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 …
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 …
Towards the end of Umberto Eco’s book Baudolino, the Huns attack the border of Prester John’s Kingdom. History sources locate the Huns in Central Asia; thus, the Kingdom must have been South of it, probably Ethiopia. One Wikipedia source describes the Huns as having “sort of a shapeless lump, not a head, with pin-holes rather 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 …
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 …
The Greekling lied about having a map to the realm of the Universal Religion and invented all the odd creatures that Baudolino wrote down in the letter of Prester Johannes. He then made a copy of that letter, an early example of copy right infringement (just kidding!) and disappeared. What he did with the copy Read More …
The recent answer is because it’s part of my lifestyle now. I took film studies in Toronto about twenty years ago and wrote fiction scripts for two semesters’ worth of homework. Life brought me to Los Angeles and I hoped to continuing the film studies and turning the plate on engineering, my day job. But Read More …