Last year, I went to the biography section of Geoffrey Rush on IMBD because I’m bored lol and I learned he played Snoopy in Queensland Theatre Production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” musical in 1972 and I find it adorable
Here’s the picture of young Geoffrey Rush as Snoopy
I’ll always admire a film portraying themes as sex and pornography without actually becoming somewhat pornographic itself.
The opening sequence is perfect containing a better plot twist than most thrillers. The Napoleon scene and the torture scene that follows are almost as brilliant introducing the cynical Dr. Royer-Collard (Michael Caine) as a central character. Unfortunately the film mainly continues to fall in standards and the end sequence seems rather forced and unnecessary.
The two oppositional key figures Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush) and Abbe du Coulmier (Joaquin Phoenix) are played equally impressively. I don’t really like the sort of stereotypical portrayal of the insane inmates at Charenton though.
The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots (French Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion. It was traditionally believed to have been instigated by Catherine de Medici, mother of King Charles IX. Many of the most wealthy and prominent Huguenots had gathered in largely Catholic Paris to attend the wedding of King Charles IX. The original plot was directed at a group of Huguenot leaders, but the slaughter extended throughout Paris and the surrounding countryside to all Protestants.
At the time of the massacre, Elizabeth I of England’s ambassador to France, Sir Francis Walsingham, was present in Paris along with his pregnant wife and child. The Walsinghams opened their Parisian home as a refuge to fleeing Huguenots. The family managed to escape the carnage and return to England. Protestant countries, such as England, were horrified at the events. The massacre was later dramatized in Elizabethan theater by Christopher Marlowe as a story of Machiavellianism with Catherine de Medici playing the main aggressor.
“You have a duty—a duty to every one around you—a duty in which the high dignity of your profession is particularly apparent.” —Ursula St. Barbe, Lady Walsingham in a letter to her husband.
