Timeline Page #7

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


l was the son of a,,,

What is she doing?

Wait! Get back! Stay back!

Watch out, Watch out,

Oh, wow, lt's the tunnel,

lt's the tunnel!

Give me a torch,

Hey, give me that one,

Kate, watch out, Let me go in,

- Get Arnaut?

- Yes, get Arnaut, Go,

- Please, hurry, Hurry,

- Kate, get in here,

- Oh, whoa,

- You got it?

Yeah, l do,

Careful, boys, this is Greek fire,

You can blow us all to hell here,

Smooth and easy, now,

No spills,

That's good,

- Trebuchet!

- Trebuchet!

- Trebuchet!

- Trebuchet!

Sh*t,

- You OK?

- Yeah, Hurry, there's no time,

- Trebuchet!

- Trebuchet! Trebuchet!

Bring water!

Lord Oliver, the magister

with your demonstration,

Oh, yes, l'll see it now,

- Understand, my lord, l've never,,,

- Show me now!

- Show him!

- Your fire of the Greeks,

- Marek, fire it!

- OK, come on, let's move it,

Trebuchet!

Just fire the damn thing!

l cannot fire it,

Fire it!

- Fire!

- Ready, fire!

Out of the way, Move,

Let me pass,

That's it?

So you betrayed me,

You promised me Greek fire,

l should have had you hung,,,

- What?

- With your permission, my lord,

The more water, the more fire,

Good,

Better,

My God, you are a magician,

not a magister,

l want this for every cannon,

How many men will you need?

- Twenty,

- Twenty,

- Give this man 20 men,

- As you wish,

This way, magician,

Archers to the battlements!

- Archers to the battlements!

- Archers to the battlements!

- We have 81 %%,

- No, no, lt's over,

l'm not gonna play with their lives

like this,

We can't get 100%% efficiency

from patched-together coils,

What's the safest minimum percent?

- We've done successful tests at 80%%,

- You just said we have 81 %%,

- They were inanimate objects,

- With reflectors up,

- How much time do we have?

- 28 minutes,

No room for error,

- They could be deformed,

- Can we?

- Yes, we can,

- lt's too risky,

You think l'm gonna let you

leave them?

- Think l want to?

- l don't think you care,

They have a chance,

some kind of life,

No, you lost the chance for that

decision a long time ago,

- This is no longer your decision,

- You know what? lt is and l have,

l'm sorry,

- Fire the moat,

- Yes, my lord,

Fire the moat!

- Light your arrows,

- Light arrows,

- Archers, prepare,

- Archers, prepare,

- Stretch,

- Stretch,

Away!

- Night arrows,

- Night arrows,

A little surprise for the French,

- Ready!

- Stretch,

Away!

We're close now,

We're close, l know it,

Great,

Well done, my lord,

Trebuchet!

One more of them,

and we become history,

Oh, no,

No,

We're going,

Forward, right maybe,

Maybe it's just,,,

Or we could go up, right?

We could go up,

- Kate,,,

- No, don't, No! No!

- Kate,

- No,

Kate,

Maybe we missed something,

Maybe we made a wrong turn,

- We could,,,

- lt's too late,

lt's just too late,

l said trust me,

and l've let you down,

And l've let your father down, And,,,

- l've let everybody down,

- No,

- Oh, God, l'm so sorry,

- No, you didn't,

Kate, come here,

Kate, come here,

Come here, Come here,

- Close the inner gates!

- Close the inner gates!

- This is growing tiresome,

- The courtyard is secure, my lord,

Good, but this Frenchman

needs to be put in his place,

- lt's time,

- Captain!

lt is time!

Robert,

Thirteen minutes left,

Let's try and get them back,

Are we gonna go over all this again?

What are you doing?

What the hell do you think l'm doing?

l'm protecting our interests,

- What's happened to you?

- How many lives are lost

on the cutting edge

of discovery?

- lt's the price for great advances,

- These were kids, not astronauts!

- l know!

- They had no idea!

Even worse when they're deformed!

You know the media,

They'll twist it around

and label it a ''death machine'',

- lt has a serious flaw!

- And you'll fix it,

- No, l won't,

- Like you fixed everything else,

- No,

- What?

- You won't?

- No, l won't,

l can't believe you'd just throw away

your place in history,

- l already have, we're cycling up,

- Think you can go behind my back?

Huh? Kramer!

Kramer?

- Make the prisoner ready,

- What is your will, my lord?

- Back to work,

- Secure her to the battlements,

l want to be sure

the French can see her,

At once, my lord,

- l'll give your brother a choice,

- Oh, sh*t,

- You are to be tied to the battlements,

- What?

Either he lays down his arms

or he kills you

with his own weapons,

Let us hope a man who stoops

to using his own sister as a spy

still has some sense of decency left,

God be with you, lady,

lt's her,

lt's Lady Claire,

l delivered her

to Arnaut for safekeeping,

- How did the English get her?

- lt's history,

Then history will change,

Oliver,

Release Lady Claire

and bring her down to me now,

or by God,

l will destroy your arsenal,

- Marek! No!

- Get the hell out of here, Go now!

Halt!

For God's sake,

lf that thing blows, it'll kill us all,

- Bring her down,

- No! Do not touch her!

My lord, if he drops the torch,

he then kills her too, He will not do it,

Back off, De Kere,

Or Decker, or whatever your name is,

l will blow your arsenal to hell!

- There's no way out,

- You're English,

- No, No, no, we're not,

- You're English! This is a trap!

- Run, my lord!

- Marek!

- You are working for Oliver,

- No, we're not,

l will kill both of you!

Down!

- Yeah!

- Yahoo!

Be careful, my lord,

Archers, to the battlements!

Here,

- Hold the line on the east tower,

- Oliver!

Kill her! Now!

- Arnaut!

- Claire!

We've got to find the others,

Don't!

Hold your line!

- Dad,

- Chris, you're alive! Kate, thank God!

- Where's Marek?

- l don't know,

There goes Marek,

There's Marek,

lt's OK, lt's OK, Claire,

lt's me, lt's me,

lt's me, lt's me, lt's me,

- What are you doing?

- Open the gate,

Chris, stop!

- lt's solid,

- Let me get up, l've gotta get up,

- Can you?

- Yeah,

This is for France,

- We gotta get out of here,

- Where's Marek?

- l don't know,

- He went after Lady Claire, There,

No!

My ear! My ear!

lt's me,

lt's me,

- lt's not working,

- Well, it's broken,

- OK,

- l gotta get Marek,

De Kere took his,

- You guys run to the field,

- Not without you,

Kate! Run to the center of the field and

wait for us, l'll get the other marker,

- Dad, go with her, Go!

- Be careful,

Over here,

Marek!

Chris, l thought you were dead,

Your marker! Let's go!

De Kere!

De Kere has yours,

Stern!

Open this door,

Where's Kramer?

Where's Kramer?

Sh*t!

Take me home, Please,

Go!

- lt's working, Be careful,

- Come on, let's go,

- Marek, come on,

- Get out of here!

We got less than a minute!

Let's go home, come on!

Come on, let's go!

Let's go, man!

Come on, they're waiting!

- Go, Get the hell out of here,

- No, let's go home!

l am home, Chris,

Chris, just go,

Say goodbye for me,

l'm gonna miss you, Marek,

lf you can do it, then do it, One more

minute, Eighty-one percent, OK?

- What's he doing?

- The coils,

- Come on!

- This is good here,

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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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