 In the end it s a rather silly tale of how power corrupts. Look more closely and it s also a reworking of the Rasputin Story. The Russian monk and faith healer who cares for the dying child of the Tsar and worms his way into the Romanov family only to be assassinated by political opponents. Rasputin was also called Gregory and the Hemmings character is called Rast...spell that backwards and what do you get.