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- 0:00Speaker 1: We're live.
- 0:02Speaker 2: All right, here we go.
- 0:05Speaker 3: So historically, for those of you who have not been here, historically,
- 0:08Speaker 3: before every read we say three things. We say table read,
- 0:13Speaker 3: and we say the name of the script. So give
- 0:15Speaker 3: us the pronunciation that you would like to here on
- 0:18Speaker 3: the script, table read, and I would like to have
- 0:27Speaker 3: a little bit of excitement, a little bit of like
- 0:29Speaker 3: you want to be here, put a.
- 0:32Speaker 4: Little something in your step.
- 0:35Speaker 1: All right, on accountry, here we go. One two, written
- 0:44Speaker 1: by Rigid It's a good way Thanks, written by Richard Viterre,
- 0:54Speaker 1: based on his stage play on Black on screen Rooms
- 1:00Speaker 1: sixteen ten. Sounds of the City loud, deep human voices,
- 1:05Speaker 1: life at its fullest, overlaps into following scene Fadian on
- 1:11Speaker 1: exterior ghetto of Ortaccio, the Evil Garden, Rome night, small
- 1:17Speaker 1: groups of drunk men and prostitutes shout insults and seductions
- 1:20Speaker 1: at one another. Caravaggio, intensely aware in his thirties, piercing
- 1:26Speaker 1: black eyes, wears a dramatic looking black and gold tight
- 1:30Speaker 1: footing jacket with a red vest and a rapier dangling
- 1:33Speaker 1: from his belt, and a leather satchel of wine in
- 1:36Speaker 1: his hand. At his side are Julia Mancini and Petronio Toppa.
- 1:42Speaker 1: Mancini is the eldest, a poet, former merchant, wearing expensive,
- 1:47Speaker 1: rich green and gold, and Toppa is younger, a painter,
- 1:51Speaker 1: wearing form fitting blue jacket and brown vest. Caravaggio searches
- 1:57Speaker 1: the ortaccio looking for something which might be unat anable
- 2:01Speaker 1: cut to exterior chapel of Santa Maria de Popolo Rome.
- 2:06Speaker 1: Night Drunk, Caravaggio, Mancini and Topper approach the chapel, sharing
- 2:13Speaker 1: a satchel of wine. Caravaggiou pushes open the chapel door.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Interior Chapel of Santa Maria de Popolo Rome. A Nibele
- 2:24Speaker 1: Carracci late thirties stands in the aisle looking up at
- 2:27Speaker 1: a painting. He is dressed humbly in brown, non distinct
- 2:31Speaker 1: clothing despite his fame. Though his eyes sparkle with intelligence,
- 2:36Speaker 1: there is a pained expression on his face, as if
- 2:39Speaker 1: haunted by some impending doom. He can't articulate. Hearing voices
- 2:44Speaker 1: at the front door, he covers the canvas and hides
- 2:47Speaker 1: behind an altar. Caravaggio enters the chapel. I need more light,
- 2:53Speaker 1: Mancini and Topper follow behind him, laughing, blessing themselves, and
- 2:57Speaker 1: kneeling as they walk down the aisle.
- 3:00Speaker 2: Blesshe me, Oh, Father, for I have sin.
- 3:03Speaker 4: God knows you're a sinner. He doesn't need to be reminded.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Torch Mancini pulls a torch up off the center pew
- 3:12Speaker 1: as Caravaggio stops at a covered painting the same canvas
- 3:16Speaker 1: Karachi was looking at. Caravaggio directs the light to brighten
- 3:20Speaker 1: the canvas. The painting is enormous. It's the conversion of
- 3:24Speaker 1: Saint Paul. It's an astonishing word for its time. It's
- 3:29Speaker 1: bold in its showing of unblemished humanity. Its portrayal of
- 3:33Speaker 1: fragile human beings in a religious setting presents to the
- 3:37Speaker 1: Renaissance and Catholic mind a novel idea God can be
- 3:42Speaker 1: found in mankind's imperfections. All three are in awe. Even
- 3:47Speaker 1: the painting's creator.
- 3:49Speaker 4: Magnificent, splendid.
- 3:52Speaker 1: You're in the competition.
- 3:53Speaker 4: You'll gain the commission, and beyond my sins remembered.
- 3:55Speaker 1: Caravaggio takes a slug of the wine, throws the satchel
- 3:59Speaker 1: at topper, then turns to the other side of the
- 4:01Speaker 1: aisle and pulls away the canvas opposite.
- 4:04Speaker 4: His and here is karachis.
- 4:07Speaker 1: Karravaja throws the torchlight across Karachi's painting. It is the
- 4:11Speaker 1: same subject, the Conversion of Paul, but it's a prettier painting,
- 4:16Speaker 1: far less realistic, more idealized version of faith and suffering.
- 4:21Speaker 1: Karachi peeks from behind the altar.
- 4:24Speaker 4: Perfect saints with halo's spinning like golden rings. Awful, yes
- 4:30Speaker 4: it is, but this is what the church wants.
- 4:33Speaker 1: Kravajo looks up to God and says, you despise what
- 4:37Speaker 1: I paint because I expose.
- 4:40Speaker 4: You for what you are.
- 4:43Speaker 1: In the shadows. Karachi knocks over a small, unlit torch.
- 4:47Speaker 1: All three men turn ready to pounce. What was that?
- 4:50Speaker 2: Good demon?
- 4:51Speaker 1: Karachi steps out from behind the altar. Karravajo recognizes him
- 4:56Speaker 1: and puts his rapier back in its sheath.
- 4:59Speaker 4: I'll deal with this and me and me at the
- 5:01Speaker 4: tavern of the Hawk.
- 5:03Speaker 1: Go Manseni on top her turn and leave the church.
- 5:07Speaker 1: Caravajo walks down the aisle to Karachi Annibale.
- 5:13Speaker 5: I am shocked to hear you pray.
- 5:14Speaker 4: Oh, my prayers are in defiance.
- 5:16Speaker 5: God will take notice.
- 5:18Speaker 4: I only hope he does your work. Is brilliant. You
- 5:22Speaker 4: will win the commission, not me.
