- When Amamba wrote the script, he assumed Rachel Weisz to be Hypatia.
- The film was shot in Fort Rikka Sorri, Malta, and the crew specially built a "Grand Port of Alexandria" for this purpose.
- Hypatia was originally scheduled to starring Nicole Kidman, but she was criticized by Christians because she played a femme fatale in the movie "The Golden Compass". To avoid this happening again, Ni Can voluntarily quit the filming of the film.
- Rachel Weisz originally didn’t know who Hipatia was, but she decided to act in the film right after she read the script, because the script describes the weak female character between religion and the scepter wrestling, which deeply moved her. .
Agora behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Elsie 2022-05-23 21:04:51
What we see is not necessarily true. Only through doubt can we approach the truth. The search for truth can more or less explain the philosophy of human existence. There are the pursuit of freedom, emotion, power, and confusion in the film. In these emotional explorations, the most important thing is to hold a skeptical attitude. This is the basic doctrine of philosophy and the basis for discovering the truth. I admire Hypatia, she has never given up her search for truth.
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Elenora 2022-05-23 23:06:08
The light of truth and reason represented by the neo-Platonist female philosopher Hypatia is like the last white candle with weak firepower in the dark night, swaying in the bloody rain of religious cleansing and killing, gradually disappearing. Her death heralded the decline of Greek science and culture ever since. Human civilization may take three steps back and two steps, and hobble forward. But humanity has been stumbling from beginning to end in a selfish, ignorant, stupid and cruel place. Christ on the shelf not only shed blood but also shed tears. The cry of "to love each other", is it that human beings will never understand?
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Hypatia: Ever since Plato, all of them - Aristarchus, Hipparchus, Ptolemy - they have all, all, all tried to reconcile their observations with circular orbits. But what if another shape is hiding in the heavens?
Davus: Another shape? Lady, there is no shape more pure than the circle; you taught us that.
Hypatia: I know, I know, but suppose - just suppose! - the purity of the circle has blinded us from seeing anything beyond it! I must begin all over with new eyes. I must rethink everything!... What if we dared to look at the world just as it is. Let us shed for a moment every preconceived idea - what shape would it show us?
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Davus: I was forgiven but now I can't forgive.
Ammonius: Forgive? Who the Jews?
Davus: Well Jesus pardoned them on the cross.