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http://hdl.handle.net/11375/28782| Title: | Barbed Wire in Aphrodite’s Garden—A Screenplay |
| Authors: | Bandler, John |
| Keywords: | screenplay;EOKA;TMT;MI6;Volkan;Makarios;Grivas;Dhigenis;Cyprus;Turkey;Britain;colonialism;terrorism;loyalty;ethnic strife;revenge;betrayal;teenage love;guerrilla |
| Publication Date: | Apr-2010 |
| Publisher: | Bandler Corporation |
| Citation: | Bandler, John, Barbed Wire in Aphrodite’s Garden—A Screenplay, Bandler Corporation, Dundas, ON, Canada, 2010. |
| Abstract: | Cyprus, 1955-1957. Love and courage collide with bigotry, decadence, and revolution in ethnically divided Cyprus as British control crumbles. A schoolboy battles his mantle of cowardice, a tycoon’s son rebels against his heritage, and a young womanizer seeks redemption as a guerrilla-assassin. Logline: Driven to protect his family and the English schoolgirl he loves, a young Greek Cypriot guerrilla-assassin decides to compromise the liberation and post-colonial future of Cyprus. |
| Description: | This screenplay is an adaptation of John Bandler’s novel Barbed Wire in Aphrodite’s Garden. Bandler’s story is set in Cyprus in 1955 to 1957 against the guerrilla conflict involving Greek and Turkish Cypriots (as well as Greece and Turkey), and the British occupiers. The island remains divided to this day. The time period intersects that of Lawrence Durrell’s Bitter Lemons, and likely Durrell’s writing of The Alexandria Quartet. Completed April 2010, this 121-page script is Bandler’s second adaptation of his novel for screen. Bandler significantly reinvented his original screenplay following a comprehensive discussion in New York on March 29, 2010, with Robert McKee, a prominent author, lecturer, and story consultant. For further background and context, see the original novel at http://hdl.handle.net/11375/28184, other writings within the John Bandler Collection, and http://www.bandler.com/venus, https://web.archive.org/web/20230301145859/http://www.bandler.com/venus/ . |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/28782 |
| Appears in Collections: | John Bandler Plays |
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| File | Description | Size | Format | |
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| Barbed_Wire_In_Aphrodites_Garden_A_Screenplay_by_John_Bandler_April_2010.pdf | An original screenplay by John Bandler | 437.3 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
| Barbed_Wire_In_Aphrodites_Garden_by_John_Bandler_New_Outline_2010.pdf | Outline following Robert McKee consulation | 118.01 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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