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Caravaggio - Trailer · Table Read

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  Speaker 1: He loved them. Caravaggio, written by Richard Vitterre based on
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  Speaker 1: his stage plane. He was a rock star of his time.
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  Speaker 1: His paintings were vivid, fierce, and defiant, and his life
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  Speaker 1: was no different. Well, you see in the art, you
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  Speaker 1: will find in the artist, and what you see in
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  Speaker 1: the artist, you.
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  Speaker 2: Will find in the man.
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  Speaker 1: Rome was the most violent city in the Western world.
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  Speaker 1: Two thirds of the population were men. They were former
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  Speaker 1: soldiers home from wars, priests, artists, and sculptors who came
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  Speaker 1: to Rome to be the next Michelangelo. Two thirds of
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  Speaker 1: the remaining female population were prostitutes. Caravaggio roamed the streets,
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  Speaker 1: choosing his models from the homeless the destitute. He cast
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  Speaker 1: a beggar to play his saint Peter, and he painted
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  Speaker 1: him just as he was with all these gouters and scars.
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  Speaker 1: His great competition was the admired and beloved and the Caracci.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you to your face, as much as
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  Speaker 2: I despise your paintings, I admire them.
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  Speaker 1: His great enemy was Ranuccio Tomasoni, a spoiled and wealthy aristocrat.
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  Speaker 2: One day I will soak the piazza with your blood,
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  Speaker 2: and I will.
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  Speaker 1: Soak it with yours, and his great love was the
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  Speaker 1: prostitute Lena. Have you never seen a woman before? Women?
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  Speaker 2: I've seen you, I have.
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  Speaker 1: His violent life exploded when he killed Ranuccio in a
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  Speaker 1: brawl in the Piazza del Popolo. Ranucca to escape a
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  Speaker 1: warrant for his arrest demanded by the Pope, Caravaccio's benefactor,
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  Speaker 1: Cardinal del Monte, secured him a commission to paint the
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  Speaker 1: portrait of the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta.
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  Speaker 1: Neither he nor Caravaccio knew that the inquisition was waiting
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  Speaker 1: for Caravaccio at the isolated edge of civilization Malta. There
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  Speaker 1: is no greater sin on this earth than duplicity. I
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  Speaker 1: do not have the courage for duplicity.
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  Speaker 2: I will save your soul.
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  Speaker 1: How will you save my soul?
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  Speaker 2: Through pain? So