010 – assassin’s creed 2016 (film)

“You’re inside the Animus. It’s a projector which renders genetic memories in three dimensions.”―Warren Vidic to Desmond Miles, 2012

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spacetime coordinate:  2016 madrid, spain – 1492 andalusia, during the Granada War

Assassin’s Creed is a 2016 action adventure film based on the video game franchise of the same name.

The film is set in the same universe as the video games but features an original story that expands the series’ mythology, taking place during the Spanish Inquisition.

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009 – Kingdom of Heaven 2005 (director’s cut)

spacetime coordinate: 1184 France,  the Holy Land

The story is set during the Crusades of the 12th century. A French village blacksmith goes to aid the Kingdom of Jerusalem in its defence against the Ayyubid Muslim sultan Saladin, who is battling to claim the city from the Christians leading to the Battle of Hattin. The film script is a heavily fictionalised portrayal of the life of Balian of Ibelin (ca. 1143–93).

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006 – El abrazo de la serpiente 2015

spacetime coordinate: 1909 / 1940 the amazon rainforest

Embrace of the Serpent  is a 2015 internationally co-produced adventure drama film directed by Ciro Guerra and shot in black-and-white.

The film tells two stories thirty years apart, both featuring Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his tribe. He travels with two scientists, firstly with German Theo von Martius in 1909 and American named Evan in 1940, to look for the rare yakruna, a (fictional) sacred plant.

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Evan: It’s a lot of money. Chullachaqui: Ants like money. I Do not. The taste is bad.

0002 – Goya’s Ghosts (2006)

spacetime coordinate: spain 1792

Goya’s Ghosts is a 2006 Spanish-American film, directed by Miloš Forman (his final directorial feature before his death in 2018), and written by him and Jean-Claude Carrière. The film stars Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman and Stellan Skarsgård, and was filmed on location in Spain during late 2005. The film was written, produced, and performed in English although it is a Spanish production.

“-So how do you want me to ride?
-How do you want history to perceive
you, madam?
-The way I am,
young and beautiful.”

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Although the historical setting of the film is authentic, the story about Goya trying to defend a model is fictional, as are the characters Brother Lorenzo and the Bilbatúa family.

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– what is history but a fable agreed upon? – napoleon bonaparte

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