compares and contrasts dumas ' s original text for the man in the iron mask with its 1998 film adaptation . ]

nor is it the first time louis xiv will have spoken english on screen . he was played by leonardo di caprio in 1998 film the man in the iron mask .

but the man in the iron mask is definitely a movie worth giving a try .

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the man in the iron mask was a prisoner arrested in 1669 and held in the bastille and other french jails for more than three decades , until his death in 1703 . his identity has been an enduring mystery because , throughout his imprisonment , the man ' s face was hidden by a mask , according to sonnino . the story was even popularized in the 1998 film " the man in the iron mask , " starring leonardo dicaprio .

there was an actual man in the iron mask imprisoned in the bastille . his identity has always been very much speculated on .

[ in the following essay , macdonald investigates the origins of the protagonists of the three musketeers trilogy and the man in the iron mask . ]

the man in the iron mask needed more of a jaunty twinkle , more wolfish grins , less thinking and more doing .

the man in the iron mask may have been royalty . this idea stems from clues regarding his treatment during his incarceration .

the iron mask is one of the most popular enigmas of french history . he was an unknown prisoner of the bastille . for more details , visit the wikipedia page for the historical man in the iron mask .

: " i wear the mask . the mask does not wear me . "

. . . this version of the man in the iron mask owes more to star wars than star wars owes to dumas .

double bind . . . two leonardo dicaprios for the price of one in the man in the iron mask . all photographs : ronald grant archive

for not " promoting [ the film ] properly " as a " family film " in the united states .

alongside previous men in the iron mask , the ' 98 contender doesn ' t amount to much .

‡ other notable excerpted editions of this text have been published under the title the man in the iron mask , including the version illustrated by edy legrand in 1964 ; edited by david coward in 1991 ; and abridged and adapted by paul mantell in 1998 , among many others .

one of two 1998 movies with the same title , based on the same novel . the other was

q : on the man in the iron mask , you crossed swords with gerard depardieu , jeremy irons , john malkovich and leo . were you the best swordsman ?

it should be pointed out that many of the so - called ‘facts’ about the man in the iron mask are not verifiable . suffice it to say that the following information is widely regarded as truth . moreover , this information fits with just about every existing story about the mystery man . however , it is certain that the man in the iron mask was a real person and that he was forced to wear a mask .

* my favorite scene in the man in the iron mask : the scene at the ball where the mustketeers attempt the switch is my favorite . i love the way the director shot that . and the ending is cool .

the man in the iron mask is a 1998 film adaptation of the vicomte de bragelonne ( 1847 - 1850 ) by alexandre dumas . the original serial novel was a sequel to the three musketeers . one of many adaptations , the film was the first directed by randall wallace , previously known for writing braveheart . the main stars were leonardo di caprio , jeremy irons , john malkovich , gabriel byrne , gerard depardieu and anne parillaud .

the man in the iron mask came out in 1998 , and it was the first movie that leo starred in after titanic . and , well , if you know anything about backlashes , that is all i need to say . it just got shredded by anyone who hated leomania and who had an agenda .

the hollywood ending applied to the film was almost exactly the opposite of the book .

plenty of swash and buckle in this wonderful adaptation of dumas ' ' the man in the iron mask ' . while it does not stick strictly to the original story it is still a most . . .

sources : mark , ruth , who was the man with the iron mask ? retrieved 4 / 7 / 10 . urltoken the unexplained mysteries , retrieved 4 / 7 / 10 .

the man in the iron mask . one of my favorite little guilty pleasures of the late 90 ' s . a movie with a great cast . in particular , gabriel byrne is outstanding as the heroic d ' artagnan .

in " the search for the man in the iron mask : a historical detective story " ( rowman & littlefield , 2016 ) , sonnino leads the reader through historical records , correspondence regarding the prisoner and other aspects of his investigation .

no one knows who the man in the mask was , but his dangerous identity must have been the whole point of the mask , so the twin brother theory is as good as any . " the man in the iron mask " is " loosely based " on the dumas novel , and includes a return appearance by the three musketeers . they come out of retirement in a scheme to rescue france from the cruel fist of the young , spoiled king .

as for why the man in the iron mask ' s identity has remained veiled throughout history , sonnino said the blame lies with historians , who " insist on making it antiseptic , moralistic , sensible . "

i remember really liking the man in the iron mask when i saw it in a theater back in 1998 . and like i said before , i remember immediately thinking , hey one day this is going to wind up on an underrated movies list . because the hatred for leonardo dicaprio was just that immense at the time . nobody was going to take him seriously in a double role as the lead of a movie . not in 1998 they weren ' t . not in a historical drama they weren ' t . at the time they just laughed at him and called this a stupid teenybopper film .

bell , a . craig . alexandre dumas : le vicomte de bragelonne ( the man in the iron mask ) : a critical study . devon , england : merlin books , 1995 , 136 p .

so , to put all this in terms of a simple question : what can the 1998 version of the man in the iron mask tell us about the zeitgeist ? if hollywood ' s current take on louis xiv turns louis into a figure relevant to the presumably youngish audience targeted by the film , it may be able to teach us about some of the cultural baggage that our own youngish audiences bring to the reading of the texts of this period .

and so the count of monte - cristo finishes like a charlie chaplin film , with the back view of a man walking out of the picture .

q : …you recently starred in the man in the iron mask with leonardo dicaprio , who had just finished filming titanic before you started working with him . was he still gurgling up water and picking icicles out of his hair ?

i have to write a 1 or 2 page paper on the historical accuracy / inaccuracy of the hollywood 1998 version of " man in the iron mask " with leonardo dicaprio and was wondering if anyone had some links listing such information . i already know about wikipedia , and theres only about 1 or 2 items of useful information . . .

the film is based on a book called le vicomte de bragelonne written in 1847 by alexandre dumas , third and last part of the musketeer trilogy , after the three musketeers and twenty years after . the iron mask is just one part of the book .

a set of 148 beautiful screencaps from the film , provided by aragarna , is available in the gallery .

on the island of st . marguerite , offshore from cannes of all places , still stands the rude stone fortress where the man in the iron mask spent his lonely days . i have sat below his window in a little italian trattoria , while the owner assured me that the man in the mask was no less than the twin brother of louis xiv , held there because the state could not tolerate another claimant to the throne .

you just need to look at the cast to know that this would be a automatic classic and yes it is a classic the film is right for the historic period it portraits the director has used all the talent from these set of actors . the cinema photography is brilliant this film has heart and soul i think we all know the story of the man in the iron mask but this new version i highly recommend it .

as of 22 december 2011 the film had grossed $ 132 , 249 , 913 .

offers nothing to recommend—or to set it apart from the many other film adaptations " .

the man in the iron mask begins with the realization that the three musketeers , who once pledged ' ' all for one and one for all ! ' ' are older ( if not necessarily wiser ) and long ago took divergent paths .

i have to write a 1 or 2 page paper on the historical accuracy / inaccuracy of the hollywood 1998 version of " man in the iron mask " with leonardo dicaprio and was wondering if anyone had some links listing such information . i already know about wikipedia , and theres only about 1 or 2 items of useful information there . . . please help !

a 350 - year - old french mystery has been unmasked : in his new book , paul sonnino , a professor of history at the university of california , santa barbara , claims he has uncovered the real identity of the mysterious man in the iron mask .

i love this adapted version of alexander damas ' s classic story " the man in iron mask " . i can see some parallels between this version and the 1998 version which i will not reveal , you ' ll just have to watch both movies a couple of times to discover the secrets . i wasn ' t around when this version was released in the 1930s till about six decades later , but it is good to have this film for future generations to enjoy . i totally recommend this film to any newcomer fan of old movies like this .

leonardo dicaprio won a golden raspberry award for worst screen couple for his interactions as twins in the film .

