BIG TICKET
Why see a movie about Eleaonor of Aquitaine? A journey back in time
recalls the origins of modern love lived by a woman who runs
the gamut. forgotten human behaviors. The beginnings of a new
code of behavior. 1000 years ago is a world that looks
different with another way of speaking, a new way to dressing up including
forbidden clothes of the mid east, troubadour love music invigorated with Arabic
poetry, all perfectly shocking then as it would be now.
TIMES: 1137 to 1204
PLACE: Bordeaux, Paris, Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Jerusalem, London, Poitier,
Westminster, Stonehenge, Fontevraud
FEATURES:
- A magnificent and heroic woman's role among larger than life men and women
of the time.
- Chivalry at its origin in France and England.
- The sensational journey of the men and woman of the 2nd Crusade.
- Strange mix of spiritual, sexual, and personal family life.
- An Islamic point of view balancing a Christian point of view.
- New myth of love experienced in feelings of love in all ages of life.
- The lost music and style of the troubadours.
- Forgotten art of romance with the world's first engagement
rings and Valentines rituals.
- Outrageous personal fashion of costumes of the time.
- The origins of Cirque de Soliel.
- The creation of romantic customs - engagement rings, flowers, letters,
songs.
- The invention of stained glass, paper, wind mills.
- The greatest city on Earth now lost - Constantinople - the epic destruction
of their World Trade Center, by Christians against the Muslims.
- Witness a true miracle in the Holy Lands.
- Chivalry in love, faith and belief.
- Incredible feasts, imaginative parties.
- The daring adventures of knight William Marshall.
- Archbishop Thomas Becket's spiritual struggle. (expansion of "Becket")
- The human faith of Suger of Dennis vs the stern faith of Saint Bernard of
Clairvaux .
- Spiritually detached King Louis VII of France
- Dynamic character of King Henry II of England
- Restoring Eleanor of Aquitaine's character and achievements (replacing "Lion
in Winter")
- Glory, sexuality, creation and intrigue of the "Courts of Love"
- Heroic Richard the Lion Heart and his brother the sinister King John
- The origin of King Arthur's tales.
- The persona upon whom Joan of Arc and Queen Elizabeth looked to.
- Truestory of Eleanor of Aquitaine who experienced every form of human
love.
- A full and victorious life with a suprise ending.
But you will walk away from the film
- Reborn with a sense of romance, desiring to give love as Eleanor.
- Wanting to do as right as the great chivalrous knight Marshal.
- Thinking about today's situation in the Mideast, Europe and the World.
- Feeling alive, tingling to remember this story as a myth.
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