Pillars of the Earth Movie.You might enjoy this show a lot if you are a fan of this kind of thing, as long as you do not need to be in any large sense, really good.
The term "guilty pleasure" is not quite apply to projects such as Starz Pillars of the Earth, debuted today. The miniseries, based on the novel by Ken Follett about the struggle for power and the church in building the 12 th century, Britain seems to be not guilty of anything, and does not appear inclined to the fault of the audience
. It is positively virtuous manner: a large, old-fashioned historical epic sweep and passion and melodrama, listening to the days of old you can learn-something-from-it, as a network TV series Shogun. But despite its epic scale and impressive cast, serials, apparently in place and time.
Accommodation in brief: England in the struggle of succession (the period is called anarchy) after the disaster the ship killed the royal heir. The plot draws in the Church, which is experiencing a bout of power: a very, very vertically to Philip (Matthew Macfayden) originates in the church and in conflict with the very, very corrupt bishop Waleran Bigot (Ian McShane). Among the controversial construction of the planned massive cathedral. The edges of this story takes place in many juicy stuff: the warring nobles (one played by Donald Sutherland) and his lust and alliances shift, and the trials of the poor but virtuous mason Tom Builder (Rufus Sewell), who wants to design the cathedral and whose life complicated by his wife Ellen Wiccan (Natalia Werner). (I would say Tom Builder is aptly named, but people have been aptly called the design in the 12 th century.)
Normally I would be all right with Ian McShane in it, but the extent of his character not to scale show, nor to its history, playing complex villains. Waleran occurs first as a scheming, hypocritical bad guy, but when you get to know him, that he really intrigues, hypocrisy a bad guy. He barely even a shadow of the monarch McShane in Kings NBC, not to mention Al Swearengen in Deadwood. And so on for other roles: the good guys are very good, the bad guys really bad, terribly unfair resentment and melodramatic crises.
In 1980, on NBC, this show (with sex and violence greatly reduced), it would be a landmark. But after a decade of complex, modern, morally complex cable dramas, it is disappointing. Sometimes it even has a Tudor look exquisite restraint.
All that said, the production values are high enough and the story is violent, that the show should appeal to lovers of great historical photos are prepared to overlook some simplistic drama. Pillars can be an intriguing look at that period of history that we tend to see covered more in the mythical history of the Holy Grail of parody.
The medieval cathedrals fascinating subject, and a decent central: for their society and largely illiterate population, they have TV, internet, community center and the front porch of heaven all rolled into one, the medium and the message is a psychological import can not be overemphasized. (When one of them suffers accident in first episode, it's not an exaggeration to say that the impact on the audience, with the mindset of his time, as we see the fall of the twin towers, and then some.) For casual Historical Fiction positive effect or a fan of the old school, series, Pillars may well be useful. I just wanted her story and characters are better built.
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