" some of this is legend , but at least this much is fact ; when rioting citizens of france destroyed the bastille , they discovered within its records this mysterious entry : prisoner # 64389000 - the man in the iron mask . "

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[ narrating ] some of this is legend , but at least this much is fact - when rioting citizens of france destroyed the bastille , they discovered within its records this mysterious entry : prisoner # 64389000 - the man in the iron mask .

only aramis and porthos are involved in the iron mask episode . so obviously , d’artagnan doesn’t die , but porthos does . in the book they do not succeed to replace one twin by the other .

why is the same red rose used throughout the film ? if it was real over the amount of time in the film the rose would be long dead . look at the branching of the rose and you will see what i mean .

1 . a number of films have been made about the story of the man in the iron mask ; a history of these versions is beyond the scope of this study . rather , i aim simply to investigate how the most recent film version of a tale that takes place in the france of the seventeenth century reflects certain cultural prejudices of the present decade toward that period of french history .

source : macdonald , roger . " behind the iron mask . " history today 55 , no . 11 ( november 2005 ) : 30 - 6 .

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villainous breakdown : louis has a protracted one during the film ' s second and third acts ; he leaves the ball when he sees the iron mask in the crowd , is shouting at and shoving everyone who comes close to him ( including his mother ) after the musketeers ' failed attempt to depose him , actually goes to the battle himself when the heroes are cornered in the bastille , and devolves into incoherent screaming when he ' s forced into the iron mask and carried off to prison .

all eyes will be on him and , to the certain satisfaction of his new legion of fans , the man of the moment , leonardo dicaprio , delivers a wonderful double star turn in “the man in the iron mask . ” an unusually sober and serious - minded telling of alexandre dumas’ classic tale , this handsome costumer is routinely made and [ … ]

adaptation of the novel by alexandre dumas . seeking to overthrow king louis xiv , the musketeers athos and porthos conceive a plan to rescue from prison a man who has lived in a cell for six years with his head covered by an iron mask .

source : goodkin , richard e . " separated at birth : the man in the iron mask ; or , a louis xiv for the nineties . " papers on french seventeenth - century literature 26 , no . 51 ( 1999 ) : 319 - 26 .

the most popular of all the legends regarding this prisoner pertains to his lineage . some have theorized that the man in the iron mask was the twin brother of king louis xiv . the story says that the man was kept hidden because of his rights to the throne . another story says that the prisoner was indeed the king’s brother , but not his twin . this one varies too .

the man in the iron mask [ dvd ] [ 1998 ] : urltoken leonardo dicaprio , jeremy irons , john malkovich , gérard depardieu , gabriel byrne , anne parillaud , judith godrèche , edward atterton , peter sarsgaard , hugh laurie , david lowe , brigitte boucher , randall wallace , alan ladd jr . , paul hitchcock , rené dupont , russell smith , alexandre dumas : dvd & blu - ray

the man in the iron mask is a story that most of us have read or seen in movies . fictional accounts of this prisoner of the ‘sun king’ include a novel by famed author alexandre dumas and a movie starring leonardo dicaprio . the historicity of the man’s imprisonment and identity are shrouded in mystery . however , the man in the iron mask is no fictional character . indeed , he was a real prisoner of louis xiv and was incarcerated for at least five years : maybe more than forty . the problem is that no one alive today has any clue who this man was . furthermore , there has been so much wild speculation , rumors , and theories about his identity that historians may never be able to establish the truth .

all eyes will be on him and , to the certain satisfaction of his new legion of fans , the man of the moment , leonardo dicaprio , delivers a wonderful double star turn in " the man in the iron mask . " an unusually sober and serious - minded telling of alexandre dumas ' classic tale , this handsome costumer is routinely made and comes up rather short in boisterous excitement .

louis xiv was never the good king described at the end of the film . he was clearly an absolute monarch .

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louis xiv had a twin brother that was imprisoned from birth and became the ( historical ) man in the iron mask . he was then abducted and substituted with this brother by the musketeers . also , d ' artagnan ( another historical figure ) was the real father of both .

i saw this film at the theaters and i loved it because leo did a good job of being good and bad . because he also was the man in the iron mask and plus the cast was good too so if you want to pick a good movie to watch well this is one i recommend if your in to these kind of films because i know kids you be into something like this

the man in the iron mask is the story of the famous three musketeers . their names are athos ( john malkovich ) , porthos ( gerard depardieu ) , and aramis ( jeremy irons ) , and if you are familiar with french literature at all you have probably heard of them .

the decipherment of the great cipher of louis xiv was eventually completed by the french cryptanalysis bazerie . he was the first person for two hundred years to witness the secrets of louisxiv these secrets revel the true identity of the man in the iron mask . and leaving the most popular theory that he was the twin of louis xiv to be untrue . the true identity of the man in the iron mask goes back to the commander responsible for leading an attack on the town of cuneo , on the french - italian border . his name was vivien de bulonde . he abandoned his wounded soldiers and munitions . therefore the king ordered to that bulonde would be " locked in a cell under guard at night and permitted to walk the battelment during the day with a mask " .

the mask that is removed from leo has 3 parts - a face mask which is held onto leo ' s head , with a 2 piece hinged cage that locks in the back . in the flashback , where they show leo being put in the mask , it is only 2 pieces . the face part is fused to the hinged cage section .

some other speculations regarding the identity of the man in the iron mask include him being the duc of beaufort or antonio ercole matthioli . the former man was said to have been the lover of louis xiv’s mother . he was imprisoned so that no one would learn that the king was a bastard . the latter was an enemy of the king who had been tried for treason . nevertheless , there , regrettably , remains no proof of any of these claims . with all of the rumors convoluting the story , it is doubtful that we will ever know who the man behind the mask was .

love this movie , one of my favorite stories from alexandre dumas brought to life on film .

the film opens in a dungeon . " are you dead yet ? " grunts a jailer through a hatch , and then we see him : the man in the iron mask . the writer voltaire claimed that the prisoner ' s mask was iron , but it seems he made it up . the only piece of first - hand evidence available reports that the mask was of black velvet . identities suggested for the prisoner have included richard cromwell , the duke of beaufort , and an italian diplomat . while he was busy making things up , voltaire said that it might have been the king ' s secret brother . alexandre dumas père ' s last three musketeers novel , the vicomte de bragelonne , made him philippe , the king ' s secret twin . the film plumps for this , too . in real life , the masked prisoner was registered as eustache dauger .

the plot is slightly unbelievable in places but if this and possible historical inaccuracies are overlooked , this is a very good film .

alexandre dumas ' three musketeers tales have proven to be all but surefire source material for many movies since the silent days , but william richert ' s low - budget " the man in the iron mask " demonstrates that some stories simply cry out for lavish , big - star treatment .

another great story / film that i enjoyed better than the latest version , albeit one made for tv .

appropriately louis does have a complete mental breakdown after he is forced to wear the mask .

to get down to specifics , i have chosen to analyze the 1998 film , the man in the iron mask , not because i find it to be a masterpiece ; although parts of the film are compelling , it is not a great film by any stretch of the imagination . 1 rather , i believe that studying a film about louis xiv made for an american audience in 1998 can be an instructive way to reflect upon a place that all students of the french classical period inhabit : the intersection between a courtly culture distanced from us temporally , geographically and politically , and our own culture , from whose standpoint we inevitably view louis xiv and his contemporaries . my premise is that however much we attempt to contextualize the literature of this period in reading and analyzing it , we are still inevitably influenced by our own culture , with all its implicit beliefs ; needless to say , this tends to be even more true of our students . in spite of our best efforts , our students bring to seventeenth - century french courtly literature the same kinds of culturally - conditioned questions they bring to contemporary american literature and film , and it may be instructive and enriching to examine those questions , as well as our own cultural prejudices .

george blagden , best known for his role as grantaire in the 2012 film adaptation of les miserables , will play the role of the sun king .

the man in the iron mask isn ' t the best movie i have ever seen . i mean , you have five actors doing five entirely different accents . and some of the twists in the story are beyond silly . and of course looking at gerard depardieu ' s naked ass isn ' t something i would recommend to anyone .

