In 1998 young aspiring actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon unexpectedly won an Oscar for a script they had written together about a disturbed young maths genius, played in the film by Damon. It was a modest film, made bigger by the dominance of a major actor, Robin Williams as a professor., a huge period movie directed by Sir Ridley Scott, whose mastery of enormous sets, surging crowds of extras and soaring crane shots put him firmly on the side of the historical epic.
“I think we found it an entirely different process this time,” Damon told a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, where the film had its world premiere on Friday.“One of the things that had kept us from writing for so many years was that the way we wrote back in the ’90s, when we were 22 and 20 years old, was really inefficient. We ended up writing thousands of pages we never used and all kinds of scenes that just wouldn’t make any sense in the movie that eventually came out.
They thought they would never have time to collaborate again but this script took them just six weeks.tells the true story of Marguerite de Carrouges, a 14th-century noblewoman who was raped by an influential adviser to the local lord, Jacques le Gris, played by Adam Driver. It is drawn from a 2004 novel of the same name by Eric Jager, which was in turn based on exhaustive research into the real case.
Marguerite broke the customary silence by saying what had been done to her. Her husband, grizzled soldier Sir Jean de Carrouges , takes the case to the king. His wife had no legal standing. If there was an offence, it was against him.Affleck said he was compelled by the character of Marguerite, who ran the risk of being executed in seeking justice.
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