Libertine, The, John Wilmot
The story belongs to one John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, a rake, spending his spirit and finances in wine, women and poetry. The character played by Johnny Depp in the movie The Libertine, resembles a sort of Casanova who lived about a century later. Wilmot didn't have his spirit double's luck duration-wise when he contracted syphilis and died a painful death in his early 30's whereas Casanova lived till an old age when he wrote to entertain himself out of boredom in a German Count's library when he couldn't live like back in his younger days.
Having read only a little about Wilmot, i can say the movie captured the ambience of the era pretty well, lots of theatrical shows and plays and seduction and immorality. Later on we witness a sort of transformation of character, giving away and helping others, turning a low profile actress into a success, saving the king fancy Charles II. While he was kind of passionate about making those fellows break through, when he was about to die he returned back to his good old former lover where he could find in her a Mother Mary. In the final scene we see secretly he wanted to be liked, maybe like repenting when he asks us "Do you like me now?", where in the first scene he warned us "I don't want you to like me."
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| John Wilmot Photo Credit: Wikipedia |
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| Charles II Photo Credit: Wikipedia |
Having read only a little about Wilmot, i can say the movie captured the ambience of the era pretty well, lots of theatrical shows and plays and seduction and immorality. Later on we witness a sort of transformation of character, giving away and helping others, turning a low profile actress into a success, saving the king fancy Charles II. While he was kind of passionate about making those fellows break through, when he was about to die he returned back to his good old former lover where he could find in her a Mother Mary. In the final scene we see secretly he wanted to be liked, maybe like repenting when he asks us "Do you like me now?", where in the first scene he warned us "I don't want you to like me."
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