Timeline Page #2

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
558 Views


- Chris, you are the boss' son,

- So,,,

there is something there,

lt's late, l'll just start on this tomorrow,

But thanks for the beer,

- Haven't been practicing, have you?

- l'm not getting any younger,

- You love this stuff,

- lt's a habit l can't quite kick,

Let me take that from you before

you cut something you'll need later,

So talking about love,

- how did it go last night?

- lt didn't,

So how does it feel being passed over

for 600-year-old ruins?

lt sucks,

lt sucks big time,

l don't understand you guys,

You live in the past,

You know what the past is to me?

The past is why my parents split up,

The past is what l've been force-fed

since l was little,

None of you archeologists

looks to the future,

What are you talking about? What is

the future but just more of the same?

More gadgets, more machines

like that thing you rode up on,

lt's the past is where it's at,

you know,

People then,

they cared about each other,

- Men had honor, you know?

- No, no,

You know what that is to me?

Romantic warrior crap,

Romantic?

You want to see romantic?

Follow me,

Come on,

Come on!

What have you got?

Oh, another stone

sticking out of the ground,

No, it's a 600-year-old sarcophagus

with a French knight and his lady,

- Look, isn't she beautiful?

- She's a real knockout,

Very funny, Another thing,

down here, they're holding hands,

- lncredibly unusual for that period,

- That is kind of unusual, huh?

Oh, God, over here,

This knight has only got one ear,

What happened there?

What, one ear?

That piece is missing,

lt's somewhere here in the dirt,

l'm the archeologist,

lt was carved that way,

- Fair enough,

- Trust me,

Who do you think they were?

Why would somebody that doesn't

give a sh*t be concerned with that?

- Because l'm intrigued, all right?

- See?

- What you wanted to hear?

- Yeah,

We're all intrigued by this,

That's why we're all here,

lt's not just about the rocks

and the rubble,

lt's about these people,

Who were they?

And what were their stories?

lt helps us to understand where we

came from, or where we're going,

- You know what l like to say,

- ''You make your own history,''

- Do l say it that often?

- Yeah, all the time,

Well, whoever they were,

they made theirs

together,

lt's best to go really, really slow,

lt's better to be cautious,

Come on, Hurry up!

Cave-in at the monastery!

Cave-in at the monastery!

l was standing and the floor gave way

underneath my feet,

- How long has it been open?

- 15 minutes,

We have five minutes

before oxygen contamination,

- Let's move it,

- Be careful,

- lt's under where l was working,

- l don't know about this,

Can everybody listen up?

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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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