JACK DANIELS MAN - SYNOPSIS

JACK DANIEL’S MAN

-Marilyn 

LOG LINE:  Jack Daniel’s Man is a story about a man Jasper who lives a comical wife of debauchery and drinking moderately however regularly to get him through the day till he Meets Maryanne.

SYNOPSIS:

Jasper nips Jack Daniels all day he has bottles at home stashed in strange places.  He finds he has no care for the regular life and breaks all the rules getting away with it most of the time with his charm and great insight into life. The plain, waify ugly duckling Maryanne meets Jasper and finds out about his infidelity from him after one night with him.  She goes away deciding she must understand this man through her attraction to him abated and decides to get five men going for affairs to try out his lifestyle.  She takes notes and learns she is evolving in understanding of all this infidelity and experiencing men the way some do women fast and then she’s out of there. Jasper is taken with her bravery and experimentation with the dating scene.  He finds her refreshing to talk to as he lives the same life style.

Gill is an Italian traditional male who has a good time with Maryanne and wants to marry her or his dad threatens the boys if they mess around with women and are dishonourable.  She falls for him initially as he is so devoted to her then he begins to give her the creeps as she gets to know the family’s stubbornness to have their way.  She seeks the friendship of Gill who advises her to be cautious with Gill and to watch out for control tactics.

Maryanne finds evolution at Susan’s dresses shop as clients are disgruntled with white wedding dresses as the main selection for the bride. Gill finds his mother gives him advice to knock up Maryanne and to marry her and she takes Giovanni who has a tendency to get into fights and Gill to a knitting class to make baby outfits with her for future children arriving.

Gill slices through a condom pack and she rushes to the hospital for a pill to avoid pregnancy.  She takes a break from him and sees Jasper who has a girlfriend break off their affair to make her marriage work.  Mutually their love lives are slowing down and he decides to spend more time with Maryanne.  One night they stand outside during a storm he is hit by lightning under a tree ends up in intensive care.  Maryanne is by his side and he comes out of his coma and returns home a few days later. His life is changed as he was shocked into a new perspective and calm relaxation under stress like the booze gave him. 

Jasper tosses Jack Daniels bottles into the garbage and finds he’s happier with a basic martini on occasion. 

Maryanne confronts Gill and leaves him and all her other boyfriends.  Jasper stops returning the girls calls. He and Maryanne spend more time together and realize their intense conversations have led to a deep love and respect for one another. Jasper contemplates his future and Maryanne sees Susan go through a catharsis at work changing the dress shop look to wild display of colorful wedding dresses obliterating traditional white.  Malcolm his partner embezzles his money away from him trying to take advantage of the happy go lucky mild drunk he believes he can fool and his act ends in disaster.  He makes a getaway attempt to the tropics to buy property in Switzerland and is caught by Giovanni by accident when he runs over his expensive Italian shoes with his luggage cart and gets flattened. Alerted by Jasper who sees his partner leave his house with luggage in the morning, the police apprehends him at the airport flattened laying unconscious.  Jasper and Maryanne enjoy a celebratory dinner after the recovery of his money by the authorities.  

DINER ON TIME - SYNOPSIS

THE DINER ON TIME

-         - Marilyn 

LOG LINE: The Diner on Time is a story about a man who awakens in hospital after a head injury and has partial amnesia however his first memories to surface are of having been James Dean in his past life and the adventure that ensues.

SYNOPSIS:  James is in recovery in hospital after wiping out on ice and hitting his head resulting in a concussion.  He sits in bed bewildered of memories returning from his previous life as James Dean.  The doctor is perplexed and encourages him to be normal and to return to his daily life.  James finally leaves the hospital released lying he is back to normal and is not bothered by any more reincarnation material. James returns to his apartment orders pizza has his old girlfriend shows up hates it he throws her out.

James returns to work as a stock broker he sees his boss who wondered what the hell happened to him for a week he’s glad to have him back.  He gets back to work realizing he’s in a fast paced racket he’s tired of however he naturally does well for his clients.   

On a late evening James hears a flute playing on the street below his apartment as he’s playing his bongo drums. He goes outside and meets Azure a gorgeous dark haired, fair beauty. They decide to meet at a local trendy retro style diner.

