The Name of the Rose
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- 1986
- 130 min
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ADSO (V.O.)
Having reached the end of my poor sinner's life... my
hair now white... I prepare to leave on this parchment
my testimony as to the wondrous and terrible events
I witnessed in my youth... towards the end of the year
of Our Lord, 1327.
May God grant me the wisdom and grace to be the faithful
chronicler of the happenings that took place in a remote
abbey in the dark north of Italy: an abbey whose name it
seems even now pious and prudent to omit.
(William and Adso arrive at the abbey)
ADSO (V.O.):
May my hand not tremble now that I startto relive the past and revive the feelings
of uneasiness that oppressed my heart as
we entered the battlements.
INT.
ABBOT:
Should we tell him?MALACHIA:
No. He will look in the wrong places.ABBOT:
But... what if he should learn it of hisown accord?
MALACHIA:
You overestimate his talents, my lordabbot. There's only one authority capable
of investigating such matters.
... The holy Inquisition.
ABBOT:
What is your opinion, Venerable Jorge?Jorge:
Dear brethren, I leave such worldlymatters to younger men.
WILLIAM:
Adso?Adso:
Yes, master.WILLIAM:
In order to command nature one mustfirst learn to obey it. Hmm?
So, return to the forecourt, get the
edificium on your left... enter the
quadrangle on you right, you'll find
the place you need. Behind the third
arch.
Adso:
But you told me you'd never been tothis abbey.
WILLIAM:
When we arrived, I saw a brother makingfor the spot in some haste.
I noticed, however, that he emerged more
slowly with an air of contentment.
ADSO:
Thank you, master.WILLIAM:
(sees a crow at the graveyard)(hears footsteps)
ABBOT:
On behalf of the Benedictine order, I amhonored to welcome you and your Franciscan
brothers to our abbey.
WILLIAM:
The other delegates, they have arrived?ABBOT:
Ubertino de Casale has been here for someweeks. The others are due tomorrow.
You must be very tired after your long
journey.
WILLIAM:
No. Not particularly.ABBOT:
I trust you're not in need of anything?WILLIAM:
No. Thank you.ABBOT:
Well... then I... I bid you peace.WILLIAM:
I'm sorry to see one of your brethernhas recently been gathered unto God.
ABBOT:
(surprised) ... Yes, a terrible loss.Brother Adelmo was one of our finest
illuminators.
WILLIAM:
Not Adelmo of Otranto?ABBOT:
You knew him?WILLIAM:
No, but I knew and admired his work.His humor and comic images were almost
infamous. But he was said to be a young
man.
ABBOT:
Ah, yes. Yes, very young indeed.WILLIAM:
An accident, no doubt?ABBOT:
Yes. Yes, as you say, an accident.Well, that is, I...
(looks around and closes the door)
Brother William... may I speak to you
candidly?
WILLIAM:
You seem most anxious to do so.ABBOT:
When I heard you were coming to our abbey,I thought it was an answer to my prayers.
"Here," I said, "is a man who has knowledge,
both of the human spirit and of the wiles
of the evil one."
The fact is, Brother Adelmo's death has
caused much spiritual unease upon my flock.
WILLIAM:
This is my novice, Adso... the youngest sonof the Baron of Melk.
Please, do continue.
ABBOT:
We found the body after a hailstorm...horribly mutilated, dashed against a rock
at the foot of the tower... under a window,
which was... How shall I say this?
which was...
WILLIAM:
Which was found closed.ABBOT:
Somebody told you?WILLIAM:
Had it been found open, you would not havespoken of spiritual unease. You would have
concluded that he'd fallen.
ABBOT:
Brother William... the window cannot beopened... nor was the glass shattered...
nor is there any access to the roof above.
WILLIAM:
Oh, I see. And because you can offer nonatural explanation, your monks suspect
the presence of a supernatural force within
these walls.
ABBOT:
That's why I need the counsel of an acuteman such as you, Brother Wiliam. Acute in
uncovering and prudent, if necessary, in...
covering up before the papal delegates
arrive.
WILLIAM:
Surely you know, my lord, I no longer dealin such matters.
ABBOT:
I am indeed reluctant to burden you withmy dilemma, but... unless I can put the
minds of my flock at rest, I will have
no alternative but to summon the help of
the Inquisition.
EXT.
WILLIAM:
Adso!INT.
(a man is lying on the floor)
WILLIAM:
That is Ubertino de Casale... one of thegreat spiritual leaders of our order.
Come.
WILLIAM:
Many revere him as a living saint... butothers would have him burnt as a heretic.
His book on the poverty of the clergy is
not favored reading in the papal palaces.
So, now he lives in hiding like an outlaw.
UBERTINO:
Fellow Franciscans... you must leave thisplace at once. The devil is roaming this
abbey.
WILLIAM:
Ubertino... it's William. William ofBaskerville.
UBERTINO:
William...? No. No. William is dead.William, my son... forgive me.
We had lost trace of you for so long.
WILLIAM:
I tried very hard to be forgotten.UBERTINO:
When we heard of your troubles... I prayedto our Virgin for a miracle.
WILLIAM:
Then your prayers met with a favorableresponse.
This is my young novice, Adso of Melk.
His father has entrusted me with his
education and welfare.
UBERTINO:
You must get him out of here at once!Have you not heard, the devil is hurling
beautiful boys out of windows?
There was something feminine...
something diabolical about the young
one who died. He had the eyes of a girl
seeking intercourse with the devil.
Beware of this place. The beast is still
among us. I can sense him now, here...
within these very walls. I'm afraid,
William... for you, for me... for the
outcome of this debate.
Oh, my son. The times we live in. But
let us not frighten our young friend.
(looks up at the Blessed Mary)
She's beautiful, is she not?
When the female... by nature, so perverse...
becomes sublime by holiness, then she can
be the noblest vehicle of grace.
(says in Latin)
"Beautiful are the breasts that protrude
but a little."
EXT.
ADSO:
I don't like this place.WILLIAM:
Really? I find it most stimulating.Come.
Adso, we must not allow ourselves to be
influenced by irrational rumors of the
Antichrist. Let us instead exercise our
brains and try to solve this tantalising
conundrum.
(peasants bring the tithe)
MONK:
"For what thou givest on earth, verilyshalt you receive an hundred-fold in
paradise."
ADSO (V.O):
My master trusted Aristotle, the Greekphilosophers and the faculties of his own
remarkable, logical intelligence.
Unhappily, my fears were not mere phantoms
of my youthful imagination.
(the two come to the tower)
WILLIAM:
A rather dark end for such a brilliantilluminator.
WILLIAM:
Another generous donation by the Churchto the poor.
Now, what if it wasn't that tower that he
fell from but somewhere over there, and
the body rolled all the way down here?
Adso? No devil needed anymore.
(a stone rolls down)
WILLIAM:
Adso?No devil needed
(Adso sees a peasant girl)
WILLIAM:
Yes. More blood here.That's where he fell from. He jumped.
Adso, are you paying attention?
ADSO:
Yes, he jumped.Jumped? You mean that he committed
suicide?
WILLIAM:
Yes. Why else would someone go up thereat night in the middle of a hailstorm?
Certainly not to admire the landscape.
ADSO:
No. Perhaps... perhaps someone murderedhim.
WILLIAM:
And then toiled all the way up therewith the body?
Easier to get rid of it through that sluice
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