The Agony and The Ecstasy was directed by Carol Reed, a British director of some stature, knighted in 1952. In this moive, it just said the whole processing that Michelangelo making the wall painting of Sistine Church, in Italy. The Sistine Chapel ceiling, is a painting by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, at the commission of Pope Julius II.
The film shows the extraordinary violent temper of the Pope, his lost of his self-control and his rude behavior towards the Florentine when he shouts: 'He will paint it or he will hang!' But, in one scene, he explains to Michelangelo his reasons: 'If I had not become a conqueror, there would be no church, no pontiff, no hope for peace for mankind and, I might add, no patrons for sculpture, painting, and architecture.'
The Agony and the Ecstasy" is a proof of faith and a battle of wills... The pope continually asks Michelangelo: 'When you will make an end of it?' and the answer of Buonarotti is invariably the same: 'When I'm finished!'
Actually, the great famous artist is not the one who has already made too many beautiful works, but the spirit of his whole life. The insisting of his dream made me moved.
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