Q: Build a movie plot around this: Who started the fire in the library? Jorge
A: This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (September 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)As an old man, Adso, son of the Baron of Melk recounts how, as a young novice in 1327, he joined his mentor, Franciscan friar William of Baskerville on a journey to a Benedictine abbey in Northern Italy where the Franciscans were to debate with Papal emissaries the poverty of Christ. The abbey also boasts a famed scriptorium where scribes copy, translate or illuminate books. The suspicious recent death of the monk Adelmo of Otranto a young but famous manuscript illuminator has stirred fears among the abbey's inhabitants. The Abbot seeks help from William, known for his deductive powers. Adelmo's death cannot be a suicide because his body was found below a tower with only a window which cannot be opened. William is reluctant, but also drawn by the intellectual challenge and his desire to disprove fears of a demonic culprit. William also fears the abbot will summon officials of the Inquisition if the mystery remains unsolved.William soon concludes that Adelmo's death was indeed suicide; he fell from a different tower. Nevertheless, Venantius, a Greek translator and the last to speak with Adelmo is found dead in a vat filled with the blood of slaughtered pigs. The translator's corpse bears a black stain on a finger and his tongue. At a loss, William insists that Adelmo killed himself and that the translator's death can be reasonably explained. The other monks suspect a supernatural cause, fears reinforced when the saintly Fransciscan monk Ubertino of Casale warns that the deaths resemble signs mentioned in the Book of Revelation.In the scriptorium, William inspects Adelmo's desk, but is blocked by Brother Berengar, the assistant librarian. Brother Malachia, Head Librarian, denies William access to the rest of the building.William encounters Salvatore, a demented hunchback, and...
Question: Build a movie plot around this: Where does Porthos confronts the brutal jailer? In the dungeon
Answer: Callow youth D'Artagnan (Walter Abel) sets off from Gascony for Paris, armed with his father's sword, an old horse and a letter of introduction to his godfather, Captain de Treville (Lumsden Hare), commander of the King's Musketeers. Along the way, he attempts to rescue Milady de Winter (Margot Grahame) from highwaymen, but it turns out she came to meet their leader, the Count de Rochefort (Ian Keith). When Rochefort insults D'Artagnan, the latter insists on a duel. Instead, Rochefort has his men knock D'Artagnan out, while he blackmails Lady de Winter into helping him in his plot to seize power.Upon reaching Paris, D'Artagnan is dismayed to learn from de Treville that he must serve two years as a cadet or perform "extraordinary deeds of valor" before he can become a Musketeer. Then he spots Rochefort on the street. In his haste to confront his enemy, D'Artagnan unintentionally insults three Musketeers: Athos (Paul Lukas), Porthos (Moroni Olsen), and Aramis (Onslow Stevens) in turn, agreeing each time to a duel. When his opponents arrive at the appointed place, they are amused to discover they are all engaged to cross swords with the same man. However, Cardinal Richelieu's Guards try to arrest the Musketeers for dueling. D'Artagnan joins the outnumbered trio and acquits himself well.His three new friends secure him free lodging by threatening landlord Bernajou (Murray Kinnell) with an imaginary law and find him a servant named Planchet (John Qualen). That night, D'Artagnan is pleasantly surprised when Bernajou's ward Constance (Heather Angel) enters the room. It turns out that it is actually her chamber, though she is rarely there, as she spends most of her time at the palace as lady-in-waiting to the Queen. Constance has arranged a rendezvous between Queen Anne (Rosamond Pinchot) and her lover, the English Duke of Buckingham (Ralph Forbes). Buckingham threatens to wage war to obtain Anne, but she dissuades him by appealing to his love; she gives him her diamonds as a pledge for peace. Bernajou, lusting for...
[Q]: Build a movie plot around this: What pseudonyms do Count Dracula and his wife hide behind? Count Charles Townsend
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[A]: Photographer Glen Cannon [Gene O'Shane] and his fiancee, model Liz Arden [Barbara Bishop], arepleased to find that Glen has inherited Falconroc Castle after the deathof his uncle Thomas. Unfortunately, Falconroc is already inhabited by anold couple--Count Charles Townsend [Alex D'Arcy] and his wife [Paula Raymond] -- who have been renting the castle for over 60 years. Glen isn't looking forward to dispossessing theTownsends of their longtime home.Actually, Count Townsend is none other than Count Dracula, and he andhis wife like Falconroc. Their retarded and disfigured strongman Mango [Ray Young]catches young girls, and their butler George [John Carradine] (whom they saved from thenoose when he was convicted of sacrificing victims to the great god Luna)chains the girls in the basement and extracts blood for the Townsends todrink. Now that their old friend JohnnyDavenport (Robert Dix], who has a problem in that heturns into a psycho killer during the full moon, has broken out of prisonand made it to Falconroc, life is really looking up. The Count has nointention of moving.What Glen and Liz discover when they arrive at Falconroc is a veryrefined and impeccably dressed couple who look much younger than theiryears. The Count explains that he simply took over the lease at the deathof his father. When the Count gets around to asking whether Glen wouldconsider selling Falconroc and Glen refuses because Liz is looking forwardto living there, the Count turns to Johnny, who promises to think up someway of doing away with the new owners.Liz and Glen spend the night at Falconroc, but Liz is awakened whenshe hears a woman screaming. She wakes up Glen and forces him to find outwhat's going on, even though Glen thinks it's just a family spat orsomeone using an electric toothbrush that short-circuited. The scream camefrom downstairs, so they light a candlabra and head for the cellar. Whenthey run into Mango, they retreat. Then they encounter George, whoexplains that the screams were made by a pet...
Question: Build a movie plot around this: Who receives treatment at a sanatorium? Laurent
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Laurent Chevalier is a nearly 15-year-old boy living in Dijon in 1954, who loves jazz, always receives the highest grades in his class and who opposes the First Indochina War. He has an unloving father who's a gynecologist and an affectionate Italian mother, Clara, as well as two older brothers, Thomas and Marc. One night, Thomas and Marc take Laurent to a brothel, where Laurent loses his virginity to a prostitute before they are disrupted by his drunken brothers. Upset, he leaves on a scouting trip, where he catches scarlet fever and is left with a heart murmur.After Laurent is bedridden and cared for and entertained by Clara and their maid Augusta, he and Clara check into a hotel while he receives treatment at a sanatorium. He takes interest in two young girls at the hotel, Helene and Daphne, and also spies on his mother in the bathtub. Clara temporarily leaves with her lover, but comes back distraught after their breakup, and is comforted by her son. After a night of heavy drinking on Bastille Day, Laurent and Clara have sex. Clara tells him afterwards that this incest won't be repeated, but that they shouldn't look back on it with remorse. Afterwards, Laurent leaves their room, and after unsuccessfully trying to seduce Helene, spends the night with Daphne.Jazz music by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, along with books by Bataille, Proust and Camus, feature prominently in the film.