- 5:25Speaker 1: Karachi looks over Caravajo's painting.
- 5:28Speaker 5: Let me say now to your face that despite how
- 5:31Speaker 5: much I despise your realistic style, I admire it.
- 5:37Speaker 4: Are you painted like me once, not caring what anyone thought?
- 5:41Speaker 4: Your butcher sharp, the way the meat hung from hooks
- 5:44Speaker 4: on the walls.
- 5:45Speaker 5: I painted that when I was twenty one, when I
- 5:48Speaker 5: lived near the arena, I sold it to a merchant
- 5:51Speaker 5: for bread and meat.
- 5:52Speaker 4: It was magnificent. I even said to myself, someday, Michela,
- 5:57Speaker 4: you will do work as good as that.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Karachi gives Caravajo a slight bow of his head and
- 6:03Speaker 1: walks away, dejected and leaves the church. Caravo watches him.
- 6:09Speaker 1: Screams of laughter overlap into following scene Cut two, interior broth,
- 6:15Speaker 1: Piazza del Popolo night. Caravajo enters the torch lit two
- 6:20Speaker 1: story structure. He struts into the brothel with a wide,
- 6:24Speaker 1: charming smile, amid shouts of nique coming from most of
- 6:29Speaker 1: the topless or scantily clad women, and Caravadjo from some
- 6:33Speaker 1: of the male patrons. A young prostitute Isabella, rushes over
- 6:38Speaker 1: to him and he hugs Herani and his brothers were.
- 6:45Speaker 4: Here asking for it's a bella. You are a true beauty,
- 6:49Speaker 4: but stay out of the sun. Now give me something
- 6:52Speaker 4: to eat and drink.
- 6:54Speaker 1: Caravajo notices a young man, Fabrizio, drinking at a table
- 6:58Speaker 1: with a stump for a left hand, and as a
- 7:00Speaker 1: young woman sits silently beside him.
- 7:03Speaker 4: Fabrizio, what happened?
- 7:05Speaker 1: He holds up the bandaged stump.
- 7:08Speaker 4: I lost it to a Spaniard in Milano.
- 7:11Speaker 6: He insulted me, Well lucky you are right hand at
- 7:16Speaker 6: a poet writes with his heart but still meets his fingers,
- 7:20Speaker 6: and she must be a great inspiration.
- 7:22Speaker 1: Caravaggio sits at a table with Mancini and Toppa. As
- 7:26Speaker 1: Isabella brings bread to the table and Toppa grabs her
- 7:29Speaker 1: ass as she walks past her. She playfully starts at them.
- 7:33Speaker 1: As the young woman number two steps past the table,
- 7:37Speaker 1: Caravalgio jumps and stops at her, touching her face. She's
- 7:41Speaker 1: startled and.
- 7:42Speaker 4: Still Boticelli would call you venus. You are from Florence.
- 7:47Speaker 4: Yah see, how did you know your complexion is so
- 7:51Speaker 4: rare in wrong?
- 7:52Speaker 1: Just then, Caravajo sees a woman sitting alone at a table.
- 7:56Speaker 1: She's Lena twenties, captivating, vulnerable, and self contained all at
- 8:01Speaker 1: the same time. He ignores everything around him, walks over
- 8:05Speaker 1: to her, stops and stares in silence. She looks up
- 8:09Speaker 1: at him.
- 8:10Speaker 3: What you've never seen a woman before?
- 8:13Speaker 4: Women? I see you. I have it.
- 8:17Speaker 1: He moves to her, but just then a soldier steps
- 8:20Speaker 1: out of nowhere, takes her hand and pulls her from
- 8:22Speaker 1: the table into the other room, and she's gone.
- 8:25Speaker 7: Hey.
- 8:26Speaker 1: Mikhail Karavajo turns up and sees Maria thirties, standing on
- 8:31Speaker 1: the stairs, her arms folded across her chest, staring at him. Earthy, boisterous,
- 8:37Speaker 1: and voluptuous. She demands attention.
- 8:40Speaker 8: When you're here in my house, it's me you look
- 8:42Speaker 8: at and nobody else.
- 8:44Speaker 4: When I am in your house, I look at you
- 8:47Speaker 4: and no one else.
- 8:48Speaker 1: He walks to hers, slowly impulsively pulls her into another room.
- 8:53Speaker 1: Interior private room, brothel night. Karavajo and Maria pull one
- 8:59Speaker 1: another's clothes off, making love like ferocious creatures. With the
- 9:03Speaker 1: door half open, Blasts of torchlight, shouts, and laughter explode
- 9:08Speaker 1: beyond them. They are completely oblivious to it. All cut
- 9:13Speaker 1: to exterior brothel Piazza del Popolo. Don Caravajo pushes open
- 9:19Speaker 1: the brothel doors, shattering the early morning silence. He's drunk,
- 9:24Speaker 1: exhausted and spent. He steps outside and bumps into a
- 9:29Speaker 1: drunk Caravaggio and the drunk step back, grabbing at their daggers.
- 9:34Speaker 1: They recognize one another. The drunk is Ranuccio Tomasoni.
- 9:39Speaker 4: Ranuccio I thought I smelled lily sweet perfume.
- 9:44Speaker 1: Caravajo and Ranuccio lock eyes. Ranuccio thirties is a well built, handsome,
- 9:50Speaker 1: clean shaven man, unlike Caravajo, not dressed as an artist,
- 9:55Speaker 1: but as a swordsman, and a wealthy one at that.
- 9:58Speaker 1: In fine silk, blue and gold or the family emblem
- 10:01Speaker 1: embodied on his vest. He wears guards on his wrists
- 10:05Speaker 1: for sword fighting, and rings on his fingers, and expensive
- 10:09Speaker 1: bracelets and a colorful scarf of the finest silk. Ranuccio
- 10:14Speaker 1: calls over his shoulder, husakreton Michel de Marici. Two more
- 10:21Speaker 1: drunk men step out of the shadows. They are Tavio
- 10:24Speaker 1: and giovann Tomasoni thirties, wearing rapiers in their belts and
- 10:29Speaker 1: expensive jewelry. They had the poise of military men. Caravaggio stiffen,
- 10:35Speaker 1: says the Tomasoni brothers slowly take a stance, ready to
- 10:38Speaker 1: pounce on Caravaggio.
