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Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev has an extended sequence where a bellmaker's young son agrees to pour a bell for a local lord. You see the entire process of making th
by pradn 4y ago
Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev has an extended sequence where a bellmaker's young son agrees to pour a bell for a local lord. You see the entire process of making the mould and pouring the metal. It has a town-fair atmosphere. But at the end, there's tremendous pressure on the young bellmaker to have the bell ring properly and have no cracks. And it does. The protagonist, the lapsed monk Andrei Rublev, regains his faith, seeing the result of the young bellmaker's hope.
- aeolis_mons 4y agoOne of my favorite sequences in any movie. I will never forget the visuals of workmen sweltering in front of flaming portholes in the bell's cast. Enduring a little inferno, to create the sound of heaven! Thank you for reminding me of it. :)
- pradn 4y agoIt's an unforgettable 40 minutes. So lucky to have seen it on the big screen the first time I saw the film.
- scarecrowbob 4y agoI can't recall as it has been a number of years, but my impression was that the young bell maker was lying about his father having given him the "secret" to making the bell, hence the anxiety about the success of the project. Am I misremembering that, or was I just not reading it correctly?
- gregsadetsky 4y agoThat's exactly it -- https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/08/20/the-secret-of-andrei-rublev/ https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/08/20/the-secret-of-andrei... "The boy, named Boriska [...] claims that before his father died, he revealed to him the secret of casting a bronze bell" "Amid his tears, Boriska reveals that his father never imparted to him the secret of bell making"
- pradn 4y agoYes, exactly. The father also died of a plague before they came to the son, if I recall.