{"id":4363,"date":"2010-02-19T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2010\/02\/19\/philosophers-in-the-movies"},"modified":"2010-02-19T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T12:26:00","slug":"philosophers-in-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2010\/02\/19\/philosophers-in-the-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophers in the Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/rpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/07\/85f34-christopher_plummer13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439930080763511746\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/rpe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/07\/85f34-christopher_plummer13.jpg?w=233\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> I noticed our local cinema is showing <em>The Last Station<\/em> which is about the last year of Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s life. Tolstoy is played by Christopher Plummer and his wife is played by Helen Mirren. The names of these two actors got me thinkng about philosophers portrayed in movies: Plummer, of course, played Aristotle in the film <em>Alexander<\/em>, and Mirren played Ayn Rand in <em>The Passion of Ayn Rand<\/em>.  But I must admit I&#8217;m struggling to come up with many philosophers who have featured on the big screen. There is Derek Jarman&#8217;s <em>Wittgenstein<\/em> of course, and Nietzsche has made an appearance in a coupe of obscure movies such as <em>When Nietzsche Wept<\/em> and Liliana Cavani&#8217;s <em>Beyond Good and Evil.<\/em> I recall one director recently stating that he would like to make a movie about Socrates, but it actually surprises me that there isn&#8217;t one already (or is there?). Given how colourful the lives of philosophers can be (with the notable exception of Kant: that would be a very dull movie indeed!) I&#8217;m surprised I&#8217;m struggling to recall many films of them. Also, who would make the best philosopher to make a film of, and who would have the starrring role? Brad Pitt as a hunky Socrates (well, you had Keanu Reeves as that Buddha dude), or Ricky Tomlinson as Zizek?<\/p>\n<p>And see <a href=\"http:\/\/maxim-lebedev.livejournal.com\/61855.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/maxim-lebedev.livejournal.com\/61855.html<\/a> for yet more comments&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed our local cinema is showing The Last Station which is about the last year of Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s life. Tolstoy is played by Christopher Plummer and his wife is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophers","category-philosophy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}