a sizeable proportion of the funding for the film came from german sources : $ 4 million from bavaria ' s bank fund ( bbf ) and film and tv fund ( fff ) , about $ 1 . 3 million from the

if you kill him , you will be just like him : or rather , if you imprison him in an iron mask for the rest of his life , you will be just like him . phillipe ultimately pardons louis and allows him to retire to the country in comfortable exile , utterly proving himself the better man .

the story is based on a myth , and after watching the film for the first time , i felt compelled to research the myth myself . the most convincing parts of the film are the acting of the supporting characters ( notably byrne , malkovich and irons ) and the musical score .

in the man in the iron mask , the costumes are good , everybody is dirty and unkempt , and the attitudes are completely weird . the whole series of the three musketeers is an 1840s reimagining of a novel from around 1700 written about the 1660s , so we shouldn’t be too harsh regarding factual errors of attitude…unless they’re from the 1990s , when this movie was made .

polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was a " b " on an a + to f scale .

randall wallace has attempted to re - create the old - fashioned hollywood studio epic , where grandeur and romance could help audiences overlook historical inaccuracies and the jarring mix of accents from an international cast . but the man in the iron mask is just cleverly packaged fluff , not unlike the candy bar that dubiously perpetuates the musketeers ' fame .

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the film does not rely too heavily on the swashbuckling appeal of the musketeers , but rather on the development of individual characters and the relationships between them .

louis xiv is depicted as unmarried , but in 1662 when the film is set , he ' d already been married for two years .

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with conditions quickly becoming intolerable , aramis calls together his former colleagues to propose a plan to change the course of french history . d’artagnan sticks by his king and drops out , but athos and porthos join in an ingenious plot in which they spirit out of prison a man who , for six years , has lived in a cell with his head encased in a locked iron mask . the man is named philippe and is , in fact , the younger twin brother of the present king louis .

i just could not concentrate on this film because of the whole mishmash of accents . english , french and american .

voltaire , who was a prisoner at bastille in 1717 , claimed that he had learned things from former servants of the masked prisoner during his time there . according to voltaire’s writings , the man in the iron mask had been wearing the mask as far back as at least 1661 . he said the man was tall , handsome and played the guitar , and also he supposed the man was about 60 when he died . this would have been the only way that he could have been louis xiv’s twin brother , as the sun king was in his 60s when the prisoner died . however , this would mean that the death certificate that is associated with the prisoner is either false or not that of the prisoner .

at the mask - ball , when louis is seeing iron masks everywhere and rushes out , the music suddenly stops , but in the background we can see the violinists still playing ( moving their bows ) - we don ' t hear any sound .

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the film is set in the year 1662 . louis is supposed to be in the middle of a war against the dutch . this is actually not correct . the war against the dutch didn ' t begin until 8 years later in 1672 .

, about $ 10 million in tax rebate cash from the german film fund , the dff and $ 1 million ( €800 , 000 ) in subsidy financing from the berlin - brandenburg medienboard .

a : no , i’m completely uncoordinated . john malkovich is really good at it and so is jeremy . but leo and i were like the fencing dunces . we acquitted ourselves nobly in the end . — movieline magazine 1998

the film received negative reviews from critics , with the major criticism on the lack of originality , acting performances and outdated visual style . review aggregator

the man was a prisoner at bastille from 1698 until 1703 . many historians believe that he was a prisoner before this and had simply been transferred there . however , there is no concrete proof of this . whoever he was , the man in the iron mask died on november 19 , 1703 . a death certificate associated with him lists his name as monsieur de marchiel . it says that he was in his forties at the time of his death .

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unaware of athos ' true fate , dumas kept the three musketeers and d ' artagnan in robust health until almost the end of the third book in his trilogy , the man in the iron mask . for the central figure of that tale ( which fictionalizes an essentially true story of a mysterious prisoner of louis xiv ) he followed the most popular current theory of the prisoner ' s identity , that of an identical twin of the king . in dumas ' version , d ' artagnan , who remains loyal to louis , escorts the royal twin to the remote mediterranean island of sainte - marguerite and locks him into the mask .

who played him best ? 1948’s robert coote wasn’t quite pretty enough to play this ladies’ man , and we can discount charlie “tiger blood” sheen , whose hair never quite convinced , leaving it a straight race between richard chamberlain and luke evans . since the former’s given much more to do and the latter’s given a scene ripping off assassin’s creed , we’re going for chamberlain , with an honourable mention for jeremy irons’ older version in the man in the iron mask . why him ? well , that film’s the only recorded instance of aramis being vastly more attractive and interesting than athos , and that’s really rather remarkable .

of all of the muskateer , man in the iron mask movies that i have seen , this version is the worst . it has very slow moving partaking of the characters participation in this movie . very little action and the action that is in this movie leaves very little excitement . the actors / actresses in this movie act as if they are reading from a card instead of memory . and the costumes in this movie as way out of date , infact , it seems as if the costume designer cannot figure out what century this movie takes place in . even the wigs worn by the charactors look rediculas and out of style . i was very dissapointed in this film and i give it a 2 .

they hide in plain sight , suddenly visible in one frame and gone in the next .

alexandre dumas’ three musketeers tales have proven to be all but surefire source material for many movies since the silent days , but william richert’s low - budget “the man in the iron mask” demonstrates that some stories simply cry out for lavish , big - star treatment . threadbare production values and sub - par cast here don’t do dumas , or the viewer , [ … ]

don ' t be put off of this film because it is a period drama , or because it stars leonardo dicaprio .

just before embarking on his spectacular series of historical novels , dumas produced celebrated crimes , a series of eight volumes on dark deeds from history . volume six included the man in the iron mask . like much of dumas ' s prodigious output , it owed a great deal to the work of others , in this instance his closest collaborator , auguste maquet , a former history teacher . as was often the case , dumas undermined maquet ' s meticulous research by some impulsive contributions of his own . dumas confessed that in writing an earlier play about the iron mask , he had been forced to ‘choose one view of a dramatic situation to the exclusion of all others … and … by the inexorable laws of logic to push aside everything that interferes with its development’ . he had selected , and would stick with , the notion of an identical twin in the mask , because ‘it was incontestably the most dramatic’ . how ironic , then , that the qualities of loyalty and honour that d ' artagnan possessed , brilliantly captured by dumas in fiction , proved the musketeer ' s eventual undoing in fact : and that dumas , in failing to give credit to courtilz , ensured that an even better story would slip through his fingers , the astonishing secret that d ' artagnan himself was the man in the iron mask .

all eyes will be on him and , to the certain satisfaction of his new legion of fans , the man of the moment , leonardo dicaprio , delivers a wonderful double star turn in “the man in the iron mask . ” an unusually sober and serious - minded telling of alexandre dumas’ classic tale , this handsome costumer is routinely made and comes up rather short in boisterous excitement . but the compensations of an involving old - fashioned narrative and , above all , a magnetic and enjoyable cast go a long way toward making this an agreeable middle - of - the - road entertainment . dicaprio’s presence assures a strong opening , and it will be interesting to see how far the film can travel in the wake of “titanic . ”

urltoken the man in the iron mask : leonardo dicaprio , jeremy irons , john malkovich , gérard depardieu , gabriel byrne , anne parillaud , judith godrèche , edward atterton , peter sarsgaard , hugh laurie , david lowe , brigitte boucher , randall wallace , alan ladd jr . , paul hitchcock , rené dupont , russell smith , alexandre dumas : movies & tv

masquerade ball : figures prominently in the attempt to replace louis with philippe . with the added bonus that the hidden twin had spent his entire life wearing a heavy iron mask , which he flashes to the king from under the decorative gold one to freak him out , along with the three musketeers . it works .

anne : " i have raised a son who destroys lives instead of saving them , and i have failed to save a son who died within an iron mask . aramis : " no ! that mask was louis ' creation . now we have a chance to make a miracle . to strip all masks away forever . "

in 1873 an army officer , théodore iung , published his research into the man in the iron mask , which established that saint - mars had been his jailer at four successive prisons . the names of only two of saint - mars ' prisoners eluded iung . the first , surely the mask himself , had arrived at pignerol from paris in march 1674 amid extraordinary precautions , ‘manacled at night’ and ‘kept from view’ in such a way that he could neither ‘shout out or write … who he was’ . the second , a prisoner in the bastille at the beginning of 1699 , proved to be gatien de courtilz de sandras , the author of the mémoires de monsieur d ' artagnan .

one year later , the man in the iron mask was released in france . i had already read the whole trilogy by then and i was over - excited by the idea of watching my big time heroes for real . i was probably the only girl of my age ( at least among my friends ) to be excited by this movie , not for king leo , but for d’artagnan . not even gabriel , just d’artagnan .

damn you , muscle memory : phillipe is so used to eating and drinking in the mask that he spills water on himself when it is removed .

