TIME BANDITS, a Terry Gilliam film about an English boy who tags along with a band of the world’s most unorthodox traveling companions, to invade a place in our universe that exists between spaces. Time displacement adds an elastic texture to the adventure, as Kevin and the dwarfs boldly go where no map has taken anyone before - through holes in the cosmic blueprint to magical people, places, and things. Within a short time they encounter Napoleon, Robin Hood, and Sean Connery as the Greek King Agamemnon, just as he faces off against the mighty Minotaur
Hunt For Red October Trivia Quiz
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1. Who first obtained the photograph of the Red October? a) United Nations, b) CIA, c) British Intelligence
2. Why can’t Jack Ryan sleep on the plane he takes to D.C.? a) coffee, b) turbulence, c) nerves
3. Submarine models were photographed using what effect? a) smoke, b) artificial colouring in water, c) blue screen & mat
4. What is the nationality of Captain Ramius? a) Russian, b) Lithuanian, c) Polish
5. Sean Connery’s hairpiece was designed to look like who? a) Al Pacino in Godfather III, b) Frontman for Sugar Ray, c) playwright Samuel Becket
6. The lighting effects inside the Dallas are based on what colour? a) red, b) blue, c) green
7. The Russian Protocol Officer reads about what event when the film begins? a) The War in Heaven, b) Armageddon, c) the fall of Babylon
8. At the White House briefing we learn the Russians have been told to _____ Red October.
9. Student nickname for Captain Ramius. a) The Bear, b) Moscow's Hammer, c) Vilnias Schoolmaster
10. Who is the first actor offered the role of Jack Ryan? a) Alec Baldwin, b) Richard Gere, c) Kevin Costner
11. What name did Captain Mancuso first give Red October? a) Silent Ivan, b) Typhoon Seven, c) Silent Thor
12. The Enterprise aircraft carrier Captain is in real life… a) A Navy sub commander, b) U.S. Senator, c) former waiter turned actor
13. When the officers meet for dinner, they dine on the course selected by … a) Sean Connery, b) Sam Neill, c) the mother of the director
14. At the bottom half of the hour, Captain Ramius always … a) looks over the computers, b) makes a crazy Ivan, c) speaks to the navigator about the charts
15. Opening scenes for the film were shot in… a) Alaska, b) New England, c) San Diego
16. Tupolov descended from … a) revolution leaders, b) aristocracy, c) genius in space technology
17. The Red October sailed on the 23rd, date of … a) the revolution, b) Petrov’s appointment , c) death of Ramius’ wife
18. In the closing scene we observe Ryan has remembered to bring home … a) A bear, b) flowers for his wife, c) recent magazines for Admiral Greer
19. Jeffery Pelt said when he isn’t kissing babies he is … a) not in an election year, b) playing golf, c) stealing their lolly pops
20. Just prior to the White House briefing Admiral Greer tells Ryan to … a) speak his mind, b) keep it simple, c) defer to the brass
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ASTROLOGY
THE WIND AND THE LION
"It's 1904, but Mulay El Raisuli (Connery), Sheriff of the Riffian Bergers, belongs to a much earlier time, a time of desert chieftains and acts of legendary courage."
FIRST KNIGHT *
Trump IV and Trump XXI ~ CAMELOT!
Connery’s Sun is in Virgo @ 1 degree in his 7th house of blueprints (Tarot students ~ the 7th house or department of life corresponds to Trump VII in The House System * The Drawing Room and Gym.)
Gere’s Sun is @ 1 degree Virgo in his 10th house of construction. It's amazing both actors have appeared on the screen together in only one film. Both have a desire to spiritualize the terrestrial.
The late night scene with torch-lit sky highlighting rows of ancient standing stones stuck in my mind long after I left the theatre. There are signs of serious reflection about both technical and historical features by cast and crew. Connery as King Arthur has the plan for Camelot and Gere actualizes the vision in the public view via 10th house action on his march to Leonesse as spirit takes Lancelot.
Archaeoptics
Edinburgh - some mystic ancestors
Sean Connery Special
for Dinner Banquet
The power of the star Regulus @ 29 Leo, conjunct Connery’s Sun/Neptune and Gere’s Sun/Saturn, fuses the mystical heart chamber in the ideal of nobility, clearly an emphasized strength implied in the lives of both actors and their character development through this film.