- 10:40Speaker 8: You owe me ten scoodi, and you'll have it when
- 10:45Speaker 8: I am ready.
- 10:46Speaker 1: Ranuccio grins as he and his brother's edge closer to Caravaggio.
- 10:50Speaker 1: The brothel door flings open, and Mansinian Toppa stumble out.
- 10:56Speaker 1: When they realize what they just walked into. They put
- 10:59Speaker 1: their hands on their rapiers and stand to either side
- 11:01Speaker 1: of Caravaggio. The sides are now even.
- 11:05Speaker 4: Your father was a warrior, but his sons they belonging
- 11:09Speaker 4: to convience.
- 11:14Speaker 1: All six men step back, pull their swords from their belts,
- 11:18Speaker 1: ready to pounce. When thumping of boots on cobblestone rattles
- 11:22Speaker 1: the dawn, they all turn to see several Knights of
- 11:25Speaker 1: Malta walking across the piazza in their direction. The knights
- 11:29Speaker 1: are stunningly attired in black and silver, with the bold
- 11:32Speaker 1: emblem of the Knights of Malta on their chest plates.
- 11:35Speaker 1: They carry their long swords proudly and intimidate by their
- 11:39Speaker 1: sheer presence and reputation. Both sides back away. Caravaggio can't
- 11:45Speaker 1: take his eyes off.
- 11:46Speaker 4: Of the night. So be a knight of the Order
- 11:48Speaker 4: of Malta. That's the highest honor.
- 11:52Speaker 1: Ranuccio turns to Caravajo.
- 11:54Speaker 8: One day, I will soak the piazza with your blood.
- 11:59Speaker 1: Ranuccio and his brother's disappear into an enormous rising sun,
- 12:03Speaker 1: orange and red, glaringly rising over the rooftops, soaking the
- 12:08Speaker 1: street with its brutal light. Caravajiou to Mancini.
- 12:12Speaker 4: One day, I will soak the piazza with Ranuccio's blood,
- 12:16Speaker 4: and be damned.
- 12:18Speaker 1: The sun drowns Caravajiou in blood, red light, the light
- 12:23Speaker 1: sound of horses overlaps into the following scene to black
- 12:28Speaker 1: fade in on flash forward several weeks a full white
- 12:32Speaker 1: moon in a milky white sky. Exterior carriage Rome night.
- 12:39Speaker 1: The carriage races through the streets. Visible is the insignia
- 12:43Speaker 1: of a cardinal of the Catholic Church, giving its significant status.
- 12:49Speaker 1: Interior carriage Rome continues. The only passenger is Caravajiou, thirties,
- 12:55Speaker 1: wearing a dramatic looking black cape, drinking wine from a satchel,
- 13:00Speaker 1: peering through the window to see if he's being followed.
- 13:03Speaker 1: He looks differently than he did when we saw him earlier.
- 13:07Speaker 1: He's now focused, concerned and alert. Cut to exterior Papal
- 13:14Speaker 1: security roadblock Night. The carriage pulls up to two guards.
- 13:19Speaker 1: The first guard steps over to the carriage.
- 13:22Speaker 7: This road is closed to all in and out of Rome.
- 13:25Speaker 1: Cara leans toward the window.
- 13:27Speaker 4: I'm traveling with special permission from Cardinal de Monte.
- 13:31Speaker 1: Caravajo hands the first guard official papers. A second guard
- 13:35Speaker 1: joins the first. The guards look over the papers.
- 13:38Speaker 7: Where are you traveling to Malta?
- 13:41Speaker 2: Malta is under siege from the turret?
- 13:43Speaker 4: Are you at night? No, but I am a guest
- 13:47Speaker 4: of the Knights.
- 13:48Speaker 1: Impressed, the first guard hands Cuivaijo.
- 13:51Speaker 7: His papers will be alert. So the roads are treacherous
- 13:55Speaker 7: with bandits.
- 13:55Speaker 4: Oh, I will be on alerts. Would you like some wine, gentlemen, No,
- 14:02Speaker 4: thank you.
- 14:03Speaker 1: The second guard waves to the driver. Interior carriage Night.
- 14:08Speaker 1: Karva Joe takes a slug from the satchel, then peers
- 14:11Speaker 1: out the window, looking down at the flickering lights of Rome,
- 14:15Speaker 1: glimmering like stars. Cut to exterior carriage. Boat dock continues
- 14:22Speaker 1: the carriage stars. Karravajo steps out and it quickly pulls away,
- 14:26Speaker 1: leaving him he staggers, then manages to steady himself without
- 14:32Speaker 1: luggage other than a satchel to hold a sketchbook and ink.
- 14:36Speaker 1: He moves to the small but seaworthy boat, also with
- 14:39Speaker 1: a flag and insignia of a cardinal of the Catholic Church.
- 14:43Speaker 1: He steps up to a dock guard and presents him
- 14:45Speaker 1: the official papers.
- 14:48Speaker 4: I believe you've been waiting for me.
- 14:50Speaker 1: The doc God looks them over and hands them back.
- 14:53Speaker 8: Hmmm, we were, but the tide isn't We shove off.
- 14:58Speaker 1: Immediately, Joe steps aboard and it is clear he's the
- 15:02Speaker 1: only passenger. He recognizes Andrea, a young sailor.
- 15:07Speaker 4: Andrea, my son, Matthew.
- 15:10Speaker 1: He steps over to him and touches his face gently.
- 15:13Speaker 5: Caravaggio, so you are the passenger we were waiting for.
- 15:17Speaker 5: You do know that Malta is a treacherous destination.
- 15:20Speaker 4: Not as treacherous as Rome. It's for me right now.
- 15:25Speaker 5: I have to man my post. Can I find you later?
- 15:29Speaker 1: Caravajo reaches out his hand and holds it tenderly.
- 15:32Speaker 4: Yes, let's find one another in the shadows.