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a lad jousting with his tutor is kidnaped and carried to the bastille where his head is locked in an iron mask . jump ten years : musketeers return from war in morocco to find paris starving while louis xiv and his retinue idle at duke fouquet ' s estate . louis is enamored with his host ' s virginal daughter , valliere , herself in love with athos . the queen mother calls the jesuit aramis to her deathbed to confess that louis has a twin , " a second born , he was first conceived , the oldest and true heir , " the man in the iron mask . aramis secures his release and hides him while porthos and athos school him for his destiny . d ' artagnan remains loyal to louis : love , schemes and politics entwine .

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the knights don’t carry lances for the most part . why not ? what use is a man on horseback without a lance ?

with the reveal of tom holland’s spider - man in the captain america : civil war trailer , we wanted to go back and look at the many spider - man costumes over the years ! peter parker being the thrifty science - nerd that he is , we can’t include every version of the wall crawler that has appeared in marvel comics as some only make single issue appearances ( though we did include some of those ) . starting from peter’s first appearance in amazing fantasy # 15 to the ultimate spider - man miles morales and every major version of the webslinger in - between , check out the gallery below for a look at the spider - man costumes .

man , 52 , fatally shot by police in florida refused multiple orders to put down eight - inch knife and charged . . .

when phillipe stands up to look in the water bin after he had his mask removed , he places only his left hand on the bin ' s edge . but in the next shot of him looking in the water , his right hand is on the edge instead of the left .

who played him best ? gig young always seemed like more of an aramis to us , but he was certainly big and imposing enough ; frank finlay had a magnificent moustache but was sometimes overshadowed by his more outgoing cast mates ; oliver platt wasn’t quite physical enough . in this case , we’re actually inclined towards ray stevenson’s version , who’s huge and hulking and more than charismatic enough even in the scrap of screentime he’s given . honourable mention to gerard depardieu in the man in the iron mask , who was the drunkest .

" the ballad of narayama " is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…

long before the days of mass - produced paperbacks , alexandre dumas achieved sales of over one million for his musketeers trilogy : the three musketeers ( 1844 ) , twenty years after ( 1845 ) and the man in the iron mask ( 1850 ) . in an obituary notice published in 1870 after his death , aged sixty - eight , an american newspaper placed dumas second only to napoleon bonaparte as the most famous man of the century . yet the great french playwright and author , having set the musketeers firmly on the road to immortality , had been compelled through circumstance to obfuscate their origins , until they came to be regarded as entirely fictional characters , when they were really based on flesh and blood . in doing so he also unwittingly distanced himself from clues to the true identity of the secret prisoner in the mask , a tale more extraordinary and terrible than even dumas could devise .

alexandre dumas got a little studlier when leonardo dicaprio , at the height of his teen - idol powers , donned a long wig to play both louis and phillipe . the former is the ruthless king of france , the latter a country boy who is scooped up and thrown in the bastille , forced to wear the titular iron mask . based on dumas’ d’artagnan romances , including the vicomte de bragelonne , the man in iron mask brings back the familiar names of the three musketeers to play soap - opera politics . athos ( john malkovich ) , porthos ( gerard depardieu ) , and aramis ( jeremy irons ) come out of musketeer retirement to depose the evil louis and replace him with the identical phillipe . but dicaprio was still years away from his prestige performances in scorcese dramas ; he took home the golden raspberry for worst screen couple . [ molly eichel ]

another theory suggests that the prisoner’s mask was not iron at all , but cloth . in addition , he may not have had to wear it all the time , as many accounts suggest . he may have only had to wear it when he was out in public . there are some eyewitness accounts that seem to corroborate these claims .

in 1687 , during his transfer from another alpine prison , exiles , to the island of sainte - marguerite , off cannes , a priest at grasse saw the prisoner in his mask , made not of iron , but steel . his eyewitness account appeared in a newsletter circulated by clerics , which also reported an unguarded remark made by saint - mars about the identity of his charge that ‘all the people one believes to be dead are not’ . this meant that the man in the mask had to be sufficiently well - known to attract comment , for his supposed death to have been widely reported and for him to be held in the utmost secrecy . d ' artagnan , almost alone of all the credible candidates , meets this criteria .

then , last year , something remarkable happened : sony and marvel studios reached an unprecedented rights - sharing agreement whereby the two would co - produce spider - man flicks , meaning the web - head could pal around with iron man , et . al . , in the mcu . given the positive fan response it seemed like a wise and potentially profitable move , but the proof would be in the pudding when this rebooted spidey , portrayed by relative unknown tom holland , debuted in captain america : civil war . he didn’t disappoint , and is actually one of the most delightful parts of the movie . let’s take a look at what the film gets right about this iconic character . spoilers ahead .

polar opposite twins : louis is extremely cruel , uncaring , and selfish , while philippe is a much nicer person and even pardons louis at the end of the film .

this set - up , easy enough to explain , takes director randall wallace too long to set up , and there are side plots , such as the king ' s war against the jesuits , that will confuse audiences . there was once a time when everyone had heard of the musketeers and the man in the iron mask , but history these days seems to start with the invention of mtv , and those not familiar with the characters will take some time to get oriented .

during the reign of louis xiv , a mysterious masked man was kept prisoner for 34 years in the bastille and other jails . his identity has never been established .

christine , when she finds out about louis ' uriah gambit and can ' t bear to live any longer in the power of the man who killed her fiancee .

the plot was good ( eh . . . might have been predictable , but still . . . great ) , the cinematagraphy was awesome , the music was moving , the sword fighting / action was cool ! i absolutely loved gabriel byrnes in this movie . he was so great as d ' artagnan ( sp ? ) . john malcovich was perfect for his role of athos too . i really felt his pain . i have both the vhs ( older ) and the dvd version ( hey , it was on sale for 9 bucks ! ! lol ) of the man in the iron mask , and the dvd version ( although not a whole lot of extras ) has a nice directors commentary . it really tells the director ' s vision for the film and all the behind the scene info . i still can ' t believe that this movie was his first film ! !

louis xiv and his brother are played by leonardo dicaprio in a dual role , his first since " titanic . " he looks well - fed as the despotic ruler and not particularly gaunt , for that matter , as the man in the mask . as the film opens , he presides over a court that lives in decadent luxury , while street mobs riot for bread in the streets . the beautiful christine ( judith godreche ) catches his eye , and since she ' s engaged to the young raoul ( peter sarsgaard ) , the king sends raoul off to war and makes sure he gets killed there .

joseph lagrange - chancel also wrote about the man behind the mask , after his stay in prison . supposedly , the man was a prisoner on sainte - marguerite during the 1720s . chancel said that the man had stayed there during the mid to late 1600s . voltaire also made this claim . he went on to say that saint - mars ( the governor of sainte - marguerite and once keeper of the famous prisoner ) called the masked man “my prince . ” of course , this claim is only hearsay . furthermore , chancel would have heard this information nearly twenty years after the prisoner had died . there was sufficient time for unfounded rumors to circulate . then again , it could have very well been true .


around the world in 80 days is an australian 48-minute direct-to-video animated film from burbank films australia .

it was originally released in 1988 .

the film is based on jules verne 's classic french novel , around the world in 80 days , first published in 1873 , and was adapted by leonard lee .

it was produced by roz phillips and featured original music by simon walker .

the film imitated brb internacional 's spanish 1981 series , la vuelta al mundo de willy fog , in its use of anthropomorphic animals in the human roles .

the copyright in this film is now owned by pulse distribution and entertainment and administered by digital rights management firm nutech digital .