Lancelot holds off a full scale attack almost single-handedly. Connery’s Neptune @ 3 Virgo in his 7th house (drawing up templates) conjuncts Gere’s Saturn in Virgo @ 3 degrees in his 10th house of fame and reputation, credible action, and his legacy. This Virgoan degree adds additional emphasis to the 'psyche bond' between Arthur and Lancelot. The degree is an indication of clairvoyant ability. This is the only scene in which we see King Arthur in command of his army on a battlefield. He wears the brass breastplate, symbol of exorcism, as the perfect general. As sons of darkness scatter, Arthur's army shapes itself into an arrow aimed at the target centre. Traditionally, King Arthur was born during the month of the Centaur-archer, Sagittarius. In order to reach the status of an exorcist, he found Merlin an ideal guide as he began to develop transcendental awareness beyond ordinary sixth sense perception. Precise discipline of Neptune is necessary. [Recent discoveries show that Merlin built Stonehenge, with stones he brought over from Ireland.] Connery, as the King Arthur we want to believe in, delivers solid confirmation that we become what we envision when we invest in our self-wish. Richard Gere ‘gets it all together’ and is able to overcome his 'backward looking' tendency. He clearly understands Saturn (structure, the rules, life lesson) before the curtain goes down so he can tie into an elite, romantic Celtic legend.
Now the time of rebirth has come upon the world again, and though these years open wide their solstices and eclipses as windows to the ideas, yet, finally, the manner in which we present ourselves in that cumulatively intense final moment may well be a personal decision. Time grows ever more short; in the cosmic year-day of history, dawn is already breaking over Jerusalem.
-Dennis J. McKenna and Terence K. McKenna, The Invisible Landscape
The legendary chivalric knights were prepared for the ‘conversation’ in the lower left ventricle of the heart. The mortal and immortal self will continue to exchange verse, and retain inner child qualities, including the search for the heart’s desire in an objective world. Perhaps that is why so many took vows to find the Holy Grail. (The quest for the Grail is a frequent theme for Connery, but that is another story.)
These qualities of vulnerability were protected by the knights’ willingness to submit to the direction of (law) Saturn. Saturn is personified, in FIRST KNIGHT by Connery, who has Saturn in Capricorn just above his horizon, indicating first rate steel retrofitting for his Capricorn Ascendant. In FIRST KNIGHT, Connery represents the friendly judge, the judge who is not pitching a tent on the Pillar of Severity. King Arthur also has access to, and uses the Pillar of Mercy equally well. Equilibrium is a very rare quality to find in a ruler, and may be the reason Arthur was so well loved. And this, of course brings in the ancient Celtic system. Archeological references to ancient Celts as Qabalistic (and probably Mithraic as well, judging from the various names of Gandolf the wizard, in Tolkien’s LORD OF THE RINGS) – are surfacing daily, even in Christian research, as Dr. Gene Scott observes. There is also a bit of Solomon, The King because of the exorcist reference while doing battle with Malagant (Ben Cross) that so vividly depicts polarization in the kingdom.
Into this polarization of forces at play enters the element of the wanderer, suggested by Trump 0/22 and balanced by the Leo heart. Gere plays two parts, just as Sean Connery does. Gere is both the wanderer and the knight in training.
The film suggests that in order for Lancelot to complete his training as the greatest knight in history, it was necessary for him to understand Saturn and be guided by Saturn in the person of King Arthur.
Jerry Zuker (also directed GHOST), in his presentation of Camelot, simply terrestrializes his eloquent illustration of the two extreme rewards
that are available to mortals as they leave this incarnation. The first vision is the beauty and elegance of Camelot, shining in the light above ground as the perfect city, reminiscent of New Jerusalem and Trump XXI, Chapter 21 of The Apocalypse.
The other less desirable, submerged domain of Malagant, the interior of a slate mine complete with a bottomless pit, is the alternate option.
In this presentation of the story, Guinevere (Julia Ormond) plays the vulnerable, weakest link in the chain, always testing the strength of the individuals who encounter such people. Any society is tested by the attitude and treatment of those who are weakest in the system. Perhaps this refers us to the saying, ‘The meek shall inherit the earth.’ (provided they don’t take a left at Albequerque and keep on going.) The concept being that those who trust that the strongest knights will appear when the darkest hour is upon us, are the ones who ultimately win the day. This of course was one of the strongest beliefs of Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers, and that is why religious freedom is written into the Constitution of The United States.
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