Azure is a sky diving instructor she owns the business with a partner.  James is smitten by her remembering she is Pier Angeli reincarnated; his past love in the James Dean life.  They hit it off falling in love quickly and spend time together.  He finally joins her sky diving facing his fear after his accident of ‘falling.’  Having fallen for her already, he has no trouble with the skydiving plunge and is elated by the experience.

A trip to Italy calls Azure off for her holidays.

James stays behind making more money for his stock clients.  She misses him and calls him and spur of the moment he decides to join her in Venice.  They stay in a quaint hotel on the water front have wine ride in a gondola paint the next day on the water front and meanwhile mafia shows up where they are staying looking for a thug who robbed them and they off his father Giovanni killing him.  Later they arrive at his girlfriend’s and rough her up looking for him.

Marlo finds his father killed on the bed in the hotel Monaco and realizes the boys mean business finding him and getting the money he took from them back.  Marlo runs into James at a local book store and overhears he is in investments he asks if he wants to invest for him his money. He gives him quick advice and leaves him meanwhile the mafia are looking for a gun purchase. James dreams cops found Giovanni dead in bed and Azure reveals in the paper the next morning it really happened for James has more psychic ability after his accident. She reads finally the gang leader was found shot dead as well from the mafia foiling their plans to racket guns.

James and Azure leave Italy and get engaged.  He decides to buy out her partner in her parachuting business for her to go solo as a surprise. She is thrilled she moves in to his place to begin a life together and a strange note from James’s mother is sent to them and she shows up as a bilocating apparition in the local park at night to say hi from afar as the film ends revealing his soul mate is Marilyn Monroe; his mom in her past life.   

ILLUMINATED RAIN - SYNOPSIS

ILLUMINATED RAIN

-Marilyn 

LOG LINE:  Illuminated Rain is a fantasy film for the whole family which features real adept masters experiencing whacky hyperspace phenomenon.

SYNOPSIS:  Judy and Jenifer precocious fraternal twins are at the club house having cake and a nice visit when a giant rain drop falls through a crack in the ceiling and gets stuck in mid air.  The girls find Miranda a young, adept masterly teen who was angry with her brother and stopped the rain to sit outside wither slush drink preferring the sun shine. She is discovered by the two little girls who show her the problem with the rain drop. She changes reality again and the raindrop disappears through the roof.

Joley is a young British Indian boy from Judy and Jenifer’s school who is inquisitive about magical things and finds himself out of body sleeping telling himself that he can do anything and to remember in the day time. He mentions this to his dad Binder who finds his mystical child quite engaging. Joley joins the other kids and teens in Enchanted Forest from time to time experiencing adventures. He and Josh his school friend find themselves transported through mirages in the woods to the shores of Aruba where they discover flamingo beach. They return safely having had an experience Joley asked to manifest from within himself; something truly magical.  

The school year is finishing and a summer fete is planned by Jacob for kids who have ventured to Enchanted Forest and have pursued the mystical magical arts in some way. A group joins him at the forest and they make their way to Enchanted Castle. They find it finally and meet Laiola the castle owner who greets them and welcomes them to her castle. She is stylish in very modern dress and leads them in. Inside the group is given a Spot to walk with them; a dragon lizard on a leash with rhinestone collars who sniff out new areas to discover in the castle. The creatures subsist on insects so each person gets a worm to put in their pocket for a snack later for their Spot creature. They venture off to explore and find a variety of rooms which illustrate hyperspace concepts. In one area the TV room the security guard un needed for no one has threatened the castle Malcolm sits watching TV.  Judy and Jenifer find him and must complete rotation of spatial dimensions prior to being able to leave the room to the next one.  They finally complete their rotation and leave Malcolm to watch educational television.

Miranda finds Joley in the floral room lying in a bed of flowers after departing from the green slime brick room lunging through the wall to fall into it. His pit is in heaven devouring flowers and she coaxes him from his reverie to find Josh who he parted ways with accidentally in a hall way leading to different locations.

