The Brotherhood was originally formed to destroy the Church; somehow the Pope cut a deal with them, and sent this Beast to France to use the Brotherhood to scare the King of france.
The Italian hooker chick was an agent of the Pope sent to infiltrate the Brotherhood when it became clear that they were out of control.
Yea??? Or nay?
Also, what was the difference between the people that dressed up like wolves and the people in the red outfits at the end of the movie?
Anyone who saw this DVD that can clear this up, please explain.
From what I got, the Brotherhood was formed as a way to scare the court (monarch), using religious superstition. It is more or less shown at the beginning of the movie (by their actions) that they are not very happy about the monarch. Later, when the protagonist returns to Paris, he is given a book that tells the story of a beast that terrorizes villagers. The beast is there as punishment for the monarch’s actions.
In casual dialogue, when the local nobles are interviewing the protagonist (forgot name), they mention that it would not surprise them that the Church send some spies to investigate the beast.
The spy is the hooker, sent to destroy the Brotherhood.
My question: what was the deal with Fronsac being dead, but being dug up by Sylvia’s friends so he can have the big fight scene with Jean-Pierre? Was he dead or not?
And why was Jean-Pierre (Vincent Cassel, mmm!) only pretending to have one arm?
I liked Ebert’s description of this movie as “an explosion at the genre factory.” Gorgeous movie, weird, but not for everyone. Needs commentary from Joe-Bob Briggs.
I actually got the DVD in the mail yesterday, but I haven’t had the time to watch it yet. So this is what I remember from seeing it in the theater about two years ago.
I don’t know if it was supposed to look like anything. Unless I’m totally mistaken the eye of the beast was not that of a cat. The shape of the body was wrong for a bear or a wolf. I guess it had to be a huge hyena, probably larger than what is found in nature.
Here’s the scoop on the beast and other things as I understand it.
Jean-Pierre killed a lion while in Africa, his arm was ravaged because of it. However the lion had a cub, and he brought it back in secret, tortured it and make it the beast it was.
The woman sent by Rome is Monica Belluci of Matrix fame…she plays Persephone.
I need to find a brothel like that, I even speak some french
Yes, the beats was the last of two or three lion cubs Jean-Pierre brought back from Africa. The old man (animal healer) trained it to be cruel and to obey Jean-Pierre.
Fronsac explains thus in a voice-over at the end, when he finds and kills the beast.
