Character mistake: When William finds the footprints on the ground after the body is found in the blood vat, he tells Adso that they were twice as deep as they should've been because the person who made them was weighed down by the weight of a body. Adso points out that the footprints were going away from the vats, to which William rebukes him and says that the man who made the prints was possibly dragging the body. If that was so, the footprints would not have been so deep, as the person moving the body would not have been weighed down nearly as much by dragging one along the ground. William is a learned investigator who shouldn't have made such an obvious mistake.
The Name of the Rose (1986)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Starring: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, F. Murray Abraham, Elya Baskin, Helmut Qualtinger
Sean Connery uncovers the mystery of the deaths. It turns out that Aristotle (a Greek philosopher) wrote a book about comedy. The chief monk felt that it should be forbidden and thus hid the book. In addition, he adds poison to the edges of the pages. The monks who had been killed had chanced upon the book and they happened to have the filthy habit of licking their fingers whenever they flip a page. Thus they also ended up consuming the poison on the pages, which explains the discolouration on their tongues and fingers. As the inquisitor (F Murray Abraham) orders the execution fires lit, Sean Connery enters the library maze and confronts the chief monk who poisoned the book. The monk starts eating the book and the library catches fire, but Connery escapes. As the monastery burns down, peasants attack the inquisitor (they push his wagon over a cliff and he falls to his death on spikes) and save the girl. She approaches Slater as he and Connery leave, but Slater chooses to stay a monk and rides away with Connery. In a voice-over, Slater says as an old man that he never regretted his decision but still thinks of her sometimes.
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More mistakes in The Name of the Rose
Voice of Adso as an Old Man: Who was she? Who was this creature that rose like the dawn, as bewitching as the moon, radiant as the sun, terrible as an army poised for battle?
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