While the Vatican is preparing for the secret cardinal meeting who will choose a successor for Pope Francis, forget – to some extent – what you may have learned from “Conclave,” last year’s successful movie that portrays high -level power games and red -robbed clerics.
The conclave of the so-called “Church Princes” who will elect a new Pope will begin on Wednesday (7). He follows the funeral of Francisco on April 26 and broader consultations among cardinals, known as general congregations.
The movie “Conclave”, which has won an Oscar in March for best adapted script, is a faithful representation in costumes and staging, but the blatant plot and the final turnaround are exaggerated, they say church experts.
“Let’s be honest: ‘Conclave’, which leads us to the heart of one of the most mysterious and secret events in the world, is a highly fun movie, especially for a carefree American audience,” wrote the newspaper of Italians, Avvenire, in a December critic.
“But it is impossible not to smile on certain characters or situations that, especially in the eyes of Italian viewers, risk the same as involuntary parodies,” he added.
The director of “Conclave”, Edward Berger, said that although the film goes on the Vatican, it could be about the power games that occur where there is a top position to be filled.
“And whenever this vacuum of power exists, there will be people fighting for him. There will be people fighting for him and stabbing each other in the back and trying to manipulate his way to that power,” he told Reuters during an interview filmed in October.
After winning the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay in January, the scriptwriter of “Conclave”, Peter Straughan, Oscar’s winner, said that the central message of the film was “the church always having to find its spiritual core because it deals a lot with power.”
Regardless of how much fiction in the movie, the interest in history increased after Francisco’s death on April 21.
Entertainment industry data company Luminate reported that the US streaming numbers to “conclave” increased 283% on Monday compared to the previous day.
The word “conclave” comes from the Latin “cum clave” (with a key), referring to the medieval practice of locking the cardinals in a room until they make a decision about a new Pope. This is essentially the way it still works today.
Cardinals gathered inside the Sistine Chapel are prohibited from communicating with the outside world – without telephone, television or internet – and should keep silent over the election later. But details inevitably leak.
Francisco himself, in an interview book published last year, broke the rule of confidentiality and admitted that there were some machines.
“The cardinals swear not to reveal what happens in the conclave, but the popes are licensed to tell,” he told Spanish journalist Javier Martinez-Brocal.
He said he was “used” in a failed attempt to block Benedict XVI, the 2005 favorite, with 40 of the 115 votes converging for him, while the cardinals behind the maneuver hoped that this would open the way for the emergence of another candidate.
Bento was properly elected, Francis said after he told one of the aspiring conspirator: “Don’t be mistaken with this candidacy, because right now I will say that I won’t accept it, ok? Leave me out of it.”
Francis said he personally voted for Bento because the church needed a “transition pope” after the long papacy of John Paul II. In 2013, Francisco emerged as a surprise candidate, after impressing his peers with a speech about the need for church reform.
This time, there is no clear favorite, although the British betting houses named Luis Antonio Tagle, a Philippine reformer, and Pietro Parolin, a choice of commitment from Italy, like the first favorites in the dispute.
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This content was originally published in “Conclave” director: ”When there is a vacuum of power, people fight” on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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