Year 8A & Year 8B
Today you are going to continue with the film about “the real Cinderella”…
Follow the instructions step by step:
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Due to limited time, you will not get test feedback now. You can, however, access your test result in “Grades” on Schoology. We will go over the test in a later lesson….
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Here is a reminder of the events in the previous episode:
We met Danielle de Barbarac and her family: her beloved father died shortly after Danielle was introduced to her stepmother and two stepsisters, Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent, and her daughters Marguerite and Jacqueline.
We also met Prince Henry… He fled a marriage arranged by his parents, King Francis and Queen Marie, to Princess Gabriella of Spain. Then, Prince Henry met two important people: the first was Danielle de Barbarac, who threw an apple at him when he tried to take her father’s horse. The second was Leonardo da Vinci, whom he helped to recover the Mona Lisa from gypsy bandits.
Towards the end of Episode 1 of this film Danielle tries to buy back her father’s servant, Maurice. Henry witnesses the argument between Danielle and the slave cart driver and intervenes, although not recognizing Danielle. Intrigued by her, Henry orders Maurice’s release and begs for her name; Danielle lies and gives the name of her late mother, Comtesse Nicole de Lancret.
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Here are a few interesting bits of information about the film:
Trivia (from Part 1)
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Drew Barrymore has stated that this is the favorite of all her films.
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As shown in the film, the real Leonardo da Vinci kept the Mona Lisa with him all the time, until his death!
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King Francois I of France (called Francis in the movie) bought the Mona Lisa for 4000 ecus (the French currency coins used at the time).
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When meeting the Prince, Leonardo Da Vinci says “Michelangelo was trapped under a ceiling in Rome, I’m just a second choice”.
This is in reference to Michelangelo’s painting of the Sistine Chapel’s Ceiling (in Vatican City), which occurred between the years of 1508 and 1512.
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And here are a few interesting factual errors…
Goofs (from Part 1)
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Utopia was written in 1516, and da Vinci died in 1519. Therefore, Danielle could not have received the book as a child and then met da Vinci as an adult.
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When Danielle and her father, Auguste, are arguing about his upcoming business trip, they play a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors to decide how long he should stay away. However, this game was invented in China and was not introduced to the Western World, until around 1900AD.
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When the Prince saves the Mona Lisa, it is rolled up in a tube. The Mona Lisa can’t be rolled up: it’s painted on a wooden panel. It is also much smaller than shown in the film.
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When Danielle is putting on her dress to rescue Maurice, we see a zipper on the back of her dress. However zippers were first used in clothing in the 1920’s!
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While trying on the courtier’s dress, Danielle says her stepmother buys presents for her stepsister like she has “money to burn.” At the time, currency consisted of coins, which would melt, not burn. In Europe, paper currency was not used until the 17th Century.
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When Danielle recued Maurice, she referred to him as “this gentleman.” In 16th-century Europe, gentleman is a rank, not a polite way of addressing someone, as it is today. Maurice was not a member of the gentry, he was a peasant, likely a serf since the Baroness was able to sell him to pay her debts.
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In the next part of the film (Episode II) King Francis announces a masquerade ball, where Henry must choose a bride by midnight or wed Gabriella, a Spanish princess, in an arranged marriage. This caused Rodmilla to eagerly scheme to marry Marguerite to Henry! In the meantime, Danielle’s friend Gustave tells Henry where the “Comtesse de Lancret” lives, forcing her to run home and change clothes in time to accompany Henry to a Franciscan monastery’s library…
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Now, watch “Episode 2” by accessing it in Schoology Materials. (This “episode” is 30:29 minutes long.)
Remember to look out for anything that relates to what you have learnt about the Renaissance!
- IMPORTANT: First make sure that you are logged into your School Gmail account.
- Then open Schoology to access the link to the film.
If, for some reason, it does not work, click on the square (at the top right) in the schoology page for “Episode 2” – then the video should work. It looks like this:
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Here are more interesting bits of information about the film:
Trivia (from Part 2)
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At one point Queen Marie tells Henry to choose a wife wisely, because “divorce is only something they do in England.” This is a reference to Henry VIII of England, who caused a huge scandal when he divorced Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn in the early 16th century.
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When Danielle is swimming in the lake, she is using the inverted breaststroke. It was popular in medieval and Renaissance Europe, and is still commonly taught as a survival stroke.
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And here are more factual errors…
Goofs (from Part 2)
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When Danielle returns Maurice to his wife, we can see a watch tan line on one female peasant’s arm.
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When Danielle walks into the room where her step mother and sisters were playing games, after Maurice was bought back, Marguerite says “somebody’s in trouble” with the tune of “ring-around-the-rosie”. That song/tune was not even around until the 1700’s – so she would not have known about the tune yet.
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Prince Henry gave Marguerite chocolate after the tennis game. However, solid, edible chocolate pieces did not exist then. The Spanish brought cocoa from Mexico, but the French only started using it, as a drink, in the 1800s.
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At one point, Paulette tells Danielle that “the only throne she wants Marguerite sitting on is the one she has to clean every day”. While modern toilets are jokingly referred to as “thrones”, they did not exist in the 16th century, and many people used small chamber pots.
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In the market scene, Marguerite introduced their servants to the prince and he replied that he’d love to meet them, and then greeted them by saying “good day ladies”. A noblewoman would never think to introduce her servants to a prince and a prince would never refer to them as “ladies,” since the term was used only for nobility and not for any women, as nowadays.
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King Francis and Queen Marie are seen in a coach leaving the town church. Medieval castles and palaces had their own chapels for the royal family. Francis and Marie would not usually have worshiped in a public church.
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Some great quotes from this film:
How do you live each day with this kind of passion. Don’t you find it exhausting?
Henry
You have everything, and still the world holds no joy; and yet you insist on making fun of those who would see it for its possibilities.
danielle
Sweetheart… you were born to privilege and with that comes specific obligations.
queen marie
Choose wisely, Henry. Divorce is only something they do in England.
queen marie
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