'Conclave' director says controversial scenes in movie about papal elections 'not a takedown of the church'
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"Conclave" director Edward Berger weighs in on some of the more controversial parts of his new movie about papal elections, based off of a Robert Harris novel.
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"And we see it in the beginning of the film: Stanley Tucci references a chess game, and I felt this movie is like a well-constructed architectural chess game where people are vying for the top job - the throne is vacant and people are getting out their daggers to conquer that throne," director Edward Berger told Fox News Digital.
"That is automatically a very competitive situation and a very interesting and a very suspenseful situation," he continued. "On top of it, you have a wonderfully engaging interior journey for Ralph Fiennes’s character, that is full of struggle and doubt that he's trying to overcome. So, it's a very complex script that keeps surprising you and has many surprises and twists for the audience."
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