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The Borgia Apocalypse: The Screenplay (2013)

by Neil Jordan(Favorite Author)

2.8 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

InkWell Publishing

review 1: I will start by saying my rating is borderline between 2 and 3 stars.There were things I liked, the interplay between Cesare and Micheletto was one; how Cesare's 'allies' are being played; i will not spoil the rest.I will only say (without further spoilers) that a) aside from a tiny bit that was important, Lucrezia's role in this 'finale' was pitiful and a complete letdown nor was there any sense of closure, b) what led to Alexander's exodus was confusing and nonsensical and was totally anticlimactic and c) the very end was an epic fail, because Jordan did not bother with building a proper momentum.You are left with a 'what the hell?' Historical truth or not, there were a hundred ways this could be manipulated into a proper end.It was not.So, if you loved the Borgias, I s... moreuggest you stay clear. I do not regret reading this, but if Showtime ever pays to film it, I will feel sorry for them.(Borderline) 3 stars, just because i love those characters.
review 2: If Showtime had actually produced this screenplay, the resulting episode would have completely ruined the reputation of an otherwise great show. This thing is a mess. It's obvious, it's cliched, and it's tonally all over the place--a key, violent scene approaches pulp fiction (and appears to have been invented for the show).All of the characters read like broad versions of the ones from the show. In fact, the whole thing reads like bad Borgias fan fiction, especially towards the end, when the narrative devolves into literal chaos and it becomes impossible to even understand what's going on. The chaos is intentional, of course, but it falls flat here because the exact same story beat was already hit at the end of the third season of the television show. In the end, that's the biggest issue. This show had a perfect finale, in all honesty, and this screenplay does nothing to develop any of the characters beyond where we had left them. The journey into hell was already over for the Borgias; this just spells it out in lurid, unnecessary detail. From the last scene of the television show, the viewer instantly knows what happens next--everything goes to hell. It's already been headed there for three seasons, and now, here we are. Showtime recognized the power of that as a ending and they rightly passed on this screenplay. This might be worth a read if you're a fan of the show to get a few more choice Alexander one liners, and to get closure with at least one character, Micheletto, whose subplot is one of few bright spots. Alexander's defeat is technically well written, and surely would play out with great tension onscreen, but it happens so quickly, and feels so detached from everything else that has happened thus far, that it doesn't carry the impact it should. Lucrezia's storyline here also has promise, but it so clearly is just ten episodes' worth of television story packed into a two house movie. Instead of feeling like a complete story about Lucrezia, her scenes feel like they're checking off a list of necessary plot to get her to her historical end. But none of this really feels worth it. This screenplay is an asterisk on a much better television show. less

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