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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/28782
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dc.contributor.authorBandler, John-
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-11T14:24:31Z-
dc.date.available2023-08-11T14:24:31Z-
dc.date.issued2010-04-
dc.identifier.citationBandler, John, Barbed Wire in Aphrodite’s Garden—A Screenplay, Bandler Corporation, Dundas, ON, Canada, 2010.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11375/28782-
dc.descriptionThis 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/ .en_US
dc.description.abstractCyprus, 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.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBandler Corporationen_US
dc.subjectscreenplayen_US
dc.subjectEOKAen_US
dc.subjectTMTen_US
dc.subjectMI6en_US
dc.subjectVolkanen_US
dc.subjectMakariosen_US
dc.subjectGrivasen_US
dc.subjectDhigenisen_US
dc.subjectCyprusen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectBritainen_US
dc.subjectcolonialismen_US
dc.subjectterrorismen_US
dc.subjectloyaltyen_US
dc.subjectethnic strifeen_US
dc.subjectrevengeen_US
dc.subjectbetrayalen_US
dc.subjectteenage loveen_US
dc.subjectguerrillaen_US
dc.titleBarbed Wire in Aphrodite’s Garden—A Screenplayen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
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