From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V4 #297 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Friday, December 10 2004 Volume 04 : Number 297 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Renee play pics for sale ["Creation (Sharon Delaney)" ] [chakram-refugees] 2005 Xena calendars ["Cheryl Ande" Subject: [chakram-refugees] Renee play pics for sale We now have photos taken by Wendy Sparks and Steve Sears online for ordering at: http://www.creationent.com/xena/index.htm Check out that Cowboy Renee! Sharon Official Xena Fan Club ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 21:28:15 -0500 From: "Cheryl Ande" Subject: [chakram-refugees] 2005 Xena calendars Has anyone received their calendars yet? ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 23:52:45 EST From: KLOSSNER9@aol.com Subject: [chakram-refugees] Conquest -- and Friend in Need?? I just finished watching the DVD of Conquest (Italy, dir. Lucio Fulci, 1983). This is a sword-and-sorcery film to which we may owe the most unpopular moment in Friend in Need. Tough-guy Mace and naive, idealistic Ilias are enemies of Ocron, a cruel sorceress. Ilias wants to go after Ocron but Mace doesn't want to. Ocron sends Zora, her best warrior, and his beastmen to get rid of the two. Zora grabs Ilias and takes him into a cave. Mace follows and fights a lot of cave zombies and bats. He beats them but doesn't find Ilias. He finds an exit and is happily climbing toward the sun when he and the audience get an unexpected shock -- Ilias's headless body hanging upside-down from the cave-roof. Mace gets mad, decides Ilias was right and goes after Ocron. He kills her men and beastmen and defeats her, but she and Zora turn into wolves and escape. Mace and Ilias are somewhat like Xena and Gabrielle in that one is tough but not very idealistic while the other is less tough but more idealistic. In the film it is the idealist who is killed and the tough one who lives -- the opposite of the end of Xena. The scenes of the survivor finding the headless body of his/her partner, strung up and headless, are very similar. In the film, the tough guy becomes better when his idealisitc friend is killed; he sees the need for action against the villains. In Xena, I'm afraid, the producers always felt that if Xena had to do without Gabrielle, she would revert to nastiness. The director, Lucio Fulci, was a cult director of gory but stylish horror films, such as Zombie (1979). Although Conquest has just come out on DVD for the first time, it has been available on VHS for some time. Since they are familiar with everything from the Italian pepla of the late 1950s/early 60s to the Hong Kong action films, I think it's quite possible the Xena makers saw Conquest. Boeotian ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V4 #297 **************************************