Timeline Page #6

Synopsis: In this case, a group of archaeologists and combat experts led by Paul Walker and Frances O'Connor use a "3-D fax machine" (so much for technobabble!) to time-travel back to France in 1357, in hopes of retrieving Walker's father and returning safely to the present. No such luck! Fending for themselves against marauding hordes of medieval French warriors at war with the invading British, these semi-intrepid travelers find their body count rising, and the deadline for their return home is rapidly approaching.
Director(s): Richard Donner
Production: Paramount Pictures
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
28
Rotten Tomatoes:
11%
PG-13
Year:
2003
116 min
$19,375,474
Website
660 Views


but we're speaking

the same language,

but you don't understand

anything l'm saying, do you?

Get them!

No, no,

lt is good, They are French,

They will help us,

- You're Lady Claire,

- Lady?

l like that, lt's charming,

Dame Claire,

Fire!

Fire!

Find them!

l killed that man,

l've gotta live with that,

- ln here!

- We found them!

- We found them, my lord!

- Over here now!

- Come on!

- Don't let them go!

Come on!

Go inside!

Go around the back,

- Shut up and move over there,

- Come on,

- Burn it,

- No,

- No, you can't do that!

- Don't,

Chris, please get out of there,

Chris!

Chris! My son's in there!

Chris, get out of there!

Hold your man,

No! No!

All right, come on,

- Come on,

- Chris, wait up,

- Come on,

- Wait up,

- Claire!

- Arnaut,

He is very grateful

you returned his sister,,,

- You're English,

- No, l'm Scottish,

Arnaut, he saved the life

of one of your men,

- You're Scottish, huh?

- Yes,

ln that case, l do not know how

to express my gratitude,

Well, you can, Just keep

her close and keep her safe,

- l can take care of myself,

- Yes, that's obvious,

Please, do not let her out

of your sight, especially tonight,

Do not worry, she will be

well protected,

l must leave, l must return

to Castlegard to search for my friends,

l need to ask you perhaps

for a horse and a weapon,

You will not make it alive

through the English lines,

They are moving from the village

to La Roque, We attack tonight,

- You must not go back there,

- l must try and find my friends,

l'm sorry,

Very well, l will give you

what you ask for,

- Thank you again,

- Thank you,

- Lady Claire,,,

- Claire,

l wish we had met at another time,

Andre Marek,

Are you married?

No,

Arnaut?

Arnaut has dismounted,

and he's with his sister,

Well done,

ln fast, kill Arnaut and out,

And may God be with you,

All right, l have to get inside

La Roque and find my dad,

- You'll never make it through,

- l'll find a way,

There is no way, You'll get killed,

Oh, Jesus, Go, go,

- l don't have a choice,

- Yes, you do,

There's another way,

- What, the tunnel?

- Yeah,

You never found it,

You don't know it exists,

- There's always been a rumor,

- Yeah, but that's a rumor,

- My dad's life is on the line,

- All of our lives are on the line,

Look, if that tunnel ever existed,

it's going to exist now, 1357,

l know it's in that monastery, l know it,

l wanna save your father

as much as you do,

You have to trust me,

l know it's there,

l know it,

You've got to trust me,

Stay in line,

- Move along,

- Keep the pace!

Kill Arnaut!

Claire!

Claire! Claire!

Move along!

Come on, lads,

That's Marek! Marek!

- Marek!

- l'm OK,

lt's Chris and Kate, Marek,

- What about Chris and Kate?

- They didn't make it,

- They've killed them,

- What?

Been a while, hasn't it, Frank?

Oh, my God,

l thought you were dead,

Right, that's why you sent Taub

to assassinate me,

Not to assassinate you,

to bring you home,

- Right, just like you are,

- No, look,,, Listen,

- Listen to me, Will, l need your help,

- What's this?

Look, it's not working anyway,

lt says here you got less

than one and a half hours left,

- lt doesn't work,

- Bullshit,

Look, you've got to believe me,

it wasn't my fault, OK?

- l've got a family,

- Yeah?

- You've met my family,

- You got a family?

- You have a family,

- l've got a family,

- So did l!

- No!

- No!

- No! No!

- Oh, sh*t!

- Oh, my God!

Last time l saw him, he was running

with his marker for an open space,

l was on the ground,

three arrows in me,

l used to be William Decker,

lTC employee number 273,

Now,,,

,,,l'm Sir William De Kere,

Lord Oliver's aide-de-camp,

You looked pretty impressive today,

Marek, for an academic,

- How do you know my name?

- l know all of your names,

We read every report out of your dig

before we made the first trip back,

How many times have you been here?

Enough to know

transcription errors intimately,

Transcription errors?

