But the question remains: could we do better with modern special effects? The danger is that the effects could be too good-Bertran de Born swinging his head like a lantern, Mohammed and the other schismatics split nearly in half, suicides turned into brambles, thieves turned into lizards-leaving the impression that the Inferno is just a series of freak shows, and giving too little importance to the transformation of Dante as he journeys through Hell. Yes we do get some scenes from the Inferno, but all the drama of the original has been drained from them: the lustful appear to be merely lounging around in a reddish scene, instead of being caught up in a whirlwind, while the suicides are now thorny bushes with heads, which simply look ridiculous. Its vivid scenes and sharply drawn characters highlight Dante’s imaginative journey through the many circles of. ![]() ![]() But the people who made this film didn't even try instead, they gave us a version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with a little diluted Sinclair Lewis thrown in, relocated in 1920's America. In Dante’s Inferno, players assume the role of Dante as he travels on an epic descent through Dante Alighieri’s nine circles of Hell limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery. Part One:Inferno is one the main sections of Dante Alighieri’s long narrative, about 33 cantos, La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) which was estimated to be written somewhere between 13 (Barbi and Ruggiers, 1997). ![]() This accumulation of filthy sludge symbolizes the. Thick hail and dirty water mixed with snow / come down in torrents through the murky air, / and the earth is stinking from this soaking rain (Alighieri VI.9-11). However, his punishments are not assigned haphazardly. ![]() It may not be possible to bring the Inferno to the screen: too much depends on Dante's poetry, not to mention familiarity with all of the classical and contemporary references that mean so much to the poet's journey. Alighieri’s Inferno attempts to assign punishment to each sin.
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