Plot synopsis
In medieval times, Lord Thibault, is tricked into killing his fiancée, Princess Rosalind, at their wedding banquet. He and André, his serf, use a wizard’s potion to go back in time one day to right the wrong.
However, the wizard errs with his potion, and his spell takes them forward in time to the year 2000 and across the Atlantic Ocean to Chicago in the United States.
The wizard realises his mistake and repeats the spell on himself. He eventually finds them and brings them back to 12th-century Europe.
My comments
The original version of this film, Les Visiteurs (1993), was very similar in plot. The main differences were that it was set in France rather than America and that the protagonist is tricked into killing his fiancée’s father instead of her.
The original was watched but not reviewed, as it would have been identical in terms of how time was treated, and hence they used the same model of time.
Summary of time travel
Lord Thibault was intending to travel back through time to right a wrong, which suggests a model of time with an open past and a diverging timeline. When he and André arrived in the future, they were able to change the timeline there. So, the future must also be open and diverging.
Category of time travel
Fantasy: magic.
Model of time
Open past, open future with a diverging timeline.