Meanwhile some have gathered in a main sitting room for a break and snacks Miranda and Ken join them as a surprise along with Malcolm’s long lost sister Wanda. She walks in with an entourage of white cats they disappear and she sits with one. They discuss the deeper meaning of cupcakes and other topics with her brother Malcolm who has joined them.

Finally the group is released to the world again they leave behind the Spots and bid Laiola and her family Malcolm and Wanda who are her children farewell.

The children relax at the castle and plan the future they discuss the betrayals they suffered and caution about who they attract arriving there. Finally in the fall a couple of teens arrive there finding it and bring with them the poetry of longing for past harvests which ends up one of them falling through a trap door to the dungeon. Malcolm consults with the teen below and explains to him the castle is not a place of the past it is a new opportunity to realize previously suspected possibilities. The teen promises he is cured and he and his girlfriend Jayne join Laiola for a beverage in the sitting room.  They agree to pay a fee to tour the castle and re given each a Spot to help them along their way to discover the hyper land attraction of the adept masters who built it for those seeking more in their lives to find.    

CASMIR - SYNOPSIS

CASMIR©

- Marilyn 

Log line:  Casmir is a film about a young boy who’s wealthy parents are killed by bomb attack and he is sets out onto the street in order to escape orphanage care.  He meets Fahad who is also a street orphan and they set upon adventures during war torn life in Baghdad.

Synopsis: Casmir finds his house bombed his parents dead and hits the streets of Baghdad with his friends following him on his adventure to ‘spy’ and make sure he is alright. Casmir and Fahad another street orphan find a coach house to stay in while Casmir attempts contact his parents.

Muhad and Kaveh hear finally from their nephew and then they reunite in Baghdad when they fly home from their business trip. Muhad and Kaveh take Fahad in with Casmir and then they relax in the large house of the aunt and uncle.

Terrorist attacks have escalated in Baghdad and Zotan’s law building; a new structure is protected by a private security firm. Rahan a female daughter of an Iraqui general is trained in the art of sniper weaponry and is a head security lead that works for Zotan.  She watches over the building with the rest of the security staff while Zotan collaborates with other business owners to protest to government that terrorism is wise to legislate illegal activity sometimes in the name of religious zealots like the Al Qaeda because it is the enemy of a healthy economy.

Casmir and Fahad begin school with their friends and are busy adjusting to their new life quite happily. At a Fortune teller there is a cryptic end to a visit by the boys to see a women who reads them psychically correctly and reveals she foreshadows the enemy of change in Baghdad for the better coming to see her. She shows the boys a gun and foreshadows her own possible death in protecting the future of those who desire change.

Plans to build a solar business block of buildings ensues however the terrorist threat is a concern against the plans.  The business parties weigh the options and decide to forge ahead with private security firm protection and continued protest to government about the threat.

A turn of events occurs with Rahan getting kidnapped by the Al Qaeda after successfully foiling several terrorist attempts in the area. Zotan is irate about the developments and hires an investigator in collaboration with govt. to find her. Meanwhile two men are holding Rahan captive they are asking for ransom to give her back to Zotan. The terrorists bring her to an open area of the desert and drop off Rahan for the ransom money and are met with helicopter assault to rescue Rahan and Zotans funds.  An arrest is made of several terrorists and Zotan saves Rahan.

Zotan proposes to Rahan later and she keeps her security firm post for the time being with the impending marriage having lived through the greatest challenge of her life.

Muhad’s activism meanwhile has helped to get women to write the government about the terrorist damage to business along with Kaveh’s contacts in the business community.  All hope for peaceful change in Iraq from their efforts for themselves and their families.

ASTRID - SYNOPSIS

ASTRID

-Marilyn 

LOG LINE:  Astrid is an epic film that spans the lives of Queen Astrid of Belgium, King Leopold III and his second wife Lillian Baels on through to world war II with their imprisonment in Nazi Germany.

SYNOPSIS:  A unique couple Astrid and Leopold are the hope of Belgium after resurrecting Belgian African colonies cleaning the mess in the aftermath of cruelty there by the previous king Leopold II who committed horrible atrocities against mankind labouring in the rubber tree crops.