- 15:37Speaker 1: Andrea rushes off As the boat slowly pulls away from
- 15:39Speaker 1: the dog. Caravajo stands at the stern, turns and looks
- 15:44Speaker 1: forward into the darkness where the boat is headed. His
- 15:48Speaker 1: eyes his demeanor reveal anticipation and hope as the stars
- 15:52Speaker 1: and the full moon light the vessel's way. Cut to
- 15:56Speaker 1: exterior boat Terranian Sea, dawn. The boat sails along on
- 16:02Speaker 1: the calm seas. Cut to exterior boat terrain and sea continues.
- 16:09Speaker 1: Carravajeau is on the deck, searching the skyline for Malta.
- 16:13Speaker 1: The boat's grizzly captain stands beside him. Caravajio sees something
- 16:18Speaker 1: faintly on the horizon Malta. Caravajo strains to get a
- 16:21Speaker 1: bed of view. The fortress stands high on the rocky
- 16:25Speaker 1: promontory of Mount Scaberis. Thunder blasts in the distance. Caravajou
- 16:30Speaker 1: looks up, perplexed since the sky is clear thunder cannon.
- 16:35Speaker 1: The captain goes back to his work as Caravajou looks
- 16:37Speaker 1: towards Malta underterre cut to exterior Harbor Castle sant Angelo,
- 16:44Speaker 1: Malta dawn. Caravajeau's boat slowly enters the harbor, and now
- 16:50Speaker 1: that he can see the harbor clearly, what he sees
- 16:53Speaker 1: puts a pit in his stomach. Smoke rises up from
- 16:56Speaker 1: the docks where anchored boats burn. The shoreline lit with
- 17:00Speaker 1: dead and mangled bodies, the ruins of a recent vicious
- 17:04Speaker 1: and bloody battle. Knights race to and fro, putting out
- 17:08Speaker 1: fires and tending to the wounded. Moans and cries of
- 17:12Speaker 1: pain emanate from the shoreline and echo out toward the harbor.
- 17:19Speaker 1: Cut to exterior boat beach Malta continues. Since the dark
- 17:25Speaker 1: is damaged, Caravaggio's boat runs aground on the beach. Caravaggio
- 17:30Speaker 1: views the carnage, smells the stench of burning flesh, and
- 17:34Speaker 1: sees the blood in the water. As he's about to
- 17:37Speaker 1: put his foot down into the sea, he stops and
- 17:39Speaker 1: looks up to see alf dovingerko, I knew that was
- 17:47Speaker 1: going to happen, Vinyakor. I'm doing okay, that's it. As
- 17:54Speaker 1: he's about to put his foot down into the sea,
- 17:56Speaker 1: he stops and looks up to see alf D Vinyakor
- 17:59Speaker 1: standing on the beach, dressed magnificently in his battle attire,
- 18:03Speaker 1: with blood staining his breastplate and a gold sword in
- 18:07Speaker 1: his hand. He stands over the bodies of two dead Turks.
- 18:11Speaker 1: He clearly just killed Ailof, has a beard that is
- 18:15Speaker 1: going gray, and had hired several deep scars, but not
- 18:18Speaker 1: all of them. His nose has been broken several times
- 18:22Speaker 1: in battle, and is elegantly dressed in brown, leather and silver.
- 18:27Speaker 1: He is oblivious to the surrounding hell like environment, looks
- 18:30Speaker 1: to karava Jo and proudly lifts his chin. His eyes
- 18:34Speaker 1: shine with delight to see karava Jo, and a slow
- 18:37Speaker 1: smile crosses his lips. Just then, a cloud of smoke
- 18:41Speaker 1: covers the beach from the burning carcass of a small
- 18:44Speaker 1: ship stuck in the harbor. Karavajo coughs, and when the
- 18:49Speaker 1: smoke is gone, so is Ailof. Cut to interior entrance
- 18:55Speaker 1: hallway Castle Saint Andelo continues. If Rajo steps up into
- 19:01Speaker 1: the castle and is quickly confronted by Stefano dela Croce
- 19:05Speaker 1: early thirties, tall Well built a night with the rank
- 19:09Speaker 1: of captain.
- 19:10Speaker 9: I am Stefano dela Croce, the grand Master's captain at
- 19:14Speaker 9: arms and at your service.
- 19:16Speaker 1: This way, please, Stefano leads Kao along the.
- 19:20Speaker 9: Path your visit took us by surprise. We only received
- 19:25Speaker 9: the Cardinal's message last night. I hope you had a
- 19:28Speaker 9: smooth crossing.
- 19:29Speaker 4: Oh, we oncet attacked by bandits or turks.
- 19:32Speaker 7: God was with you.
- 19:33Speaker 4: I didn't see him, but then it was the dead
- 19:36Speaker 4: of night.
- 19:37Speaker 7: HM. Well this way please.
- 19:40Speaker 1: He turns and walks down the hallway, and karava Joe follows.
- 19:45Speaker 1: Interior hallway castle sant Angelo continuous as they walk, despite
- 19:51Speaker 1: how a steer the castle seems. Karavaijo notices weapons and
- 19:55Speaker 1: even some artwork on the walls. He notices one painting
- 19:59Speaker 1: in particul killer and stops. Stefano also stops, perplexed.
- 20:04Speaker 7: There's something wrong.
- 20:06Speaker 4: I'm admiring this tempest.
- 20:08Speaker 7: You appreciate his battle scenes.
- 20:10Speaker 4: Oh, I applaud his use of blood, death, darkness.
- 20:15Speaker 9: I know very little of art, but I can see
- 20:17Speaker 9: the artist understands war.
- 20:20Speaker 4: And I know very little of war, but I can
- 20:23Speaker 4: see that the grand Master understands art.
- 20:26Speaker 1: Stefano nods, then leads karavaar Jou further down the hallway.
- 20:31Speaker 1: Exterior hallway outside karavar Joe's room continuous. Stefano stops in
- 20:38Speaker 1: front of a thick wooden door, with Caravajou behind him.
- 20:41Speaker 1: He opens the door to a room which resembles a
- 20:44Speaker 1: prison cell your quarters interior Carva Joe's room continuous. Caravajo
- 20:51Speaker 1: enters deeper into the small room. It is stark, unadorned.
