Just discovered that the scene in which Drew carries Dougray on her shoulders was actually inspired from a real moment in time, that they sorta of borrowed…The Women of Weinberg Germany
When King Conrad III defeated the Duke of Welf (in the year 1140) and placed Weinberg under siege, the wives of the besieged castle negotiated a surrender which granted them the right to leave with whatever they could carry on their shoulders. The king allowed them that much. Leaving everything else aside, each woman took her own husband on her shoulders and carried him out. When the king’s people saw what was happening, many of them said that that was not what had been meant and wanted to put a stop to it. But the king laughed and accepted the women’s clever trick. “A king” he said, “should always stand by his word.”In real life, for the film, a wire harness was used as petite Drew couldn’t carry Dougray.
