Tag: El Cid

• El Cid: A Timely Hollywood Message for This Day and Age – Part II

  Yesterday I looked at how the movie El Cid speaks clearly into the political landscape of today. Today I want to look at another pertinent issue which the movie illustrates brilliantly: religious cooperation. El Cid, the 11th century Spanish hero, successfully defended the Spanish homeland against the attack of the North African Muslim invaders. How…

  sassevn

  July 5, 2013

  Reviews, Uncategorized

  El Cid, religious cooperation

• El Cid: A Timely Hollywood Message for This Day and Age – Part I

  Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren in a three-hour epic against the breathtaking backdrops of the Spanish countryside. El Cid (1961) is one of Hollywood’s great epics which I finally just watched. (Here’s the IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054847/) It’s highly entertaining and intriguing. I highly recommend it. I’m not going to go into the detailed plot and pick…

  sassevn

  July 4, 2013

  Reviews, social critique, Uncategorized

  Charlton Heston, El Cid, epic movie, partisan politics, Sophia Loren, Spanish history