BIG TICKET
In making a movie about Eleaonor of Aquitaine one journeies in time 1000 years to relive and recall an entire world. It is a world of hard won human behaviors that looked
different with a changed sense of drama, spirituality, music and fashion. Yet this is the root of a new code
of behavior, the script is a new way of speaking and acting for the human race.
TIME: 1137
PLACE: Bordeaux, Paris, Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Jerusalem, London, Poitier,
Westminster, Stonehenge, Fontevraud
FEATURES:
- An epic heroic woman's role
- A story that encompasses the 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.
- The strange mix of spiritual and sexual life.
- An Islamic point of view balancing a Christian point of view.
- A new myth of love experienced in feelings of love in all ages of life.
- The lost music and style of the troubadours.
- The forgotten art and origin of romance including the world's first engagement
rings and Valentines rituals.
- The outrageous personal fashion of costumes of the emerging first Renaissance.
- The origins of Cirque de Soliel.
- The creation of romantic ritual that are now customs - engagement rings, flowers, letters,
songs.
- The invention of stained glass, paper, wind mills.
- The destruction of the greates city on Earth at the time- Constantinople - the epic destruction
of the World Trade Center (by Christians against the Moslems_
- Witness a true miracle in the Holy Lands.
- Chivalry in love, faith and belief.
- Incredible feasts and 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 .
- The spiritual character of King Louis VII of France
- The dynamic character of King Henry II of England
- Restoring Eleanor of Aquitaine's character and achievements (replacing "Lion
in Winter")
- The glory, creation and intrigue of the "Courts of Love"
- The heroic Richard the Lion Heart, the sinister King John
- The refounding of King Arthur's tales based on Eleanor and her knights.
- The persona upon whom Joan of Arc was modeled after.
- The person Queen Elizabeth descended from.
- A faithful reconstruction of the mystery of Eleanor of Aquitaine who experienced every form of human
love.
- A full life with a suprisingly victorious ending.
But you will walk away
- Reborn with the sense of romance, desiring to give love as Eleanor.
- Wanting to do right as a chivalrous knight in the name of love.
- Thinking about today's situation in Europe and the World.
- Feeling alive, tingling to remember this story.
Research bit
Le palais de l'Ombrière movie
http://www.alienor-aquitaine.org/lieux/02_ombriere.htm
markbeau@mac.com
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