Silence (Picador Classics)

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Adam Driver Joins Martin Scorsese's 'Silence' ". IndieWire. January 13, 2014. Archived from the original on March 2, 2014 . Retrieved March 2, 2014. Composer and poet Teizo Matsumura wrote the libretto and music for an opera with the same title, which was premiered at the New National Theatre in Tokyo in 2000. [13] The novel inspired Symphony no. 3, "Silence", composed in 2002 by Scottish musician James MacMillan. [14] See also [ edit ] Fall 2015". BYU College of Humanities Alumni Magazine. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016 . Retrieved January 14, 2017.

James, Daron (December 29, 2016). " 'Silence' Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto on Shooting Film and Digital for Scorsese". No Film School. Archived from the original on September 7, 2018 . Retrieved September 7, 2018. Recipient of the 1966 Tanizaki Prize, it has been called Endo's supreme achievement" and "one of the twentieth century's finest novels".Martin Scorsese Settles 'Silence' Lawsuit, Casts Liam Neeson". IndieWire.com. January 31, 2014. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016 . Retrieved September 30, 2016. The main character, Padre Sebastian Rodrigues, wrestles with God throughout the novel. His contentions with God embody our human fears of meaningless and loneliness. Verdi Productions". Verdifilms.com. Archived from the original on January 9, 2017 . Retrieved January 14, 2017. Stoyan Zaimov (December 6, 2016). "Martin Scorsese on Screening of Christian Persecution Film 'Silence' on Vatican's Giant Crucifix". The Christian Post. Archived from the original on December 7, 2016.

After filming of The Wolf of Wall Street concluded in January 2013, Scorsese committed to following it up with Silence. [25] On April 19, 2013, it was announced that Scorsese would begin production on Silence in 2014, after a reputed 23-year wait. Irwin Winkler was announced as a producer the same day, as were Randall Emmett and George Furla, who would finance the production through their company Emmett/Furla Films. Paul Breuls' Corsan Films was also reportedly funding the project. [27] Additionally, it was announced that the film would be shot in Taiwan. [34] [35]Prieto found some difficulties when shooting the film. With the weather constantly changing, he would have inconsistencies in terms of lighting that he solved by filming some sequences at night time that would be lit for either dusk or sunset. To simulate moonlight for many of the night scenes, Prieto used a rig of blue-green lights called the "UFO" and hung them on a crane. [57] Music [ edit ] Falzone, Fabio (December 2, 2016). "Martin Scorsese. Why did you decide to direct "Silence" now?". TV2000. Archived from the original on September 4, 2020 . Retrieved August 4, 2017.

Apart from the narrative qualities of the film, the filmmaking was also praised for the depth and thoroughness of its thematic content. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, who assigned it 3½ stars out of four, wrote that Silence "offers frustratingly few answers but all the right questions" and argued that it is among the director's "most spiritually moving films to date". [80] In Slant, Jesse Cataldo argued: "Tapping into the vast pool of vagueness and uncertainty that exists beneath the veneer of a rigid, righteous belief, Scorsese crafts a versatile, multifaceted work that encourages serious reflection and contemplation". [81] Alissa Wilkinson of Vox wrote that Silence "is beautiful, unsettling and one of the finest religious movies ever made". [82] John Ehrett of The Federalist praised the film highly, saying: " Silence is a must-see masterpiece about the paradoxes of faith." Ehrett further added: "Complex yet reverent, Silence explores the meanings and dilemmas of Christian faith, and decisively sets a new benchmark for religious films." [ citation needed] a b " 'Hidden Figures' Stays Smart, But Why Are So Many Movies Bombing Over MLK Weekend?". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on January 16, 2017. Shūsaku Endō’s Silence takes place in Japan during the 1600s, shortly after the Japanese government suppressed the Shimabara Rebellion, in which Christian Japanese peasants rebelled against the government’s heavy persecution. After the rebellion’s defeat, many Catholics went underground, continuing to practice their religion in secrecy. The novel begins when a young Portuguese Jesuit missionary, Sebastian Rodrigues, and his two colleagues, Father Garrpe and Father de Santa Maria, decide to set out to Japan to find out what happened to their teacher, Father Ferreira. Ferreira is rumored to have apostatized, or renounced his religious beliefs, after having gone underground in Japan and spent thirty years in Christian service there. Rodrigues finds it hard to believe that Ferreira, a highly respected member of the Jesuit community, has renounced his faith. If he has, Rodrigues wonders what this means about his faith in Christianity and the religion he has dedicated his life to.Ward, Haruko Nawata (March 1, 2017). "Silence dir. by Martin Scorsese (review)". Pro Rege. 103 (1): 169–170. doi: 10.1353/cat.2017.0055. S2CID 164221036. Archived from the original on August 4, 2017 . Retrieved July 31, 2017.

Fathers Rodrigues and Garrpe, former students of Ferreira, are Portuguese priests in their late 20s. The pair travel from Portugal to China, hoping to find a covert way to reach Japan. While there they are joined by Kichijiro, a pitiful and drunken man about their age whom they suspect is a Christian, though he adamantly denies it. A Portuguese superior of the Church warns them of a magistrate named Inoue, a particularly cruel and devilish persecutor, but nevertheless helps Rodrigues and Garrpe commission a Chinese ship and crew. They smuggle themselves and Kichijiro onto the shores of Japan, landing in the mountains near Nagasaki. Correct us if we're wrong, but we're going to go out on a limb and say that if Martin Scorsese adapts a book into a movie, you can be reasonably certain that it's going to be an awesome book. Shinya Tsukamoto interview: We spoke to the real star of Martin Scorsese's Silence". The Independent. January 13, 2017. Archived from the original on August 7, 2017 . Retrieved August 2, 2017. Best of 2016: Film Critic Top Ten Lists". Metacritic. Archived from the original on December 13, 2016 . Retrieved March 6, 2017.

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This statue was once used by Japanese Christians for secret religious services, which is why it might not look like the Virgin Mary statues you're used to. Seitz, Matt Zoller. "Silence Movie Review & Film Summary (2016)". RogerEbert.com. Ebert Digital LLC. Archived from the original on December 24, 2016 . Retrieved December 23, 2016. In 17th-century Portugal, the Roman Catholic Church learns that Father Ferreira, a highly-respected missionary who has worked in Japan for over 20 years, has somehow been made to commit apostasy, renouncing Christianity by stamping his foot on a picture of Jesus Christ. The Church is both confused and disturbed by this news, and several of Ferreira’s former students (he was a seminary professor before going to Japan) launch an expedition into Japan to continue Ferreira’s former evangelistic work and discover the truth about his apostasy, even though the Japanese government brutally oppresses Christianity. Endo worried that Christianity might well be ill-suited to the temperament of Japanese religious psychology, which he felt demanded a more forgiving and accommodating God than the image of God that was being propagated by the Catholic church. In these circumstances Endo's task became clear to him. He would attempt to retailor Christianity into a suit of clothes that could sit comfortably upon the Japanese body. But, as he was endeavouring to do this, he would also be wrestling the face of Japanese society around and pointing it towards a mirror where it would have no choice but to stare at its own hypocrisies. Liam Neeson Joins Martin Scorsese's 'Silence' ". Variety. January 31, 2014. Archived from the original on March 7, 2014 . Retrieved March 2, 2014.