Advantages: Great for action adventure and romance Disadvantages: May be a bit too long for some people
...A swashbuckling fairytale of heroes, genies and fantastical creatures.
The main story centres around Scherherazade played by Mili Avital who marries the sultan played by Dougray Scott who is bitter and vengeful against all women since his wife cheated on him with his brother.
The sultan decides that the woman he marries will be murdered the next day after the wedding night and Scherherazade who loves him volunteers to be the bride both to save her friends in the harem and also because she loves the Sultan and believes she can turn him from his vengeful ways.
To do this Scherherazade has to distract the Sultan each night with fantastical tales that then have their own full stories within the film.
The first tale is of Ali Baba played by Rufus Sewell and how Ali Baba discovers a theives den full of riches and decides to...
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Advantages: The somewhat different interpretations of a familiar story? Disadvantages: ?might disturb us at first.
...The ArabianNights (1974)
(The more accurate translation is: The Flower of the One Thousand and One Nights)
►►►main menu◄◄◄
1. Play film
2. Select chapter
3. Also available: other films by the same director that are available on DVD.
4. Director?s biography
5. Weblink: www.bfi.org.uk
►►►language◄◄◄
Italian with English subtitles. AND some songs, prayers, writings are in Arabic, but these are not translated.
►►►running time◄◄◄
125 minutes.
►►►location◄◄◄
It is filmed in Nepal, Yemen, Iran and Eritrea.
►►►chapter division◄◄◄
1. Titles
2. Lady of Moons
3. Zumarud reads a story
4. Nuradin?s search
5. Crowned King
6. The Dream...
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My youngest summed it up beautifully,
"Mammy" he said "It looks like poo!"
After we stared at it for a while, we dared each other to smell it and it was terrible, again Robert was spot on.
"Mammy" he said "It smells like poo!"
I was elected to touch it , well, you can guess what it felt like!
The blurb said it was 'exotically perfumed', maybe to a horny camel it was alluring but it did nowt for me. It's supposed to have frankinsence and vanilla in it. I know what vanilla smells like but am unsure as to frankinsence. If it smells as bad as that, I'm glad Jesus got gold and myrrh for his birthday pressies to make up for it.
Seeing as how I'd bought it and I was going out that night, I thought I might as well give it a go to put the 'extra shiny, bright red glints' into my reddish brown hair.
I bravely plunged my hand...
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(01.05.2004)
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