4/07/05. M. Frost’s betrayal breaks my heart. He gave Lo7 to B.P for them to control without even mentioning to me. Becoming a man means being left on your own.
–Anno Domini: “In the year of our Lord” 2005 A.D.
–The Celts entered Hispania from the Northwest at almost the same moment they entered Great Britain, circa 500 B.C.
The LA TENE period. Sophisticated sculptures
4/10/05 Yesterday F. Trueba, Cristina and David Trueba had dinner with Lorenza and me: a couple of names were suggested: ZAY Nuba and Joaquín NOTARIO from S. of G. for E. L. d. F.
–This group was the most feared of all since their words confirmed the prophecies.
–VISIT the R. Dahl Museum in Buckinghamshire.
–Her last name was “STREGA,” from the Italian for witch
–Patricia [?] and Gerardo [?] on Eve’s list.
–DEVICE to flood and demolish the entire temple and make the army disappear.
–I’ve heard about you. You’re one of us.
–The grandmother in The Witches was inspired by R.D.’s grandmother, whose name was Sophie.
–He loved the bull’s tail soup.
–Galicia, the cave of the cathedrals, looks like a landscape in the north of U.K.
Ofelia’s bed.
–Manolito at the cave’s entrance.
–Try to use a little animal that falls in love with Liz Sherman and that H.B. despises
–H.B. to Manning: “It’s time to pimp ma’ ride.”
–4/22/05 After the [drawing] we’re having dinner with L.D.
–IN CONSILIIS NOSTRIS FATUM NOSTRUM EST.
–Sunshades for the mill. Bread in little bags, suitcases, soldiers with measurements they use for rationing. If anyone asks for more, bring him to me.
–Abe tells HB that there’s a lot of annoying things about him
–The legacy of a gone era. Handed down through time.
Iñigo Carlos Raul M. Raul [?]
–In the Spanish village of Tronchon, there is a relic of a mutilated hand that once belonged to one of the Innocent Saints and that prevents the rain from falling.
–A king with only one eye and one leg whom we recognize when he appears, now much older.
MSZ: Let’s talk about the images on this page [opposite]—the mask and the owl.
GDT: If you watch the movie closely, the owl is carved in the bed of Ofelia. And owls, in occult lore, they are birds that represent many, many things—among them awareness and awakening. I thought it would be really nice to have those in the bed, ironically. Her awakening comes at that moment.
And then I wanted to carve the face of the Faun everywhere we could. If you watch the movie again, that face is in the banister, and that face is in every doorframe in the whole movie, but it’s very, very subtle.
GDT: At the top of this page [opposite], it says, “In the labyrinth, gigantic gears grind someone to pieces.” We abandoned that idea, with good reason. But we ended up using them in the mill to represent the captain being trapped in his father’s watch. We made it more pertinent.
You can see the fallopian nature of the tree and the reference to the Alice dress for Ofelia, but with different colors. And a note for the eye of the Pale Man, which we ultimately didn’t follow.
There’s a note that says the Faun has a flute made of thigh bone, which he does. You don’t see him use it, though.
–In the labyrinth, gigantic gears grind someone to pieces.
–“Please forgive me,” the princess says to Abe Sapien.
–He/she can make his/ her skin as hard as steel whenever he/she wants.
–Johann is a “gizmo guy.” HB hates him because he’s German.
–You get these in the third-century black market. Tooth fairies, illegal, very hungry and not very nice.
–Liz and HB go to Brooklyn, Abe Kate go X.
–HB pulls the head off a stone idol.
–Faun has a flute made from a thigh bone.
–Abe rescues the princess from the prince’s bloodhounds and falls in love with her while she’s in a coma
–The first time that Abe sees the princess it’s nothing more than a look, there’s no physical contact between them.
–They fight to obtain the third piece of the crown and the fairies, who are nothing more than dilettantes, help them.
–The prince can turn into different animals.
–They obtain the crown and lose the princess. Abe steals the crown by himself to free the princess from her prison. Manning wants to arrest him.
–Dye Ofelia’s dress for the funeral.
–Pale Man’s eye: Red
–After finding an empty lot where we could build our main sets in Navarra, the humble old man who told us about it calls his nephew, a rich jerk from Donosti, who charges us a quarter million (€250,000) to use the lot for four months. This sets our preps back 2 out of 10 weeks
–Silence for the soundtrack. Then one or two notes.
–The army goes crazy and indiscriminately kills [?].
–Please. Let’s stop fighting. We can work it out.
–She has him. He looks at her. HB at his hack/it goes right through him.
–Abe is furious with HB because of what happens to the princess.
–It is in the nature of a warrior to wage war. Is it not??
–The cabin could be connected to a system of mines in which a mineral that gives them light and energy is extracted.
–Hut with gear system that needs to be passed through to reach the underground world in HB II
IXX Mandrake root [?] harvested in 1944
Mouth for food
with blood.