If you had the choice, would you be willing to be a lonely and nameless ordinary person?
Or like Archimedes, Newton, Einstein, Shen Kuo, hawking, be a genius with great achievements and can leave a name in the history books?
Probably a large percentage of people would choose the latter.
Full of profound knowledge and exploration of the world, with countless fans and followers, it has been passed down through the ages of human history.
To any ordinary person, this is amazing and beyond.
However, we often stand in the third person and can only see their brilliance and glory.
But they often ignore the pain that geniuses endure in their eternal lives.
For example, today's biopic introduces us in the form of a story to Leonardo da Vinci and his life story -
Leonardo
It is an Italian-led series that focuses primarily on the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance.
The main character, Da Vinci, is played by Irish actor Aidan Turner.
He is the handsomest dwarf in "The Hobbit", the sexiest mercenary in the BBC's "No One Survives", and the Poldark who has attracted countless fans in "Poldark".
The actor has his own melancholy temperament, and it is most appropriate to play the legendary Leonardo da Vinci.
One of the important supporting roles, Geraldi, is played by Freddy Hammer.
Perhaps the most familiar thing we know about him is his work with Depp as a child star, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The cute teenager Charlie has now grown into Shaun, the genius doctor with autism in "Good Doctor".
In this play transformed into the bearded Geraldy.
In addition, there is a supporting role that must be mentioned, played by Matilda de Angelis, da Vinci's red confidant Caterina.
You may remember that she was Elena, who played the heroine's husband's lover in "Doing Nothing".
Her performance with a variety of charms from her bones, with a smile and a smile, is indeed unforgettable, even if she is in the same frame as Nicole.
The story of Leonardo da Vinci begins with an arrest.
At that time, Leonardo da Vinci was already a well-known painter in society, enjoying a high reputation and having a group of followers.
But he was arrested and imprisoned for murdering Caterina, who was close to him, with poison.
Motives, Caterina burned all of Leonardo's portraits of herself.
Poison, a dye commonly used by Leonardo as a painting dye.
The witnesses and testimonies clearly pointed to this extraordinary genius.
Apart from Leonardo's own insistence on his innocence, there seems to be little room for manoeuvre.
But Judge Gerald was unusually cautious.
Because this is not only about a genius, but also about whether an innocent person is wronged, he must find enough credible evidence in this vague event.
So Gerald began to peek into Leonardo's past from the accounts of others.
Time back 16 years, Florence.
At that time, Leonardo was just a small apprentice in the studio of the master Verocchio at that time.
In his painting class, he met Caterina for the first time as a model.
At that time, their "small test" was modeled by Caterina and painted Diana, the goddess of the hunt.
Almost everyone wants to find in this ordinary peasant girl the holiness of being sublimated into a goddess.
But only Leonardo was different.
He has extremely demanding requirements for perfection.
The scars, calluses, scratches, candle oil, and tired look on Caterina's body made him want to dig more, to draw a story full of people instead of goddesses.
Leonardo's scratch paper was full of legs, backs, hands, and necks, but he couldn't put them together.
Perfectionism kept him faltering.
When it was time to hand over the papers, he could only present a blank space to the master.
This is clearly not the most appropriate approach.
So in order to be able to paint a painting that he was satisfied with, Leonardo began to privately hire Caterina as a model to continue painting.
Of course, it is paid.
During this time, the painter developed a deep friendship with the model.
Leonardo also became more and more obsessed with drawing all of Caterina's past and stories on paper, even stealing expensive paints from the studio.
This painting eventually became the most direct channel for Leonardo to prove his strength to the master Verrocchio.
With his pursuit of perfectionism and his perception of things and light, Leonardo was invited to participate in Verrocchio's painting of The Baptism of Christ.
In this painting, he is responsible only for the part of a blue angel in the lower left corner.
But his light and shadow, color, charm, and brushstrokes all shocked his master.
There is even a saying in later studies that after seeing Leonardo's work, his master was ashamed of himself and never picked up a paintbrush again.
The response to this painting was enormous.
Because of this, Leonardo was suddenly promoted to the position of the first step among artists of his age, and the Cardinal and the Duke of Milan wanted to put his talents to work for themselves.
But at the same time, it also brought him the jealousy and betrayal of his friends.
After the celebration of the Baptism of Christ, a friend stabbed him to the church with a male model, and he was arrested on the spot.
Da Vinci's homosexual tendencies are not empirical in history, but the play is directly smashed.
In those days, homosexuality was not uncommon among artists.
But as long as it is caught by the church, it is a felony of discredit.
Even if he was released from prison without charge, Leonardo's reputation for The Baptism of Christ dissipated in a single day.
Because the biggest client of the artists at that time was the Holy See.
Honor is gone, trying to get everything to zero?
Nor is it.
Talent is Leonardo's best thing to rely on.
With superhuman abilities, although Leonardo was euphemistically expelled from the studio, he soon received an olive branch from the Medici family, the actual ruler of the city-state.
His mission was to paint a personal portrait of the daughter of the Medici family who was about to marry.
How lucky.
Leonardo needed a work to prove his ability, and a personal portrait was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him.
Worse still, his persistence as an artist screwed up the opportunity.
The daughter to be married, the family hopes that he can leave the festivities and grace on the drawing paper.
But just as Leonardo painted caterina, he could only paint what he saw as a non-human maiden.
With his own insistence and the demands of the world, Leonardo survived throughout his life in the tears of the two.
This has been evident since he was born.
His first memory was that an eagle flew to his cradle and frightened his young self and mother.
Later, the superstitious mother took him to the witch to tell fortunes, and he got a prophecy, or curse, that was difficult to get rid of.
He can never be with a loved one.
Since then, Leonardo has been kicked around like a leather ball.
The witch's curse kept him from being accepted by his mother, and his father's family could not tolerate him as an illegitimate child, and only his strict grandfather would adopt him and raise him.
As an adult, in addition to loneliness and talent, only Caterina was left.
For Caterina, Leonardo was a close friend, a yearning, and a secretly beloved.
For Leonardo, Caterina was the muse, the love, the channel through which he explored the world.
However, the two people who were extremely compatible in souls in this way eventually went to the end of a dead life.
Was it really Leonardo who poisoned Caterina?
If so, why would he do it?
Does the pain of genius really make him do something to hurt others?
If not, is there any hidden plot or conspiracy?
What secrets are hidden behind a generation of legends?
The answer is in the next plot.