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Article #167Re: Basque cinema, euskal zinema, and Zapata
From: Luistxo Fernandez
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 00:00
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Mikel Morrisek: >Dr. Zhivago was probably the greatest box-office hit that Russian cinema >ever had. Yes, Mikel, but regarding "Viva Zapata" you should be more politically correct. That is Native American cinema, more precisely Zapotec cinema. You did see the film and did not notice that Marlon Brando was a Oaxaca indian speaking Zapotec? Well, then, perhaps someone drew a line in the script, and the poor zapotecs ended in the wrong side of the line. The writers were not very purist, probably. Have you seen Montxo Armendariz's Navarrese films? Can anyone suspect Basque was ever spoken in Navarre after seing those films? My mother tongue is to those films like Zapotec to Viva Zapata. Someone draw the line there, also. But, no, those brilliant Basque directors and writers are the universalists cosmopolitan guys. We, euskaldunak, are the purists, poor idiots. Luistxo
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