Posts Tagged ‘14th-century’

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Costa, Mary | Shirley, Bill | Audley, Eleanor | Felton, Verna | Luddy, Barbara | Allen, Barbara Jo | Holmes, Taylor | Thompson, Bill | Amsbery, Bill | Candido, Candy | Colvig, Pinto | McKennon, Dal | Miller, Marvin | Ravenscroft, Thurl
Directors: Geronimi, Clyde
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When a new princess is born to King Stefan & his wife, the entire kingdom rejoices. At a ceremony, three good fairies - Flora, Fauna & Merryweather - bestow gifts of magic on the child. But an evil sorceress named Maleficent shows up, and because of a rude remark by Merryweather, she places a curse on the princess - that she will die on her 16th birthday after touching a poisoned spinning wheel. Merryweather tries to undo the damage by casting a spell that will allow the princess - named Aurora - to awake from an ageless sleep with a kiss from her true love. The fairies take Aurora to their cottage in the woods to keep her away from the eyes of Maleficent, and raise her as their own child, named Briar Rose. On her 16th birthday Aurora meets Prince Phillip, the son of a king whose own kingdom will soon merge with King Stefan’s - and falls in love. Maleficent manages to kidnap the Prince and her horrible prophecy is fulfilled when she tricks Aurora into touching a spinning wheel created by Maleficent herself! Realizing that the Prince is in trouble, the 3 good fairies head to Maleficent’s castle at the Forbidden Mountain, and spring the Prince loose. But the Prince soon finds himself up against Maleficent’s army of brutes, and the power of Maleficent’s evil spells - which include a thorn forest as thick as weeds around King Stefan’s castle, and a fight against Maleficent when she turns herself into a dragon! Is the Prince strong enough to withstand the powers of the evil sorceress?

Name of the Rose, The (1986)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Italy | West Germany
Actors: Connery, Sean | Slater, Christian | Qualtinger, Helmut | Baskin, Elya | Lonsdale, Michael | Prechtel, Volker | Chaliapin Jr., Feodor | Hickey, William | Habeck, Michael | Althaus, Urs | Vargas, Valentina | Perlman, Ron | Trieste, Leopoldo | Valobra, Franco | Dobtcheff, Vernon
Directors: Annaud, Jean-Jacques
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1327: after a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. With the Abbey to play host to a council on the Franciscan’s Order’s belief that the Church should rid itself of wealth, William of Baskerville, a respected Franciscan monk, is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death. Alas, more deaths occur as the investigation draws closer to uncovering the secret the Abbey wants hidden, and there is finally no stopping the Holy Inquisition from taking an active hand in the process. William and his young novice must race against time to prove the innocence of the unjustly accused and avoid the wrath of Holy Inquisitor Bernardo Gui.

Braveheart (1995)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Robinson, James | Nelson, Sandy | Cosmo, James | Lawlor, Sean | Tall, Alan | Weir, Andrew | Stevenson, Gerda | Riach, Ralph | Calvey, Mhairi | Cox, Brian | McGoohan, Patrick | Hanly, Peter | Marceau, Sophie
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The movie begins in the small town of Elerslie, Scotland. William lives with his father, who is not named in the film, and his older brother Malcolm. William’s father and older brother are called to a meeting a few miles from their home where they find the entire nobility of Scotland hanging. Malcolm and his father then go to a battle between the British and their clan, both die tragically. At the funeral William meets his uncle Argyle who fought in the battle with Malcolm and his father. He takes him away to live with him. The scene then cuts to an adult William on his horse. William later runs into a girl he knew before he went to live with Argyle, her name, Murron, we discover that Lords have the right to sleep with brides on their wedding night, so William marries Murron in secret. Murron is the assaulted by a British guard, the guard is killed by William, a fight ensues, and eventually Murron is killed by the lord. This enrages Wallace who then build himself a fine army entering city’s and killing all Englishman within. Wallace prepares to move on to Sterling where he prepared for his greatest battle yet, in the forest he realises that he must find a way to beat the heavy cavalry from the ground, he decided to create spears twice as long as men. These were used in the battle to kill the entire heavy cavalry raised at the last minute to kill the on coming horses. Eventually Wallace reaches York, the most important military city he gains control. Williams final battle at Falkirk ends in his betrayal by two nobles, whom he later kills. William is betrayed by the leper father of Robert the Bruce, is captured and refuses to bow down as a loyal subject of the king Edward I, Longshanks. Therefore, instead of mere beheading William Wallace is subject to being Hung, hung within an inch of death. Drawn, being stretched by his ankles and wrists and then having his insides shown to him before he died. Then Quartered, he was beheaded and his head was put on the London Bridge his body was torn into for pieces one sent to each corner of Britain as a warning to the citizens. After Wallace’s death we see Robert the Bruce led the battle of Bannockburn the last battle for Scotland’s freedom.