The idiot himself
Posted on 12/10/2008 5:15:58 PM PST by slickeroo
Che Guevara on the Silver Screen
By Humberto Fontova Wednesday, December 10, 2008
“SENTENCE first – VERDICT afterwards,” said the Queen. “Nonsense!” said Alice loudly. “Off with her head!” the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. – Alice In Wonderland
They say Lewis Carroll was a serious dope fiend, his mind totally scrambled on opium, when he concocted “Alice in Wonderland.” A place where the sentence comes first and the verdict afterward? Where people who protest the madness are sentenced to death themselves ?
Such a place rolled out the red carpet for Benicio del Toro this past weekend. I refer to Havana Cuba which put on the Havana Film Festival where the 4 ½ hour movie “Che,” was the main feature. In May del Toro won the Cannes Film Festiva’l’s “best actor” award for his role as Che Guevara in the movie he co-produced and Steven Soderbergh directed.
While accepting the “best actor” award at Cannes Benicio del Toro gushed: “I’d like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara!” as the crowd erupted in a thunderous ovation."I wouldn’t be here without Che Guevara, and through all the awards the movie gets you’ll have to pay your respects to the man!”
In a flurry of subsequent interviews in Europe del Toro equated Che Guevara with Jesus Christ and told a Spanish interviewer, “Ideologically I feel very close to Che.”
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
The four hours might be worth it if they made him a remorseless machiavel, like “Macbeth” with AK-47s.
My disgust with Hollywood grows exponentially everyday.
I am suprised that Sean Penn wasn’t cast as as Che.....I guess he was too busy working on his gay milk project.
I am surprised that Sean Penn wasn't cast as as Che.....I guess he was too busy working on his gay milk project.
oops sorry for the double post......I left out an r in surprised and tried to get it in before the post....obviously it did not work.....
Wasn’t this what they were making fun of on “Entourage” with the “Medellion” fiasco?
By the way, can anyone still doubt liberal media bias when the “important” political holiday films are about a gay demagogue, a commie terrorist, and the outing of evil that was Nixon?
I wonder if they will show when he ran from Guatemala after Arbenz was overthrown by a military coup? Back in the 50’s Arbenz was a commie president in Guatemala, who attracted all sorts of shady characters, this Che among them. And like all rats, he was the first to flee when the coup started.
A friend had to restrain me from jumping to my feet and going postal on a standing-ovation crowd at a Motorcycle Diaries screening. I don’t think I can see this one, because restraint wouldn’t be possible. This man was a self-mythologizing totalitarian egomaniac, a tropical Stalin, a murderer and a liar. If it weren’t for that ONE PHOTO of him looking glamorous against the sky, he wouldn’t have the stature he does. Madison Avenue only wishes they could create as indelible a brand as Che.
Disgusting.
"If the missiles had remained we would have used them against the very heart of America including New York. We must never establish peaceful coexistence. In this struggle to the death between two systems we must gain the ultimate victory. We must walk the path of liberation even if it costs millions of atomic victims."
Che Guevara,November 1962 (days after the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis)
Yup,I'm convinced.Sounds just like Christ to me.
I work in Hollywood, and do my best to stamp out the gospel of Che wherever and whenever I can. Very hard to do it without losing my cool in a big way. Having spent time in Cuba, and having friends there (many but not all of whom have escaped), it’s very personal to me.
Also a film about a pedophile priest (Truth) and a movie where the aliens rebuke us for our crimes against the environment (The Day The Earth Stood Still).
And don’t forget Hollywood’s annual cinematic venture in praise of gays - this year it is Milk. Should earn about a gazillion oscar nominations first and then probably win at least one of the top four.
I wonder if they will ever make a movie about public school teachers who molest their students.
If I ever see anyone wearing a Che shirt I vow to ask them if they know about the thousand of people he murdered....it sickens me
Keep being the voice for those that have been silenced by the likes of Castro and Che......
> Most viewers will consider this movie a historically-accurate documentary—watch!
Like most foreigners I was pig-ignorant of Che Guevara, aside from a general feeling that the guy must have been a bad-head (anyone who could look so sloppy in a beret MUST be a Bad Head). Then I recently did some dispassionate reading about the fellow.
Che Guevara was a consummate Bad Head. Worse, he was one of the 20th Century’s Great Unhanged Villains. He met a suitably sticky demise, but perhaps they should have made it slightly stickier. Machine-gunning him was a kindness he could have been spared: a visit with Mr Pierrepont would have been better.
I say, "Wow, I haven't seen a Manson shirt in years." To which they reply it is Che, and I say, "Oops, my bad, I get my murderers confused."
thanks I will remember that and use it, if you don’t mind.....
You can get a Che Guevara t-shirt with the universal “No” line thru it on johngaltgifts.com. Lots of other cool shirts too....
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