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around the world in 80 days ( 1988 film ) <EOT> we don ' t have any reviews for around the world in 80 days .

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around the world in 80 days is an australian animated film about mr . phileas fogg and the young passepartout .

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around the world in 80 days is one more fore my collection , it is getting bigger with ever disc . thank you susan ann mary

araki describes the basis for part 3 as like a board game , traveling between a series of stops ; and further inspiration from the film around the world in 80 days . [ 2 ]

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phileas fogg’s journey ‘around the world in 80 days’ is one of those ultimate travel classics that has inspired a whole host of other journeys , trips and books . among the ones are :

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a furry version of jules verne ' s classic adventure story of a british gentleman ' s challenge to circumnavigate the world in 80 days .

to win a bet , an eccentric british inventor beside his chinese valet and an aspiring french artist , embarks on a trip full of adventures and dangers around the world in exactly 80 days .

but what is the original story actually about ? well it is about time to give you the full lowdown on the original and ever - inspiring ‘around the world in 80 days’ story by jules verne .

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the day the film had its premiere at the ziegfeld — aug . 12 , 1988 — hundreds of picketers were there . so were several television news crews .

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the legend of jules verne’s story keeps inspiring people and the use of the name ‘around the world in 80…… . . ’ keeps growing and growing . some of the more original takes on the name include :

at the reform club , fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in the daily telegraph stating that with the opening of a new railway section in india , it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days . he accepts a wager for £20 , 000 ( equal to about £1 . 5 million today ) from his fellow club members , which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days . accompanied by passepartout , he leaves london by train at 8 : 45 p . m . on wednesday , october 2 , 1872 , and is due back at the reform club at the same time 80 days later , saturday , december 21 , 1872 .

' last days in the desert ' finds truth away from the path the most intelligent and engaging film about jesus since the last temptation of christ , rodrigo garcia ' s film finds jesus in the desert , where he faces doubts from within .

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around the world in eighty days ( french : le tour du monde en quatre - vingts jours ) is a classic adventure novel by the french writer jules verne , published in 1873 . in the story , phileas fogg of london and his newly employed french valet passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20 , 000 wager ( roughly £2 million today ) set by his friends at the reform club . it is one of verne’s most acclaimed works .

ewan mcgregor plays both jesus and satan in rodrigo garcia ' s last days in the desert .

following the book’s 1873 english translation ( by towle and d’anver ) , many people tried to follow in the footsteps of fogg’s fictional circumnavigation . the first one to successfully circumnavigate the world , following phileas fogg’s fictional route in under 80 days , was nellie bly in 1889 .

passepartout hurries to inform fogg , who reaches the reform club just in time to win the wager . fogg marries aouda and the journey around the world is complete .

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phileas fogg accepts a wager to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days . after betting his entire fortune , he takes his new butler ( a man hoping for a quite life ) on a tour of the world . however , just before the time he leaves , the bank of england is robbed and a detective believes that fogg is the guilty party and he sets out after him .

a victorian englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days .

fours years ago near the canary islands , a trio of treasure hunters bring up a casket bearing the engraving name " dio " around dusk . when the ship was found days later , only the empty coffin remained .

a victorian age english gentleman takes a wager that he can circle the globe in the unprecedented time of just eighty days .

in 1988 michael palin became a mondern day phileas fogg when he attempted to retrace verne’s imaginary journey in a tv - series for the bbc . he tried to stick as close as possible to the original jules verne route and in the end – amidst a whole lot of set backs and unplanned adventures – managed to accomplish the journey in 79 days and 7 hours !

in 1994 , when delegates from around the world gathered in cairo for the international conference on population and development , representatives from developing countries protested that a baby born in the united states will consume during its lifetime twenty times as much of the world ' s resources as an african or an indian baby . the problem for the world ' s environment , they argued , is overconsumption in the north , not overpopulation in the south .

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from 1988 to 1989 , [ 1 ] the story follows jotaro kujo and his friends as they journey from tokyo to cairo to save his mother ' s life by defeating his family ' s resurrected archenemy , dio .

basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him . riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you . …

what is worsening is the discrepancy in income between the wealthy and the poor . although world income measured in real terms has increased by 700 percent since the second world war , the wealthiest people have absorbed most of the gains . since 1960 the richest fifth of the world ' s people have seen their share of the world ' s income increase from 70 to 85 percent . thus one fifth of the world ' s population possesses much more than four fifths of the world ' s wealth , while the share held by all others has correspondingly fallen ; that of the world ' s poorest 20 percent has declined from 2 . 3 to 1 . 4 percent .

last days in the desert is the most intelligent , engaging film about jesus since the last temptation of christ . like martin scorsese ' s epic , which some christian leaders declared " blasphemous " upon its 1988 release , the movie invents a version of its hero not based on scripture , one who is allowed to express doubt and anger and , in general , act human . it is much smaller in scope : it meets jesus near the end of his 40 days of fasting and praying in the judaean desert , at the moment when satan appears to tempt him into straying from his path . throughout the film , we never see any sign that god is listening , that jesus ' path is indeed righteous , or that satan is anything but a hallucination brought on by the heat and lack of nourishment . there are no easy answers in the desert .

she managed to do the journey within 72 days , meeting jules verne face - to - face in amiens ( france ) along the way . her book

a film told through extended shots of various worldwide events , settings , and creatures , creating a dreamy , universal resonance .

consumption in industrialized nations " has led to overexploitation of the resources of developing countries , " a speaker from kenya declared . a delegate from antigua reproached the wealthiest 20 percent of the world ' s population for consuming 80 percent of the goods and services produced from the earth ' s resources .

animated version of jules verne ' s classic novel . a victorian english gentleman , phileas fogg and his valet make a bet that they can circumnavigate the globe in only 80 days . they travel by almost every form of transport possible at the time , whilst being chased by an english detective who is convinced that fogg has robbed the bank of england .

jules verne ' s classic adventure is redefined in this animated version . phileas fogg , an english lord , has just become the main suspect in a daring bank robbery . meanwhile , he has made a wager with several other lords that he will be able to travel around this world in a mere 80 days . joined by his butler , passepartout , fogg begins his journey . however , hot on his heels is a detective from scotland yard , mr . fix . through the savages from the wilds of india to the pioneers in america , their journey is one filled to the brim with adventure , but mr . fix is quickly catching up and intends to cut fogg ' s adventure short .

the world resources institute , in a 1994 - 1995 report , referred to " the frequently expressed concern that high levels of consumption will lead to resource depletion and to physical shortages that might limit growth or development opportunity . " examining the evidence , however , the institute said that " the world is not yet running out of most nonrenewable resources and is not likely to , at least in the next few decades . " a 1988 report from the office of technology assessment concluded , " the nation ' s future has probably never been less constrained by the cost of natural resources . "

documentary about one man ' s round - the - world solo yacht race in 1969 and his mental descent as he sailed the globe .

