Che? That can't POSSIBLY be.
(They must have him confused with Che-ney)
Posted on 05/05/2006 12:14:22 PM PDT by unionblue83
Andy Garcia blew it big-time with his movie "The Lost City." He blew it with the mainstream critics that is.
Almost unanimously, they're ripping a movie 16 years in the making. In this engaging drama of a middle-class Cuban family crumbling during free Havana's last days, in which he both directs and stars, Garcia insisted on depicting some historical truth about Cuba -- a grotesque and unforgivable blunder in his industry. He's now paying the price.
Earlier, many film festivals refused to screen it. Now many Latin American countries refuse to show it. The film's "offenses" are many and varied. Most unforgivable of all, Che Guevara is shown killing people in cold blood. Who ever heard of such nonsense? And just where does this uppity Andy Garcia get the effrontery to portray such things? The man obviously doesn't know his place.
And just where did Garcia get this preposterous notion of pre-Castro Cuba as a relatively prosperous but politically troubled place, they ask? All the Cubans he portrays seem middle class. Where in his movie is the tsunami of stooped and starving peasants that carried Fidel and Che into Havana on it's crest, they ask? Where's all those diseased and illiterate laborers and peasants my professors, Dan Rather, CNN and Oliver Stone told me about, ask the critics?
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Ping!
Not the same Che Guevara of the Motorcycle Diaries? Not the same Che Guevara who has inspired so many hippies to put on a shirt?! The humanity.
But Che must be a good guy! After all, Jay-Z wore his shirt in that MTV Unplugged concert, right?
I can't wait to see this movie!
bttt
Dang! That's too bad. If they're ripping it on political and not artistic merit, it just shows they consider themselves to be propaganda tools above all else.
Does the movie show that pre-Castro days that the President of Cuba sold Havana to the mob and the first thing that Castro did upon taking control was throw the mob out? Or is that reserved only for "The Godfather, Part II" movie?
He directly executed at least 250 people and enjoyed it too much to suit Castro.
Will the studio ask for the Head of Andy Garcia?
I don't get your point Semper. Are you saying that the overthrow of the mob, a good thing, justifies the plunging of all those people into poverty, communism and misery? Kind of seems like throwing out the baby with the bathwater, no?
I'd love for the mob to be eradicated in NY where I live, but if it was at the cost of living like Castro's Cuba, I'd think the bad outweighed the good there.
Yep. In the "old" days, Havanna
was the playground of rich American
playboys and girls. But the Media
wouldn't know anything about that,
either.
What?!?!? You mean to say Che isn't that loveable teddy-bear of a guy that all the illegal Aztlantinos and their troublemaking fellow travelers wear on their T-shirts?!?!?!? That he was actually a no-count, low-life, heathen, bolshie murdering terrorist?!?!?!?
I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!
(sarcasm off)
I read an article in National review last year that decribed Che's hobby of the "Coup des gras." He liked to shoot people in the back of the neck right below the head.
Wow, this sounds like a great movie! Didn't Andy Garcia star in the TV movie about the Cuban jazz player, "Love or Country" (or something like that?). A FReeper recommended it, and it was excellent.
The film Havana with Redford showed that side of Cuba.
Che? That can't POSSIBLY be.
(They must have him confused with Che-ney)
You confused me with a previous post. My comment was about how bloodthirsty St. Che was.
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