- 20:56Speaker 1: There is a table with a bucket of water and
- 20:58Speaker 1: a bible sitting on it, as well as a small
- 21:01Speaker 1: enclave where to kneel and pray. The window as iron
- 21:04Speaker 1: bars on it. There is a bed with a mattress,
- 21:07Speaker 1: a blanket, and a single pillow, but nothing else. He
- 21:11Speaker 1: touches the mattress and makes a face.
- 21:14Speaker 7: The grand Master will call for you when he is ready.
- 21:17Speaker 1: He turns and leaves Caravajou alone, closing the door. Caravaggio
- 21:22Speaker 1: hears a key in the lock.
- 21:23Speaker 4: Wait.
- 21:24Speaker 1: Wait, He shoves the door, but it doesn't move. It
- 21:28Speaker 1: is locked. Caravajo sits on the hard bed, facing the
- 21:32Speaker 1: window and looks north towards Rome, imagining what is going
- 21:35Speaker 1: on at the Vatican. Cut to exterior Saint Peter's Basilica,
- 21:42Speaker 1: Rome Day, a dark, brooding sky with a shaft of
- 21:47Speaker 1: light cutting through the overcast, desperate to dispel the gloom.
- 21:52Speaker 1: Interior Vatican Office of the Treasure Council, Rome Day. Cardinal
- 21:57Speaker 1: del Monte fifties, who has the cunning into intelligence of
- 22:00Speaker 1: a fox, and the physical presence of a lion enters.
- 22:05Speaker 1: A shaft of sunlight cuts through the large windows. Del
- 22:09Speaker 1: Monte hurries past bishops and cardinals, walking directly up to
- 22:12Speaker 1: Pope Clement the eighth sixties, dressed in his papal robes
- 22:17Speaker 1: and magnificent jewels and his red velvet robe. He's pious,
- 22:21Speaker 1: old and ill your holiness. He kisses the Pope's ring
- 22:27Speaker 1: as the Pope reaches out his hand.
- 22:29Speaker 4: Why isn't Caravaggio here?
- 22:31Speaker 10: A thousand apologies? But Caravaggio is attending a new and
- 22:35Speaker 10: very important commission.
- 22:38Speaker 1: Pope Clement the eighth nods to what everyone in the
- 22:40Speaker 1: room is facing. Two large paintings hanging side by side,
- 22:44Speaker 1: covered by velvet curtains proceed. Cardinal del Monte bows, then
- 22:50Speaker 1: faces the.
- 22:51Speaker 7: Gathering aneebly Carracci.
- 22:54Speaker 1: Karacci, still dressed, humbly stands and walks to one of
- 22:58Speaker 1: the curtains and pulls it open, unveiling his own painting,
- 23:02Speaker 1: The Assumption of the Virgin. There is a gasp of
- 23:05Speaker 1: the piety and visual beauty of the painting.
- 23:08Speaker 7: Ah.
- 23:09Speaker 1: Cardinal del Monte then walks to the other curtain, pulling
- 23:12Speaker 1: it aside revealing Caravaggio's The Death of the Virgin. Caravaggio's
- 23:17Speaker 1: canvas immediately elicits moans of disbelief from those who have
- 23:21Speaker 1: no understanding of his achievement, as well as size of
- 23:25Speaker 1: all from those who know what he has accomplished.
- 23:28Speaker 11: I choose an epa at Carracci's canvas to adorn the chapel.
- 23:33Speaker 1: Pope Clement the Eighth stands and leaves the room. As
- 23:36Speaker 1: soon as he does, everyone rushes to examine the paintings.
- 23:40Speaker 1: Karacci steps forward and bows in gratitude, then quickly steps
- 23:45Speaker 1: closer to Caravaccio's painting, looking up at it. Cardinal del
- 23:49Speaker 1: Monte steps over to him.
- 23:51Speaker 7: You deserve to win the commission.
- 23:54Speaker 5: Who is his model?
- 23:56Speaker 7: Her name is Lena?
- 23:58Speaker 5: Where is he he?
- 24:00Speaker 7: He should have arrived on Malta this.
- 24:01Speaker 5: Morning, Malta for God's sake.
- 24:04Speaker 7: Why the grand Master requested him to paint his portrait?
- 24:08Speaker 5: And does the Grandmaster know that Caravaccio is wanted for murder?
- 24:11Speaker 7: Let's pray. The news continues to travel slowly.
- 24:16Speaker 5: You actually believe you can get him a pardon.
- 24:19Speaker 7: Without a pardon, he's a dead man.
- 24:22Speaker 1: A bishop steps over to del Monte and Carracci.
- 24:25Speaker 8: Our pontiff would like to see you for dinner this
- 24:27Speaker 8: evening in his private quarters.
- 24:30Speaker 1: Of course, the bishop walks away. Del Monte turns and
- 24:34Speaker 1: sees Carracci once again, staring at Caravajao's painting.
- 24:38Speaker 7: Where can I find this swiena the ghetto of Artaccio?
- 24:44Speaker 5: Why I need to know how he does it?
- 24:46Speaker 1: They both look at the painting. Cut to exterior the
- 24:51Speaker 1: letter Malta night. The moon throws a light over the
- 24:55Speaker 1: stone fortress, knocking overlaps into the following scene Interior Caravacho's room,
- 25:02Speaker 1: Malta night. The room is pitch black. The knocking wakes
- 25:07Speaker 1: Caravajo humph ugh. He stumbles out of bed just as
- 25:11Speaker 1: the door opens.
- 25:13Speaker 7: The grand Master is ready for you.
- 25:15Speaker 1: Cut to interior hallway outside the grand Master's chambers night.
- 25:20Speaker 1: As they walk through the torch lit hallway, Karavadjo notices
- 25:24Speaker 1: frescoes on the wall. Stefano stops at the door.
- 25:28Speaker 7: He is expecting you.
