screenplay challenges : from life and books to movie treatments and graphic novels
The crusade starts in May 1189 with the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Frederick Barbarossa, marching his army on land. Baudolino and the pilgrims sail on a trading ship towards Constantinople to safeguard Frederick’s safe passage through Armenia; they have to change clothing though to blend in with the flashy Armenians, Greeks traders or Read More …
Jumping ahead to the third part of the trilogy… Recently I’ve read Yuval Harari’s “Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind” and watched Reza Aslan’s “The Scientology Reformation”. The happy coincidence gave me more material for who the Pyramid Head Chief will be in 2065. Nowadays, the Pyramid Head is a bloodthirsty comics character. Did the Read More …
After completing the sequences of the pilgrims’ route through religious and philosophical experiences, I had to return to their starting point in the script: the beginning of the Third Crusade to freed Jerusalem from Saladin. Following the Diet in Mainz, Frederick Barbarossa takes the land and the England’s and France’s kings the maritime routes towards Read More …
The moon brightens the pilgrims’ path through the windy, spooky forest. They’re tired and want to stop and rest. Baudolino doesn’t want to, they have to get to a clearing first. The moon light doesn’t help much as sometimes it gets covered by thick clouds. They walk now in total darkness. Gradually, the wind subsides Read More …
Along their route, the pilgrims learn that Chaos governs the many Greek deities, the Muslim’s God Allah has 99 names, the Zoroastrians believe in one God, an Evil (who shows his ugly head once in a while) and three principles of a worthy life. Across the Himalayan range, they get a lesson in Buddhism: enlightenment comes Read More …
Writing “The Poet Dreams about Bathsheba” sequence in Baudolino made me search for a camel photo. The one I found was fun and it inspired a little poem. Then, poetic inspiration spilled into sequential art. What if can turn this little sequence into a comics page? I could “see” the page and panels’ composition but Read More …
Walking through a small village with circular mud huts Baudolino stops to describe Zosimos and ask a villager if he saw him. The villager frowns not understanding the language. Baudolino mimics a traveler walking and points at Boron’s beard in an attempt to describe Zosimos. The villager seems to understand and speaking in his own Read More …