" the ballad of narayama " is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…

in his new film , “silence , ” he returns to a subject that has animated his entire life’s work and that also sparked his career’s greatest controversy : the nature of faith .

alice stumbles into the world of wonderland . will she get home ? not if the queen of hearts has her way .

even john stuart mill , one of the principal authors of utilitarian philosophy , recognized that the natural world has great intrinsic and not just instrumental value . more than a century ago , as england lost its last truly wild places , mill condemned a world

the film had been pilloried by conservative christians for a dream sequence in which christ has sex with mary magdalene . in depicting christ’s life as a doubt - ridden struggle between his human and divine natures , scorsese had intended to make a film that was at once an act of doubt and an act of faith . in the novel he was reading , the priest was shown profaning an image of christ , and yet the act was an act of faith .

the world has the wealth and the resources to provide everyone the opportunity to live a decent life . we consume too much when market relationships displace the bonds of community , compassion , culture , and place . we consume too much when consumption becomes an end in itself and makes us lose affection and reverence for the natural world .

in his film , the heroine is so appalled by the snobbish behavior of her friends that she joins in a plot to murder them and disguise the deaths as suicides . what sets " heathers " apart from less intelligent teenage movies is that it has a point of view toward this subject matter - a bleak , macabre and bitingly satirical one . i imagine the film will indeed shock some adults with its cold - blooded treatment of death among the young , but after having weathered the eight - part " friday the 13th " series and countless other dead teenager movies , i have grown so hardened to the sight of adolescent movie corpses that this film seems only a little more cynical than most .

according to thoreau , " a man ' s relation to nature must come very near to a personal one . " for environmentalists in the tradition of thoreau and john muir , stewardship is a form of fellowship ; although we must use nature , we do not value it primarily for the economic purposes it serves . we take our bearings from the natural world - - our sense of time from its days and seasons , our sense of place from the character of a landscape and the particular plants and animals native to it . an intimacy with nature ends our isolation in the world . we know where we belong , and we can find the way home .

" teenagers don ' t have any trouble with it , " the film ' s director , michael lehmann , has said of the movie . " it ' s always adults that are shocked . " this statement is intended , i assume , in praise of teenagers .

aquaculture produced more than 16 million tons of fish in 1993 ; capacity has expanded over the past decade at an annual rate of 10 percent by quantity and 14 percent by value . in 1993 fish farms produced 22 percent of all food fish consumed in the world and 90 percent of all oysters sold . the world bank reports that aquaculture could provide 40 percent of all fish consumed and more than half the value of fish harvested within the next fifteen years .

i ' m not a christian , but i talked to christian critics following the film ' s screening who said last days in the desert gets much closer to the heart of jesus ' dilemma than other recent biblical epics like son of god and risen . it ' s one of those wonderful paradoxes of fiction , the idea that only through invention , even of such well - worn material , can we uncover new emotional truths . but this is also why the ending , which gives us brief flash - forwards of the crucifixion , doesn ' t work as well . it pulls us back into the common literal interpretation of the new testament that garcía had so carefully veered away from . the film is best when , like its subject , it has the conviction to set off on its own course .

" some of them saw a clip from wakolda ( the german doctor ) on tv recently and really wanted to watch it . so i thought i’d take a chance , not expecting them to watch the whole film but the majority were absolutely gripped . "

the delegates who told reilly that the north consumes too little of what the south produces have a point . " with a few exceptions ( notably petroleum ) , " a report from the world resources institute observes , " most of the natural resources consumed in the united states are from domestic sources . " throughout the 1980s the united states and canada were the world ' s leading exporters of raw materials . the united states consistently leads the world in farm exports , running huge agricultural trade surpluses . the share of raw materials used in the north that it buys from the south stands at a thirty - year low and continues to decline ; industrialized nations trade largely among themselves . the world resources institute recently reported that " the united states is largely self - sufficient in natural resources . " again , excepting petroleum , bauxite ( from which aluminum is made ) , " and a few other industrial minerals , its material flows are almost entirely internal . "

filmed in california ' s anza - borrego desert , last days has an understated visual wonder . the film embraces the vibrant color palette and topography of its setting in a way few desert movies dare : reds , oranges and purples streak across ground and sky alike , and characters frequently peer over the edges of cliffs , with the camera following their gaze , moving at a meditative pace . renowned cinematographer emmanuel lubezki is much more restrained and unobtrusive here than in his recent hat - trick of looping , careening oscar winners gravity , birdman and the revenant , and his approach lulls us into the patterns ( both visual and behavioral ) of biblical life .

when scorsese returned from japan , he procured the film rights to “silence . ” as the years passed , hardly a day went by without his mentioning the project to the people around him : actors , friends and even his old parish priest , father principe . as he made “the aviator” and “the departed , ” “shutter island” and “hugo , ” he insisted that “silence” was the picture he really wanted to make . a jesuit was elected pope ; islamic terrorists began targeting christians in the middle east . in 2014 , with “the wolf of wall street” a hit , scorsese declared that “silence” would be his next picture : he wouldn’t commit to another until it was finished . twenty - six years in , filming began .

an article on nov . 27 about martin scorsese referred incorrectly to his involvement with “woodstock , ” the 1970 documentary about the 1969 music festival . he was one of several editors on the film , not the sole editor . the article also misidentified the company that released the 1986 drama “the color of money . ” it was released by touchstone pictures in association with silver screen partners ii , not universal pictures . the article also referred incorrectly to the title of a film . it is “the bridge on the river kwai , ” not “bridge over the river kwai . ” the article also misstated the given name of a jesuit poet . he was gerard manley hopkins , not gerald .

william reilly , when he served as administrator of the environmental protection agency in the bush administration , encountered a persistent criticism at international meetings on the environment . " the problem for the world ' s environment is your consumption , not our population , " delegates from the developing world told him . some of these delegates later took reilly aside . " the north buys too little from the south , " they confided . " the real problem is too little demand for our exports . "

in response to problems of climate change , the world bank and other international organizations have recognized the importance of transferring advanced energy technologies to the developing world . plainly , this will take a large investment of capital , particularly in education . yet the " alternative for developing countries , " according to josé goldemberg , a former environment minister of brazil , " would be to remain at a dismally low level of development which . . . would aggravate the problems of sustainability . "

the companions arrive at queenstown ( cobh ) , ireland , in time to reach london before the deadline . once on british soil , fix produces a warrant and arrests fogg . a short time later , the misunderstanding is cleared up—the actual robber was caught three days earlier in edinburgh . however , fogg has missed the train and returns to london five minutes late , certain he lost the wager .

cardinal hayes is a high school in the bronx , and after a year of minor seminary — a tryout for the priesthood ; once a regular stop for bright catholic boys of limited means — scorsese went there . ( don delillo , the novelist , was a few years ahead . ) rejected by fordham university because of poor grades , scorsese enrolled at n . y . u . ’s washington square college and its film program . from there , he plunged into the ’60s : a concertgoer at the fillmore east , an expatriate in england and holland , an assistant director at woodstock ( he became an editor on the concert film ) and then a maker of his own movies — “who’s that knocking at my door , ” about a young man in the suddenly liberated ’60s whose catholic principles keep him out of bed with his girlfriend , and “boxcar bertha , ” a film about a female rabble - rouser “free’er than most . ”

ewan mcgregor excels in a dual role as both jesus and the devil , and the double casting allows writer - director rodrigo garcía ( nine lives ) to reject the idea that doubt is some external , alien force we can overpower with enough good vibes . instead , the film hints that darkness and desperation can lurk within the best of us . mcgregor ' s jesus is a man who observes the world around him with quiet remove , but it ' s his and garcía ' s brilliant characterization of satan that pulls our attention . he is not a purely malevolent force , but an inquiring sort , asking the questions about god and the unknowable that give jesus pause . there are moments when we see him letting his guard down as he admits that , though he can see into the future , what he sees only makes him more perplexed by the ideas of selflessness and love . what good are they in such a cruel world , he demands of his alter ego ? " it ' s stunning , isn ' t it , " he asks , " how life ends ? "

the man on the train was in a quandary , and the man in the novel he was reading was in a quandary ; and as he read the novel , it emerged that his quandary and the one in the novel were essentially the same .

tragedy strikes the following day when holy falls ill due to her own stand manifesting from dio ' s influence . without the necessary willpower that her son and father possess , holy is slowly being killed by her own stand . joseph and avdol determine that holy will die in fifty days unless they kill dio to break his influence .

