Word: copyists
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...channeled Guillemin’s life-long interests in morality and the democratization of art. Though he once believed he would become a Jesuit priest, Guillemin’s desire to become an artist turned itself into a full-fledged career; after studying art in college, he became a copyist at the Louvre and returned to Boston to found his own gallery. However, he eventually grew concerned with his artistically abstract lifestyle...
...would probably advise you to spend your hard-earned money elsewhere. “Historically, it’s dreadful,” Lockwood says of the film, which depicts a fabricated relationship between an irascible Beethoven—played by Ed Harris—and a fictional female copyist. Yet Lockwood doesn’t condemn the movie entirely. “There’s a nub of psychological truth in the idea that an old and isolated artist could have been thrilled to have a young woman be his copyist,” he says...
...much plug up my ears,” he recalls. “So I really had to pay attention to people when they were speaking to really understand what they were saying.”Another wholly fictional addition to the film is the character of a female copyist named Anna, played by Diane Kruger. Harris’s initial reaction to the character was mixed.“I asked the writers, ‘Why are you introducing this character?’” says Harris.He eventually came around to their point of view, though...
...much bluster and intensity, neither of them offer the audience much more than empty sound and fury. Apart from the music itself, the story told in the film is blatantly fictitious and will likely offend the aficionado’s sense of history. The role of a twenty-something copyist, played by the lovely Diane Kruger (“Troy”), is a device created by the film’s writers to see into the last days of an increasingly reclusive Beethoven. In a typical Hollywood move, the copyist is—miracle of miracles...
...Harvard’s painting] is in some ways improved upon in that the eyes are opened wider, the lips smile more, the shape of the ear is changed, and an extra hair swirl is added above the temple. This is just the sort of thing a copyist often does,” she wrote...