|
Viva Zapata! Posters
Photos Art
Search for Posters Art Prints, photos and get
results from all the many categories from Amazon including
books, videos, dvds, toys, video games, and more.
|
|
|
Posters Art
Prints Photos collectables |
|
|
|
|
|
|
If for some reason you can't find what the
poster or art print your looking for try using the search boxes
below
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Rating:  -
Actually this was the film that triggered my interest on the Mexican Revolution.
I've seen it many times and always found new details to take into account. As I read more and more on the subject my appreciation of this movie increases.
It presents the viewer with a big fresco of the Revolution that convulsed that country for more than ten years.
I admire the strange capacity of the film to show condensed in each scene, many key issues of why and how the Revolution exploded and continue growing along the years, with an immitigable fire.
Director Elia Kazan has been criticized for his appearance on the Un-American Activities Committee that lead many people related to cinematography to be ostracized.
This been said, regardless of his political stand, he had directed many great Oscar winner films as: "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947), "Streetcar Named Desire" (1951); "East of Eden" (1955); "Splendor on the Grass" (1961) and the present "Viva Zapata!" (1952).
He had directed two "Movie Icons" as Marlon Brando (more than once) and James Dean obtaining the best from them. All his films explored the inner depth of human soul with unflinching stare.
Since the first shot, showing a very accurate characterization of President Porfirio Diaz (Fay Roope) and giving an inkling of the type of ruler he was, an enormous gallery of Mexican historical figure are made known.
Francisco Madero's (Harold Gordon) personality and idealistic naïveté is depicted with very few strokes.
Huerta's (Frank Silvera) wickedness and treachery is shown too.
Above all of them Emiliano Zapata's figure impersonated by an inspired Marlon Brando stands with an epic height. His ideals, stubbornness, charisma and internal sorrows leading him to the final sacrifice, are shown convincingly.
A special mention must be done of Anthony Quinn's superb performance, which entitled him to win the Oscar. He not only has the physique du role, but an internal conviction to give flesh to Eufemio, Zapata's brother, a semi cultured and brave centaur, product of his times and environment.
Josefa (Jean Peters) the fiancée and later wife of Emiliano shows all the traits of a high middle class woman romantically requested by a rural hero. The scene played with Brando in the church's atrium is wonderful.
The only character that gives a discordant note is the fictional Fernando, representing an addict to revolution for revolution in itself.
Joseph MacDonald's black and white photography is very beautiful. Steinbeck's screenplay has a solid internal coherence that shows all along the film.
A Classic Movie not diminished by the more than fifty years passed.
Reviewed by Max Yofre.
Rating: -
Elia Kazan will be remembered as the director of some of the most vivid film performances of the fifties... In 'Viva Zapata', Kazan's 'Method' style of acting is applied to John Steinbeck's screenplay that power inevitably corrupts, with Brando again charismatic as the doomed Mexican revolutionary...
Kazan, not only shows us the extremely unpleasant world of poverty where life is hard, short and brutish, but also the story of the agrarian rebel who was Pancho Villa's first revolutionary ally...
Kazan paints a convincing emotional portrait of a mythical figure, who is considered as the 'Wind that swept Mexico.' Kazan explores a facet of the Mexican history, describing the reasons for the revolution fought by Zapata, and works on basic emotions as passion, anger, fear, aggression, ignorance and wisdom...
Brando projects the dedication and the anguish of an inspiring rebel... He portrays the illiterate Mexican peasant revolutionary who for ten years led Guerilla uprisings against dictators and presidents... Brando plays the part with fervor and passion, even transforming his features with special makeup and fake mustache to look amazingly like the Guerilla leader... For his performance, he was nominated for his third consecutive Oscar, but Gary Cooper won for 'High Noon'.
Anthony Quinn gives an effective portrayal of Eufemio Zapata , the swaggering, lecherous, bullying brother, and wins his first Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor... Through his consummate acting skills, Quinn creates in Eufemio a strongly characterization which, despite its brevity, was not overshadowed by Brando's Zapata...
Jean Peters portrays the typical educated girl of the village who falls in love with the wild man of the hills and marries him...
The film begins near the close of the 34th year reign of President Porfirio Diaz (Fay Roope) where a delegation of Indians from the State of Morelos have come to the capital for an audience with the great dictator... There they make known their strong objections over the stealing of their lands by the wealthy, powerful estate barons... Diaz addresses them paternally and instructs them they must examine their boundaries before they bring legal action, something he knows they are incapable of doing...
Burning with a sense of injustice, the simple Emiliano Zapata directs the president's attention to this point, requesting his consent to cross the railing of wires...
President Diaz was disturbed by the persistent Zapata and on the sheet of paper listing his visitors, he unpleasantly circles the name of this one humble man who has really came for 'something.'