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polnareff , iggy , and avdol enter the mansion and find themselves in an illusory maze , but easily dispose of the stand user . vanilla ice ambushes the group and kills avdol as he pushes his companions out of the way . cream , a stand that can swallow vanilla ice and create a portal into the void that disintegrates everything around it while remaining undetectable by the senses , is beyond polnareff and iggy ' s power to defeat .

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dio stops the flow of time and within the five " seconds " he ' s allowed , has the world punch through kakyoin . while the vampire gloats , kakyoin manages to grasp the power of his foe . unable to speak , he shoots a clock tower before dying , making joseph understand the world ' s ability . dio pursues joseph and just as the old man warns jotaro about dio , the latter stops time and launches a knife to his throat . joseph is stabbed and loses consciousness .

before the second world war the united states bought 40 percent of its vegetable oils from developing countries . after the war the united states protected its oilseed markets - - for example , by establishing price supports for soybeans . today the united states is one of the world ' s leading exporters of oil and oilseeds , although it still imports palm and coconut oils to obtain laurate , an ingredient in soap , shampoo , and detergents . even this form of " exploitation " will soon cease . in 1994 farmers in georgia planted the first commercial acreage of a high - laurate canola , genetically engineered by calgene , a biotechnology firm .

what happened next still stands as a central episode in the culture wars . as scorsese worked round the clock to edit the picture , the religious right moved against it . donald wildmon , a right - wing instigator and head of the american family association , organized a picketing campaign at universal pictures in los angeles . the rev . r . l . hymers jr . of the baptist tabernacle of los angeles did the same outside the home of lew wasserman , the chairman of mca , which owned universal . the leader of the campus crusade for christ , bill bright , offered to buy the film from universal in order to destroy it . universal moved up the film’s release date and took out full - page newspaper ads in its support . in an interview with reporters in rome , the italian director franco zeffirelli , who hadn’t seen the movie , called it “truly horrible and completely deranged . ” reports attributed to him a remark that the movie was the product of hollywood’s “jewish scum . ” zeffirelli denied this , but the notion took root that the movie was the sinister work of a cabal of jewish movie executives conspiring against the christian faith .

“silence , ” no less than scorsese’s informal new york trilogy — “mean streets , ” “taxi driver , ” “raging bull” — is rooted in his childhood . as a boy in little italy , he wanted to be a missionary . his parents were not religious , in part because their parents had felt the church’s heavy hand in sicily , but for him the church — a malign force in so many coming - of - age stories — was a portal to the world beyond family and neighborhood . “i trusted the church , because it made sense , what they preached , what they taught , ” he said . “i understood that there’s another way to think , outside the closed , hidden , frightened , tough world i grew up in . ”

fogg and passepartout reach suez in time . while disembarking in egypt , they are watched by a scotland yard detective named fix , who has been dispatched from london in search of a bank robber . because fogg matches the description of the robber , fix mistakes fogg for the criminal . since he cannot secure a warrant in time , fix boards the steamer conveying the travellers to bombay . fix becomes acquainted with passepartout without revealing his purpose . fogg promises the steamer engineer a large reward if he gets them to bombay early . they dock two days ahead of schedule .

the underlying dynamic in " heathers " comes out of movies like " bonnie and clyde , " where the lovers back into crime almost absentmindedly , using it as a backdrop for the truly important things in their lives . another movie that comes to mind is " river ' s edge , " based on the true story of a teenager who killed his girlfriend and then displayed her body to his friends , who did not inform authorities for three days .

discussions of the future of the planet are dominated by those who believe that an expanding world economy will use up natural resources and those who see no reasons , environmental or otherwise , to limit economic growth . neither side has it right .

probably the most persistent worries about resource scarcity concern energy . " the supply of fuels and other natural resources is becoming the limiting factor constraining the rate of economic growth , " a group of experts proclaimed in 1986 . they predicted the exhaustion of domestic oil and gas supplies by 2020 and , within a few decades , " major energy shortages as well as food shortages in the world . "

a . o . scott , now a chief film critic for the new york times , once wrote that scorsese approaches filmmaking as “a priestly avocation , a set of spiritual exercises embedded in technical problems . ” so it was with “silence . ” “marty insists on having silence on the set , ” garfield told me . “the silence says : ‘something is happening here . ’ ” scorsese arranged the shooting script chronologically , so the cast could feel the characters’ emotions in sequence . finally garfield reached the scene in which rodrigues steps on the fumie , profaning the god he believes in and renouncing the faith he has come halfway across the world to preach . actor and director prepared the shot : a bare foot pressed to a piece of copper , the face of christ worn smooth by the feet of countless apostates before him . “it’s something we had both waited for , ” garfield said , “but marty had waited much longer — he had waited decades to film that scene . ” the director was ready ; the priest stepped — and then there was a technical difficulty . “i almost lost my mind , and i think marty did , too , ” garfield recalled . “he wanted it to be done in one take . ” there was a second take , and the priest profaned the image of christ once and for all .

the north not only balks at buying sugar and other crops from developing countries ; it also dumps its excess agricultural commodities , especially grain , on them . after the second world war , american farmers , using price supports left over from the new deal , produced vast wheat surpluses , which the united states exported at concessionary prices to europe and then the third world . these enormous transfers of cereals to the south , institutionalized during the 1950s and 1960s by u . s . food aid , continued during the 1970s and 1980s , as the united states and the european community vied for markets , each outdoing the other in subsidizing agricultural exports .

farmers worldwide could double the acreage in production , but this should not be necessary . better seeds , more irrigation , multi - cropping , and additional use of fertilizer could greatly increase agricultural yields in the developing world , which are now generally only half those in the industrialized countries . it is biologically possible to raise yields of rice to about seven tons per acre - - about four times the current average in the developing world . super strains of cassava , a potato - like root crop eaten by millions of africans , promise to increase yields tenfold . american farmers can also do better . in a good year , such as 1994 , iowa corn growers average about 3 . 5 tons per acre , but farmers more than double that yield in national corn growers association competitions .

jotaro and star platinum clashes with dio and the world . jotaro can move briefly during the stopped time and manages to wound dio . the vampire regenerates anyway and forces jotaro ' s bluff about how much he can move during the time stop by throwing a myriad of knives at him . jotaro is stabbed in multiple limbs and falls to the ground .

by now scorsese’s intentions for it were a good deal more complicated . “i told him that god can’t be only in the hands of the churches , ” he later said , recalling the meeting with hassanein . “there are so many obstacles in between us and the spirit . in a sense , to make this film was to try to make god accessible to people in the audience who feel alienated from the churches . i said : ‘i have had three divorces . does this mean i can’t speak to god because the church says i can’t ? no , no ! i can talk for myself because i’m me . ’ ”

the two flee to the second - floor gallery and try to ambush vanilla ice by using iggy ' s stand to mimic dio with a stand statue , but it fails and vanilla ice repeatedly and violently kicks him . polnareff is disabled and vanilla ice hides again inside his stand . scattering sand around the room , the frenchman manages to stab ice ' s throat , but ice has begun transforming into a vampire and breaks free while wounding polnareff .

