23.5 Degrees: Bloodline--The Movie: Tomb Be or Not Tomb Be? - Jun 21, 2008 - 09:12am
That was a great catch about the flag. You're right, that isn't a Beauseant, it's the Cross of Saint George, who was not just the patron saint of England, but also of Aragon and Catalonia. The county of Razes was under Aragonese control before 1213. There were several chivalric orders and confraternities dedicated to St. George, or Sant Jordi, operating in that area. In fact, one that had gone defunct in the early 1700s was re-established in 1982 under the patronage of a Habsburg archduke who lives in Spain, and who is a great-nephew of the infamous "Johann Orth" of HBHG fame. That might not be a Templar at all (certainly it's not Mary Magdalene), but a Cavaller de Sant Jordi.

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23.5 Degrees: Fee, Fi, Faux Fun - Jun 01, 2008 - 10:41am
Sorry Berlioz, we do get a little carried away at times. Bloodline isn't an industry film, it wasn't made with studio backing. Strictly independent. Cinema Libre films is just a distributor, and a fairly bargain-basement one at that. They've never released a film that grossed even half a million, and with Bloodline's piddly $33K in gross sales, it's Cinema Libre's 7th highest grossing film to date. They've put no money into promotion, if you go to the Bloodline website you'll see that they're begging people to download their posters and put them up themselves. They're renting theaters by the week to show the film. Given its low grosses, it doesn't seemed destined for a long theatrical release. I don't think there's much of a chance for subjective interpretation becoming "gospel" in this case. It's simply not that well done. People who have a background in the details of the RLC story are tearing this film to shreds. The ones who are keeping the low-frequency buzz going are those who wouldn't be put off by flagrant fabrications anyway.

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23.5 Degrees: Fee, Fi, Faux Fun - May 31, 2008 - 01:40pm
Kamchatka (thanks, with a splash of grapefruit juice please), if you were to ingratiate yourself, say, with Prince David Bagration-Moukhrani, the head of your former royal family, you might get into the Order of the Eagle of Georgia and Seamless Tunic of Our Lord Jesus Christ: http://www.royalbagration.com/Dynastic_Orders.html Maybe not as secretive as you would like, but you would be in pretty distinguished company, and of course if you were to meet the right people, well...anything might happen. You might even find out some of the backstory that ties into Pierre Plantard himself. Of course, the Bagrations live in Spain now, so you would have to brush up on your Spanish.

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