- 25:29Speaker 1: He opens the door and both men enter. Interior the
- 25:33Speaker 1: grand Master's private chambers. Continuous. Alov de Vignyokoor is sitting
- 25:38Speaker 1: behind a thick wooden table. Karvaijo takes him, and the
- 25:42Speaker 1: room in the high ceiling is covered with a mural
- 25:45Speaker 1: and the large windows are stained glass. There is art
- 25:49Speaker 1: everywhere on the walls. Ailof looks up from his paperwork.
- 25:52Speaker 1: Karavaijo notices he looks pained. His eyes can't hide what
- 25:57Speaker 1: he still suffers from all his old water wounds and
- 26:00Speaker 1: other more deeper agonies.
- 26:02Speaker 12: I apologize for the hour. Welcome to the letter and
- 26:07Speaker 12: my sanctuary.
- 26:09Speaker 4: Titian, Rafael, Timpsta, And in your whole way you have
- 26:13Speaker 4: a taste for grizzly scenes of slaughter martyrdom.
- 26:17Speaker 12: Well, I do indulge myself, but the.
- 26:21Speaker 4: Frescoes have a purpose.
- 26:24Speaker 12: They keep the glory of the order ever before my
- 26:27Speaker 12: eye and the others.
- 26:31Speaker 1: He Love stands and gestures to the paintings here.
- 26:34Speaker 12: Titian is here for his understanding of human nature, Raphael
- 26:39Speaker 12: for his understanding of human grandeur, Timpesta for his understanding
- 26:46Speaker 12: of human history.
- 26:47Speaker 4: And who do you have here for an understanding of
- 26:49Speaker 4: the human soul?
- 26:51Speaker 1: A Love smiles c Joe smiles back.
- 26:55Speaker 12: I'm alf Davignicourt.
- 26:58Speaker 4: Yes, yes you are, and I am on it.
- 27:02Speaker 1: Caravajious bows in reverence.
- 27:04Speaker 12: It gives me great pleasure to welcome the great Caravaggio
- 27:08Speaker 12: to Malta.
- 27:09Speaker 4: And it gives me even greater pleasure to be here.
- 27:13Speaker 1: I love, said some gestures to carave Adiou to join him.
- 27:16Speaker 1: He does.
- 27:18Speaker 12: We met once before in Rome. I was at the
- 27:23Speaker 12: unveiling of your painting, the Calling of Saint.
- 27:26Speaker 4: Maxi's in the Contarei Chapel. Yes, yes, I remember meeting you. Well.
- 27:32Speaker 1: The two men share a moment of mutual respect and admiration.
- 27:36Speaker 12: You came to our island at a difficult time. The
- 27:39Speaker 12: Turks attacked just before you sailed into the harbor, and.
- 27:43Speaker 4: I've heard how your knights protect our civilization. But now,
- 27:46Speaker 4: for the first time I have witnessed it. Yes, they
- 27:50Speaker 4: will return, and I will be at your service if
- 27:53Speaker 4: you need my sword. Have you ever fought in a battle?
- 27:57Speaker 12: No, Well, then it is fortunate that it is your
- 28:01Speaker 12: brush I employed.
- 28:03Speaker 9: We were concerned that we would be unable to get
- 28:06Speaker 9: you interested in coming here, considering all the commissions you
- 28:10Speaker 9: are offered in Rome.
- 28:11Speaker 4: Well, Rome was growing stale for me.
- 28:15Speaker 12: Stale an interesting choice of words. Why, sir, Oh, my
- 28:21Speaker 12: last visit, IE witnessed how it had become a savage
- 28:25Speaker 12: sinful city and an embarrassment to the Vatican itself.
- 28:30Speaker 4: Yes, the Vatican can be quite sensitive.
- 28:32Speaker 7: I was told you traveled with very little.
- 28:35Speaker 1: I didn't want to miss the tide a Love notices
- 28:38Speaker 1: Stefano's attitude toward kind of adieu with curiosity.
- 28:43Speaker 4: Do you know much about us? Well? I know that
- 28:46Speaker 4: you are both God's great worry.
- 28:49Speaker 9: Our motto is discipline, trust and death to the infidel.
- 28:54Speaker 9: We live sparsely, We pray for God's guidance, and we
- 28:56Speaker 9: are celibate.
- 28:58Speaker 4: Celibate, yes, to purge this owner.
- 29:01Speaker 7: The soul, the heart, the mind.
- 29:05Speaker 12: We are having a dinner in your honor tomorrow night,
- 29:08Speaker 12: in my honor. Yes, my men want to meet you,
- 29:13Speaker 12: and I want you to meet them. It might help
- 29:16Speaker 12: you in your creation of my portrait.
- 29:20Speaker 1: He stands and walks to the door as Carvajou follows.
- 29:24Speaker 12: Here away from your life in Rome, you will soon
- 29:27Speaker 12: find that the world outside these walls means.
- 29:31Speaker 4: Nothing, nothing grandmask nothing.
- 29:36Speaker 1: He gestures to the end of the empty hall.
- 29:39Speaker 12: You may go back to your room to rest. Stefano
- 29:42Speaker 12: will direct you.
- 29:44Speaker 1: Half closes the door, leaving Karava Joe alone with Stefano
- 29:48Speaker 1: without saying a word. Stefano turns and walks down another corridor.
- 29:53Speaker 1: Cararavad Joe follows. Cut to interior. Caravajou's room continues. Caravao
- 30:01Speaker 1: enters the dark room. He turns quickly to Stefano.
- 30:05Speaker 4: The bed is too hot, the window too small. I
- 30:07Speaker 4: need lights in the morning.
- 30:09Speaker 1: I am Caravajo.
- 30:11Speaker 4: This room is no better than a prison cell.
- 30:14Speaker 7: We all live like this. You can always travel back
- 30:18Speaker 7: to Rome.
- 30:19Speaker 9: The next boat sails the first thing tomorrow with the
- 30:21Speaker 9: morning time.
- 30:22Speaker 4: What is it about me? You don't like Stefano? So
- 30:26Speaker 4: my face, my attire, anything.
- 30:28Speaker 9: What you are correct about Voletta was not made for comfort.
- 30:34Speaker 7: It was once a prison.
- 30:36Speaker 1: Stefano closes the door and locks it behind him.
- 30:38Speaker 4: And why are you locking me in?
