screenplay challenges : from life and books to movie treatments and graphic novels
Baudolino dozes off while looking at the griffons, one of which…flies off the tent’s cover and, after circling the courtyard, lowers itself by Baudolino who gets on its back. They fly over the Nile, desert land, the shore of Mediterranean, then inland. Baudolino rejoices at the sight of a fortress with tall towers and minarets, Read More …
It takes Saladin nine years to conquer Aleppo after surviving an assassination plot. Thus, in 1183 he controls the valleys of Egypt, Tigris and Euphrates and is about 600 miles from Jerusalem. The Templar Reynald angers him by attempting to destroy a Muslim shrine in Egypt and sacking a caravan that, legend say, included Saladin’s Read More …
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 …
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 …