Step By Step… Onward To The Cross

Moving closer to the beginning of new Big Production Values films. The work inside HQ, mainly the panting of walls, is over. Jac with or without help will proceed to get it all organized, decorated and ready to be the set for 69 Année Érotique. If all goes well, the production of this new movie should start sometime next week.

After a conversation about Seditiosa and 69, Amy and Jac came to the decision to release Pygmalion, finally, in November. We’ll be working for a theatrical release in at least 5 cities. Another film that will be released theatrically is Rucker, possibly in December or January.

During their conversation Jac told Amy that Sometimes doing physical work helps the brain cells when they clogged up because of too much thinking. And too much thinking is what I’ve been doing lately, to the point that I would sit on my comfy chair and stare far beyond the universe seen in pretty pictures as captured by Webb.

In the next two days Jac will have the HQ all organized again. He’ll have a big meeting with the three leading ladies of the two up and coming productions, they will try out the clothes they will wear in one of them.

He’s also working on the Pitch Video to begin the campaign to raise the funds for Seditiosa, a movie that the more we talk about, the more intense and demanding it becomes.

There’s a picture of a painting that Jac saw in FB that made him think of the clothing design for the Female Christ and her followers… all women. Maybe not that loose, but close.

Thank’s for this lovely Sunday update Margot!
A panoramic view with the 3 crucified beauties with ‘Star Wars film quality’!
Wow! This sounds amazing!!!!!
I feel convinced that you and your team will create a very special movie. Your thinking and planning is very professional! Let’s pray you get the sufficient funding.
The 3 leading ladies look so beautiful in their white robes…….will be lovely to see them act in the different classical (and other non classical) scenes!!!! It will be hard to wait though, so please spoil us with updates on Patreon if possible. (Fellow cruxers, this is one way to support and follow the project.) https://www.patreon.com/rfpix?fan_landing=true
I pray that the crowdfunding is soon available, so that we all can contribute and make this unique film project a reality. I will check frequently for the Indigogo link, and as soon as it is operational, I will contribute. I hope many will follow, in order to make this a success!
Please fellow crux lovers, do support this project!!!! (And don’t forget our common CF platform.)
Once more, thanks for the update Margot and team, and good luck!
xso

It has become very clear that Seditiosa has become the most ambitious project for us. Although we’re very early in the process, we’re not even officially in pre-production, we are totally invested in this. The film we’re about to produce, 69 Année Érotique, feels like a walk on the beach because it is so easy to do, even tough we have some scenes where we need crowds. But these are crowds will be sitting, drinking, dancing and enjoying the performance of a an all girl band and all the girls in the band are beautiful… and three of those beautiful girls will be crucified in another movie… in front of crowds.

Ah… but in this movie, 69, all three of them have some intense whipping scenes at the hands of Mr Hyde… who has a nice bedroom where he can suspend a girl by her wrists from chains hanging from above… and then…

**Simonee during her casting for Casa de Fieras now known as 69 Année Érotique**

Thank you for clarifying my whipping concern. The still from the crux scene of Justine was exactly what I was referring to with regard to too much fake blood. Still believe a more subdued whipping of Simonne in Monxa Mala before the crux scences would have played better. – too much red washout. Love the brief summary of the plot of the movie. Sounds perfect, with a nice bit of run up to the “main event” that should also allow the main characters to show their acting abilities as well as beauty.
wanttoknowmore

There are some very good scenes in the script to establish the main characters, one of those scenes is already nicely written, with very good dialogues and situations that sets the story on its road to calvary. For the Pitch Video the three leading ladies used a few lines from the dialogues and in each case, the character they will play came through.

Margot said: What is plain and clear is that, early in the story, the two sisters get arrested, soon after our Female Christ is also arrested and taken to face the authorities. All three of them suffer the scourge. One of them gets the crown of thorns, all three of them are pushed, punished and practically naked, before the hostile crowds, all three are condemned to death on the cross, all three painfully walk up to the skull shaped hill (calvary) to be crucified carrying their patibulums.
Bravo, Margot!
Although I have my own unique tastes (regarding loincloths, whipping intensity, blood quantity and cross construction) my goal as a backer is not for the final project to align completely with my vision. For me, being surprised is part of the allure. To know that a mind separate from my own also thought about this topic of female crux. That and the excitement of seeing the vision of an entire community being realized. And if we are to realize that vision, we must double-down on the big picture.
Iconoclast12

Raising up expectation is a risky business. The best airline ever, the best toothbrush money can buy, music from the heavens, there’s nothing like this cheeseburger... Promotion needs hyperbole, of course. “I’m the best president ever in the history of the human race” can bring in some cash from the ignorant masses… but…

When I say, there’s never been a movie quite like Seditiosa… is not hyperbole, not even an exaggeration. It’s a fact. There’s no movie like the one Jac is envisioning. Sure, you have all those different versions covering the story of the gospels. From the epic 1927 Cecil B De Mille The King of Kings, all the way to hippie musicals like Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell, passing by reverential versions like Jesus of Nazareth, almost pornographic interpretation like The Passion of The Christ, weirdly conceptualized rendition like The Last Temptation of Christ, even irreverent comedies like The Life of Brian… and who can forget Passolini’s neorealist portrayal of The Gospel According To St. Mathew or the surreal and wacky Buñuel film La Via Lactea (The Milky Way) where Mary tells Jesus “You look much better with your beard” There are tons of films about The Christ, including Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter...

But nothing compared to what we’re planning… A woman in the place of the Christ, a healer, prophetess, who her followers believe to be the anointed one because she comes straight from the House of David, and, according to Judith, if she wanted, the female Christ could have take the power that belongs to her and deliver her people from bondage…

As Judith says, the people should know her powers.

Forget ladders and scaffolding, nail them on the ground and then raise the crosses with them already fully crucified.
Samael

That’s easier said than done. It requires a bunch of people to do the actual work securely. You can’t have a couple of guys raising a cross with a beautiful woman attached to it. Set it on the ground and then secure it, and if it’s not done correctly, the cross might fall causing massive injuries to the actress. We don’t want that. The cross has to be set on the ground securely, sealed correctly, no room for accidents.

There’s the burning on a cross scene in Olalla, and to do that we took a great looking cross to the location. It was made of very good wood, it had to look like a cross already built in some place near Olalla’s villa.

We were going to set it up when the owner of the location saw it, and offered to set it up in front of the chapel. He had a worker dig a hole, build a base with rocks, put the cross in the hole, and poured cement on it. The cross remains there now, forever, the towns folks go pray in front of it during religious celebrations. Olalla is not there.

So, we’re walking the walk, writing the script, preparing the leading ladies, designing and acquiring the costumes, looking into how to make the props, specially those crosses, planning to visit the locations and wondering how much of what is in Jac’s head will turn up on the screen… for that we need money.

We can do a lot of the work, of course, but then the expenses will start raining on us and that is what will decide how far we can go, how spectacular the film will be.

You can all join our Patreon page, which at this point is not full of stuff, we just started, but we’ll have a lot there as time progresses, including some great videos of the making of the film, including some rehearsals and tests.