- 30:41Speaker 1: He hears only Stefano's boots moving down the hallway.
- 30:45Speaker 4: Fool.
- 30:46Speaker 1: Caravaggio lies back on the bed and wonders about what
- 30:49Speaker 1: is going on in Rome.
- 30:51Speaker 4: He is a murderer.
- 30:53Speaker 1: Cut to interior. Papal chambers, Rome, Continuous, Cardinal del Montean Clement,
- 31:00Speaker 1: the Aid sit across one another at a table, enjoying
- 31:03Speaker 1: their dinner.
- 31:04Speaker 10: Caravaggio killed Renuccio in self defense.
- 31:07Speaker 11: He Thomasani's family has been very generous to our Holy
- 31:11Speaker 11: Mother Church.
- 31:12Speaker 7: Caravaggio is a great painter.
- 31:14Speaker 11: Yeah, tell that too. Werenuccio's brothers. They demand retribution. However,
- 31:21Speaker 11: this patro of yours does intrigue me.
- 31:25Speaker 2: He isn't afraid.
- 31:27Speaker 10: He's been on his own most of his life, like
- 31:30Speaker 10: many today.
- 31:31Speaker 7: His mother and.
- 31:31Speaker 10: Father were both killed by plague. I first met him
- 31:35Speaker 10: when he was a young man living on the streets.
- 31:39Speaker 11: It's no secret that your stable of artists has made
- 31:42Speaker 11: you a wealthy man.
- 31:43Speaker 4: Francesco.
- 31:44Speaker 11: I have no doubt that you have enough save to
- 31:47Speaker 11: get on Holy Mother Church out of debt.
- 31:50Speaker 4: Ah.
- 31:51Speaker 10: Rumors of my financial world being are greatly exaggerated.
- 31:56Speaker 11: And as numerous as the sightings of Christ directly after
- 31:59Speaker 11: the crucifixion.
- 32:00Speaker 7: Your point, your Holiness, you.
- 32:02Speaker 11: Have secured safe passage for Carvajo to Malto without my permission.
- 32:08Speaker 11: Another rumor, No, I am the Pope. Nothing escapes me,
- 32:17Speaker 11: does this portre se of yours?
- 32:19Speaker 7: Faith in abundance, your Holiness.
- 32:22Speaker 1: Pope Clement gestures to his assistant, who quickly hands him
- 32:26Speaker 1: official papers. Pope Clement hands the papers to Cardinal del Monte.
- 32:30Speaker 11: His arrest record it's biblical and scale. He once through
- 32:36Speaker 11: artichokes in a waited and nearly blinded him. He said
- 32:40Speaker 11: the archijokes were rotten.
- 32:42Speaker 1: Cardinal del Monte places the papers down, he has seen
- 32:45Speaker 1: them before.
- 32:47Speaker 10: Allow him to return the room, and he will make
- 32:50Speaker 10: his penance.
- 32:52Speaker 1: The Pope coughs, God, it's calling me.
- 32:56Speaker 7: I pray that God be still. We need you here.
- 33:00Speaker 1: The Pope catches Cardinal del Monte's obvious attempt at false
- 33:03Speaker 1: flattery and laughs.
- 33:06Speaker 11: Always in such a hurry to take my place, our
- 33:10Speaker 11: conversation is over enjoyed. Discern elsewhere there will be no
- 33:16Speaker 11: pardon for Carvato.
- 33:19Speaker 1: The Pope reaches out his hand for Cardinal del Monte
- 33:22Speaker 1: to kiss his ring. He does bows and leaves. Thundrous
- 33:27Speaker 1: voices from the Knights of Malta overlapse into cut to
- 33:31Speaker 1: exterior dining hall Castle Saint Angelo, Malta Knight. A hundred knights,
- 33:37Speaker 1: loud and exuberant, intimidating in fierce enter and fill the
- 33:41Speaker 1: enormous hall. They are followed by knights with missing limbs.
- 33:46Speaker 1: They are followed by several young boy vallads, and behind
- 33:49Speaker 1: them two dozen Turkish slaves in chains, who are there
- 33:52Speaker 1: to serve the food and drink. On the wall high
- 33:55Speaker 1: above is the knight's emblem. Caravajiou enters, escorted by Stefano
- 34:01Speaker 1: and brought to his prominent seat at the head of
- 34:03Speaker 1: the table. The knights watch him in silence, judging him quietly.
- 34:08Speaker 1: Ailof Enters sits beside Caravaggio. Stefano sits beside ailof Ailof
- 34:14Speaker 1: stands facing the knights.
- 34:17Speaker 12: Once again, we have proven to the world that we
- 34:20Speaker 12: knights are the glorious shield of Christian Europe and a
- 34:25Speaker 12: bulwark against the terms.
- 34:30Speaker 1: Cheers and shouts fill the room as some knights draw
- 34:32Speaker 1: their swords and thrust them into the air or at
- 34:35Speaker 1: the slaves, who are immobilized by fear.
- 34:38Speaker 7: To tradition and to God our Father.
- 34:41Speaker 1: They drink their wine in silence. A bishop appears at
- 34:44Speaker 1: the door, let us pray. They all bar their heads
- 34:49Speaker 1: in prayer. Caravajou looks around at the sudden, sincere solemn
- 34:53Speaker 1: atmosphere of the room. Riotous laughter overlaps into cut to
- 35:01Speaker 1: interior dining hall, Castle sant Angelo, Malta. Later, several roasted
- 35:07Speaker 1: pigs are being cut up in the center of the
- 35:09Speaker 1: room as the slaves pour wine out of large barrels.
- 35:13Speaker 1: Then serve it. Ailov turns to Caravajou come with me.
- 35:18Speaker 1: Ailov turns to a door in the stone wall behind him,
- 35:21Speaker 1: He enters and disappears. Caravajo follows interior in a sanctum continuous.
- 35:29Speaker 1: Caravajo enters a small room, lit by torches and encased
- 35:33Speaker 1: in gray and brown stone, with a large barred window
- 35:36Speaker 1: which looks out.
- 35:37Speaker 4: To the sea.
