Suddenly Ida drops the binoculars she was using into the lagoon. They watch the pair unload the wing and go inside. They follow the Conte through a maze of islands to one in particular called Isola Segretta. They join Ida and Scipio, meet with the Conte and his sister, Morosina, and make the exchange. The next night, all of the children go for the deal except Hornet and Bo. She agrees to let them have the wing if they let her accompany them to the exchange. It has the ability to change a person's age. When they explain, Ida tells them the story of the wing, which came from a magical merry-go-round. In the following argument, Ida is awakened by the racket that the children make and confronts them with an old rifle. Arrived in her house, the children meet Scipio, who wants to steal the wing as well. The children leave that night to steal it from a woman called Ida Spavento. While they are gone, Victor escapes, leaving a note that he will not reveal their location if they do not steal the precious lion's wing. When Prosper confronts Scipio, he learns that Scipio is indeed Dottor Massimo's son. When Victor arrives at the Stella, the optic clan ambushes him. In his search for the theater, Victor visits the home of Dottor Massimo, the owner of the Stella, where he sees Scipio, who is actually the son of the rich Dottor Massimo. When the rest of the children see Victor, they cause a distraction and run away, taking his wallet with them.
#The thief lord movie
Bo accidentally lets slip that he lives in old movie theaters. Victor recognizes the boys on the street and manages to initiate a conversation with innocent little Bo. The runaway boys' aunt and uncle figure out where they are and set a detective, Victor Getz, on their trail. A customer of Barbarossa, calling himself the Conte, asks the "Thief Lord" to steal a wooden lion's wing for him. He appears to steal valuables and the orphan group sells them to a sly shopkeeper, Ernesto Barbarossa. They are taken in by a group of street children who live in an abandoned movie theater, the Stella, and are led by a proud orphan named Scipio. The Thief Lord follows the story of two brothers, Prosper and Boniface (Bo), who run away to Venice, Italy. It was published in Germany in 2000 and translated into English by Oliver Latsch in 2002 for The Chicken House, a division of Scholastic publishing company. The Thief Lord is a children's novel written by Cornelia Funke. This movie will be great for those people who haven't read it yet.English book cover by in English from Chicken House Publishing, Ltd and Scholastic. Victor and his mustache collection that he keeps inside his jacket. The awesome escape the gang made after Victor found them in the Square. I love how Bo and Prosper met Scipio, the camera following him crawling on rooftops. There are wonderful scenes in the movie that really shone forth. Plus, the English accent was so thick that I had a hard time understanding what they were saying. The movie really did stick to the plot of the book but it seems they were so obsessed in keeping the story line just right that they forgot the characters.
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What happened to the characters? Where's the sparkle? The characters seem shallow comparing to the ones in the book. If I continue, I'll spoil the delightful surprises. It's a wooden wing that belongs to the merry-go-around of the Merciful Sisters, claimed to do magical wonders. Barbarosso has a costumer that wants something precious stolen and the Thief Lord accepts the job.
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There's a souvenir shop owner by the name of Barbarosso and the orphans sell the treasures that Scipio steals to him. Bo and Prosper's aunt and uncle goes to Venice and hires a detective named Victor to find them, because they knew how much the boys love Venice, from the stories their mother told them. There they meet other orphans like them: Hornet, Riccio, and Mosca. There they meet Scipio (aka Thief Lord) and he offers them Stella, an old rundown theatre, as a home. The siblings refuses to be separated and runs away to Venice. Aunt Esther only wants Bo because of his angel face and plans to place Prosper in a boarding school (it's an orphanage in the movie). Their mother died and they are placed under the care of their Aunt Esther and her husband.
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The story's about little Bo and his older brother Prosper. I just want to say that I adore The Thief Lord book and when I found out they made a movie from it, I almost fainted with joy.