screenplay challenges : from life and books to movie treatments and graphic novels
Happy to had finished the second part of Baudolino’s adaptation trilogy, work started on 09/20/14. Other than Umberto Eco’s inspiration, I could not have been able to do it without Google maps and searches on history, religion, philosophy and art. To post images related to the narrative, I had scavenged the artwork of talented graphic Read More …
In the book, the description of the fight between the Huns and the defenders of Pndapetzim is fun. However, there isn’t much description of the landscape and where the fight happens. In the movie, the Huns are Magogs and the defenders are the “creatures” led by the pilgrims. To describe the fight and its timing, Read More …
The pilgrims come out of the thick fog climbing a narrow trail on the hillside of the valley. The Tibet mountain peaks bordering the valley and those they left behind are covered by snow. The cold weather left behind, the pilgrims stop to warm-up their faces in the setting sun and rejoice the sight of 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 …
In Baudolino book, the Huns invade Pndapetzim, the city at the border with the Universal Religion realm. I think about replacing them with the apocalyptic Gog and Magog. However, while searching the internet I find a depiction of them less apocalyptic, apparently working hard in a Muslim land. Were they punished or just making a Read More …