Doniger, that son of a b*tch,

He hasn't told you a thing, has he?

What are transcription errors?

Mistakes in the DNA

reconstruction process,

- lt's like faxing a fax,

- Distortions, Mistakes,

Only the distortions

aren't in the letters,

lt's body parts, The organs,

l've gone in too many times,

l'll never survive another trip,

All that damage,

it can be repaired, but not here,

And not in this time,

You'd have to go back,

Why don't you press the marker?

We can all go home, Decker, huh?

My name is De Kere,

This is my home,

Lord Oliver awaits his Greek fire,

After that, your survival depends

on your knowledge of history,

How good you make me look,

l rise in favor, so do you,

l fall, you fall,

l fall, you fall,

Marek, where's your marker?

De Kere, Decker, whatever

his name is, he took it off me,

Oh, God,

We're friends of

Edward De Johnness,

- Edward De Johnness,

- The magister,

He's my father,

- The Englishmen have harmed him?

- We don't know,

- We were gonna ask for your help,

- Yeah, we need your help,

Come,

We need to hurry,

We don't have much time,

Lord Oliver demands

a demonstration before nightfall,

lt would be best

not to miss the deadline,

They've done it, The stuff's all there,

This stuff's a bit coarse, but it's good,

What am l talking about?

l can't do this,

l can't give them Greek fire

and influence the course of history,

- l may already have done that,

- What do you mean?

When we first arrived here,

we were helped by this girl

who took us up to Castlegard,

ln fact, that's who l went back

to get when we escaped,

That girl turned out to be

Lady Claire, Arnaut's sister,

- Are you serious?

- Yeah,

l've delivered her to the French

for safekeeping,

She's incredibly important,

Her death rallies the French to win,

- Don't you understand?

- Keep it down, OK?

Now we have to be on Oliver's side

just to stay alive,

This is exactly where l was digging,

This is it, This is the place where,,,

We're here, We're,,,

What do you mean?

This is the chamber

where l was working,

- l'm sorry, what did he say?

- The army of Arnaut is ready to attack,

- We're running out of time,

- Those are the stairs, lt's under here,

Move them up here,

There's a goodly number

of trebuchets, my lord,

What's a little fire

to these stone walls?

- There's nothing down here.

- This is it.

This is the chamber,

This is where the hole was,

- We came down here,,,

- There's nothing here,

Marek would've been working there,

The box would've been,,,

Oh, my God, That is the box,

That's the parchment he wrote on,

My father's glasses,

- Yeah, we've got to go,

- No, no, put it back,

lf we don't find this, in the future

we're never gonna find your father,

Put it back,

We still gotta go,

We gotta get up to La Roque,

No, the stone relief was damaged,

Somebody had damaged it,

''What kind of son of a b*tch

would damage something so,,,''

lt was me,

lt was me,

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Jeff Maguire

Jeff Maguire (born 1952) is an American screenwriter.Regarded for his talent for writing sports films, Jeff Maguire got his first screenwriting break with his script Escape to Victory, a film about soccer directed by John Huston in 1981. His most recent contribution is Gridiron Gang, released in 2006. Maguire's most famous film is In the Line of Fire starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, for which he received a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination for 1993. In 1990 Maguire was approached by producer Jeff Apple to develop his Secret Service agent concept into a film treatment. Maguire was in debt to his relatives and about to have his utilities turned off when his script based on Apple's concept, "In the Line of Fire," went into a bidding war between Tom Cruise, Sean Connery, and Clint Eastwood. When he received a call from Eastwood congratulating him on the completed deal (over $1,000,000.00) Jeff's wife reportedly had to return a dress so they could afford to go out to dinner to celebrate. Prior to this, various moguls had rejected and almost destroyed the story. Dustin Hoffman cleverly added the hero's guilt over failing to save JFK, then exited; Tom Cruise's people demanded this be deleted, because a 28-year-old hero would not have been around for JFK. The dead-broke writer spurned about $100,000 from Cruise, but wound up with Clint Eastwood and about $1,000,000.Jeff Maguire is a graduate of Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts. Raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, Maguire was once a railroad worker, a waiter, and a volunteer counselor with Mother Teresa's group, Missionaries of Charity, in the Pico-Union section of downtown Los Angeles, working primarily with Hispanic gangs. In the 1980s and 90s, he also frequented the famous Manhattan Beach, California video store Video Archives, where future filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary were clerks. Today, Jeff Maguire is a follower of Meher Baba and has contributed to the Meher Baba journal, Glow International.Jeff Maguire appears in In the Line of Fire briefly as a secret service officer running alongside the president's limousine. more…

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