Some time later Emiliano and his brother lead the farmers in a general inspection through their expropriated fields and as they do so, a squad of Diaz militia attack them, shooting and cutting down men, women and children indiscriminately...
Zapata and some of his followers fight back, and retreat to a mountain hideout... There they are located by a sly political agitator, a newspaperman named Fernando Aguirre (Joseph Wiseman), who brings news of Francisco Madero (Harold Gordon), exiled in Texas...
Zapata sends his friend Pablo (Lou Gilbert) to interview Madero and find out if he is worth following...
One day, and in a church, Zapata risks his life to speak of truth, and of love... But the pretty brunette Josefa (Jean Peters) rejects him, even though she admits to being attracted to him, and tells him he must improve his social position before she might think out his proposal...
When Espejo (Florenz Ameo) refuses to consider him as a suitor to his daughter, Zapata angrily leaves his house... He is immediately arrested by policemen and led away with a rope around his neck...
As the mounted police walk him behind their horses through the countryside they are gradually joined by peasants, who silently march along... The group increases into a huge number of farmers... Zapata comes to a realization, that the peasants have chosen him as their leader and that he has no course but to accept... Destiny has singled him out...
'Viva Zapata!' received 5 Academy Award Nominations...It is a greatly entertaining film, excitingly directed by Kazan who made its action sequences so intense and who permitted his actors full scope in developing their characters...
Rating: -
Viva Zapata is one of the three or four movies that made Marlon Brando the best actor of his generation -- "the Men", "Streetcar---", "On the Waterfront" and "Godfather 1", being among the others. Scripted by Nobelist John Steinbeck, directed by Elia Kazan, featuring bravura performances by Anthony Quinn and Joseph Wiseman, and winner of many international and US awards for acting, directing and scrit, Viva Zapata should rank among the top 100 movies (it did make the NYT's recent top 1000). Yet,it's been sadly neglected -- not even released on DVD is the USA, and to my knowledge unseen on TV. Viva Zapata is a masterpiece lost for suceeding generations.
Rating:  -
the dvd that i recieved through AmaZon was poorly edited. both the beginning and the end of the movie was cut off. I had seen this picture years ago and remember it very well.I will not return it since i didnt pay very much for it.The dvd was distributed through Sam Luu.
Rating:  -
Since I ordered this DVD from world_acoustic, I have been emailed and asked by them to up-grade my initial two-star rating of their service to one more suitable to their liking and established reputation with Amazon.com. I will do nothing of the kind. This is a two-star treatment of a four-star film.
Perhaps world_acoustic is more knowledgeable of Internet marketing than it is with respecting the quality of a film classic such as "Viva Zapata." I ordered this DVD from world_acoustic through Amazon.com. As a collector of such classic films, I have spent a number of years searching for this and other film classics in DVD format on the Internet. I was initially impressed that world_acoustic had made this excellent film available on DVD. That began to change when I received the DVD.
I was reluctant to open the DVD after receiving it because the cover indicated the language of the film was Italian with Korean subtitles. Some of the graphics on the DVD cover were in Korean. After contacting world_acoustic by email, I was assured the DVD was in English. It was. But other disappointments followed.
Opening credits and the on-screen storyline which establishes the setting of the film had both been edited out.
Of the more than 25-30 separate scenes in the film, the entire film is broken down into only six scenes on the interactive menu of the DVD.
The most dispicable treatment of this DVD distributed by world_acoustic is in its ending. The white horse, and its symbolic significance to the main character (Emiliano Zapata) throughout the film, is completely edited out by the elimination of the closing scene. By this act of cinematic bufoonery, world_acoustic and/or its distributor, accomplishes, through computer editing, what the Mexican army in the film could not.
The survival of the white horse and its return to the revolutionaries' strongholds in the mountainside, is meant as a symbol of the peasants' on-going struggle. The survival of the white horse is also meant as an enduring visual motif in the film that answers the question of Zapata's martydom to his people.
Instead, the ending of this film on the DVD distributed by world_acoustic ends in a freeze frame on the seemingly leaderless Mexican peasant farmers and fades to black
-eliminating the reappearance of the white horse as well as the closing credits. I don't think Elia Kazan would approve of the way world_acoustic and its distributor mistreated his work.
Perhaps if world_acoustic distributed a DVD that showed Moses receiving only six of the commandments, or showed only three gunmen being recruited by Yul Brynner to protect a Mexican village, could it out-do itself for the manner in which it misrepresents "Viva Zapata."
I am so dissatisfied with this DVD, I am returning it to world_acoustic. I would like Amazon.com to know, as a regular and registered customer, it is very unlikely I will be making any future purchases of any merchandise from world_acoustic.
|