- 35:38Speaker 12: This is where I want to pose for the portrait
- 35:41Speaker 12: in the morning.
- 35:42Speaker 4: The light is glorious.
- 35:46Speaker 12: Of course, as as soon as you decide to paints
- 35:50Speaker 12: and brushes will be delivered.
- 35:52Speaker 4: Grandmaster, you should be aware that I dislike doing portraits.
- 35:59Speaker 12: Then why is there.
- 36:01Speaker 4: I don't paint? Please? I am painting your portrait because
- 36:06Speaker 4: in Rome, when the knights enter the piazza, the hoodlums
- 36:09Speaker 4: fall back and the cavalier bow with admiration. That said,
- 36:17Speaker 4: your eyes will stay on your side of the canvas
- 36:19Speaker 4: until the portrait is completed, and you take the portrait
- 36:24Speaker 4: as is. But I will have suggest you then get
- 36:29Speaker 4: anna Bali Karachi.
- 36:31Speaker 12: I don't want Karachi. It is you that I want.
- 36:36Speaker 12: Why do you dislike his work? Do you question his fair?
- 36:41Speaker 7: No?
- 36:41Speaker 4: I question his taste.
- 36:43Speaker 1: He love bursts out in laughter. There's a moment of
- 36:46Speaker 1: genuine affection between the two men. Return to the festivities.
- 36:52Speaker 4: You are the guest of honor, so I.
- 36:55Speaker 1: Am interior dining hall. Later, who puts his arm around
- 37:01Speaker 1: the knight sitting beside him and both are laughing, then
- 37:07Speaker 1: jumps up on the table and raises his cup.
- 37:09Speaker 4: To the great Knights of Malta.
- 37:16Speaker 1: The knights respond and cheer. The knights now bang on
- 37:22Speaker 1: the table where they have plates and pans, making a
- 37:24Speaker 1: pulsating sexual sound. Some knights are joining in, but others
- 37:29Speaker 1: seem offended. Then leads some of the knights on the
- 37:32Speaker 1: table in a dance where they are swinging their hips,
- 37:35Speaker 1: shouting and swaying. Cao slips and falls to his chair, laughing.
- 37:44Speaker 1: Stefano emerges from the other side of the table.
- 37:46Speaker 2: And Stefano, what do you think of my brothers at art?
- 37:49Speaker 4: Yeah, great man, all of them, including you. Stefana, how
- 37:55Speaker 4: long have you been a knight?
- 37:57Speaker 2: Ten years? In here from Marseilles.
- 37:59Speaker 9: When I was a boy, I studied under the grand
- 38:01Speaker 9: Master himself.
- 38:03Speaker 2: I learned soldiering from him.
- 38:05Speaker 4: And your family they are my family.
- 38:08Speaker 1: You are fortunate then just then, a knight pulls Caravajo
- 38:12Speaker 1: back to the table. Hey, Caravajo dances crazily on the
- 38:16Speaker 1: table with other knights. Some of them are making obscene gestures.
- 38:21Speaker 1: Stefano watches caravaggo, and their eyes lock. Stefano leaves cut
- 38:28Speaker 1: to exterior ramparts Castle sant Angelo continuous, still drunk and
- 38:35Speaker 1: believing he was following Stefano. Caravajo finds himself walking along
- 38:40Speaker 1: the castle walls. A guard is off in close distance
- 38:43Speaker 1: keeping a lookout. A young boy, Roberto a Page, appears
- 38:48Speaker 1: on the far side of the rampart. He's blonde and
- 38:51Speaker 1: his hair is lit by the moonlight.
- 38:53Speaker 4: Hey, did Stefano come this way?
- 38:57Speaker 1: Roberto shakes his head.
- 38:58Speaker 4: Ah, you don't speak, but but you understand.
- 39:00Speaker 1: Good, Roberto nods.
- 39:03Speaker 4: I'm from Rome. It's crowded, noisy right now. I would
- 39:07Speaker 4: be with my friends in the Tavern of the Hawk
- 39:09Speaker 4: or the Tavern of the War, unless we go to
- 39:14Speaker 4: the Ortitracio, the Garden of Evil.
- 39:18Speaker 1: A light falls across them. They look up. The light
- 39:21Speaker 1: is from a window above them. Roberto eases back out
- 39:25Speaker 1: of the light, not wanting to be seen. Roberto, both
- 39:29Speaker 1: Caravajo and Roberto look down the rampart and see Stefano
- 39:32Speaker 1: walking towards them. Afraid, Roberto quickly turns and runs away
- 39:36Speaker 1: in the other direction. Stefano reaches Caravajo, but looks past him.
- 39:41Speaker 2: I'm looking for a page. You just broke curfew.
- 39:45Speaker 1: Caravajo drunkenly stumbles, gathers himself and gives a mock bow.
- 39:50Speaker 4: Many pardons. Whatever you put in your wine here and Martez, certainly.
- 39:56Speaker 2: We are aware of your life.
- 39:58Speaker 9: Enroll the bars, the the fights, the prostitutes.
- 40:03Speaker 7: I say to you, Michael Angelo, de tread careful.
- 40:07Speaker 4: Call, And I say to you, your eyes shine magnificently
- 40:12Speaker 4: in this light.
- 40:14Speaker 1: Stefano glares sharply at Carajoe is about to walk away
- 40:18Speaker 1: when Carao catches him by the arm.
- 40:22Speaker 4: I have no intention of offending.
- 40:24Speaker 1: Without answering, Stefano turns and leaves the rampart, turns and
- 40:30Speaker 1: faces the wind coming out from the darkness and the sea.
- 40:33Speaker 1: Laughter fills the night air and overlaps in two flashback
- 40:38Speaker 1: to exterior brothel, Piazza del Popolo night, Caravaggio and Ranuccio
- 40:45Speaker 1: lock eyes in the early morning twilight.
- 40:48Speaker 8: One day, I will soak the Piazza with your blood.
- 40:53Speaker 4: I will shunk it with yours.
- 40:56Speaker 1: Flashback end exterior ramparts, Castle Saint Angelo night, Caravagieou stands
- 41:03Speaker 1: alone Renaultier. He's drained by the memory. End of Act one,