Astrid poses in the kitchen with a mixing bowl and batter supporting the life of the commoner by this easy going couple in Belgium in a new Vogue of leadership.  They have three children Beaudoin the eldest Josephine and Albert the youngest and live in a large chateau they call Astrid’s Castle.  Elisbeth the intense mother of Leopold and Albert have taken over and kept the Laeken Palace of royalty in Brussels after his coronation ousting the royal couple to more humble digs. 

Great humor both Leopold and Astrid share making a light hearted style permeate the entire film through wondrous success and strife.  Leopold has a love of the Belgian Congo which was largely abandoned by Elisbeth’s disgust in insects and too much heat.  Astrid and Leopold make the long journey by plane boat and railway to the Belgian Congo to resurrect the people, creating white clothing for them to shielded them from the sun and setting up schools workshops and other facilities for the locals and tending to their export crops and mines. Beauty of the place and wildness gives the royal couple a break from the formalities of their duty and a perspective on the value of all people in all places under their care in the beauteous nature of the Congo.

Shortly after their return Astrid dies in a horrible car accident where the car skids out of control hitting a tree and rolling over.  She dies and the children are left with a grieving father to tend to them with their nannies. He remarries Lillian Baels and she takes on the role of mother hood after he ousts Elisbeth and Albert from Laeken Palace reclaiming it as the proper royal residence. Leopold’s parents take his old address to live in.

World War II breaks out and Hitler imprisons the royal couple in the royal palace of Laeken at first after Leopold surrenders to Hitler’s army to save Belgian lives. As the war intensifies and the Germans interfere with the alliance supported government dispersal of ruler ship under house arrest to Belgium by the king Leopold and his family are taken to Hirchstein to a broken down Chateau in Germany to be imprisoned.  After months of near starvation and battling gangrene in one of the children from a leg wound they are moved to Strobl for the final months of imprisonment where finally the Americans rescue them and set them free as the war ends.

Leopold is exiled from Belgium in a vote damning him for the surrender of Belgium to Germany by just over half the people’s vote.  He and the family live in Switzerland for seven years till the coronation of Beaudoin as king finally in a huge celebration outside Laeken Palace.

Leopold and Lillian travel back to the Congo later to classify species of botanical plants never previously classified as his hobby turns scholarly in his retirement from government with his wife. 

ASTRID PRE PRODUCTION PAGE

The film Astrid is largely research based and remote viewed by me not much is there in terms of historical facts about their lives except bits and pieces I found as this is a smaller country in Europe so these royals were not as well known. Key highlights of their lives were that after the war like crimes of Leopold II on the Congolese they royals were very down to earth, modern, practical and welcoming to other races of people.  They created improvements to the lives of Congolese people covered in the film. World War II came upon Europe and an adventure hit the family after Astrids car accident death with a new wife Lillian, Germany the family faced and imprisonment. 80 percent of the story is fact based with small changes such as Delaying Astrid's death a little longer in the story and condensing the prison terms in each location for the purpose of flow of the story. 
     

Here we have photos as I find them relevant to the film ASTRID.

Congo Museum Brussels Interior

Congo museum interior 

Museum Exterior

Belgium

Belgium

Belgium

Belgian Congo 

Astrid and Leopold

Belgian Congo Bungalows

Horror of previous king Leopold II was limbs cut off if they did not collect enough rubber infact in his colonies in Africa many died also by this horrid leader.

By Boat

Belgian Congo

Belgium

Belgian Congo local's hut

Belgian Congo houses.

Royal family

Waterfalls in Congo

Astrid's children

Pattern James painted at Wingmakers in his art.


Royals with family

Belgian Congo early school

Belgian Congo mine possibly copper

Astrid's castle 

Astrid's castle

Belgian Congo staff from army of Leopold were dressed very well with pilbox rectangular hats and smart suits fitted stylishly blacks inlcuded who spoke french.  Below toy building program by Astrid and Leopold III.  

Royal residences are here where everyone lived described.

 http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/royal-residences/belgian-royal-residences/

This went back to Elisbeth when he threw her out again taking the big castle s my intuition told me its in the notes here.

http://royalchatter.com/index.php?topic=1116.0

Another supposed residence same name.

