II Nome Della Rosa's The Name Of Rose

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The Name of Rose was based off the 1980 novel II Nome della Rosa by a writer/professor Umberto Eco. The novels name was later translated in 1983 to The Name of the Rose. The movie was about a mysterious death in Benedictine Abbey and the monks believe that it is some short of apocalypse. As the investigation goes on there is even more deaths at occur that start to frighten the people of the little area. There are several places where the movie had changed or forgotten from the novel. The character Adso van Mellk is a Benedictine monk in the novel but in the movie they changed him to be a Franciscan monk. Also another character that they changed was Malachi, which in the movie was called Malachia. Another small little thing that wasn’t as big …show more content…

The abbot, Malachia and Jorge are talking in the beginning of the movie whether they should ask William for help on trying to solve the murder but in the novel it is all Adso’s perspective. In the book William and Adso made several trips to the library even though abbot had forbidden them from going there. The rooms were an intricate design that was interconnected. It make it physical impossible to navigate through there but they had a made a map which started to help. But during one of the trips Adso is pursing someone and he is poisoned from smoke but he isn’t killed. In the movie though they only make two trips and the library has a different layout that involves stairs and they use a thread to navigate and William nearly falls to his death due to a trapdoor that they didn’t see. When it came to the killing of Severinus in the movie Malachia is seen killing him and that sent a warning to Remigio to escape. But in the book Severinus is actually found dead is Remigio is ransacked when he is looking for the book, which sent suggestion he was the killer. But later on William decideds that Malachi had taken the book and hid inside the infirmary after killing Severinus. This caused for Remigio to be put on blame …show more content…

The abbot, determined who the person responsible for the killings is and he orders that William is too leave because he wanted to resolve the problem without him. Williams refuses to leave and goes into the library where Jorge trapped the abbot in a secret passage, which was causing him to suffocate. Jorge claims that abbot dies which would be the sixth death by now. Jorge tells how he got into the library and how he got rare books from the monastery that nobody should have. Jorge plans his own suicide and tends to be the sixth to die. William and Adso that is there now try to make Jorge stop eating the book but Jorge throws a lamp causing a fire, and Jorge and the whole library burn down. The fire destroys the entire monastery, which took three days to burn. William ends up leaving the library empty handed and he was upset that he spend all this time looking for a murder and there was no murder but just a chain of events that happened to happen all at once. In the movie at the end William has to decide though which books we wants to save so he can take them

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