“i don’t think i am called to be a priest , ” garfield said to me resolutely , as if making this film had spurred him to consider the prospect . “but i had the feeling that i was being called to something : called to work with one of the great directors , and called to this role as something i had to pursue for my spiritual development . ”

for a long time , we ' re not even sure of the point of view : is this a black comedy about murder or just a cynical morality play ? the traveler in the foreign country is not sure , but he knows the film inspires thought , and has the ability to shock - two qualities that make it worth considering . maybe it ' s true that teenagers will understand it best . maybe it ' s even true that they deserve to .

the world already produces enough cereals and oilseeds to feed 10 billion people a vegetarian diet adequate in protein and calories . if , however , the idea is to feed 10 billion people not healthful vegetarian diets but the kind of meat - laden meals that americans eat , the production of grains and oilseeds may have to triple - - primarily to feed livestock . is anything like this kind of productivity in the cards ?

the group splits in two : kakyoin and joseph luring dio while jotaro and polnareff will follow him . a car chase ensues between dio and joseph and kakyoin across the streets and then the roofs of cairo . risking his life , kakyoin probes the world ' s ability . kakyoin unravels hierophant green to attack dio from all sides , and the vampire finally uses his power .

simple compassion instructs us to give to relieve the misery of others . there is a lot of misery worldwide to relieve . but as bad as the situation is , it is improving . in 1960 nearly 70 percent of the people in the world lived at or below the subsistence level . today less than a third do , and the number enjoying fairly satisfactory conditions ( as measured by the united nations human development index ) rose from 25 percent in 1960 to 60 percent in 1992 . over the twenty - five years before 1992 average per capita consumption in developing countries increased 75 percent in real terms . the pace of improvements is also increasing . in developing countries in that period , for example , power generation and the number of telephone lines per capita doubled , while the number of households with access to clean water grew by half .

they come across a procession in which a young indian woman , aouda , is led to a sanctuary to be sacrificed by suttee the next day by brahmins . since the young woman is drugged with opium and hemp and is obviously not going voluntarily , the travellers decide to rescue her . they follow the procession to the site , where passepartout takes the place of aouda’s deceased husband on the funeral pyre on which she is to be burned . during the ceremony he rises from the pyre , scaring off the priests , and carries the young woman away . the two days gained earlier are lost , but fogg shows no regret .

for those who lament the decline of natural fisheries and the human communities that grew up with them , the successes of aquaculture may offer no consolation . in the pacific northwest , for example , overfishing in combination with dams and habitat destruction has reduced the wild salmon population by 80 percent . wild salmon - - but not their bio - engineered aquacultural cousins - - contribute to the cultural identity and sense of place of the northwest . when wild salmon disappear , so will some of the region ' s history , character , and pride . what is true of wild salmon is also true of whales , dolphins , and other magnificent creatures - - as they lose their economic importance , their aesthetic and moral worth becomes all the more evident . economic considerations pull in one direction , moral considerations in the other . this conflict colors all our battles over the environment .

things have not turned out as ehrlich expected . in the early 1990s real prices for food overall fell . raw materials - - including energy resources - - are generally more abundant and less expensive today than they were twenty years ago . when ehrlich wrote , economically recoverable world reserves of petroleum stood at 640 billion barrels . since that time reserves have increased by more than 50 percent , reaching more than 1 , 000 billion barrels in 1989 . they have held steady in spite of rising consumption . the pre - tax real price of gasoline was lower during this decade than at any other time since 1947 . the world energy council announced in 1992 that " fears of imminent [ resource ] exhaustion that were widely held 20 years ago are now considered to have been unfounded . "

the movies , likewise , pointed to the wider world . his father , a presser in the garment district , didn’t make much but always had enough money to take him to the movies . a local tv station broadcast italian films on friday nights . he grew up watching the crucial works of italian neorealism , many of them with a strong catholic dimension — like roberto rossellini’s “rome , open city , ” in which a priest is executed for cooperating with the resistance .

do we consume too much ? to some , the answer is self - evident . if there is only so much food , timber , petroleum , and other material to go around , the more we consume , the less must be available for others . the global economy cannot grow indefinitely on a finite planet . as populations increase and economies expand , natural resources must be depleted ; prices will rise , and humanity - - especially the poor and future generations at all income levels - - will suffer as a result .

“silence” is a novel for our time : it locates , in the missionary past , so many of the religious matters that vex us in the postsecular present — the claims to universal truths in diverse societies , the conflict between a profession of faith and the expression of it , and the seeming silence of god while believers are drawn into violence on his behalf . as material for scorsese , then , “silence” is apt , and yet scorsese’s commitment to it has been extraordinary , even by his exacting standards . to understand that commitment , i spoke with the filmmaker , with members of the cast and the production team and with others who know the novel well — trying to grasp just what kind of an act of faith this film is .

in new york , having missed the sailing of their ship , fogg starts looking for an alternative to cross the atlantic ocean . he finds a steamboat destined for bordeaux , france . the captain of the boat refuses to take the company to liverpool , whereupon fogg consents to be taken to bordeaux for $ 2000 ( roughly $ 39 , 569 today ) per passenger . he then bribes the crew to mutiny and make course for liverpool . against hurricane winds and going on full steam , the boat runs out of fuel after a few days . fogg buys the boat from the captain and has the crew burn all the wooden parts to keep up the steam .

the group buys a cessna to cross the desert and are saddled with a baby . kakyoin and polnareff doze off and are attacked in their shared dream by death xiii again . they realize with horror that they cannot summon their stands to defend themselves . kakyoin engraves the words " baby stand " on his arms and struggles so violently it translates into the real world , and his agitation eventually causes a crash .

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even if predictions of resource depletion and ecological collapse are mistaken , it seems that they should be true , to punish us for our sins . we are distressed by the suffering of others , the erosion of the ties of community , family , and friendship , and the loss of the beauty and spontaneity of the natural world . these concerns reflect the most traditional and fundamental of american religious and cultural values .

an article in foreign policy in december of 1995 observed that the biotechnological innovations that create " substitutes for everything from vanilla to cocoa and coffee threaten to eliminate the livelihood of millions of third world agricultural workers . " vanilla cultured in laboratories costs a fifth as much as vanilla extracted from beans , and thus jeopardizes the livelihood of tens of thousands of vanilla farmers in madagascar . in the past , farms produced agricultural commodities and factories processed them . in the future , factories may " grow " as well as process many of the most valuable commodities - - or the two functions will become one . as one plant scientist has said , " we have to stop thinking of these things as plant cells , and start thinking of them as new microorganisms , with all the potential that implies " - - meaning , for instance , that the cells could be made to grow in commercially feasible quantities in laboratories , not fields .

scorsese assuredly will be there , and it’s striking to envision him sitting in the dark with the pope as his new picture plays . their boyhoods were a lot alike : six years older , jorge mario bergoglio was brought up in buenos aires in a family of italian immigrants who took him to the movies often , and he grew up cherishing italian cinema , especially fellini’s “la strada” — “a film about the possibility of sainthood , ” scorsese calls it . i asked scorsese how he would describe his work to pope francis . he paused , then replied , “i would say that i’ve tried , in my work , to find out how to live life — tried to explore what our existence really is and the meaning of it . ”

the novel was “silence , ” by shusaku endo , a japanese convert steeped in european literature and the history of catholicism in japan . published in japan in 1966 , “silence” sold 800 , 000 copies , a huge number in that country . endo was called “the japanese graham greene” and was considered for the nobel prize . greene referred to “silence” as “one of the finest novels of our time . ”

lovins and other environmentalists contend that pollution - free energy from largely untapped sources is available in amounts exceeding our needs . geothermal energy - - which makes use of heat from the earth ' s core - - is theoretically accessible through drilling technology in the united states in amounts thousands of times as great as the amount of energy contained in domestic coal reserves . tidal energy is also promising . analysts who study solar power generally agree with lester brown , of the worldwatch institute , that " technologies are ready to begin building a world energy system largely powered by solar resources . " in the future these and other renewable energy sources may be harnessed to the nation ' s system of storing and delivering electricity .

upon arriving in abu simbel the heroes buy a car and make a stop near some ruins in the desert . here they meet with agents of the speedwagon foundation who give the group supplies . in addition , they bring iggy , a boston terrier and the user of the fool , a stand made of sand . finally , they reveal the existence of nine additional stand users who await the joestar group in the country .

“all in god’s good time , ” he said to me philosophically as we sat together in his house in the near dark . it was one o’clock in the morning . “we don’t know why , but this is how this picture got made . it had to be this way . ”