Plant conservatory at Laeken main castle which Elisbeth Hogged till Leopold remarried then he moved in. Oh what a surprise to see this here after the writing of Ethereal Room and my kid was frying and me!

  
http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=32

Battle route info above.

Battle of the taking of Belgium begins link here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Eben-Emael

Lillian Baels Second wife of Leopold III

Coronation videos are available on you tube for Beaudoin's coronation.

Beaodoin as a man.

ETHEREAL CAFE - SYNOPSIS

ETHEREAL CAFE

- Marilyn 

LOG LINE:  Ethereal Cafe is a film about an unusual, older, holistic healing duo that causes dramatic self adjustments as people face their karma for better or worse.

SYNOPSIS:  Angela and Lance are the owners of a business venture called Ethereal Cafe where they get referrals of all kinds for people who are in trouble somehow in the soul.  A deceptively tranquil environment conservatory setting with profuse plants, birds flying fee and ornate antiques rococo style sits for people to join the working couple for a coffee and chat.  Intense light reviews in life that take a split second and slow the heart stopping it to recalibrate in seconds a new life to occur as part of this dramatic suspense film with astoundingly candid wit.

Linda is a seemingly basic dry cleaning business owner who lives a near spinster life with her brother in a house of her deceased parents.  A fire breaks out and they are left with a charred kitchen they have to remodel and this cases the move forward to finally sell the old place and get their own condos.  Linda visits Ethereal Cafe for a life changing experience where she faces how her worry manifests all around her silly situations that stop the flow of joyous life experienced fully. Linda meets David a business executive who leaves some dry cleaning at her shop and he asks her out when he picks it up they dine finally over explicitly candid conversation which breaks any misconception about Linda being demure.

Rob and Angela the married couple have settled in to a predictable marriage which does not rally include an acceptance of the work she does with Lance because of Robs trepidation about its unconventional aspects. He plans a road trip getaway with four friends who are all retired now as he enters his retirement year. Angela agrees feeling a break good for them after a kiss with Lance ensued at Ethereal Cafe.

Natalie a girl with cancer whose mother poisoned her slowly with Munchausen’s by Proxy ailment has a mother who visits Ethereal Cafe and drops dead of a heart attack when faced with the truth about the abuse of her daughter. Lane follows the death with a visit to Natalie’s house to see if she’d like to help out at the cafe.  Natalie accepts and shows up to serve coffee in the sun filled sanctuary like setting and to witness other revelations of visitors whose lives change leading to her own betterment.

Linda and David’s relationship heats up with more shocking revelations about her and she proceeds to sell the house after the kitchen is renovated to completion.  Ron her brother notes she is brutally truthful and eases her she never lies so during the open house Linda goes all out on a dare her brother gave her to actually lie.  She fibs that the old place was owned by moonshine runners during the prohibition and tells other tales about it. One house viewer Anne is smitten with the wild tales and buys the house the same day of the open house to Linda’s brother’s amazement.

Rob and his friends have a great time of humor and car racing entertainment on their road trip with healthy male bonding time.  

Rob returns home to more adventure laden Angela his wife who is more sure they should get a divorce with Lance in full agreement. Lance and Angela plot a visit by Rob to Ethereal Cafe to have some sort of a realization so he leaves Angela and he marriage. Disaster strikes during one such visit when he does finally arrive and he condemns both of them for cheating while he was faithful during his trip.  He storms out and divorce proceedings do however begin by Rob. 

Eventually he forgives and Angela and Rob come to an amicable divorce agreement also making Lance relieved greatly.

Angela decide to stay cool during a break from everything she takes accepting her marriage lost they close Ethereal Cafe for a couple of weeks and she readies her life for the change to being single again after thirty years of marriage. She has dinner with Linda who offers great wit and friendship to Angela.

Lance and Angela return to work after Rob decides to call Nadine an attractive divorcé he met on vacation from L.A. they have dinner and like two children are gleefully gossiping about both being single. Edward a European socialite and business man who was threatened by a gang member arrives at Ethereal Cafe to face his destiny.