"Libertador: The Liberator." Topic

"To tell the extraordinary story of Simon Bolivar onscreen in two hours represents a Sisyphean struggle of the first order but, as such ventures go, Libertador: The Liberator gives it a half-decent shot—half, because the film would need to be twice as long to even begin to tell the whole story. This physically impressive Venezuelan-Spanish production clearly lays out both the ideological forces at play in the early 1800s and the nature of the physical challenge of pushing the Spanish out of South America after 300 years of control. It also has the advantage of the charismatic and capable Edgar Ramirez in the title role of a great historical figure almost criminally unknown to most North Americans. As this mostly Spanish-language epic is not at all an art house item, the best bet for U.S. release would be an enterprising distributor that knows how target and motivate Hispanic viewers and would not rest until it had positioned the film as a must-see event for people of a Spanish-speaking heritage…"

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Amicalement
Armand

I'd watch it, especially with English Subtitles. The story *should* be told in Spanish, even if mine isn't good enough to follow a movie without help!

A perhaps amusing anectdote

Way back in 8th grade in the late 1960's, my favorite teacher of all time, Mrs. Griswold, gave us an end of year assignement to chose thee people whose lives sighnoifcantly changed to path of human society, and write an essay about each of them explaining our choices. I anted one form the sciences, one form the arts, and one form the political realm, and being a bit of an off the beaten track kind of guy, my choices were:

1)Simon Bolivar – canged the political courseof an entire continent

2) John James Audubon – for his art itself, but more the begining of the conservation and later environmentalist movements

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3) Charles Proteus Steinmetz. I doubt many of you know who he was, but it is well worth skimming the brief wikipedia article on him to correct that!

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There are obviously a huge number of candidates for such thought excercises!

Anyway, to return to the subject at hand, Bolivar is a fine subject for a film of this type; long overdue!

Glad you enjoyed it my friend.
Did you read about San Martin?

Amicalement
Armand

I think I prefer San Martin to Bolivar. He seems to have been more of the soldier and more selfless as well. I would love to see a good film about him.

Been reading about both of them, and the more I learn about Bolivar, the more I like San Martin.

I agree with the Artillerist above.